List of Christian missionaries

Early Christian missionaries

These are missionaries that predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to an early Christian groups.

Alopen – first missionary to China (Nestorian)

Augustine of Canterbury – missionary to England

Apollos

Saint Barnabas

Saint Boniface – influential in the conversion of German peoples

Brieuc

Columba – early missionary to Scotland

David of Basra – early missionary to India

Denis – early missionary to France

Frumentius – early missionary to Ethiopia

Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia

Mark the Evangelist

Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland

Paul of Tarsus

Pantaenus – early missionary to India

Twelve Disciples – all of the twelve are considered missionaries at some level

Ulfilas – missionary to the Goths

Anglican

Gladys Aylward – missionary to China and Taiwan

Geoffrey Bingham – missionary in Pakistan

James Blair – Scottish-born American clergyman in the Virginia Colony, founder of the College of William & Mary

William Duncan – worked with the Tsimshians

James Hannington – saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda

Richard Johnson – first Christian cleric in Australia

Samuel Lyde – missionary to the Alawites of Syria

Robert Machray – clergyman and missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada

Samuel Marsden – missionary to Australia

Henry Martyn – missionary to India

William Mitchell – missionary to India

Charles William Pearson – pioneer of the Church of Uganda

Henry Townsend – missionary in West Africa

Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – missionary in Kashmir

Walter Weston – missionary to Japan, popularized the term Japanese Alps

George Whitefield – missionary/evangelist to colonial United States

John Burdett Wittenoom – missionary to Australia

John Wesley – missionary/evangelist in Europe and America

Baptist

Anne Luther Bagby – Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil

Lauran Bethell – missionary to Thailand and Eastern Europe

John Birch – Baptist missionary killed in China

Joseph Booth – missionary to what is now Malawi

William Carey – linked to India and a founder of the Baptist Missionary Society

Adoniram Judson – American missionary to Burma whose conversion to Baptist beliefs en route to the mission field led to the founding of the first Baptist association in the U.S.

Ann Hasseltine Judson – wife of Adoniram whose writings home made the couple celebrities

George Lisle – first American missionary; served in Jamaica

Isaac McCoy – missionary to the American Indians

Lottie Moon – Southern Baptist missionary to China (the Lottie Moon Christmas offering is still an important event in the Southern Baptist calendar)

Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China

C.W. Pruitt – husband and fellow Southern Baptist missionary to North China

Issachar Jacox Roberts – Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong Xiuquan

Charlotte White – widow, the first unmarried American female foreign missionary; arrived in India 1816

Plymouth Brethren

Jim Elliot – missionary to Ecuador

Anthony Norris Groves

George Müller – preached in various countries

Congregationalists

William Scott Ament – controversial missionary to China

David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from Church of Scotland

Hedley Bunton – 20th-century missionary in China who lived under Japanese occupation for a time

Samuel Dyer – 19th-century China

William Ellis – missionary to the South Pacific and an author

Cynthia Farrar – missionary to India, 1827-1862

Cyrus Hamlin – American missionary in Turkey

David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa

Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China

Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa

Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China

Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign mission

L. E. Threlkeld – linguist and missionary linked to the Lake Macquarie mission

John Williams – Congregationalist in the South Pacific

Methodist

Young John Allen – missionary in Qing China

Francis Burns – missionary to Liberia

Thomas Coke

Francis Dunlap Gamewell – Chief of Fortification, Boxer Rebellion, China

George Richmond Grose – missionary to China

Joseph Crane Hartzell – missionary work in Africa

E. Stanley Jones – missionary to India

Walter Russell Lambuth – established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia

J. P. Martin – children's book writer and missionary in Africa

Pilipo Miriye – missionary to Nigeria

Sioeli Nau – missionary work in Fiji and Tonga

Dorothy Ripley – missionary to the United States

Samuel Evans Rowe– missionary work in Africa

Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia

Moravian

Christian David – Moravian missionary in Greenland, Livland and Pennsylvania

Anna Nitschmann – Moravian missionary

David Nitschmann der Bischof – Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania

August Gottlieb Spangenberg – head of the Moravian Church in America in its early days

David Zeisberger – Moravian missionary known for his role in the history of the Christian Munsee

Nicolas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf – Renewer of the Moravian Church

Presbyterian

William Chalmers Burns – missionary to China

Hunter Corbett – pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906

Alexander Duff – missionary in India

John Lawrence Goheen – Presbyterian missionary, administer of Ichalkaranji state of British India.

William Imbrie – American missionary to Japan

Samuel Kirkland – American Revolution figure who did missionary work among the Tuscarora

Eric Liddell – Olympic athlete who became a Scottish missionary in China

Alexander Murdoch Mackay – Presbyterian missionary to Uganda

George Leslie Mackay – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan

Bill Majors – American missionary in Korea

James Laidlaw Maxwell – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan

Robert Morrison – first Protestant missionary in China

John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (now part of Vanuatu)

Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria

Absalom Sydenstricker – Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. Buck

Sir William James Wanless M.D., F.A.C.S – founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897

Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams – (B. 17 February 1886–December 1971) Church of Scotland minister, writer and a poet. Aeneas was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas and China. He was Bursar at St. Andrew's Colonial Homes (later named Dr. Graham's Homes) in Kalimpong, India, from 1910-1923 and Headmaster at the Church of Scotland Mission in Yichang (Ichang), China, from 1924 - 1927. In 1929, Aeneas returned to India to work as a missionary for the Church of Scotland Guild Mission in Matelli in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. In 1930, Hymn Book in Jalpaiguri Mech by Aeneas Francon Williams was published. The book was intended for the use of Christians of the Mech Tribes living at the foot of the Himalayas in the Jalpaiguri district and was the first Hymn Book to be published in this regional dialect of Hindi. Aeneas and his family lived in Matelli until 1947, after which the family returned to Edinburgh in Scotland to live.

Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – (B. 24 July 1887–1959) married Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams in Kalimpong, India, in 1914. She was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas. Clara was a teacher at St. Andrew's Colonial Homes (later named Dr. Graham's Homes) in Kalimpong, India, from 1912-1923. With her two children, Alfred Francon Williams and Beatrice Clara Williams, she accompanied her husband Aeneas when he was stationed at the Church of Scotland Mission in Yichang (Ichang), China, where they lived from 1924-1927 and in Matelli in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, where the family lived until 1947.

Other Protestant

Reinhard Bonnke – German charismatic Christian evangelist

Paul Wilson Brand – missionary surgeon in India

Aril Edvardsen – Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary

Jonathan Edwards

Hans Egede – Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of Greenland"

John Eliot – Puritan missionary to the American Indians

Leung Faat – Chinese convert who did missionary work in Southeast Asia and his homeland

Mark Finley – Seventh-day Adventist Church

Jason Frenn – contemporary missionary to Latin America

James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China

William Miller – Seventh-day Adventist Church

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra

Torill Selsvold Nyborg – Norwegian Lutheran missionary in Arequipa from 1977 to 1982

J. A. Pérez – contemporary missionary to Latin America

Susanna Carson Rijnhart – Tibet

Helen Roseveare – missionary physician in the Congo

Albert Shelton, Disciples of Christ missionary to Tibetans

John Smith – West Indies

Annie Royle Taylor – China and Tibet

Hudson Taylor – missionary in China

James Springer White – Seventh-day Adventist Church

Other Christian

Heidi Baker – co-founder IRIS ministries

Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church

William Burton – missionary pioneering in Congo forests

Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary

Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker

Wayman Mitchell – missionary and pioneer, founder of Christian Fellowship Ministries

Raphael Morgan – Jamaican-American Greek Orthodox priest, thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America

Robert Pierce – founder of World Vision