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The following are notable Christian missionaries:

Contents 1 Early Christian missionaries 2 Medieval to modern missionaries 2.1 Anglican 2.2 Baptist 2.3 Plymouth Brethren 2.4 Congregationalists 2.5 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint (Mormon) 2.6 Methodist 2.7 Moravian 2.8 Presbyterian 2.9 Other Protestant 2.10 Other Christian 3 See also

[edit] 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

[edit] Medieval to modern missionaries

[edit] 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

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] Plymouth Brethren

• Anthony Norris Groves
• George Müller – preached in various countries

[edit] Congregationalists

• 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

[edit] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint (Mormon)

• Samuel Smith – Brother to Joseph Smith, first LDS missionary
• Brigham Young – Missionary in British Isles, became 2nd President of the Church
• Heber C. Kimball – Missionary in British Isles
• Dan Jones – Missionary in his native Wales, translated many materials into Welsh
• Orson Hyde – Missionary across Europe and into the Holy Land
• Parley P. Pratt – Missionary to southern and Midwestern US, Canada, South America
• Wilford Woodruff – Missionary in British Isles, became 4th President of the Church
• Joseph F. Smith – Missionary to Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) at age 15
• Matthew Cowley – Missionary to New Zealand's Maori people. Translated the Book of Mormon into Maori

[edit] Methodist

• Young John Allen – Missionary in Qing China
• Francis Burns – Missionary to Liberia
• Thomas Coke (Methodist)
• George Richmond Grose – Missionary to China
• Joseph Crane Hartzell – Missionary work in Africa
• E. Stanley Jones – Missionary to India
• 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
• Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia
• George Whitefield – Missionary/evangelist to colonial US
• John Wesley– Missionary/evangelist in Europe and America

[edit] 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

[edit] Presbyterian

• William Chalmers Burns – Missionary to China
• Alexander Duff – Missionary in India
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Other Christian

• Johnny Appleseed – Missionary for The New Church
• Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church
• Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary
• Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker

[edit] See also

• List of Protestant missionaries in China
• List of Protestant missionaries in India
• List of Roman Catholic Missionaries
• List of Roman Catholic missionaries in China
• List of Roman Catholic missionaries in India
• List of Eastern Orthodox Missionaries