# List of Jesuits

This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus.
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## A

* Piotr Abramowicz (1619-1697), Polish missionary
* José de Acosta, Spanish historian; author of The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
* Rodolfo Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India
* François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist
* Mateo Aimerich, Spanish philologist
* Giacomo Maria Airoli, Italian Orientalist and scriptural commentator
* Edward Alacampe, English philosopher; Procurator of Rome
* Giulio Alenio, Italian missionary to China, called the "Confucius of the West"
* Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
* Diego Francisco Altamirano, Spanish author
* Charles Aylmer, Irish Jesuit, superior of the Dublin Residence
* Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary to China
* José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
* Saint Modeste Andlauer, martyred in China
* Antal Andrassy, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rozsnyó
* Yves Marie André, French mathematician, philosopher, and essayist
* Juan Andrés, prolific 18th-century Spanish writer
* Renatus Andrieux, victim of the September massacres
* Francesco degli Angeli, missionary to Ethiopia
* Johannes Arnoldi, German missionary, martyred in Germany
* Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
* Stefano Arteaga, Spanish writer
* Fr. Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus who led the first rescue party in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
* Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish Basque leader; later left the Society
* Berndt David Assarsson (1892-1955), Swedish monsignor, historical author and psalmist
* Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, reputed to have taken the order's vows under the name Mateo Sánchez
* Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny (1675-1719), historian
* Miguel de Ayatumo, venerated Filipino seminarian dubbed as "Saint Aloysius Gonzaga of the Philippines"

## B

* Jakob Balde, German latinist, court chaplain to Maximillian I
* John Ballard, English Jesuit priest executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England
* Hans Urs von Balthasar, 20th-century theologian, Jesuit from 1928 to 1950 when he left the order to found a new community with Adrienne von Speyr
* Balthazar of Loyola, Moroccan prince who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest
* Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr
* Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador
* Pedro Barreto, Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2018.
* Augustin Barruel, French writer
* Florian Baucke, Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America
* Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)
* Joseph Bayma, wrote "Molecular Mechanics" in 1866
* Augustin Bea, German cardinal, Ecumenist at the Vatican II council
* Nicolas-Ignace de Beaubois, French missionary to Quebec
* Jan Beckx, Belgian Superior General (1853-1887)
* Franz Jozef van Beeck, Dutch theologian who taught in the US
* Joop Beek, Dutch and Indonesian educator and presidential political advisor
* Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary to China; astronomer
* Saint Robert Bellarmine, Italian Cardinal and theologian, Doctor of the Church
* Aloysius Bellecius (1704-1757), Jesuit ascetic author
* Saint John Berchmans, Jesuit seminarian from Belgium
* Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), Argentine, first Jesuit to be elected Pope (2013)
* Thomas V. Bermingham, American academic who worked on The Exorcist
* Prosper Bernard, Canadian missionary to China, killed by the Japanese
* Joaquin G. Bernas, Filipino constitutionalist
* Daniel Berrigan, American political activist, poet, and professor at Fordham University
* Saint Jacques Berthieu, French Jesuit priest, missionary and first blessed Martyr of Madagascar
* Blessed Jan Beyzym, Polish missionary to people with Leprosy in Madagascar
* Giuseppe Biancani, very early selenographer
* Jacob Bidermann, theologian and playwright - inspired Johann Wolfgang Goethe
* Jacques de Billy, correspondent of Pierre de Fermat, many early contributions in number theory
* Erwin Bischofberger, Swedish Jesuit and medical practitioner
* Leopold Biwald, 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
* Saint Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary, martyred by the Cossacks
* Nicholas Bock, Russian diplomat who later became a Jesuit priest
* Michael Bordt, German philosopher and academic
* Saint Francis Borgia, third Superior General of the Society
* Ruggero Boscovich, Croatian scientist who made many contributions to physics and astronomy
* Giovanni Botero, Italian thinker, discharged from the Society in 1579
* Joachim Bouvet, early missionary to China and a leading member of the Figurist movement
* Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and orator
* William S. Bowdern, exorcist who inspired the novel and film The Exorcist
* Greg Boyle, director and founder of Homeboy Industries
* Joseph A. Bracken, American philosopher and Catholic theologian
* Dean Brackley, Professor of Theology at the Central American University, San Salvador
* Niklaus Brantschen, Swiss Zen master, author, and founder of the Lassalle-Institut
* Saint Jean de Brébeuf, 17th-century French-Canadian missionary and martyr
* Saint Alexander Briant, English martyr
* Frank Brennan, Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal Australians
* John Brignon, translator of religious works into French
* Peter Michael Brillmacher, German preacher during the Counter Reformation
* Jean de Brisacier, controversialist and opponent of Jansenism
* Saint John de Brito, Portuguese martyr and missionary to Madura, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
* Stephen Brown (Jesuit), founder of the Central Catholic Library
* Tadeusz Brzozowski, Polish scholar, having secured its continuity during the suppression of the Society until its restoration, elected twentieth Superior General of the Society of Jesus and its first world-wide general.
* Claude Buffier, aimed to discover the ultimate principal of knowledge, praised by Voltaire
* Joannes Busaeus, theologian at Mainz University who wrote in defence of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in Germany
* William J. Byron, President of the University of Scranton (1975-1982), President of Catholic University of America (1982-1992), Interim President of Loyola University New Orleans (2003-2004), President of St. Joseph's Preparatory School (2006-2008)

## C

* Niccolò Cabeo, many early contributions to physics
* Pedro de Calatayud, missionary
* Saint Edmund Campion, English martyr
* Saint Petrus Canisius, Dutch theologian, writer of the widely used Little Catechism; Doctor of the Church
* James Carney, American missionary who ministered to peasants and left-wing insurgents in Honduras
* John Carroll, first bishop of the United States and founder of Georgetown University
* Paolo Casati, Mathematician, supported Galileo
* John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
* Louis Bertrand Castel, French scientist
* Leonardo Castellani, 20th-century Argentine writer and theologian
* Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit brother; artist to the Chinese Emperor
* Saint Juan del Castillo, martyr of the Río de la Plata
* Juan Paez de Castro, priest and confessor to King Philip II of Spain
* Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
* Jean-Antoine du Cerceau, French Jesuit priest, poet, and playwright
* Michel de Certeau, French cultural theorist
* Francesco Cetti, mathematician and zoologist
* Saint Noël Chabanel, North American martyr
* Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu, 17th century orator
* Pierre Cholenec, Superior of Montreal
* Stephen Cardinal Chow Sau-yan, 9th Bishop of Hong Kong, Former Provincial superior of the Chinese Province
* Drew Christiansen, nuclear expert and disarmament consultant to the Holy See
* Walter Ciszek, missionary and religious prisoner in Soviet Union; author
* Saint Peter Claver, Spanish missionary in South America
* Christopher Clavius, main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar
* Saint Claude de la Colombière, preacher to the seventh Duchess of York, Mary of Modena
* Louis le Comte, early missionary to China
* Guy Consolmagno, Vatican astronomer
* Frederick Copleston, English writer, author of the definitive History of Philosophy
* Honoré-Gaspard de Coriolis, French cleric and historian
* John M. Corridan, labor activist and "Waterfront priest" whose story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront
* Horacio de la Costa, Philippine historian and first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
* Jacques Courtois, 17th-century French painter
* François Crépieul, 17th-century French missionary in Canada
* Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
* James Cullen, Irish temperance campaigner who founded the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association
* Johann Baptist Cysat, published the first printed European book concerning Japan
* Stanislaus Czerniewicz, Lithuanian-Polish priest, elected vicar general for Jesuits in Russia when the Society of Jesus was suppressed
* Stanisław Czerski, Polish graphic designer

## D

* Claude Dablon, Superior General of all the Canadian missions (1670-1680)
* Saint Antoine Daniel, North American martyr
* Cardinal Jean Daniélou, author, scholar, and member of the French Academy
* Alfred Delp, German hanged for his opposition to Hitler
* Saint Paul Denn, martyred in China
* Robert De Nobili, Italian missionary to India (Madurai Mission), who tried to inculturate Christian values to the Indian culture
* Henri Depelchin, Belgian missionary, pioneer, writer and educator in India and Africa
* Pedro Descoqs, French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of Action Française
* Ippolito Desideri, Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet
* Paul de Barry, rector of the Jesuit colleges at Aix, Nîmes, and Avignon, and Provincial of Lyon.
* Pierre-Jean De Smet, active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
* Richard De Smet, Jesuit Indologist (Sankara specialist), Professor of Phisosophy, JnanaDeep Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India; prolific writer and contributor to the Marathi Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
* William Detré, 17th century missionary in the Amazon
* Salvatore di Pietro, Italian missionary and first apostolic prefect to Belize, Central America
* Pedro Díaz, missionary
* John Donne, English poet and cleric in the Church of England (no evidence)
* Eduardo Dougherty, American-Brazilian educator, communicator and leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil
* Robert Drinan, first Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of U.S. Congress (congressman from Massachusetts)
* Gabriel Druillettes, Apostle of Maine, missionary and explorer
* Francis Bennon Ducrue, Bavarian missionary to Mexico
* Peter Dufka, Slovakian priest and professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome
* Cardinal Avery Dulles, American theologian and professor at Fordham University
* Jacques Dupuis, theologian, edited The Christian Faith which went to seven editions

## E

* Ignacio Ellacuría, rector of University of Central America; murdered in 1989
* Saint Philip Evans, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

## F

* Saint Peter Faber, early companion of Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Society of Jesus; missionary in Germany
* Honoré Fabri, first to explain why the sky is blue
* Jean-Charles della Faille, first to determine the center of gravity of the sector of a circle
* Thomas Falkner, English Jesuit missionary
* Leonard Feeney, ultra-conservative American theologian
* Wolfgang Feneberg, German Jesuit convert to Evangelical Lutheranism
* Richard Michael Fernando, Filipino Jesuit cleric, missionary in Cambodia and Servant of God
* Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press
* Joseph M. Finotti, pastor of Saint Mary's parish in Alexandria, Virginia; pastor of Saint Ignatius parish in Oxon Hill, Maryland; librarian at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
* Pierre-René Floquet, Quebec-based priest sympathetic to the Americans during the American Revolutionary War
* Jean de Fontaney, missionary to China
* Balthazar Francolini, attritionist professor at the Gregorian University who wrote Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707 against Jansenism
* Saint Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Society of Jesus and missionary to Asia who initiated a large conversion movement in India, Malacca, and Japan
* Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary to Japan; author of a history of Japan
* Fabian Fucan, Japanese Jesuit brother who converted to Zen Buddhism
* Jon Fuller, medical doctor known for his work with AIDS patients

## G

* Père Louis Gaillard, French missionary to China
* Marion M. Ganey, pioneer in credit union and coop movement in British Honduras and the South Pacific
* Saint Henry Garnet, first English Provincial; executed after being implicated in the Gunpowder Plot
* Saint Charles Garnier, North America martyr
* John Gerard, English Jesuit; one of the few men to escape from the Tower of London
* Jean-François Gerbillon, early missionary to China
* Aquiles Gerste, philologist and linguist best known for his ethnographic and linguistic studies of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
* Niccolò Gianpriamo, Italian missionary to China, astronomer
* Filippo Salvatore Gilii, contributor in the field of South American historical linguistics
* Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta
* Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian jesuit; patron saint of students
* Thyrsus González, Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* José Ignacio González Faus, Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia
* John Goodman, jailed in England during the Long Parliament
* Saint John Soan de Goto, martyred in Japan
* Saint René Goupil, Jesuit brother and North American martyr
* Baltasar Gracián, Spanish prose writer
* Cardinal Aloys Grillmeier, German theoligian
* Francesco Maria Grimaldi, 17th-century Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer; accurately mapped the Moon; one of the first to suggest the wave-like nature of light
* Saint Melchior Grodziecki, Polish martyr, patron of the city of Katowice
* Gabriel Gruber, Viennese scientist, engineer and teacher, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during the Suppression of the Society
* Paul Guldin, father of Guldinus theorem
* José Gumilla, naturalist who studied the Orinoco, South America
* Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian-Portuguese priest and mathematician; said to be an early inventor of the dirigible

## H

* Juraj Habdelić, Croatian writer and lexicographer
* Cyrus Habib, American politician turned Jesuit
* Walter Halloran, assistant in the exorcism which inspired the novel and film The Exorcist
* John Hardon, wrote The Catholic Catechism and many other works
* Peter Hasslacher, German preacher
* Irénée Hausherr, Alsatian specialist in Greek patristic and monastic spirituality
* Bernhard Havestadt, German missionary in Chile
* Timothy Healy, late president of Georgetown University and president of the New York Public Library system
* Martin Heidegger, German philosopher who was briefly a Jesuit novice
* Raymond Helmick, American theologian and author
* Daniel S. Hendrickson, 25th president of Creighton University
* David Francis Hickey, American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
* Robert Louis Hodapp, American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
* John-Baptist Hoffmann, German Apostle of the Mundas in India
* Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein, missionary to China that was made a mandarin
* Christopher Holywood, Irish priest of the Counter-Reformation
* Eduardo Hontiveros, Filipino philosopher, theologian and composer of sacred and liturgical music
* Frederick C. Hopkins, English missionary to Belize Central America; bishop and vicar apostolic
* Gerard Manley Hopkins, renowned English poet
* Johann Baptiste Horvath, 18th-century Hungarian/Slovak physics professor and textbook author
* Vincent Houdry, preacher and writer
* Gerard W. Hughes, Scottish Jesuit priest and spiritual writer
* Franz Hunolt, German priest and author
* Saint Alberto Hurtado, social reformer in Chile

## I

* Saint Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Blessed John Ingram
* Saint Rémy Isoré, martyred in China
* Angelo Italia, 17th century Sicilian architect

## J

* Andreas Jaszlinszky, 18th-century Hungarian physics professor and textbook author
* Saint Francis de Geronimo, Italian priest and missionary
* Franz Jetzinger, theology professor, Austrian political figure, and principal biographer of Adolf Hitler's early years
* Pierre Johanns, Luxemburger priest and missionary in India
* Saint Isaac Jogues, 17th-century French martyr and missionary to North America
* Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, Mexican priest, executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles
* Claude Judde, 18th century French teacher

## K

* Georg Joseph Kamel, Czech botanist assigned to the Philippines; the Camellia flower was named after him
* Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian
* Franciszek Kareu, Polonised architect of British descent who was elected Vice General of the Russian province during the suppression of the Society
* Blessed Leonardo Kimura, Japanese martyr
* Eusebio Francisco Kino, missionary and cartographer of Mexico and Arizona
* Athanasius Kircher, 17th-century German scientist; discoverer of microbes
* Saint James Kisai, Japanese martyr
* Lev Kobylinsky, Russian poet, translator and religious theorist
* Adam Adamandy Kochański, Polish mathematician and clockmaker
* Anthony Kohlmann, early Catholic priest in New York whose decision not to testify established American precedent for "priest-penitent privilege" or "clergy confidentiality" in law
* Peter Hans Kolvenbach, linguist; 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Adam Krupski, professor of philosophy, legal expert on the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, author of the school dialogue.
* Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec, Prisoner for Christ
* Saint Stanislaus Kostka, patron saint of Jesuit novices
* George Kovalenko, Russian convert from Eastern Orthodoxy
* Adam Kozłowiecki, Polish Dachau concentration camp survivor, missionary in Zambia, archbishop of Lusaka and Cardinal
* Franz Xaver Kugler, Doctor of chemistry and mathematics; known also for his Babylonian studies
* Kurien Kunnumpuram, Indian theologian (Ecclesiology)
* Thomas Kunnunkal, Indian educationist and writer

## L

* Saint Jean de Lalande, North American martyr
* Saint Gabriel Lalemant, North American martyr
* Quentin Lauer, American priest, philosopher and Hegel scholar
* Antoine Lavalette, French priest, slave-owning missionary in Martinique whose unpaid debts contributed to the Jesuits being banned in France in 1764
* Pierre de Lauzon, superior of the Jesuits in New France
* Włodzimierz Ledóchowski, Polish Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Gabriel Lenkiewicz, Polish teacher and architect, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during there suppression of the Society
* Leonardus Lessius, Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
* Saint David Lewis, Welsh martyr
* Constant Lievens, Apostle of Chotanagpur, Flemish Jesuit who worked among the Adivasis of Central India
* Segundo Llorente, Spanish-born priest in rural western Alaska; was elected by write-in vote to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1960 by residents of the Wade Hampton district, becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature
* William Lonc, professor of physics and translator of French-Canadian Jesuit records into English
* Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian, Companion of the Order of Canada
* Cardinal Henri de Lubac, French theologian, and patrologist

## M

* Marius Macrionitis, Archbishop of Athens
* Jack Mahoney, ethicist and moral theologian
* Louis Maimbourg
* Matt Malone, 14th editor in chief of America magazine
* Joseph Maréchal, Belgian transcendental philosopher
* Juan de Mariana
* Jacques Marquette, French explorer of the Mississippi and Northern Michigan areas
* James Martin, author of My Life With the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything; culture editor of the America magazine
* Malachi Martin, author of sixteen books, had three Ph.Ds, spoke ten languages
* Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr of El Salvador
* Martino Martini, Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese Atlas and the first Ancient History and a chronicle of the tartarian war
* Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
* William Francis Masterson, American educator to the Philippines; (Ateneo de Manila University, Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan), founder of the Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan College of Agriculture
* Saint Lèon-Ignance Mangin, martyred in China
* Juan Francisco Masdeu, historian
* Blessed Julien Maunoir, 17th-century missionary to the Breton people
* Blessed Rupert Mayer, Servant of God, resisted the Nazis
* John McElroy, one of two of the Army's first Catholic Chaplains. Chaplain during the Mexican–American War, founder of St. John's Literary Institute, Boston College High School, and Boston College.
* Horace McKenna, founder of So Others Might Eat and advocate of the Sursum Corda Cooperative
* John McLaughlin, American political commentator; left the Jesuits after a failed bid for a Senate seat in Rhode Island
* Richard McSorley (1914-2002), peace activist; peace studies Professor at Georgetown University.
* Domingo Patricio Meagher, Spanish writer and university professor of Irish descent
* Anthony de Mello, Indian spiritual guide and writer
* Everard Mercurian, Belgian, 4th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Brice Meuleman, Belgian, 2nd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
* Saint Paulo Miki, Japanese martyr
* Jorge Loring Miró, Spanish Jesuit
* Ignacio Molarja, explorer and missionary to New Spain
* Yves de Montcheuil, French philosopher, theologian, and French resistant.
* Segundo Montes, martyr of El Salvador
* Saint Henry Morse, English martyr
* Simon Le Moyne, French New World explorer
* Franz Magnis-Suseno, German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest and philosopher
* W. G. Read Mullan, American academic and university president
* Joseph Anthony Murphy, Irish missionary, bishop and vicar apostolic to Belize, Central America
* John Courtney Murray, American theologian credited with the drafting of the Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom

## N

* John E. Naus, dean of students and associate professor at Marquette University
* Bienvenido Nebres, Philippine National Scientist, mathematician & former president of the Ateneo de Manila University
* Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German 'father' of Catholic social teaching (1890-1991)
* Terence Netter, painter and former priest
* Adolfo Nicolás, 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Roberto de Nobili, Italian missionary to India; linguist
* Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese founder of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro
* Charles de Noyelle, Belgian 12th Superior General of the Society of Jesus

## O

* Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576-1646), Polish teacher
* Bernard Michael O'Brien, New Zealand Jesuit priest and philosopher
* Joseph T. O'Callahan, U.S. Navy chaplain; awarded Medal of Honor
* Saint John Ogilvie, Scottish martyr
* Joseph A. O'Hare, former president of Fordham University and chairman of the New York City Charter Revision Commission and the first New York City Campaign Finance Board
* Gian Paolo Oliva, Italian 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* John W. O'Malley, American academic and Catholic historian
* William O'Malley, author and actor (played Father Joe Dyer in The Exorcist)
* Walter J. Ong, American cultural historian and spiritual writer
* Wilhelm Josef Oomens, painter
* John H. O'Rourke, American retreat leader and master of novices
* Saint Nicholas Owen, martyr saint of England and Wales

## P

* Mitch Pacwa, scholar; host on EWTN
* Francesco Palliola, Italian missionary and martyr in the Philippines
* Kuruvilla Pandikattu, Indian philosopher
* Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro, pioneer philologist
* Raimon Panikkar, Spanish priest, theologian, philosopher, interfaith dialogist, scholar, writer and chemist
* Álvarez de Paz, preacher and mystic
* Péter Pázmány, Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, leader of the Catholic revival in Hungary
* Ferdinand Perier, Belgian, 3rd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
* Denis Pétau, French scholar and theologian
* François Para du Phanjas, French writer
* Giambattista Pianciani, Italian scientist
* Joseph Pignatelli, Italian leader of the Jesuits in exile
* John Pinasco, Italian theologian and educator to America
* Luca Pinelli, Italian scholar and theologian
* Bartolomé Pou, Spanish writer
* John Powell, American author and professor
* Andrea Pozzo, great artist of the Baroque genre

## R

* Karl Rahner, 20th-century German theologian
* Samuel Rayan, Indian proponent of liberation theology
* Saint Bernardino Realino, pastor of Lecce
* Sebastian Redford, 18th-century author
* Joseph Redlhamer, 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
* Saint John Francis Regis, French rural missionary preacher
* Karl Leonhard Reinhold
* Franz Retz, Czech 15th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Johann Baptist Reus, German-Brazilian religious leader
* Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary to Vietnam; linguist
* Servant of God Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements
* Giovanni Battista Riccioli, 17th-century Italian astronomer; devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard
* William A. Rice, American missionary, founder of Baghdad College, bishop and vicar apostolic in Belize
* Didier Rimaud, French composer and poet
* Alberto Rivera, claimed to be ex-Jesuit (disputed by Catholic Church), anti-Catholic activist
* Saint Alonso Rodriguez, martyr of the Río de la Plata
* Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit brother; mystic
* Augustin Rösch, Provincial, and significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism.
* João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Translator"), 16th-century Portuguese missionary who served as a translator for Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, wrote early works on Japanese linguistics, and introduced Western science and culture to Korea through his gifts to the ambassador Jeong Duwon
* Saint José María Rubio, Spanish priest; canonized in 2003
* Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Jesuit missionary in Paraguay
* Francis Tiburtius Roche, first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin.

## S

* Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, contributions to the theory of logarithms
* Karel San Juan, Filipino president of Ateneo de Zamboanga University
* Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Latin poet of the Counter-Reformation, crowned poet laureate by Pope Urban VIII
* Alonso de Sandoval, missionary to African slaves in Cartagena de Indias, mentor of Saint Peter Claver
* Johann Schreck, 17th-century German polymath and missionary to China
* Gaspar Schott, first published mention of the universal joint
* Angelo Secchi, astronomer
* Juan Luis Segundo, liberation theologian
* Gerolamo Sersale, astronomer
* Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman
* Swami Shilananda, Spanish missionary who spent his active years in India
* Piotr Skarga, Polish polemicist, leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and hagiographer
* Tadeusz Ślipko, Polish ethicist
* Pierre-Jean De Smet, American explorer and missionary
* Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki, introduced logarithms to China
* Cypriano de Soarez, author of De Arte Rhetorica
* Jon Sobrino, author of Christology at the Crossroads, liberation theologian
* Carlos Sommervogel, scholar and author of Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus
* Arturo Sosa, 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Saint Robert Southwell, Elizabethan poet and martyr
* Cardinal Tomáš Špidlík, Czech theologian and professor
* Buck Stanton (Jesuit), naturalist and Jesuit missionary to British Honduras.
* Walter Steins Bisschop, 19th-century Dutch bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay and then Calcutta and 3rd Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand
* Andrew Sterpin, Chinese-born Russian priest who was influential in both Russian and French culture
* Francisco Suárez, scholastic philosopher
* Blessed John Sullivan (Jesuit)|, Irish convert and teacher; renowned for his special interest in the poor
* Jón Sveinsson, Icelandic poet and writer
* Martin Szentiványi, writer
* Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian mathematician and astronomer
* Stan Swamy, tribal rights activist

## T

* Joel Tabora, Filipino philosopher and president of Ateneo de Davao University
* Guy Tachard, two important embassies to Siam
* André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician whose works facilitated the discovery of calculus
* Michelangelo Tamburini, Italian 14th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
* Francesco Lana de Terzi, creator of the first realistic technical plans for an airship
* Richard Thimelby, 17th century English missionary priest, Rector of the College of St Omer
* Antoine Thomas, Belgian astronomer in China
* Vitus Georg Tönnemann, German priest who was the only confessor to Emperor Charles VI of France (1711-1740)
* Girolamo Francesco Tornielli, Italian preacher and writer
* Cosme de Torrès, contemporary of Francis Xavier
* Diego de Torres Bello, pioneer of the Paraguay province
* Pascal Tosi, Italian co-founder of the Alaska Mission
* Nicolas Trigault, early missionary to China
* Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung, first Mandarin-speaking Chinese to become a Jesuit
* John Nepomuk Tschupick, Austrian preacher
* George Tyrrell, Anglo-Irish modernist theologian and scholar

## U

* Juan José Urráburu, scholastic philosopher

## V

* Luca Valerio, corresponded with Galileo Galilei
* Alessandro Valignano, Italian canonical visitor to the Asian missions; promoter of an inculturated missionary approach
* Carlos G. Vallés, writer of Gujarati, English and Spanish languages; and mathematics
* Albert Vanhoye, Biblical scholar and cardinal
* John Vattanky, Indian classical philosopher
* José María Vélaz, founder of Fe y Alegría
* Ferdinand Verbiest, Belgian missionary to China; astronomer and mathematician
* António Vieira, 17th-century Portuguese missionary and diplomat
* Juan Bautista Villalpando, Isaac Newton referred to his works
* Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish mathematician
* Claude de Visdelou, early missionary to China

## W

* Edmund A. Walsh, founder of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
* Saint Henry Walpole, English martyr
* Heinrich Wangnereck, German theologian, preacher, and author
* Anthony Watsham, entomologist with emphasis on scelionidae
* Andrew White (Jesuit), 17th century English Jesuit, influential figure in the early Maryland Colony who led efforts to convert and improve relations with local Native American tribes
* George J. Willmann, American priest regarded as the "Father of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines" and Servant of God
* Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who was briefly a Jesuit
* Jakub Wujek, scholar and translator

## X

* Georges Xenopulos, Greek bishop

## Z

* Louis Zhang Jiashu, non-canonical bishop of Shanghai
* Emmanuel Zheng Manuo, first Chinese international student and first Chinese Jesuit priest
* Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer and musician
* Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, expert in the Old Javanese language and literature
* Giovanni Battista Zupi, mathematician, astronomer