Giulio Aleni
1582 ~ 1647
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Shanghai, ZhejiangFujian
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot
1718 ~ 1793
Jesuit missionary and author at the court of the Chinese emperor.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Antonio de Andrade
1580 ~ 1634
Jesuit missionary in India and Tibet.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Tibet, Quanzhou
Henri Bernard-Maitre
1889 ~ 1975
Missionary and historian of Jesuit missions in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Tianjin
Joachim Bouvet
1656 ~ 1973
Jesuit mathematician and missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Shanghai
Lodovico Buglio
1606 ~ 1682
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Sichuan, Beijing
Melchior Miguel Carneiro Leitao
1519 ~ 1583
Portuguese Jesuit missionary and bishop of China and Japan.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Macau
Giuseppe Castiglione
1683 ~ 1766
Jesuit missionary and painter at the imperial court of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Lazzaro Cattaneo
1560 ~ 1640
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Jiangsu, ZhejiangMacau
Philippe Couplet
1623 ~ 1693
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Shanghai
Seraphin Couvreur
1835 ~ 1919
Jesuit missionary in China, translator of Chinese classics, and compiler of several dictionaries.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Hebei
Joseph Dehergne
1903 ~ 1990
Historian of Jesuit missions in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Shanghai
Albert Dorville
1621 ~ 1662
Jesuit missionary in China and Tibet.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Macau, Shaanxi
Pasquale d' Elia
1890 ~ 1963
Jesuit missionary in China, and missiologist.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Shanghai
Pierre-Marie Alphonse Favier
1837 ~ 1905
Missionary pastor and vicar apostolic of Beijing (Peking).
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission | Locale: Beijing
Jean-Francois Foucquet
1665 ~ 1741
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Fujian, Beijing
Xaver-Ehrenbert Fridelli
1606 ~ 1682
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Jiangsu, Beijing
Jean-Francois Gerbillon
1654 ~ 1707
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Bento de Goes
1562 ~ 1607
First Jesuit missionary to cross Asia en route to China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Xinjiang
Johannes Gruber
1623 ~ 1680
Jesuit explorer of land routes to China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff
1803 ~ 1851
First German Lutheran Missionary to China.
Affiliations: Netherlands Missionary Society, Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales: Macau, Hong KongGuangdong
Evariste-Regis Huc
1813 ~ 1860
Vincentian missionary in Mongolia and Tibet.
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission | Locales: Beijing, Inner Mongolia
Pierre Jartoux
1669 ~ 1720
Jesuit mathematician and cartographer in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Louis Le Comte
1655 ~ 1728
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Shanxi, Shaanxi
Charles Maigrot
1652 ~ 1730
French Roman Catholic mission administrator in China.
Affiliation: Paris Foreign Mission Society | Locale: Fujian
Joseph Marie Anne de Moyriac de Mailla
1669 ~ 1748
Jesuit missionary, cartographer, and historian in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Martino Martini
1614 ~ 1661
Jesuit missionary, geographer, and historian of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Hangzhou
Carlo Ambrogio Mezzabarba
1685 ~ 1741
Second papal legate in Peking (Beijing), China.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church | Locale: Beijing
Juan Bautista de Morales
1597 ~ 1664
Dominican missionary in China who challenged "superstitious" rites performed by new converts.
Affiliation: Dominican Order | Locale: Fujian
Francois Pallu
1626 ~ 1684
Cofounder of the Missions Etrangeres de Paris (Paris Foreign Mission Society) and mission administrator in China and Southeast Asia.
Affiliation: Paris Foreign Mission Society | Locales: Thailand, Fujian
Jean-Baptiste Regis
1663 ~ 1738
Jesuit missionary and cartographer in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Matteo Ricci
1552 ~ 1610
Founder of modern Roman Catholic missions in China and Western sinologist.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
João da Rocha
1565 ~ 1623
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Jiangsu
Francois de Rougemont
1624 ~ 1676
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Jiangsu, Guangdong
Michele Ruggieri
1543 ~ 1607
Jesuit pioneer missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Guangdong, Zhejiang
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
1592 ~ 1666
Jesuit missionary and astronomer in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Charles Thomas Maillard de Tournon
1668 ~ 1710
First papal legate to the court of China in the modern period.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church | Locale: Beijing
Nicolas Trigault
1577 ~ 1628
Jesuit missionary in China, the first European to see the Nestorian monument of 781.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Henan, Shaanxi
Ferdinand Verbiest
1623 ~ 1688
Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and diplomat at the court of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Claude Visdelou
1656 ~ 1737
Jesuit missionary in China and one of the royal mathematicians sent by Louis XIV to the court of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Beijing, Macau
Georges Frederic Leon Wieger
1856 ~ 1933
Physician, sinologue, and Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Hebei