List of Catholic missionaries

Missionaries

 * Gabriele Allegra, O.F.M. – missionary to China to translate the Bible
 * Francisco Álvares – Portuguese missionary to Ethiopia.
 * Saint Amand – missionary of Flanders
 * José de Anchieta – Spanish 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
 * Giacomo Bini – Franciscan missionary to Rwanda
 * Libert H. Boeynaems – missionary to Hawaii
 * Luis de Bolaños – missionary who started the Indian Reductions system in Paraguay
 * François Bourgade – one of the first Christian missionaries to Muslim North Africa
 * Jean de Brébeuf – French Jesuit martyr in Canada who wrote "Huron Carol"
 * Luis Cancer – missionary in Hispañola, Central America and Florida
 * Saint Daniele Comboni – Italian bishop and missionary to Africa
 * Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – Spanish missionary in Guatemala
 * Father Damien – missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers
 * Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans
 * Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US
 * Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God
 * 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 US
 * Eusebio Kino – pioneer Jesuit missionary and explorer to what is now Baja California, Northwest Mexico, and the southwest US
 * Fermín Lasuén – founder of numerous missions in Baja California
 * Segundo Llorente – Spanish missionary to Alaska
 * Jacques Marquette – missionary and explorer
 * Peter Hildebrand Meienberg – missionary to East Africa
 * Victor Mosele – missionary to Sierra Leone
 * Saint Ninian – missionary of Scotland
 * 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
 * Alessandro Valignano – Italian Jesuit who supervised missions in the Far East, particularly Japan
 * Józef Wojaczek
 * William of Rubruck – Franciscan missionary to the Mongols
 * Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to India and Japan
 * Padre Antonio Vieira – Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Brazil and South America, converted Indians in South America; called the Great Father of the indegian people in South America, was against the inquisition, and probably is one of the biggest converters of people to Roman Catholic faith