List of Christian missionaries

The following are notable Christian missionaries:

1 Early Christian missionaries
2 Medieval to modern missionaries
3 See also

Early Christian missionaries

These are missionaries that predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to an early Christian groups.

Alopen – First missionary to China (Nestorian)
Augustine of Canterbury – Missionary to England
Apollos
Saint Barnabas
Saint Boniface – Influential in the conversion of German peoples
Brieuc
Columba – Early missionary to Scotland
David of Basra– Early missionary to India
Denis – Early missionary to France
Frumentius – Early missionary to Ethiopia
Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia
Mark the Evangelist
Saint Patrick – Early missionary to Ireland
Paul of Tarsus
Pantaenus – Early missionary to India
Twelve Apostles – All of the twelve are considered missionaries at some level
Ulfilas – Missionary to the Goths
Dr. Mattie b Tate- second Presbyterian US missionary to Korea ( Chonju, Korea)

Medieval to modern missionaries

Anglican

Geoffrey Bingham – Mission in Pakistan
James Blair (clergyman)
William Duncan (missionary) – Worked with the Tsimshians
James Hannington – Saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda
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 (Reverend) – Missionary to India
Charles William Pearson – Pioneer of the Church of Uganda
Henry Townsend (missionary) – Missionary in West Africa
Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – He worked in Kashmir
Walter Weston – Missionary to Japan, popularized the term Japanese Alps
John Burdett Wittenoom – Missionary to Australia
Gladys Aylward – Missionary to China and Taiwan

Baptist

John Birch (missionary) – Baptist missionary killed in China
Joseph Booth – Missionary to what is now Malawi
William Carey – Linked to India and a founder of the Baptist Missionary Society
Issachar Jacox Roberts – Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong Xiuquan
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 whose writings home made the couple celebrities
George Lisle (Baptist) First American missionary. Served in Jamaica.
Isaac McCoy Missionary to the American Indians
Lottie Moon – Southern Baptist missionary to China (the Lottie Moon Christmas offering is still an important event in the Southern Baptist calendar)
Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China
C.W. Pruitt – husband and fellow Southern Baptist missionary to North China

Plymouth Brethren

Anthony Norris Groves
George Müller – preached in various countries
Jim Elliot – Missionary to Ecuador
Christian Rockwood-Bong – Missionary to Nova Scotia

Congregationalists

William Scott Ament Controversial missionary to China.
David Bogue – Missionary to India, convert from Church of Scotland
Hedley Bunton – Twentieth century missionary in China who lived under Japanese occupation for a time
Samuel Dyer – In 19th c. China
William Ellis (author) – Missionary to the South Pacific and an author
Cyrus Hamlin – American missionary in Turkey
David Livingstone – Missionary and explorer in Africa
Walter Henry Medhurst – Revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China
Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa
Peter Parker (physician) – Missionary and doctor in nineteenth c. China
Betsey Stockton - Missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave that was the first American single woman to go on a foreign mission
L. E. Threlkeld – Linguist and missionary linked to the Lake Macquarie mission
John Williams (missionary) – Congregationalist in the South Pacific

Methodist

Young John Allen – Missionary in Qing China
Francis Burns – Missionary to Liberia
Thomas Coke (Methodist)
Sioeli Nau – Missionary work in Fiji and Tonga
Francis Dunlap Gamewell Chief of Fortification, Boxer Rebellion, China
George Richmond Grose – Missionary to China
Joseph Crane Hartzell – Missionary work in Africa
E. Stanley Jones – Missionary to India
Pilipo Miriye – Missionary to Nigeria
Walter Russell Lambuth – Established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia
J. P. Martin – Children's book writer and missionary in Africa
Dorothy Ripley – Missionary to the US
Samuel Evans Rowe– Missionary work in Africa
Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia
George Whitefield – Missionary/evangelist to colonial US
John Wesley– Missionary/evangelist in Europe and America

Moravian

Anna Nitschmann – Moravian missionary
David Nitschmann der Bischof – Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania
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
Nicolas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf, Renewer of the Moravian Church

Presbyterian

Sir William James Wanless M.D., F.A.C.S founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897.
Hunter Corbett pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906
William Chalmers Burns – Missionary to China
Alexander Duff – Missionary in 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 – Also among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan
Robert Morrison – The first Protestant missionary in China
John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (now part of Vanuatu)
Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria
Absalom Sydenstricker – Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. Buck
Bill Majors – American missionary in Korea
John Lawrence Goheen Presbyterian missionary, administer of Ichalkaranji state of British India.
Dr. Mattie B Tate 2nd Presbyterian US missionary to Korea (Chonju, Korea)

Other Protestant

Paul Wilson Brand – Missionary surgeon in India
Jonathan Edwards
Hans Egede– Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of Greenland"
Aril Edvardsen – Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary
Torill Selsvold Nyborg– Norwegian Lutheran missionary in Arequipa from 1977 to 1982
Reinhard Bonnke – German charismatic Christian evangelist
John Eliot (missionary) – Puritan missionary to the American Indians
Leung Faat – Chinese convert who did missionary work in Southeast Asia and his homeland
James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra
Helen Roseveare – Missionary physician in the Congo
John Smith (missionary) – West Indies
Hudson Taylor – Missionary in China
Jason Frenn – Contemporary missionary to Latin America
Johannes Maas – Founder and current president of Worldwide Faith Missions

Other Christian

Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church
Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary
Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker
Raphael Morgan – Greek Orthodox.
Robert Pierce – founder, World Vision
Heidi Baker – co-founder IRIS ministries
Terje Liverod – co-founder World Outreach Ministries
John & Perla Sweeney – Missionaries to Haiti with Christian Haitian Outreach
Steve Peter & Jenny Ruth Kok – Missionaries in Asia and founder Faith-With-You Christian Ministries