Gladys May Aylward (1577 views)
1902 ~ 1970
British missionary in China.
Affiliation: Independent Missionary | Locale: Shanxi Province
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Eric Henry Liddell (1136 views)
1902 ~ 1945
Olympic gold-medalist and Scottish missionary in China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locale: Tianjin
James Hudson Taylor (1021 views)
1832 ~ 1905
Founder and director of the China Inland Mission.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Jiangsu Province
Watchman Nee (987 views)
1903 ~ 1972
Founder of the Local Church (Little Flock) movement in China.
Affiliation: Christian Assembly (Little Flock) | Locales: Fuzhou City‚ Shanghai
James Hudson Taylor lll (603 views)
1929 ~ 2009
Great-grandson of J. Hudson Taylor; founder of China Evangelical Seminary, Taiwan; General Director of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship; founder of Medical Services International.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Taiwan ‚ Hong Kong‚ China
David Howard Adeney (566 views)
1911 ~ 1994
Missionary and university evangelist in China and East Asia.
Affiliations: China Inland Mission‚ InterVarsity Christian Fellowship | Locales: China ‚ Singapore
Robert Jermain Thomas (559 views)
1839 ~ 1866
Missionary to China and Bible distributer in hostile Korea, becoming the first Protestant martyr in Korea.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locales: Shanghai ‚ Korea
Robert Morrison (449 views)
1782 ~ 1834
Pioneer Protestant missionary to China.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Locales: Macau ‚ Guangzhou City
Song Shangjie (385 views)
1901 ~ 1944
Chinese revivalist, evangelist, and author. Sung's fearless and tireless ministry in China and Southeast Asia has resulted in thousands of conversions as well as revival in the life of churches he visited.
Affiliations: Chinese Methodist Church‚ Bethel Worldwide Evangelistic Band | Locale: Fujian Province
Wang Mingdao (352 views)
1900 ~ 1991
Outspoken Chinese fundamentalist, independent evangelist, and martyr.
Affiliation: Beijing Christian Tabernacle | Locale: Beijing
Matteo Ricci (322 views)
1552 ~ 1610
Founder of modern Roman Catholic missions in China and Western sinologist.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
Charlotte "Lottie" Diggs Moon (302 views)
1840 ~ 1912
Revered Southern Baptist missions mobilizer and missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Southern Baptist Mission | Locale: Shandong Province
Rong Hong (298 views)
1828 ~ 1912
Rong was the first "returned student" from America and founder of the Chinese Educational Mission. He paved the way for the first hundred Chinese to receive a state-sponsored modern education, and as a diplomat helped to stop the international coolie trade.
Affiliation: Chinese Educational Mission | Locales: China ‚ United States
Ji Zhiwen (278 views)
1901 ~ 1985
20th-century Chinese Evangelical Protestant leader, evangelist, revivalist and philanthropist.
Affiliations: Bethel Evangelistic Band‚ Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales: Shanghai ‚ Hong Kong‚ United States
Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (267 views)
1803 ~ 1851
First German Lutheran Missionary to China.
Affiliations: Netherlands Missionary Society‚ Chinese Evangelization Society | Locales: Macau ‚ Hong Kong‚ Guangdong Province
Marie Monsen (265 views)
1878 ~ 1962
Norwegian missionary in China.
Affiliation: Norwegian Lutheran Mission | Locales: Henan Province‚ Shandong Province
John C. and Elizabeth Alden Scott Stam (264 views)
1907 ~ 1934
American missionary martyrs in China.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Anhui Province
Tang Guo’an (257 views)
1858 ~ 1913
Pioneer in modern education; early diplomat
Affiliations: Young Men's Christian Association‚ Tsinghua School | Locales: Beijing ‚ Shanghai
Paul Henry Bartel (246 views)
1904 ~ 2001
Preacher, teacher, educator, and trainer of Chinese church leaders
Affiliation: Christian and Missionary Alliance | Locales: Sichuan Province‚ Hong Kong‚ United States
Maria Dyer Taylor (244 views)
1837 ~ 1870
Pioneer missionary of the China Inland Mission, wife of Hudson Taylor and trainer of women missionary recruits.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Zhejiang Province
Roland Allen (237 views)
1868 ~ 1947
Missiologist and radical critic of the church.
Affiliation: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel | Locale: Beijing
Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe (232 views)
1877 ~ 1940
Catholic missionary in China.
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission | Locale: Tianjin
Shi Meiyu (208 views)
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 | Locales: Jiujiang City‚ Shanghai
Otto F. Schoerner (197 views)
1906 ~ 2008
American medical missionary, who served in Xinjiang and Gansu for 20 years; President of the Borden Memorial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Xinjiang Province‚ Gansu Province
Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth (184 views)
1859 ~ 1936
First Canadian Presbyterian missionaries to mainland China.
Affiliation: Canadian Presbyterian Mission | Locales: Henan Province‚