List of Jesuits



This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus.

A

 * Piotr Abramowicz (1619-1697), Polish missionary
 * José de Acosta, Spanish historian; author of  The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
 * Rodolfo Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India
 * François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist
 * Mateo Aimerich, Spanish philologist
 * Giacomo Maria Airoli, Italian Orientalist and scriptural commentator
 * Edward Alacampe, English philosopher; Procurator of Rome
 * Giulio Alenio, Italian missionary to China, called the "Confucius of the West"
 * Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
 * Diego Francisco Altamirano, Spanish author
 * Charles Aylmer, Irish Jesuit, superior of the Dublin Residence
 * Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary to China
 * José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
 * Saint Modeste Andlauer, martyred in China
 * Antal Andrassy, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rozsnyó
 * Yves Marie André, French mathematician, philosopher, and essayist
 * Juan Andrés, prolific 18th-century Spanish writer
 * Renatus Andrieux, victim of the September massacres
 * Francesco degli Angeli, missionary to Ethiopia
 * Johannes Arnoldi, German missionary, martyred in Germany
 * Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
 * Stefano Arteaga, Spanish writer
 * Fr. Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus who led the first rescue party in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
 * Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish Basque leader; later left the Society
 * Berndt David Assarsson (1892-1955), Swedish monsignor, historical author and psalmist
 * Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, reputed to have taken the order's vows under the name Mateo Sánchez
 * Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny (1675-1719), historian
 * Miguel de Ayatumo, venerated Filipino seminarian dubbed as "Saint Aloysius Gonzaga of the Philippines"

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
 * Balthazar of Loyola, Moroccan prince who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest
 * Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr
 * Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador
 * Pedro Barreto, Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2018.
 * Augustin Barruel, French writer
 * Florian Baucke, Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America
 * Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)
 * Joseph Bayma, wrote "Molecular Mechanics" in 1866
 * Augustin Bea, German cardinal, Ecumenist at the Vatican II council
 * Nicolas-Ignace de Beaubois, French missionary to Quebec
 * Jan Beckx, Belgian Superior General (1853-1887)
 * Franz Jozef van Beeck, Dutch theologian who taught in the US
 * Joop Beek, Dutch and Indonesian educator and presidential political advisor
 * Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary to China; astronomer
 * Saint Robert Bellarmine, Italian Cardinal and theologian, Doctor of the Church
 * Aloysius Bellecius (1704-1757), Jesuit ascetic author
 * Saint John Berchmans, Jesuit seminarian from Belgium
 * Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), Argentine, first Jesuit to be elected Pope (2013)
 * Thomas V. Bermingham, American academic who worked on The Exorcist
 * Prosper Bernard, Canadian missionary to China, killed by the Japanese
 * Joaquin G. Bernas, Filipino constitutionalist
 * Daniel Berrigan, American political activist, poet, and professor at Fordham University
 * Saint Jacques Berthieu, French Jesuit priest, missionary and first blessed Martyr of Madagascar
 * Blessed Jan Beyzym, Polish missionary to people with Leprosy in Madagascar
 * Giuseppe Biancani, very early selenographer
 * Jacob Bidermann, theologian and playwright - inspired Johann Wolfgang Goethe
 * Jacques de Billy, correspondent of Pierre de Fermat, many early contributions in number theory
 * Erwin Bischofberger, Swedish Jesuit and medical practitioner
 * Leopold Biwald, 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
 * Saint Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary, martyred by the Cossacks
 * Nicholas Bock, Russian diplomat who later became a Jesuit priest
 * Michael Bordt, German philosopher and academic
 * Saint Francis Borgia, third Superior General of the Society
 * Ruggero Boscovich, Croatian scientist who made 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
 * Greg Boyle, director and founder of Homeboy Industries
 * Joseph A. Bracken, American philosopher and Catholic theologian
 * Dean Brackley, Professor of Theology at the Central American University, San Salvador
 * Niklaus Brantschen, Swiss Zen master, author, and founder of the Lassalle-Institut
 * Saint Jean de Brébeuf, 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 School of Brentano
 * John Brignon, translator of religious works into French
 * Peter Michael Brillmacher, German preacher during the Counter Reformation
 * Jean de Brisacier, controversialist and opponent of Jansenism
 * Saint John de Brito, Portuguese martyr and missionary to Madura, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
 * Stephen Brown (Jesuit), founder of the Central Catholic Library
 * Tadeusz Brzozowski, Polish scholar, having secured its continuity during the suppression of the Society until its restoration, elected twentieth Superior General of the Society of Jesus and its first world-wide general.
 * Claude Buffier, aimed to discover the ultimate principal of knowledge, praised by Voltaire
 * Joannes Busaeus, theologian at Mainz University who wrote in defence of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in Germany
 * William J. Byron, President of the University of Scranton (1975-1982), President of Catholic University of America (1982-1992), Interim President of Loyola University New Orleans (2003-2004), President of St. Joseph's Preparatory School (2006-2008)

C

 * Niccolò Cabeo, many early contributions to physics
 * Pedro de Calatayud, missionary
 * Saint Edmund Campion, English martyr
 * Saint Petrus Canisius, Dutch theologian, writer of the widely used Little Catechism; Doctor of the Church
 * James Carney, American missionary who ministered to peasants and left-wing insurgents in Honduras
 * 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
 * Juan Paez de Castro, priest and confessor to King Philip II of Spain
 * Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
 * Jean-Antoine du Cerceau, French Jesuit priest, poet, and playwright
 * Michel de Certeau, French cultural theorist
 * Francesco Cetti, mathematician and zoologist
 * Saint Noël Chabanel, North American martyr
 * Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu, 17th century orator
 * Pierre Cholenec, Superior of Montreal
 * Stephen Cardinal Chow Sau-yan, 9th Bishop of Hong Kong, Former Provincial superior of the Chinese Province
 * Drew Christiansen, nuclear expert and disarmament consultant to the Holy See
 * 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
 * Guy Consolmagno, Vatican astronomer
 * Frederick Copleston, English writer, author of the definitive History of Philosophy
 * Honoré-Gaspard de Coriolis, French cleric and historian
 * John M. Corridan, labor activist and "Waterfront priest" whose story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront
 * Horacio de la Costa, Philippine historian and first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
 * Jacques Courtois, 17th-century French painter
 * François Crépieul, 17th-century French missionary in Canada
 * Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
 * James Cullen, Irish temperance campaigner who founded the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association
 * Johann Baptist Cysat, published the first printed European book concerning Japan
 * Stanislaus Czerniewicz, Lithuanian-Polish priest, elected vicar general for Jesuits in Russia when the Society of Jesus was suppressed
 * Stanisław Czerski, Polish graphic designer

D

 * Claude Dablon, Superior General of all the Canadian missions (1670-1680)
 * Saint Antoine Daniel, North American martyr
 * Cardinal Jean Daniélou, author, scholar, and member of the French Academy
 * 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
 * Henri Depelchin, Belgian missionary, pioneer, writer and educator in India and Africa
 * Pedro Descoqs, French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of Action Française
 * Ippolito Desideri, Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet
 * Paul de Barry, rector of the Jesuit colleges at Aix, Nîmes, and Avignon, and Provincial of Lyon.
 * Pierre-Jean De Smet, active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
 * Richard De Smet, Jesuit Indologist (Sankara specialist), Professor of Phisosophy, JnanaDeep Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India; prolific writer and contributor to the Marathi Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
 * William Detré, 17th century missionary in the Amazon
 * Salvatore di Pietro, Italian missionary and first apostolic prefect to Belize, Central America
 * Pedro Díaz, missionary
 * John Donne, English poet and cleric in the Church of England (no evidence)
 * Eduardo Dougherty, American-Brazilian educator, communicator and leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil
 * Robert Drinan, first Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of U.S. Congress (congressman from Massachusetts)
 * Gabriel Druillettes, Apostle of Maine, missionary and explorer
 * Francis Bennon Ducrue, Bavarian missionary to Mexico
 * Peter Dufka, Slovakian priest and professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome
 * Cardinal Avery Dulles, American theologian and professor at Fordham University
 * Jacques Dupuis, theologian, edited The Christian Faith which went to seven editions

E

 * Ignacio Ellacuría, rector of University of Central America; murdered in 1989
 * Saint Philip Evans, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

F

 * Saint Peter Faber, early companion of Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Society of Jesus; missionary in Germany
 * Honoré Fabri, first to explain why the sky is blue
 * Jean-Charles della Faille, first to determine the center of gravity of the sector of a circle
 * Thomas Falkner, English Jesuit missionary
 * Leonard Feeney, ultra-conservative American theologian
 * Wolfgang Feneberg, German Jesuit convert to Evangelical Lutheranism
 * Richard Michael Fernando, Filipino Jesuit cleric, missionary in Cambodia and Servant of God
 * Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press
 * Joseph M. Finotti, pastor of Saint Mary's parish in Alexandria, Virginia; pastor of Saint Ignatius parish in Oxon Hill, Maryland; librarian at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
 * Pierre-René Floquet, Quebec-based priest sympathetic to the Americans during the American Revolutionary War
 * Jean de Fontaney, missionary to China
 * Balthazar Francolini, attritionist professor at the Gregorian University who wrote Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707 against Jansenism
 * Saint Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Society of Jesus and missionary to Asia who initiated a large conversion movement in India, Malacca, and Japan
 * Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary to Japan; author of a history of Japan
 * Fabian Fucan, Japanese Jesuit brother who converted to Zen Buddhism
 * Jon Fuller, medical doctor known for his work with AIDS patients

G

 * Père Louis Gaillard, French missionary to China
 * Marion M. Ganey, pioneer in credit union and coop movement in British Honduras and the South Pacific
 * Saint Henry Garnet, 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
 * Aquiles Gerste, philologist and linguist best known for his ethnographic and linguistic studies of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
 * Niccolò Gianpriamo, Italian missionary to China, astronomer
 * Filippo Salvatore Gilii, contributor in the field of South American historical linguistics
 * Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta
 * Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian jesuit; patron saint of students
 * Thyrsus González, Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * José Ignacio González Faus, Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia
 * 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
 * Saint Melchior Grodziecki, Polish martyr, patron of the city of Katowice
 * Gabriel Gruber, Viennese scientist, engineer and teacher, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during the Suppression of the Society
 * 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
 * Cyrus Habib, American politician turned Jesuit
 * Walter Halloran, assistant in the exorcism which inspired the novel and film The Exorcist
 * John Hardon, wrote The Catholic Catechism and many other works
 * Peter Hasslacher, German preacher
 * Irénée Hausherr, Alsatian specialist in Greek patristic and monastic spirituality
 * Bernhard Havestadt, German missionary in Chile
 * Timothy Healy, late president of Georgetown University and president of the New York Public Library system
 * Martin Heidegger, German philosopher who was briefly a Jesuit novice
 * Raymond Helmick, American theologian and author
 * Daniel S. Hendrickson, 25th president of Creighton University
 * David Francis Hickey, American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
 * Robert Louis Hodapp, American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
 * 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
 * Frederick C. Hopkins, English missionary to Belize Central America; bishop and vicar apostolic
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins, renowned English poet
 * Johann Baptiste Horvath, 18th-century Hungarian/Slovak physics professor and textbook author
 * Vincent Houdry, preacher and writer
 * Gerard W. Hughes, Scottish Jesuit priest and spiritual writer
 * Franz Hunolt, German priest and author
 * Saint Alberto Hurtado, social reformer in Chile

I

 * Saint Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * Blessed John Ingram
 * Saint Rémy Isoré, martyred in China
 * Angelo Italia, 17th century Sicilian architect

J

 * Andreas Jaszlinszky, 18th-century Hungarian physics professor and textbook author
 * Saint Francis de Geronimo, Italian priest and missionary
 * Franz Jetzinger, theology professor, Austrian political figure, and principal biographer of Adolf Hitler's early years
 * Pierre Johanns, Luxemburger priest and missionary in India
 * Saint Isaac Jogues, 17th-century French martyr and missionary to North America
 * Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, Mexican priest, executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles
 * Claude Judde, 18th century French teacher

K

 * Georg Joseph Kamel, Czech botanist assigned to the Philippines; the Camellia flower was named after him
 * Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian
 * Franciszek Kareu, Polonised architect of British descent who was elected Vice General of the Russian province during the suppression of the Society
 * Blessed Leonardo Kimura, Japanese martyr
 * Eusebio Francisco Kino, missionary and cartographer of Mexico and Arizona
 * Athanasius Kircher, 17th-century German scientist; discoverer of microbes
 * Saint James Kisai, Japanese martyr
 * Lev Kobylinsky, Russian poet, translator and religious theorist
 * 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
 * Adam Krupski, professor of philosophy, legal expert on the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, author of the school dialogue.
 * Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec, Prisoner for Christ
 * Saint Stanislaus Kostka, patron saint of Jesuit novices
 * George Kovalenko, Russian convert from Eastern Orthodoxy
 * Adam Kozłowiecki, Polish Dachau concentration camp survivor, missionary in Zambia, archbishop of Lusaka and Cardinal
 * Franz Xaver Kugler, Doctor of chemistry and mathematics; famous also for his Babylonian studies
 * Kurien Kunnumpuram, Indian theologian (Ecclesiology)
 * Thomas Kunnunkal, Indian educationist and writer

L

 * Saint Jean de Lalande, North American martyr
 * Saint Gabriel Lalemant, North American martyr
 * Quentin Lauer, American priest, philosopher and Hegel scholar
 * Antoine Lavalette, French priest, slave-owning missionary in Martinique whose unpaid debts contributed to the Jesuits being banned in France in 1764
 * Pierre de Lauzon, superior of the Jesuits in New France
 * Włodzimierz Ledóchowski, Polish Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * Gabriel Lenkiewicz, Polish teacher and architect, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during there suppression of the Society
 * Leonardus Lessius, Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
 * Saint David Lewis, Welsh martyr
 * Constant Lievens, Apostle of Chotanagpur, Flemish Jesuit who worked among the Adivasis of Central India
 * Segundo Llorente, Spanish-born priest in rural western Alaska; was elected by write-in vote to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1960 by residents of the Wade Hampton district, becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature
 * William Lonc, professor of physics and translator of French-Canadian Jesuit records into English
 * Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian, Companion of the Order of Canada
 * Cardinal Henri de Lubac, French theologian, and patrologist

M

 * Marius Macrionitis, Archbishop of Athens
 * Jack Mahoney, ethicist and moral theologian
 * Louis Maimbourg
 * Matt Malone, 14th editor in chief of America magazine
 * Joseph Maréchal, Belgian transcendental philosopher
 * Juan de Mariana
 * Jacques Marquette, French explorer of the Mississippi and Northern Michigan areas
 * James Martin, author of My Life With the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything; culture editor of the America magazine
 * Malachi Martin, author of sixteen books, had three Ph.Ds, spoke ten languages
 * Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr of El Salvador
 * Martino Martini, Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese Atlas and the first Ancient History and a chronicle of the tartarian war
 * Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
 * 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
 * Juan Francisco Masdeu, historian
 * Blessed Julien Maunoir, 17th-century missionary to the Breton people
 * Blessed Rupert Mayer, Servant of God, resisted the Nazis
 * John McElroy, one of two of the Army's first Catholic Chaplains. Chaplain during the Mexican–American War, founder of St. John's Literary Institute, Boston College High School, and Boston College.
 * 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
 * Richard McSorley (1914-2002), peace activist; peace studies Professor at Georgetown University.
 * Domingo Patricio Meagher, Spanish writer and university professor of Irish descent
 * Anthony de Mello, Indian spiritual guide and writer
 * Everard Mercurian, Belgian, 4th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * Brice Meuleman, Belgian, 2nd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
 * Saint Paulo Miki, Japanese martyr
 * Jorge Loring Miró, Spanish Jesuit
 * Ignacio Molarja, explorer and missionary to New Spain
 * Yves de Montcheuil, French philosopher, theologian, and French resistant.
 * Segundo Montes, martyr of El Salvador
 * Saint Henry Morse, English martyr
 * Simon Le Moyne, French New World explorer
 * Franz Magnis-Suseno, German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest and philosopher
 * W. G. Read Mullan, American academic and university president
 * Joseph Anthony Murphy, Irish missionary, bishop and vicar apostolic to Belize, Central America
 * John Courtney Murray, American theologian credited with the drafting of the Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom

N

 * John E. Naus, dean of students and associate professor at Marquette University
 * Bienvenido Nebres, Philippine National Scientist, mathematician & former president of the Ateneo de Manila University
 * Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German 'father' of Catholic social teaching (1890-1991)
 * Terence Netter, painter and former priest
 * Adolfo Nicolás, 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * Roberto de Nobili, Italian missionary to India; linguist
 * Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese founder of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro
 * Charles de Noyelle, Belgian 12th Superior General of the Society of Jesus

O

 * Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576-1646), Polish teacher
 * Bernard Michael O'Brien, New Zealand Jesuit priest and philosopher
 * Joseph T. O'Callahan, U.S. Navy chaplain; awarded Medal of Honor
 * Saint John Ogilvie, Scottish martyr
 * Joseph A. O'Hare, former president of Fordham University and chairman of the New York City Charter Revision Commission and the first New York City Campaign Finance Board
 * Gian Paolo Oliva, Italian 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * John W. O'Malley, American academic and Catholic historian
 * William O'Malley, author and actor (played Father Joe Dyer in The Exorcist)
 * Walter J. Ong, American cultural historian and spiritual writer
 * Wilhelm Josef Oomens, painter
 * John H. O'Rourke, American retreat leader and master of novices
 * Saint Nicholas Owen, martyr saint of England and Wales

P

 * Mitch Pacwa, scholar; host on EWTN
 * Francesco Palliola, Italian missionary and martyr in the Philippines
 * Kuruvilla Pandikattu, Indian philosopher
 * Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro, pioneer philologist
 * Raimon Panikkar, Spanish priest, theologian, philosopher, interfaith dialogist, scholar, writer and chemist
 * Álvarez de Paz, preacher and mystic
 * Péter Pázmány, Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, leader of the Catholic revival in Hungary
 * Ferdinand Perier, Belgian, 3rd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
 * Denis Pétau, French scholar and theologian
 * François Para du Phanjas, French writer
 * Giambattista Pianciani, Italian scientist
 * Joseph Pignatelli, Italian leader of the Jesuits in exile
 * John Pinasco, Italian theologian and educator to America
 * Luca Pinelli, Italian scholar and theologian
 * Bartolomé Pou, Spanish writer
 * John Powell, American author and professor
 * Andrea Pozzo, great artist of the Baroque genre

R

 * Karl Rahner, 20th-century German theologian
 * Samuel Rayan, Indian proponent of liberation theology
 * Saint Bernardino Realino, pastor of Lecce
 * Sebastian Redford, 18th-century author
 * 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
 * Johann Baptist Reus, German-Brazilian religious leader
 * 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 Euclid's Elements
 * Giovanni Battista Riccioli, 17th-century Italian astronomer; devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard
 * William A. Rice, American missionary, founder of Baghdad College, bishop and vicar apostolic in Belize
 * Didier Rimaud, French composer and poet
 * Alberto Rivera, claimed to be ex-Jesuit (disputed by Catholic Church), anti-Catholic activist
 * Saint Alonso Rodriguez, martyr of the Río de la Plata
 * Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit brother; mystic
 * João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Translator"), 16th-century Portuguese missionary who served as a translator for Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, wrote early works on Japanese linguistics, and introduced Western science and culture to Korea through his gifts to the ambassador Jeong Duwon
 * Saint José María Rubio, Spanish priest; canonized in 2003
 * Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Jesuit missionary in Paraguay
 * Francis Tiburtius Roche, first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin.

S

 * Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, contributions to the theory of logarithms
 * Karel San Juan, Filipino president of Ateneo de Zamboanga University
 * Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Latin poet of the Counter-Reformation, crowned poet laureate by Pope Urban VIII
 * Alonso de Sandoval, missionary to African slaves in Cartagena de Indias, mentor of Saint Peter Claver
 * 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
 * Gerolamo Sersale, astronomer
 * Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman
 * Swami Shilananda, Spanish missionary who spent his active years in India
 * Piotr Skarga, Polish polemicist, leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and hagiographer
 * Tadeusz Ślipko, Polish ethicist
 * Pierre-Jean De Smet, American explorer and missionary
 * Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki, introduced logarithms to China
 * Cypriano de Soarez, author of De Arte Rhetorica
 * Jon Sobrino, author of Christology at the Crossroads, liberation theologian
 * Carlos Sommervogel, scholar and author of Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus
 * Arturo Sosa, 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * Saint Robert Southwell, Elizabethan poet and martyr
 * Cardinal Tomáš Špidlík, Czech theologian and professor
 * Buck Stanton (Jesuit), naturalist and Jesuit missionary to British Honduras.
 * Walter Steins Bisschop, 19th-century Dutch bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay and then Calcutta and 3rd Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand
 * Andrew Sterpin, Chinese-born Russian priest who was influential in both Russian and French culture
 * Francisco Suárez, scholastic philosopher
 * Blessed John Sullivan (Jesuit)|, Irish convert and teacher; renowned for his special interest in the poor
 * Jón Sveinsson, Icelandic poet and writer
 * Martin Szentiványi, writer
 * Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian mathematician and astronomer
 * Stan Swamy, tribal rights activist

T



 * Joel Tabora, Filipino philosopher and president of Ateneo de Davao University
 * Guy Tachard, two important embassies to Siam
 * André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician whose works facilitated the discovery of calculus
 * Michelangelo Tamburini, Italian 14th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
 * Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
 * Francesco Lana de Terzi, creator of the first realistic technical plans for an airship
 * Richard Thimelby, 17th century English missionary priest, Rector of the College of St Omer
 * Antoine Thomas, Belgian astronomer in China
 * Vitus Georg Tönnemann, German priest who was the only confessor to Emperor Charles VI of France (1711-1740)
 * Girolamo Francesco Tornielli, Italian preacher and writer
 * Cosme de Torrès, contemporary of Francis Xavier
 * Diego de Torres Bello, pioneer of the Paraguay province
 * Pascal Tosi, Italian co-founder of the Alaska Mission
 * Nicolas Trigault, early missionary to China
 * Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung, first Mandarin-speaking Chinese to become a Jesuit
 * John Nepomuk Tschupick, Austrian preacher
 * George Tyrrell, Anglo-Irish modernist theologian and scholar

U

 * Juan José Urráburu, scholastic philosopher

V

 * Luca Valerio, corresponded with Galileo Galilei
 * Alessandro Valignano, Italian canonical visitor to the Asian missions; promoter of an inculturated missionary approach
 * Carlos G. Vallés, writer of Gujarati, English and Spanish languages; and mathematics
 * Albert Vanhoye, Biblical scholar and cardinal
 * John Vattanky, Indian classical philosopher
 * José María Vélaz, founder of Fe y Alegría
 * Ferdinand Verbiest, Belgian missionary to China; astronomer and mathematician
 * António Vieira, 17th-century Portuguese missionary and diplomat
 * Juan Bautista Villalpando, Isaac Newton referred to his works
 * Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish mathematician
 * Claude de Visdelou, early missionary to China

W

 * Edmund A. Walsh, founder of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
 * Saint Henry Walpole, English martyr
 * Heinrich Wangnereck, German theologian, preacher, and author
 * Anthony Watsham, entomologist with emphasis on scelionidae
 * Andrew White (Jesuit), 17th century English Jesuit, influential figure in the early Maryland Colony who led efforts to convert and improve relations with local Native American tribes
 * George J. Willmann, American priest regarded as the "Father of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines" and Servant of God
 * Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who was briefly a Jesuit
 * Jakub Wujek, scholar and translator

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 * Georges Xenopulos, Greek bishop

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 * Louis Zhang Jiashu, non-canonical bishop of Shanghai
 * Emmanuel Zheng Manuo, first Chinese international student and first Chinese Jesuit priest
 * Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer and musician
 * Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, expert in the Old Javanese language and literature
 * Giovanni Battista Zupi, mathematician, astronomer