# List of Christian martyrs

This is a list of reputed martyrs of Christianity; it includes only notable people with Wikipedia articles. Not all Christian confessions accept every figure on this list as a martyr or Christian—see the linked articles for fuller discussion. In many types of Christianity, martyrdom is considered a direct path to sainthood and many names on this list are viewed as saints in one or more confessions.

## Apostolic Age—1st century
### According to the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles

* Holy Innocents of Bethlehem
* John the Baptist
* Stephen (Protomartyr)
* James, son of Zebedee
* Antipas

### According to early sources

* James, brother of Jesus - attested by Josephus ca. AD 94
* Simon Peter, first attested by Tertullian about AD 200
* Paul the Apostle, first attested by Ignatius of Antioch probably about AD 110

### According to tradition

* Andrew the Apostle
* Matthew the Apostle
* Philip the Apostle
* Thomas the Apostle
* Jude Thaddeus
* Bartholomew
* James, son of Alphaeus
* Barnabas
* Simon Zelotes
* Mark the Evangelist
* Luke the Evangelist
* Timothy
* Philemon

## Age of Martyrdom—2nd to 4th centuries
### According to early Christian tradition
#### With some historical attestation within a hundred years of the event

* Polycarp of Smyrna
* Justin Martyr
* Scillitan Martyrs
* Perpetua and Felicity
* Ptolemaeus and Lucius
* Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, with Blandina and several others, the "Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne"
* Pope Fabian
* Sebastian
* Shmona and Gurya
* Agnes of Rome
* Felix and Adauctus
* Marcellinus and Peter
* Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
* Euphemia
* Cyprian
* Athenogenes of Pedachtoë

#### With some historical attestation more than a hundred years after the event

* Alban
* Ignatius of Antioch
* Gelasinus
* Lawrence of Rome
* Lucy
* Pancras
* Vincent of Saragossa
* Benedicta of Monacilioni
* Petronilla

### Largely or wholly legendary

* Afra
* George
* Januarius
* Valentine
* Philomena
* Behnam
* Wilgefortis
* Cecilia
* Catherine of Alexandria
* Vitus the Martyr
* Pelagia of Tarsus
* Sophia the Martyr and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Charity

## Middle Ages—5th to 15th-centuries

* Vardan Mamikonian, 451 in the Battle of Avarayr- First battle in defense of the Christian faith.
* Tewdrig, 6th c.
* Boethius, 6th c.
* Sigismund of Burgundy, 524
* Edwin of Northumbria, 633 in the Battle of Hatfield Chase
* Oswald of Northumbria, 642 in the Battle of Maserfield
* Projectus of Clermont, 676
* Warinus of Poitiers, 677
* Dagobert II of the Franks, 676
* Kilian, Colman, and Totnan, 689
* Fructus, Valentine & Engratia of Segovia, c. 715
* Theofrid of Orange, 728/-32 by Saracens
* Porcarius of Lérins, c. 732 by Saracens
* Boniface, 754.
* Æthelberht II of East Anglia, 794
* Martyrs of Iona, 806 by Vikings
* Gohard of Nantes, 843 by Normans
* Roderick, Eulogius, Perfectus, Laura, Flora and Maria, Aurelius and Natalia, Nunilo and Alodia, and other Martyrs of Cordoba, 850-59
* Bertharius of Monte Cassino, 883 by Saracens
* Edmund of East Anglia, 869.
* Ludmila of Bohemia, 921
* Wiborada of St. Gall, 921 by Magyars
* Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, 935
* King Edward the Martyr, 979.
* Adalbert of Prague, 997 by Old Prussians
* Bruno of Querfurt, 1009
* Jovan Vladimir, 1014
* Olaf II of Norway, 1030 in the Battle of Stiklestad
* Gerard of Csanád, 1046
* Stanislaus of Szczepanów, 1079
* Canute IV of Denmark, 1086
* Magnus Erlendsson of Orkney, 1117
* William of Norwich, 1144 (cult suppressed)
* Eric IX of Sweden, 1161
* Thomas Becket, 1170 - The most famous martyr of the Middle Ages.
* Berard of Carbio and companions, 1220
* Serapion of Algiers, 1240
* Buzád Hahót, 1241
* Peter of Verona, 1252 by Cathars - Canonized 11 months after his death; the fastest in history.
* Martyrs of Sandomierz, 1260
* Antonio Pavoni, 1374 by Waldensians
* Tsar Lazar, 1389
* Nicholas Tavelic, 1391
* John of Nepomuk, 1393
* Jan Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416) - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic Council of Constance
* Joan of Arc, 1431, French heroine
* Girolamo Savonarola, 1498

## Reformation Era—16th century

* Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, 1523, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyrs
* Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake
* Martyrs of Tlaxcala, 1527-1529
* Felix Manz, 1527
* Patrick Hamilton, 1528, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyr
* George Blaurock, 1529
* Thomas More, 1535, executed
* John Fisher, 1535
* William Tyndale, 1535
* Carthusian Martyrs, 1535–1537
* Arthur of Glastonbury, 1539
* Margaret Pole, 1541
* Juan de Padilla, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542
* Mannar Catholic martyrs (1544)
* Anne Askew, 1546
* George Wishart, 1546
* Luis de Cancer, Spanish missionary to La Florida, 1549
* Lady Jane Grey, 1554
* Hugh Latimer, 1555
* Nicholas Ridley, 1555
* Rowland Taylor, 1555
* John Hooper, 1555
* John Rogers, 1555
* William Hunter, 1555
* Lawrence Saunders, 1555
* Thomas Cranmer, 1556
* Guido de Bres, 1567
* Dirk Willems, 1569
* The Fifty Two Martyrs of Brazil, 1570-1571, including:
** Inácio de Azevedo, 1570
** Pero Dias, 1571
* Martyrs of Gorkum, 1572, including:
** Andrew Wouters
** Nicholas Pieck
** John of Cologne
* Edmund Campion, 1581
* Margaret Ball, 1584
* The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, various dates

## Modern Era—17th to 21st centuries

* Martyrs of Japan, 1597-1639, (see also Kakure Kirishitan)
* Francis Taylor, 1621
* Ketevan the Martyr, 1624
* Vietnamese Martyrs, 1625 - 1886
* Magdalene of Nagasaki, 1634
* Lorenzo Ruiz, 1637
* Canadian Martyrs, North American Martyrs, 1642–1649
* Arthur Bell, 1643
* Martyrs of Natal 1645, including:
** André de Soveral
** Ambrósio Francisco Ferro
** Mateus Moreira
* Isaac Jogues, 1646
* John de Britto, 1647–1693, born in Portugal and beheaded in India
* Francis Ferdinand de Capillas, 1648, missionary to China
* Diego Luis de San Vitores, and Pedro Calungsod, 1672
* Feodosia Morozova, 1675, Russian Old Believer
* Oliver Plunkett, 1681, Archbishop of Armagh
* Felipe Songsong, 1685
* Salem Witch Trials, 1692
* Devasahayam Pillai, 1712-1752
* Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714
* Jean-Pierre Aulneau, Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, and 19 other voyageurs, 1736
* Vicente Liem de la Paz, 1773
* Luís Jayme, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1775
* Cosmas of Aetolia, 1779
* Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1781
* Martyrs of Compiegne, 1794
* Andrés Quintana, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1812
* Chinese Martyrs (various Christian denominations), 19th and 20th centuries
* Pedro Marieluz Garces, 1825
* Tārore, 1836
* Andrew Dung-Lac, 1839, Vietnamese Catholic
* Joseph Smith, 1844
* Hyrum Smith, 1844
* Korean Martyrs, 1839, 1846, 1866
* Peter Chanel, 1841
* Andrew Kim Taegon, 1846
* Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Whitman, and companions, 1847
* The Massabki Brothers, 1860
* Lucy Yi Zhenmei, one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862
* Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji
* Martyrs of the Paris Commune, 1871
* Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887
* Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas, 1897
* Amandina of Schakkebroek, 1900
* Maria Goretti, 1902, died defending herself from being raped
* Karolina Kózka, 1914
* Armenian Martyrs, 1915-1923
* Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, 1918
* Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Family, 1918
* Nun Barbara (Yakovleva), 1918
* James Coyle, 1921
* Gregory of Cydonia, 1922
* Manuel Gómez González, 1924
* Adílio Daronch, 1924
* Saints of the Cristero War 1926–1927, including:
** Miguel Pro, 1927
** Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, 1927
** Mateo Correa Magallanes, 1927
* Toribio Romo González, 1928
* Manche Masemola, 1913–1928
* José Sánchez del Río 1928
* Albertina Berkenbrock, 1931
* Innocencio of Mary Immaculate, 1934
* John and Betty Stam, 1934
* Antonia Mesina, 1935
* Bartolome Blanco Marquez, 1936
* Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 1934, 1936–1939
* Alexander Hotovitzky, 1937
* Peter of Jesus Maldonado, 1937
* Paul Schneider (pastor), 1939
* Martyrs of Songkhon, 1940
* Maximilian Kolbe, 1941, murdered in Auschwitz
* Benigna Cardoso da Silva, 1941
* Edith Stein, 1942, murdered in Auschwitz
* Gorazd, 1942, Bishop of Prague
* Lucian Tapiedi, 1942
* Franz Jägerstätter, 1943
* Sophie Scholl, 1921-1943, a devout Lutheran executed by the Nazis for her anti-Nazi activism
* Maria Restituta Kafka, 1943
* Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with seven children, 1944
* Giuseppe Beotti, 1944
* Anna Kolesárová, 1944
* Dusty Miller, 1945, a Methodist layman killed in a World War II Japanese administered POW camp in Thailand
* Marcel Callo, 1945
* Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1945, Lutheran pastor and member of the German Resistance
* Rolando Rivi, fourteen-year-old seminarian, 1945
* Peter To Rot, 1945
* Vincentas Borisevičius, 1946
* Martyrs of Albania, 1945-1974
* Theodore Romzha, 1947, Ruthenian Eparch of Mukachevo
* Nykyta Budka, 1949, Ukrainian Bishop of Canada, died in Soviet gulag
* Beda Chang, 1951
* Alberto Hurtado, 1952
* Francis Xavier Ford, 1952
* Petro Pavlo Oros, 1953
* Mečislovas Reinys, 1953
* Martyrs of Laos, 1954-1970
* Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová, 1955
* Jim Elliot, 1956
* Nate Saint, 1956, killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people
* Ed McCully, 1956
* Pete Fleming, 1956
* Roger Youderian, 1956
* Pierina Morosini, 1957
* Veronica Antal, 1958
* Esther John 1929–1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey.
* Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta, 1964
* Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister, theologian, civil rights leader, 1968
* Wang Zhiming, 1973, Chinese pastor, publicly executed
* Martyrs of La Rioja, 1976
* Janani Jakaliya Luwum, 1977, Archbishop of Uganda
* Abuna Theophilos, 1979, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
* Gudina Tumsa, 1979, Ethiopian theologian
* Óscar Romero, 1980, Archbishop of San Salvador
* Luís Espinal Camps, 1980, Jesuit priest
* Ita Ford, 1980
* Maura Clarke, 1980
* Dorothy Kazel, 1980
* Jean Donovan, 1980
* Stanley Rother, 1981
* Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos, 1982
* Jerzy Popiełuszko, 1984
* Santa Scorese, 1991
* Marta Obregón Rodríguez, 1992
* Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, 1993
* Martyrs of Algeria, 1994-1996
* Rani Maria Vattalil, 1995
* 19 martyrs of Algeria, 1996
* Graham Staines, 1999, in India
* Kosheh Martyrs, 1998–2000, Egypt
* Maria Laura Mainetti, 2000, Catholic nun murdered in a satanic ritual
* Rufus Halley, 2001
* David Paget, 2001
* Martin Burnham, 2002
* Mary Stachowicz, 2002
* Dorothy Mae Stang, 2005
* Andrea Santoro, 2006
* Fabianus Tibo, 2006
* Leonella Sgorbati, 2006
* Ragheed Ganni and companions, 2007
* Paulos Faraj Rahho, 2008, Chaldean Archeparch of Mosul
* Nicholas Pillai Pakiaranjith, 2008
* 2008 Kandhamal violence, 2008
* Vivian Uchechi Ogu, 2009
* Nag Hammadi martyrs, Egypt 2010
* Baghdad martyrs, 2010
* Luigi Padovese, 2011
* Shahbaz Bhatti, 2011
* Nigerian martyrs, 2012
* Frans van der Lugt, 2014
* Christians (ن) martyred by ISIL, 2014-2019
* 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya, 2015
* Akash Bashir, 2015
* Jacques Hamel, Normandy 2016
* Cairo martyrs, 2016
* Alexandria martyrs, 2017
* Sutherland Springs martyrs, 2017
* John Allen Chau, 2018
* Sri Lankan martyrs, 2019
* Owo martyrs, 2022
* Plateau martyrs, 2023