# List of Christian missionaries

The following are notable Christian missionaries:

## Early Christian missionaries

These are missionaries who predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to early Christian groups.
* Alopen – first missionary to China (Nestorian)
* Apollos
* Augustine of Canterbury – missionary to England
* Saint Barnabas
* Saint Boniface – influential in the conversion of German peoples
* Columba – early missionary to Scotland
* Saint Denis – early missionary to France
* Frumentius – early missionary to Ethiopia
* Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia
* Mark the Evangelist
* Luke the Evangelist
* Pantaenus – early missionary to India
* Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland
* Saint Paul
* Twelve Apostles – all of the twelve are considered missionaries
* Ulfilas – missionary to the Goths

## Medieval to modern missionaries
### Anglican

* 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
* Francis Le Jau, missionary to South Carolina
* 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 Pearson – pioneer of the Church of Uganda
* Henry Townsend – missionary in West Africa
* Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – missionary in Kashmir
* John Wesley – missionary/evangelist in Europe and America
* Walter Weston – missionary to Japan, popularized the term "Japanese Alps"
* George Whitefield – missionary/evangelist to the colonial United States
* John Burdett Wittenoom – missionary to Australia
* Charles Stewart Thompson – missionary to India

### Baptist

* Ellen Arnold – Australian Missionary
* Gladys Aylward – Missionary in China and Taiwan
* Anne Luther Bagby – Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil
* Lauran Bethell – missionary to Thailand and Eastern Europe
* Joseph Booth – missionary to what is now Malawi
* William Carey (missionary) – Missionary in India Founder of the baptist missionary society
* Chow Leung – Missionary to Chicago Chinatown
* William Goldsack
* 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 Judson and missionary in Burma. Translated portions of the Bible into Burmese
* George Liele – first American missionary; served in Jamaica
* Eleanor Macomber – American missionary to Burma
* Daniel Sharpe Malekebu – Malawian missionary who served in Malawi
* Isaac McCoy – missionary to the American Indians
* Lottie Moon – Southern Baptist missionary to China
* Hopestill Pillow – New Zealand female missionary to India in the 19th century, member of the Zenana Missions
* Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China
* Cicero Washington Pruitt – Southern Baptist missionary to North China
* Issachar Jacox Roberts – Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong Xiuquan
* William Ward (missionary) – Missionary and printer in India

### Plymouth Brethren

* Jim Elliot – missionary to Ecuador
* Anthony Norris Groves
* George Müller – preached in various countries

### Congregationalists

* William Scott Ament – controversial missionary to China
* Thomas J. Arnold Missionary in China during the Qing dynasty
* David Bogue – missionary to India, convert from the Church of Scotland
* 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
* Griffith John Missionary in China and companion of Jonathan Goforth
* Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for Woman's Christian Temperance Union
* David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa
* Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China
* Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 to 1935
* Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa
* Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China
* Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair
* Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China
* Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign mission
* Lancelot Threlkeld – linguist and missionary linked to the Lake Macquarie mission
* Mary E. Van Lennep – missionary to Smyrna and Constantinople
* Charlotte White - missionary to India, 1816-1826
* John Williams – congregationalist in the South Pacific

### Methodist

* Young John Allen – missionary in Qing China
* Henry Gerhard Appenzeller - American Methodist missionary to Korea
* Francis Burns – missionary to Liberia
* Thomas Coke
* Thomas Birch Freeman – Anglo-African missionary and colonial official in West Africa
* Francis Dunlap Gamewell – chief of fortifications, Boxer Rebellion, China
* Mary Ninde Gamewell – American missionary in China; writer
* Mary Porter Gamewell – American missionary in China
* George Richmond Grose – missionary to China
* Joseph Crane Hartzell – missionary work in Africa
* Gertrude Howe – American teaching missionary in China
* William Hughlett – medical missionary to Africa
* E. Stanley Jones – missionary to India
* Walter Russell Lambuth – established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia
* Mary Ann Lyth – English missionary, translator, teacher
* J. P. Martin – children's book writer and missionary in Africa
* Pilipo Miriye – missionary to Nigeria
* Sioeli Nau – missionary work in Fiji and Tonga
* Samson Oppong – Ghanaian prophet-preacher
* Mary Reed – missionary to India
* Dorothy Ripley – missionary to the United States
* Samuel Evans Rowe – missionary work in Africa
* Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia
* William B. Scranton - American Methodist missionary to Korea
* William Taylor (missionary) – Reverend who became Bishop in Africa during the latter half of the 19th century

### Moravian

* Johann Leonhard Dober Missionary in St. Thomas in the Caribbean
* Alexander Worthy Clerk – Jamaican Moravian missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana
* Christian David – Moravian missionary in Greenland, Livland and Pennsylvania
* Anna Rosina Gambold – Moravian missionary in Georgia; diarist
* Rose Ann Miller – Jamaican Moravian educator and missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana
* Catherine Mulgrave – Angolan-Jamaican educator and missionary to the Gold Coast, now Ghana
* Anna Nitschmann – Moravian missionary
* David Nitschmann der Bischof – Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania
* Christian Jacob Protten – Gold Coast educator and missionary
* Rebecca Protten – Caribbean Moravian evangelist and missionary to the Gold Coast
* 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
* Nicolaus Zinzendorf – Founder of the Moravian church

### Presbyterian

* Susan Law McBeth – Presbyterian missionary to American Indians and author
* Horace Grant Underwood – first Protestant missionary to Korea
* Samuel Austin Moffett - American missionary to Korea and founder of Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang
* Samuel H. Moffett - American missionary to Korea and faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary
* Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of Mission to the World
* Harvie M. Conn - American missionary to Korea and a missiologist
* John Livingston Nevius - American missionary in China who advocated the Nevius Principle
* Ralph D. Winter - American missiologist and founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission
* Michael Oh - American missionary to Japan and executive director of Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
* William Chalmers Burns – missionary to China
* Nicholas Timothy Clerk – Presbyterian missionary in southeast colonial Ghana
* Peter Hall – Presbyterian missionary in colonial Ghana
* William Alderman Linton - American missionary to Korea
* William D. Reynolds - American missionary to Korea
* David Earl Ross - American missionary to Korean and founder of Jesus Evangelism Band (YWAM Korea)
* Hunter Corbett – pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906
* Alexander Duff – missionary in India
* William Montague Ferry - Presbyterian missionary who was stationed on Mackinac Island.
* 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
* 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)
* Francis Young Pressly – American missionary to Punjab, Pakistan 1945–1972
* Carl Christian Reindorf - Gold Coast historian, minister and missionary
* Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria
* Absalom Sydenstricker – Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. Buck
* William James Wanless M.D., F.A.C.S – founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897
* Aeneas Francon Williams (Rev) – Church of Scotland minister; missionary in the Eastern Himalayas and China
* Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams; Church of Scotland missionary in the Eastern Himalayas
* Asher Wright – missionary to Native American Seneca people
* Gladstone Porteous – Australian missionary to China of Scottish descent
* Donald Fraser – Free Church of Scotland missionary to Malawi
* Robert Grierson – Canadian missionary to Korea
* Samuel Cochran – American missionary to China
* George Ashmore Fitch – American missionary to China and Korea
* Mary Coombs Greenleaf – American missionary who worked among the Chickasaw Indians

### Other Protestant

* Hedvig Posse – Swedish missionary in South Africa, linguist and hymn writer
* David Asante – Gold Coast native linguist, educator and missionary
* Reinhard Bonnke – German charismatic Christian evangelist
* Paul Brand – missionary surgeon in India
* John Allen Chau – American Evangelical, killed by the Sentinelese people after he approached the island in hopes of converting them
* Emilie Christaller – German educator and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast
* Johann Gottlieb Christaller – German linguist and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast
* 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
* Theodore Hamberg – Swedish missionary to China
* Hermann Herlitz – German pastor and missionary to Australia
* Regina Hesse – Gold Coast educator and missionary
* Hermann Gundert – German linguist and Basel missionary to India
* Robert A. Jaffray – Christian and Missionary Alliance missionary to China
* James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China
* Eugen Liebendörfer – German medical missionary to India
* William Miller – Second Advent Movement
* Wayman Mitchell – missionary and founder of Christian Fellowship Ministries
* Hermann Mögling – German missionary to India
* Volbrecht Nagel – German missionary to India
* Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra
* Torill Selsvold Nyborg – Norwegian Lutheran missionary in Arequipa from 1977 to 1982
* Theophilus Opoku – Gold Coast native linguist, educator and missionary
* Jorge Armando Pérez – contemporary missionary to Latin America
* Susanna Carson Rijnhart – Tibet
* Fritz Ramseyer – Swiss builder and missionary to the Gold Coast
* Andreas Riis – Danish minister and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast
* Helen Roseveare – missionary physician in the Congo
* Albert Shelton – Disciples of Christ missionary to Tibetans
* John Smith – West Indies
* George Peter Thompson – Liberian minister and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast
* Sarah Lanman Smith – Syria
* Annie Royle Taylor – China and Tibet
* Hudson Taylor – missionary in China
* James Springer White – Seventh-day Adventist Church
* Rosina Widmann – German educator and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast
* Johannes Zimmermann – German linguist and Basel missionary to the Gold Coast

### Other Christian

* Heidi Baker – co-founder IRIS ministries
* Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church
* William F. P. Burton – missionary pioneering in the Congolian rainforests
* Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary
* Thomas Raymond Kelly – Quaker
* Alexander Hugh Macmillan – Bible Student and Jehovah's Witness
* Robert Pierce – founder of World Vision International
* Ockert Potgieter – South African missionary to Ukraine
* Erika Sutter – Swiss missionary to South Africa
* Loren Cunningham – founder of Youth with a Mission (YWAM)