Giulio Aleni
1582 ~ 1647
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the People's Republic of China and the seventh largest in the world. Widely regarded as the citadel of China's modern economy, the city also serves as one of the nation's most important cultural, commercial, financial, industrial and communications centers. Administratively, Shanghai is a municipality of the People's Republic of China that has province-level status.
Young John Allen
1836 ~ 1907
American missionary, educator, and translator in China.
Affiliation: American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission
William Jones Boone, Sr.
1811 ~ 1864
First American Episcopal missionary bishop in China.
Affiliation: American Protestant Episcopal Mission
Joachim Bouvet
1656 ~ 1973
Jesuit mathematician and missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Elijah Coleman Bridgman
1801 ~ 1861
First American missionary to China.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman
1805 ~ 1871
Pioneer educational missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
Fletcher Sims Brockman
1867 ~ 1944
Missionary and YMCA executive in China and the United States.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
John S. Burdon
1826 ~ 1907
Missionary of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East.
Affiliation: Church Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Cai Erkang
1852 ~ 1920
Semi-Christianised journalist and editor who contributed to a flourishing Christian press in China.
Affiliation: Christian Literature Society for China
Chen Wenyuan
1897 ~ 1968
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China.
Affiliation: Chinese Methodist Episcopal Church | Other Locales:
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini
1876 ~ 1958
Italian-born promoter of indigenous local churches and first apostolic delegate to China.
Affiliation: Congregatio Discipulorum Domini
Tarleton Perry and Martha Foster Crawford
1821 ~ 1902
Southern Baptist missionaries in China.
Affiliation: American Southern Baptist Mission
Ding Shujing
1890 ~ 1936
The first Chinese woman to head the YWCA in China
Affiliation: Young Women's Christian Association
Joseph Edkins
1823 ~ 1905
British missionary in China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Pasquale d' Elia
1890 ~ 1963
Jesuit missionary in China, and missiologist.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Ernst Faber
1839 ~ 1899
Prolific German Protestant missionary and Confucian scholar.
Affiliations: Rhenish Missionary Society , General Evangelical Protestant Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Fan Zimei
1866 ~ 1939
Confucian Christian scholar and pioneer journalist and editor
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association
John Marshall Willoughby Farnham
1830 ~ 1917
North American Presbyterian missionary.
Affiliation: American Presbyterian Mission
George Ashmore Fitch
1883 ~ 1979
YMCA worker in China.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
John Fryer
1839 ~ 1928
English missionary and educator in China.
Affiliation: Church Missionary Society
Gu Ziren
1887 ~ 1971
Preeminent Chinese Christian leader.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association
Pauline G. Hamilton
1915 ~ 1988
Known to many as “Dr. P” in English and “Grandma Han” in Chinese, she won the hearts of thousands during her faith-filled ministry to delinquent boys, students, and many others in Mainland China and Taiwan.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Other Locales:
Mercie Briggs Hayes
1854 ~ 1925
"Mother Hayes" was a homemaker and friend who influenced others by her Christ-like character.
Affiliation: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA | Other Locales:
Victor E. W. Hayward
1908 ~ 1988
Missionary in China, foreign secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, and ecumenical statesman.
Affiliation: Baptist Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Lydia Brown Hipps
1890 ~ 1925
American missionary who served at Ginling (Jinling) College as the head of the Music Department (1917-21); Acting Dean of Women and head of the Music Department of Shanghai College (1921-25).
Affiliation: Jinling College | Other Locales:
Huang Guangcai
1827 ~ 1886
The first Chinese clergyman of the American Episcopal Church in China.
Affiliation: American Episcopal Church Mission
Huang Su’e
For forty years, an inspiring teacher and leader of church-work among women in Shanghai and Jiangsu.
Affiliation: American Episcopal Church Mission | Other Locales:
Ji Zhiwen
1901 ~ 1985
20th-century Chinese Evangelical Protestant leader, evangelist, revivalist and philanthropist.
Affiliations: Bethel Evangelistic Band , Chinese Evangelization Society | Other Locales:
Jiang Changchuan
1884 ~ 1958
Chinese Methodist bishop.
Affiliation: Chinese Methodist Episcopal Church
Jiang Wenhan
1908 ~ 1984
Leader of the Chinese Christian Student Movement and scholar.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association
Godefroid Xavier de Laimleckhoven
1707 ~ 1785
Jesuit missionary who entered the interior of China during the reign of Emperor Qian Lung (Qing Dynasty).
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Sophie Stephens Lanneau
1880 ~ 1963
Southern Baptist missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Southern Baptist Mission | Other Locales:
Liu Zhan'en
1896 ~ 1938
Chinese Baptist laymen, educator, and civic leader.
Affiliation: Chinese Baptist Church
William Lockhart
1811 ~ 1896
First British medical missionary.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society
Donald MacGillivray
1862 ~ 1931
Canadian Presbyterian missionary in China.
Affiliations: Canadian Presbyterian Mission , Christian Literature Society | Other Locales:
Divie Bethune McCartee
1820 ~ 1900
Medical missionary, educator, and U.S. diplomat in China and Japan.
Affiliation: Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
Elizabeth McKechnie
1845 ~ 1939
Missionary nurse in China.
Affiliation: Woman's Union Missionary Society of America
Walter Henry Medhurst
1796 ~ 1857
London Missionary Society pioneer in Malaya, Indonesia, and China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Harry Willis Miller
1879 ~ 1977
American Seventh-Day Adventist physician in China.
Affiliation: Seventh-Day Adventist Church | Other Locales:
Francisco Javier Montalban
1895 ~ 1945
Jesuit seminary professor in Shanghai and mission historian.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Arthur Evans Moule
1836 ~ 1918
British Anglican Missionary in China.
Affiliation: Church Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Watchman Nee
1903 ~ 1972
Founder of the Local Church (Little Flock) movement in China.
Affiliation: Christian Assembly (Little Flock) | Other Locales:
David Macdonald Paton
1913 ~ 1992
Anglican missionary and friend of China.
Affiliation: Church Missionary Society
Cecil H. Polhill
1860 ~ 1938
Missionary in China and promoter of Pentecostal missions.
Affiliation: Pentecostal Missionary Union
Francis Lister Hawks Pott
1864 ~ 1947
Educator and Protestant Episcopal Church missionary in China.
Affiliations: American Protestant Episcopal Mission , St. John's University
Qi Qingcai
1909 ~ 1990
Chinese pastor and supporter of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement.
Affiliation: Chinese Baptist Church
Frank Joseph Rawlinson
1871 ~ 1937
Longtime editor of Chinese Recorder and considered by Life magazine to be "one of the most influential white men in China."
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Gilbert Reid
1857 ~ 1927
Missionary reformer in China, founder of Mission among the Higher Classes in China.
Affiliation: Mission Among the Higher Classes | Other Locales:
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
1831 ~ 1906
Episcopal missionary and bishop who helped establish St. John's College in Shanghai.
Affiliation: American Protestant Episcopal Mission
Shen Zigao
1895 ~ 1982
Nationalist and Chinese Anglican bishop.
Affiliation: Chinese Anglican Church
Shi Meiyu
1873 ~ 1954
Shi was among the first Chinese women graduates from a U.S. medical school. On return to China, she founded a hospital and developed the nursing profession.
Affiliations: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society , Shanghai Bethel Mission | Other Locales:
Jehu Lewis and Henrietta Hall Shuck
1814 ~ 1863
First U.S. Baptist missionaries in China.
Affiliation: American Southern Baptist Mission | Other Locales:
Tang Guo’an
1858 ~ 1913
Pioneer in modern education; early diplomat
Affiliations: Young Men's Christian Association , Tsinghua School | Other Locales:
Elwood Gardner Tewksbury
1865 ~ 1945
American Congregational missionary to China.
Affiliations: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions , World's Sunday School Association | Other Locales:
Robert Jermain Thomas
1839 ~ 1866
Missionary to China and Bible distributer in hostile Korea, becoming the first Protestant martyr in Korea.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Other Locales:
David Toong
1895 ~ 1998
Prominent Chinese educator
Affiliations: St. John’s University , Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
James Edward Walsh
1891 ~ 1981
Maryknoll missionary leader in China and the last missioner expelled from Communist China.
Affiliation: Maryknoll
Wang Zhengting
1882 ~ 1961
Chinese Christian politician, businessman, and diplomat.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
John Wherry
1837 ~ 1918
American missionary, Christian educator and Bible translator who served in China for nearly fifty years.
Affiliation: Presbyterian Mission | Other Locales:
Alexander Williamson
1829 ~ 1890
Scottish missionary in China with a vision to influence the higher classes through Christian literature.
Affiliation: Society for the Diffusion of Christian and General Knowledge Among the Chinese
Wu Hongyu
1834 ~ 1919
An early well-known minister of the American Episcopal Church in China, who made a major contribution to his church and to the contextualization of Christianity in China.
Affiliation: American Episcopal Church Mission
Wu Weizun
1926 ~ 2002
Protestant evangelist who would rather die than surrender for the sake of the faith, Christian conscience and dignity; life in prison for twenty years made him into a “Chinese Epaphras.”
Affiliation: Shanghai Shouzhen Church
Alexander Wylie
1815 ~ 1887
British missionary and publisher in China.
Affiliations: London Missionary Society , British and Foreign Bible Society
Xie Honglai
1873 ~ 1916
Influential Chinese Protestant writer and publicist as well as director of publications for the Young Men's Christian Association in China.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association
Xu Candida
1607 ~ 1680
Foremost Chinese Christian laywoman of her time.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Xu Chenping
1920 ~ 1973
First Chinese bishop of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese (1969-73).
Affiliation: Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong | Other Locales:
Xu Guangqi
1562 ~ 1633
Grand minister of the Ming dynasty and significant member of the Catholic Church who contributed much to the propagation of Christianity during the late Ming period.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Xu Qian
1871 ~ 1940
Chinese scholar and reformer of the judiciary system in China.
Affiliation: Chinese Anglican Church | Other Locales:
Yang Sida
1901 ~ 1963
Chinese Christian patriot, editor, and writer.
Affiliation: Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association
Matthew Tyson Yates
1819 ~ 1988
Pioneer Southern Baptist missionary to China enduring opposition and surviving the Taiping Rebellion to build a productive ministry.
Affiliation: American Southern Baptist Mission
Yu Guozhen
1852 ~ 1932
Chinese pastor and founder of the Chinese Jesus Independent Church.
Affiliation: Chinese Jesus Independent Church
Yu Rizhang
1882 ~ 1936
Chinese general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in China for 16 years.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
Zhang Jiashu
1893 ~ 1988
First bishop of the Shanghai Diocese elected by Chinese Catholic believers.
Affiliation: Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association
Zhao Shiguang
1908 ~ 1973
Chinese evangelist, writer and founder of Ling Liang or Spiritual Food Christian Church.
Affiliation: Ling Liang (Spiritual Food) Church | Other Locales:
Zheng Jianye
1919 ~ 1991
Chinese Anglican bishop and scholar who was one of the initiators of the Chinese Christian Three-Self Patriotic Movement.
Affiliation: Chinese Anglican Church
Zhu Baoyuan
1872 ~ 1961
Chinese Anglican Church pastor and initiator of his church's independence movement.
Affiliation: Chinese Anglican Church