List of Catholic 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
• 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
• 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
• 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