List of Jesuits
This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus.
A
- José de Acosta, Spanish historian; author of The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
- Francois d'Aguillon, Belgian mathematician and physicist
- Mateo Aimerich, Spanish philologist
- Giulio Alenio, Italian missionary to China, called the "Confucius of the West"
- Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
- Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary to China
- Yves Marie André, French mathematician, philosopher, and essayist
- José de Anchieta, Portuguese missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
- Saint Modeste Andlauer, martyred in China
- Juan Andres, prolific 18th-century Spanish writer
- Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, led the first rescue party in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb
- Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish Basque leader; later left the Society
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
- Ignacio Martin Baro, martyr in El Salvador
- Augustin Barruel, French writer
- Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749 to 1763)
- Joseph Bayma, wrote "Molecular Mechanics" in 1866...
- Augustin Bea, German cardinal
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary to China; astronomer
- Saint Robert Bellarmine, Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church
- Frans Jozef van Beeck, theologian
- Joop Beek, Dutch and Indonesian educator and presidential political advisor
- Saint John Berchmans, Jesuit Seminarian from Belgium
- Prosper Bernard, a Canadian missionary to China, killed by the Japanese
- Joaquin G. Bernas, Filipino Jesuit, constitutionalist, Dean Emeritus of the Ateneo Law School; former president of the Ateneo de Manila University, former Provincial Superior of the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus
- Daniel Berrigan, American political activist, poet, and professor at Fordham University
- Giuseppe Biancani, a very early selenographer
- Jacob Bidermann, theologian and playwright - inspired Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- Jacques de Billy, "pen-pal" of Pierre de Fermat, many early contributions in number theory.
- Leopold Biwald, 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
- Saint Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary, killed by the Cossacks
- Saint Francis Borgia, third Superior General of the Society and exorcist
- Ruđer Bošković, 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
- Niklaus Brantschen, Swiss Jesuit, Zen master, author, and founder of the Lassalle-Institut
- Saint Jean de Brebeuf, 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 Brentano School...
- John de Brito, Portuguese martyr and missionary to Madura, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
- Ruđer Josip Bošković, Croatian atomic physicist, forerunner of Faraday
- Claude Buffier, aimed to discover the ultimate principal of knowledge, praised by Voltaire
C
- Niccolò Cabeo, many early contributions to physics
- Saint Edmund Campion, English martyr
- Saint Petrus Canisius, Dutch theologian, writer of the widely-used Little Catechism; Doctor of the Church
- 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
- Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural theorist
- Francesco Cetti, mathematician and zoologist
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
- Saint Noël Chabanel, North American martyr
- Pierre Cholonec, Superior of Montreal
- 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
- Frederick Copleston, English writer, author of the definitive History of Philosophy
- John M. Corridan, labor activist and "Waterfront priest" whose story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront
- Horacio de la Costa, Philippine historian and the first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
- Jacques Courtois, 17th-century French painter
- Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
- Johann Baptist Cysat, published the first printed European book concerning Japan
- Stanisław Czerski, Polish graphic designer
D
- Claude Dablon, Superior General of all the Canadian missions from 1670 to 1680
- Saint Antoine Daniel, North American martyr
- Cardinal Jean Daniélou, author, scholar, and member of the French Academy
- John Dear, American peace activist and spiritual author
- Alfred Delp, German hanged for his opposition to Hitler
- Saint Paul Denn, martyred in China
- Robert De Nobili, Famous Italian missionary to India (Madurai Mission, who tried to inculturate Christian values to the Indian culture
- Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard political conservative
- Pierre-Jean De Smet, active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
- Eduardo Dougherty, American-Brazilian educator, communicator and leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil
- Robert Drinan, the first Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of U.S. Congress (congressman from Massachusetts)[1]
- Gabriel Druillettes, the Apostle of Maine, missionary and explorer
- Cardinal Avery Dulles, American theologian and professor at Fordham University
- Jacques Dupuis , Theologian, edited The Christian Faith which went to seven editions
E
F
G
- Saint Henry Garnett, 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
- Filippo Salvatore Gilij, contributor in the field of South American historical linguistics
- Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta
- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian priest; patron saint of students
- Thyrsus González, Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Walter Halloran, assistant in the exorcism which inspired the novel and film The Exorcist
- John Hardon , wrote The Catholic Catechism and many other works
- Timothy Healy, late president of Georgetown University and president of the New York Public Library system
- Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (spent a very short time as a novice before beginning his philosophical career)
- 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
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, renowned English poet
- Johann Baptiste Horvath, 18th-century Hungarian/Slovak physics professor and textbook author
- Saint Alberto Hurtado, social reformer in Chile
I
J
K
- Georg Joseph Kamel Czech botanist assigned to the Philippines; the Camellia flower was named after him
- Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian
- Eusebio Francisco Kino, missionary and cartographer of Mexico and Arizona
- Athanasius Kircher, 17th-century German scientist; discoverer of microbes
- Saint James Kisai, Japanese martyr
- 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
- Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec, Prisoner for Christ
- Saint Stanislaus Kostka, patron saint of Jesuit novices
- Franz Xaver Kugler, Doctor of chemistry and mathematics. Famous also for his Babylonian studies
- Kurien Kunnumpuram, Indian theologian (ecclesiology)
L
- Saint Jean de Lalande, North American martyr
- Saint Gabriel Lalemant, North American martyr
- Brendan Lally, American; Famous spiritual director at the Pontifical North American College and Saint Joseph's University
- Georges LeMaitre, Belgian physicist; one of the originators of the "Big Bang" theory
- Leonardus Lessius, Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
- Léon Degrelle, Belgian Soldier
- Saint David Lewis, Welsh martyr
- Constant Lievens, the Apostle of Chotanagpur, a Flemish Jesuit who worked among the Adivasis of Central India
- Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian, Companion of the Order of Canada
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Cardinal Henri de Lubac, French theologian, and patrologist
M
- Louis Maimbourg
- James Martin, author of My Life With the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything; culture editor for America magazine
- Malachi Martin, author of sixteen books, had three Ph.D's, spoke ten languages, much cloak and...
- Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr of El Salvador
- Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
- Joseph Maréchal, Belgian transcendental philosopher
- Jacques Marquette, French explorer of the Mississippi and Northern Michigan areas
- 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
- Blessed Julien Maunoir, 17th-century missionary to the Breton people
- Blessed Rupert Mayer, Servant of God, Resisted the Nazi's..
- 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
- Anthony de Mello, Indian spiritual guide and writer
- Everard Mercurian, Belgian fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Saint Paul Miki, Japanese martyr
- Segundo Montes, martyr of El Salvador
- Saint Henry Morse, English martyr
- Simon Le Moyne, New World explorer
- John Courtney Murray, American theologian credited with the drafting of the Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom
N
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P
R
- Karl Rahner, 20th-century German theologian
- Saint Bernardino Realino, pastor of Lecce
- 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
- 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 Euclids Elements
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli, 17th-century Italian astronomer; devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard
- Gabriel Richard, co-founder of University of Michigan, "second founder" of Detroit, first congressional representative from Michigan (then a territory, not yet a state)
- Saint Alonso Rodriguez, martyr of the Río de la Plata
- Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit brother; mystic
- Saint José María Rubio, Spanish priest; canonized in 2003
S
- Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, contributions to the theory of Logarithms
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Latin poet of the Counter-Reformation, crowned poet laureate by Pope Urban VIII
- 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
- Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman
- Piotr Skarga, Polish priest, homilist, and hagiographer
- Pierre-Jean De Smet, American explorer and missionary
- Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki, introduced logarithms to China
- Jon Sobrino, Author of Christology at the Crossroads, liberation theologian
- Carlos Sommervogel, scholar and author of Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus
- Saint Robert Southwell, Elizabethan poet and martyr
- Cardinal Tomáš Špidlík, Czech theologian and professor
- Walter Steins, 19th-century Dutch bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay and then Calcutta and 3rd Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Francisco Suárez, Scholastic philosopher
- Jón Sveinsson, Poet and writer from Iceland
- Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian mathematician and astronomer
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Notes and references
- ^ Note: Father Gabriel Richard briefly was in the U.S. Congress in the 1820s, but as a territorial representative. Under guidelines released by Pope John Paul II, Catholic clergy are expected not to serve in positions of civil authority.
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