List of Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic
- Francisco Álvares – Portuguese missionary to Ethiopia.
- José de Anchieta – 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.
- Luis de Bolaños – Missionary who started the Indian Reductions system in Paraguay.
- Libert H. Boeynaems – Missionary to Hawaii.
- Jean de Brébeuf – French Jesuit martyr in Canada who wrote Huron Carol.
- Luis Cancer – Missionary in Central America.
- Father Damien – Missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers.
- Louis William Valentine Dubourg – Missionary to the USA.
- 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 USA.
- Eusebio Kino – Missionary to what is now the US Southwest.
- Fermín Lasuén – Founder of numerous missions in Baja California.
- Jacques Marquette – Missionary and explorer.
- 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.
- William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols.
- Alessandro Valignano – Italian Jesuit who supervised missions in the Far East, particularly Japan.
- Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and Japan.