page_title: List of Jesuits
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of Jesuits / B
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Jan Beyzym (1850-1912)
context_page_description: This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus.
context_section_description: 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 to 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, Argentinian, first Jesuit to be elected Pope (2013)
  Thomas V. Bermingham, American academic who worked on The Exorcist
  Prosper Bernard, a 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, a 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
  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
  Franz Brentano, philosopher who founded his own school of thought, the School of Brentano
  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, Preside
caption: Blessed Jan Beyzym, Missionary in Madagascar
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