List of Catholic missionaries significant person Francis Xavier
== 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
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
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
Józef Wojaczek
William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols
Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and 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