# List of Catholic missionaries
## Missionaries

* Gabriele Allegra, O.F.M. – missionary to China to translate the Bible
* Francisco Álvares – Portuguese missionary to Ethiopia.
* Saint Amand – missionary of Flanders
* José de Anchieta – Spanish missionary in Brazil
* Alexis Bachelot – missionary to Hawaii
* Alonzo de Barcena – missionary and linguist
* Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo – missionary in Mozambique
* Jean-Rémy Bessieux – missionary to Gabon and its first bishop
* Giacomo Bini – Franciscan missionary to Rwanda
* Libert H. Boeynaems – missionary to Hawaii
* Luis de Bolaños – missionary who started the Indian Reductions system in Paraguay
* François Bourgade – one of the first Christian missionaries to Muslim North Africa
* Jean de Brébeuf – French Jesuit martyr in Canada who wrote "Huron Carol"
* Luis Cancer – missionary in Hispañola, Central America and Florida
* Saint Daniele Comboni – Italian bishop and missionary to Africa
* Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – Spanish missionary in Guatemala
* Father Damien – missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers
* Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans
* Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US
* Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God
* Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized missionary to China
* René Goupil – French missionary to what is now Canada
* Évariste Régis Huc – French missionary in nineteenth century China
* Isaac Jogues – French missionary to what is now Canada
* John of Montecorvino – Franciscan missionary to China in medieval times
* Jordanus – Dominican missionary to India
* Peter Richard Kenrick – Irish missionary to the US
* Eusebio Kino – pioneer Jesuit missionary and explorer to what is now Baja California, Northwest Mexico, and the southwest US
* Ferdinand Konščak – Croatian Jesuit missionary to Mexico
* Fermín Lasuén – founder of numerous missions in Baja California
* Segundo Llorente – Spanish missionary to Alaska
* Jacques Marquette – missionary and explorer
* Peter Hildebrand Meienberg – missionary to East Africa
* Victor Mosele – missionary to Sierra Leone
* Saint Ninian – missionary of Scotland
* Marcos de Niza – French Franciscan missionary who accompanied Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
* Roberto de Nobili – Jesuit missionary in India who learned Tamil and Sanskrit
* Odoric of Pordenone – Franciscan missionary to China in medieval times
* Juan de Padilla – Franciscan who accompanied Coronado
* Ivan Ratkaj – Croatian Jesuit missionary to Mexico
* Alexander de Rhodes – French Jesuit important to the history of Christianity in Vietnam
* Matteo Ricci – Jesuit missionary in China
* Junípero Serra – founded the mission system of what is now the US state of California
* Mother Teresa – missionary to India
* Alessandro Valignano – Italian Jesuit who supervised missions in the Far East, particularly Japan
* Padre Antonio Vieira – Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Brazil and South America, converted Indians in South America; called the Great Father of the indegian people in South America, was against the inquisition, and probably is one of the biggest converters of people to Roman Catholic faith
* Ivan Vreman – Croatian Jesuit missionary to India and China
* William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols
* Józef Wojaczek
* Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and Japan