James Edward Walsh
1891 ~ 1981
Maryknoll missionary leader in China and the last missioner expelled from Communist China.
Affiliation: Maryknoll | Locale: Shanghai
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Wang Chonghui
1881 ~ 1958
Presiding judge of the ROC Supreme Court, Minister of Justice, and a member of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Locale: Taiwan
Wang Laiquan
1835 ~ 1901
Chinese evangelist and pastor
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locales: Ningbo, Hangzhou
Wang Liangzuo
1920 ~
Pioneer in the anti-imperialist and patriotic movements of the Chinese Catholic Church.
Affiliation: Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association | Locale: Sichuan
Wang Mingdao
1900 ~ 1991
Outspoken Chinese fundamentalist, independent evangelist, and martyr.
Affiliation: Beijing Christian Tabernacle | Locale: Beijing
Wang Zai
1898 ~ 1975
Chinese evangelist and founder of Chinese Foreign Missionary Union, referred to as the "Moody of China".
Affiliation: Chinese Foreign Missionary Union | Locale: Fuzhou
Wang Zheng
1521 ~ 1644
Well-known Chinese Catholic in the late Ming period.
Affiliation: Catholic Church in China | Locales: Shanxi, Beijing
Wang Zhengting
1882 ~ 1961
Chinese Christian politician, businessman, and diplomat.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Locales: Beijing, ShanghaiHong Kong
Wang Zhiming
1908 ~ 1973
Christian pastor to the Miao (Hmong) minority group and martyr.
Locale: Yunnan
Abbe Livingston Warnshuis
1877 ~ 1958
Reformed Church in America missionary in China and International Missionary Council administrator.
Affiliation: Dutch Reformed Church | Locale: Xiamen
Wei Zhuomin
1888 ~ 1976
Wei served as president of Huazhong (Central China) University in Wuhan from 1929 to 1952. A philosopher with a profound knowledge of Chinese culture, Wei was an early exponent of "world Christianity."
Affiliation: Huazhong University | Locale: Hubei
Andrew Weir
1873 ~ 1933
Presbyterian missionary in Manchuria who worked to develop a genuine indigenous Chinese church.
Affiliation: Irish Presbyterian Mission | Locale: Jilin
Wen Jizhen
1895 ~ 1981
Educator; wife of Zhao Enci
Affiliation: Lingnan University | Locales: Guangzhou, Hong Kong
Knut Bernhard Westman
1881 ~ 1967
Swedish Lutheran historian, educational missionary, missiologist, and ecumenical leader.
Affiliation: Swedish Lutheran Church | Locale: Hunan
John Wherry
1837 ~ 1918
American missionary, Christian educator and Bible translator who served in China for nearly fifty years.
Affiliation: Presbyterian Mission | Locales: Shanghai, BeijingShandong
Moses Clark White
1819 ~ 1900
Pioneer American Methodist missionary in China in the face of opposition and hostility.
Affiliation: American Methodist Episcopal Mission | Locale: Fuzhou
W. C. White
1873 ~ 1960
Canadian Anglican missionary to China and archaeologist.
Affiliation: Church Missionary Society | Locale: Henan
Georges Frederic Leon Wieger
1856 ~ 1933
Physician, sinologue, and Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Hebei
Richard Wilhelm
1873 ~ 1930
German missionary in China and respected Chinese studies scholar.
Affiliation: German Allgemeiner Evangelisch Protestantischer | Locale: Shandong
John Elias Williams
1871 ~ 1927
Presbyterian missionary devoted to higher education who contributed to the development of the University of Nanking.
Affiliation: American Presbyterian Mission | Locale: Nanjing
Samuel Wells Williams
1812 ~ 1884
American missionary in China, scholar, and diplomat.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Locale: Beijing
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 | Locale: Shanghai
Henry Raymond Williamson
1883 ~ 1966
British missionary in China, accomplished Chinese scholar and foreign secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society during the turbulent 1940s.
Affiliation: Baptist Missionary Society | Locales: Shanxi, Shandong
Robert Orr Wilson
1906 ~ 1967
Medical missionary in China during the Japanese occupation of Nanjing.
Affiliation: University of Nanjing Hospital | Locale: Nanjing
Beulah and Sarah H. Woolston
1828 ~ 1886
Founders of the first American Methodist girls' school in Asia.
Affiliation: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society | Locale: Fuzhou
Wu Baoying
1897 ~ 1930
Gansu area pioneer Chinese doctor-evangelist.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Gansu
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 | Locale: Shanghai
Wu Jingxiong
1899 ~ 1986
Noted Chinese legal scholar and writer; translator of the Psalms and the New Testament.
Locales: Shanghai, United StatesTaiwan
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 | Locale: Shanghai
Wu Yik-wan
Pastor and secretary for Guangdong youth work for the Church of Christ in China.
Affiliation: Church of Christ in China | Locales: Guangdong, Guizhou
Wu Jingxiong
1900 ~ 1986
Second envoy to the Vatican appointed by the Republic of China.
Affiliation: Catholic Church in China | Locale: Zhejiang
Wu Leichuan
1870 ~ 1944
Notable Chinese Christian scholar.
Affiliation: Yenching University | Locales: Zhejiang, Beijing
Wu Yifang
1893 ~ 1985
Wu became China's first woman university president, at Jinling Women's College in Nanjing. Wu was the only woman in China's delegation at the founding of the United Nations.
Affiliation: Jinling College for Girls | Locale: Jiangsu
Wu Yushan
1632 ~ 1718
First Chinese priest of the Society of Jesus in Jiangnan, China, and well-known landscape artist in the Qing dynasty.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Jiangsu
Alexander Wylie
1815 ~ 1887
British missionary and publisher in China.
Affiliations: London Missionary Society, British and Foreign Bible Society | Locale: Shanghai