Missionary

==Lists of prominent missionaries==
{{Incomplete list|date=July 2014}}

===American missionaries===
* [[Gerónimo Boscana]], (Roman Catholic [[Franciscan]]) missionary
* [[Isabel Crawford]], ([[Baptist]]) missionary<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=Crawford, Isabel|title=American National Biography|chapter-url=http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03434.html|publisher=Oxford University Press|title-link=American National Biography}} ''Subscription needed.''</ref>
* [[Antonio de Olivares]], (Roman Catholic [[Franciscan]]) missionary
* [[Anton Docher]], (Roman Catholic) missionary
* [[Elisabeth Elliot]], American Protestant missionary in Ecuador, author and speaker, widow of [[Jim Elliot]] of [[Operation Auca]]
* [[Mary H. Fulton]], [[Women in medicine#Western medicine in China|female medical missionary to China]], founder of [[Lingnan University (Guangzhou)#Hackett|Hackett Medical College for Women]] (夏葛女子醫學院) in [[Guangzhou]], China<ref>{{cite web|author=PANG Suk Man |url=http://lib-nt2.hkbu.edu.hk/cil-image/theses/abstracts/b15564174a.pdf |title=The Hackett Medical College for Women in China (1899-1936) |publisher=Hong Kong Baptist University |date=February 1998 |access-date=10 October 2015  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016090221/http://lib-nt2.hkbu.edu.hk/cil-image/theses/abstracts/b15564174a.pdf |archive-date=16 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cqvip.com/qk/83891A/200203/6479902.html|title=中国近代第一所女子医学院－－夏葛医学院|work=cqvip.com|access-date=12 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=04TOSAAACAAJ |title=Inasmuch |author=Mary H. Fulton|editor=The United Study of Forring |publisher=BiblioBazaar |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-140-34179-6 }}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">Rebecca Chan Chung, Deborah Chung and Cecilia Ng Wong, "Piloted to Serve", 2012</ref><ref name="facebook.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/PilotedToServe|title=Piloted to Serve|work=facebook.com|access-date=12 October 2015}}</ref>
* [[Adoniram Judson]], first significant missionary in Burma
* [[Eusebio Kino]],  (Roman Catholic [[Jesuit]]) missionary
* [[Zenas Sanford Loftis]], medical missionary to Tibet
* [[Ajahn Sumedho]], Theravada monk and established [[Thai Forest Tradition]] in UK
* [[Robert E. Longacre]], Christian linguist missionary to Mexico
* [[Dada Maheshvarananda]], [[Ananda Marga]] [[yoga]] missionary
* Fred Prosper Manget, [[medical missionary to China]], founder of Houzhou General Hospital, Houzhou, China, also a doctor with the [[Flying Tigers]] and U.S. Army in [[Kunming]], China, during [[World War II]]<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="facebook.com"/><ref>Mrs. Robert S. McMichael, "The Story of Fred P. Manget", For the Woman's Auxiliary of the [[Bibb County, Georgia|Bibb County]] Medical Society, Georgia, April 4, 1963 Meeting</ref>
* [[Lottie Moon]], Baptist missionary to China
* [[Arthur Lewis Piper]], medical missionary to the [[Belgian Congo]]
* [[Dada Pranakrsnananda]], [[Ananda Marga]] [[yoga]] missionary
* [[Darlene Rose]], missionary in Papua New Guinea
* [[John Stewart (missionary)|John Stewart]], ([[Methodist]]) missionary
* [[José de Anchieta]], (Roman Catholic [[Jesuit]]) missionary
* [[Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur]], (Roman Catholic [[Franciscan]]) missionary
* [[John Allen Chau]], ([[Evangelicalism|evangelical Christian]]) missionary killed while attempting to convert the [[Uncontacted peoples|uncontacted]] [[Sentinelese]]

===British Christian missionaries===
* [[John Hobbis Harris]], with his wife [[Alice Seeley Harris|Alice Seeley]], he used photography to expose colonial abuses
* [[Benjamin Hobson]], medical missionary to China, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic (惠愛醫館)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.ifeng.com/article/46027.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313042953/http://blog.ifeng.com/article/46027.html|archive-date=13 March 2013|title=回眸：当年传教士进羊城--MW悦读室之岭南话廊--凤凰网博客|work=ifeng.com|access-date=12 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mall.cnki.net/magazine/Article/GDSI199901009.htm|title=合信的《全体新论》与广东士林|work=cnki.net|access-date=12 October 2015|archive-date=7 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007074316/http://mall.cnki.net/magazine/Article/GDSI199901009.htm}}</ref> in Guangzhou, China.<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="facebook.com"/>
* [[Teresa Kearney]], Sister in Uganda
* [[Olive Hilda Miller]], missionary to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
* [[William Milne (missionary)|William Milne]], Bible translator to China
* [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]], Bible translator to China
* [[George Piercy]], Methodist missionary to China
* [[Sam Pollard (missionary)|Sam Pollard]],  Bible translator to China
* [[James Hudson Taylor]], missionary to China, insist on going into the inland of China.
* [[John Wesley]]
* [[Thomas Henry Sparshott]], missionary to East Africa.<ref name="EEA 2023" >{{cite web |title=Sparshott, Thomas Henry (Rev.) |url=https://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk/_site/custom/database/default.asp?a=viewIndividual&pid=2&person=21814 |website=europeansineastafrica.co.uk |publisher=Europeans in East Africa |access-date=8 August 2023 |date=2023}}</ref>