List of Jesuits explained
This is an alphabetical list of historically notable members of the Society of Jesus.
A
- Piotr Abramowicz (1619-1697), Polish missionary
- José de Acosta, Spanish historian; author of The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
- Rodolfo Acquaviva, Italian Jesuit missionary and priest in India
- François d'Aguilon, Belgian mathematician and physicist
- Edward Alacampe, English philosopher; Procurator of Rome
- Giulio Alenio, Italian missionary to China, called the "Confucius of the West"
- Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
- Diego Francisco Altamirano, Spanish author
- Charles Aylmer, Irish Jesuit, superior of the Dublin Residence
- Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary to China
- José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
- Saint Modeste Andlauer, martyred in China
- Antal Andrassy, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rozsnyó
- Yves Marie André, French mathematician, philosopher, and essayist
- Juan Andrés, prolific 18th-century Spanish writer
- Renatus Andrieux, victim of the September massacres
- Francesco degli Angeli, missionary to Ethiopia
- Johannes Arnoldi, German missionary, martyred in Germany
- Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Stefano Arteaga, Spanish writer
- Fr. Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus who led the first rescue party in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb.
- Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish Basque leader; later left the Society
- Berndt David Assarsson (1892-1955), Swedish monsignor, historical author and psalmist
- Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, reputed to have taken the order's vows under the name Mateo Sánchez
- Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny (1675-1719), historian
- Miguel de Ayatumo, venerated Filipino seminarian dubbed as "Saint Aloysius Gonzaga of the Philippines"
B
- Jakob Balde, German latinist, court chaplain to Maximillian I
- John Ballard, English Jesuit priest executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, 20th-century theologian, Jesuit from 1928 to 1950 when he left the order to found a new community with Adrienne von Speyr
- Balthazar of Loyola, Moroccan prince who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest
- Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr
- Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador
- Pedro Barreto, Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2018.
- Augustin Barruel, French writer
- Florian Baucke, Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America
- Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)
- Joseph Bayma, wrote "Molecular Mechanics" in 1866
- Augustin Bea, German cardinal, Ecumenist at the Vatican II council
- Nicolas-Ignace de Beaubois, French missionary to Quebec
- Jan Beckx, Belgian Superior General (1853-1887)
- Franz Jozef van Beeck, Dutch theologian who taught in the US
- Joop Beek, Dutch and Indonesian educator and presidential political advisor
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary to China; astronomer
- Saint Robert Bellarmine, Italian Cardinal and theologian, Doctor of the Church
- Aloysius Bellecius (1704-1757), Jesuit ascetic author
- Saint John Berchmans, Jesuit seminarian from Belgium
- Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis), Argentine, first Jesuit to be elected Pope (2013)
- Thomas V. Bermingham, American academic who worked on The Exorcist
- Prosper Bernard, Canadian missionary to China, killed by the Japanese
- Joaquin G. Bernas, Filipino constitutionalist
- Daniel Berrigan, American political activist, poet, and professor at Fordham University
- Saint Jacques Berthieu, French Jesuit priest, missionary and first blessed Martyr of Madagascar
- Blessed Jan Beyzym, Polish missionary to people with Leprosy in Madagascar
- Giuseppe Biancani, very early selenographer
- Jacob Bidermann, theologian and playwright - inspired Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- Jacques de Billy, correspondent of Pierre de Fermat, many early contributions in number theory
- Erwin Bischofberger, Swedish Jesuit and medical practitioner
- Leopold Biwald, 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
- Saint Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary, martyred by the Cossacks
- Nicholas Bock, Russian diplomat who later became a Jesuit priest
- Michael Bordt, German philosopher and academic
- Saint Francis Borgia, third Superior General of the Society
- Ruggero Boscovich, Croatian scientist who made many contributions to physics and astronomy
- Giovanni Botero, Italian thinker, discharged from the Society in 1579
- Joachim Bouvet, early missionary to China and a leading member of the Figurist movement
- Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and orator
- William S. Bowdern, exorcist who inspired the novel and film The Exorcist
- Greg Boyle, director and founder of Homeboy Industries
- Joseph A. Bracken, American philosopher and Catholic theologian
- Dean Brackley, Professor of Theology at the Central American University, San Salvador
- Niklaus Brantschen, Swiss Zen master, author, and founder of the Lassalle-Institut
- Saint Jean de Brébeuf, 17th-century French-Canadian missionary and martyr
- Saint Alexander Briant, English martyr
- Frank Brennan, Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal Australians
- Franz Brentano, philosopher who founded his own school of thought, the School of Brentano
- John Brignon, translator of religious works into French
- Peter Michael Brillmacher, German preacher during the Counter Reformation
- Jean de Brisacier, controversialist and opponent of Jansenism
- Saint John de Brito, Portuguese martyr and missionary to Madura, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
- Stephen Brown (Jesuit), founder of the Central Catholic Library
- Tadeusz Brzozowski, Polish scholar, having secured its continuity during the suppression of the Society until its restoration, elected twentieth Superior General of the Society of Jesus and its first world-wide general.[1]
- Claude Buffier, aimed to discover the ultimate principal of knowledge, praised by Voltaire
- Joannes Busaeus, theologian at Mainz University who wrote in defence of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in Germany
- William J. Byron, President of the University of Scranton (1975-1982), President of Catholic University of America (1982-1992), Interim President of Loyola University New Orleans (2003-2004), President of St. Joseph's Preparatory School (2006-2008)
C
- Niccolò Cabeo, many early contributions to physics
- Pedro de Calatayud, missionary
- Saint Edmund Campion, English martyr
- Saint Petrus Canisius, Dutch theologian, writer of the widely used Little Catechism; Doctor of the Church
- James Carney, American missionary who ministered to peasants and left-wing insurgents in Honduras
- John Carroll, first bishop of the United States and founder of Georgetown University
- Paolo Casati, Mathematician, supported Galileo
- John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Louis Bertrand Castel, French scientist
- Leonardo Castellani, 20th-century Argentine writer and theologian
- Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit brother; artist to the Chinese Emperor
- Saint Juan del Castillo, martyr of the Río de la Plata
- Juan Paez de Castro, priest and confessor to King Philip II of Spain
- Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
- Jean-Antoine du Cerceau, French Jesuit priest, poet, and playwright
- Michel de Certeau, French cultural theorist
- Francesco Cetti, mathematician and zoologist
- Saint Noël Chabanel, North American martyr
- Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu, 17th century orator
- Pierre Cholenec, Superior of Montreal
- Stephen Cardinal Chow Sau-yan, 9th Bishop of Hong Kong, Former Provincial superior of the Chinese Province
- Drew Christiansen, nuclear expert and disarmament consultant to the Holy See
- Walter Ciszek, missionary and religious prisoner in Soviet Union; author
- Saint Peter Claver, Spanish missionary in South America
- Christopher Clavius, main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar
- Saint Claude de la Colombière, preacher to the seventh Duchess of York, Mary of Modena
- Louis le Comte, early missionary to China
- Guy Consolmagno, Vatican astronomer
- Frederick Copleston, English writer, author of the definitive History of Philosophy
- Honoré-Gaspard de Coriolis, French cleric and historian
- John M. Corridan, labor activist and "Waterfront priest" whose story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront
- Horacio de la Costa, Philippine historian and first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
- Jacques Courtois, 17th-century French painter
- François Crépieul, 17th-century French missionary in Canada
- Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
- James Cullen, Irish temperance campaigner who founded the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association
- Johann Baptist Cysat, published the first printed European book concerning Japan
- Stanislaus Czerniewicz, Lithuanian-Polish priest, elected vicar general for Jesuits in Russia when the Society of Jesus was suppressed
- Stanisław Czerski, Polish graphic designer
D
- Claude Dablon, Superior General of all the Canadian missions (1670-1680)
- Saint Antoine Daniel, North American martyr
- Cardinal Jean Daniélou, author, scholar, and member of the French Academy
- Alfred Delp, German hanged for his opposition to Hitler
- Saint Paul Denn, martyred in China
- Robert De Nobili, Italian missionary to India (Madurai Mission), who tried to inculturate Christian values to the Indian culture
- Henri Depelchin, Belgian missionary, pioneer, writer and educator in India and Africa
- Pedro Descoqs, French Jesuit philosopher and supporter of Action Française
- Ippolito Desideri, Italian Jesuit missionary to Tibet
- Paul de Barry, rector of the Jesuit colleges at Aix, Nîmes, and Avignon, and Provincial of Lyon.
- Pierre-Jean De Smet, active missionary among the Native Americans of the Western United States in the mid-19th century
- Richard De Smet, Jesuit Indologist (Sankara specialist), Professor of Phisosophy, JnanaDeep Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India; prolific writer and contributor to the Marathi Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
- William Detré, 17th century missionary in the Amazon
- Salvatore di Pietro, Italian missionary and first apostolic prefect to Belize, Central America
- Pedro Díaz, missionary
- John Donne, English poet and cleric in the Church of England (no evidence)
- Eduardo Dougherty, American-Brazilian educator, communicator and leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil
- Robert Drinan, first Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of U.S. Congress (congressman from Massachusetts)
- Gabriel Druillettes, Apostle of Maine, missionary and explorer
- Francis Bennon Ducrue, Bavarian missionary to Mexico
- Peter Dufka, Slovakian priest and professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome
- Cardinal Avery Dulles, American theologian and professor at Fordham University
- Jacques Dupuis, theologian, edited The Christian Faith which went to seven editions
E
F
- Saint Peter Faber, early companion of Ignatius of Loyola, co-founder of the Society of Jesus; missionary in Germany
- Honoré Fabri, first to explain why the sky is blue
- Jean-Charles della Faille, first to determine the center of gravity of the sector of a circle
- Thomas Falkner, English Jesuit missionary
- Leonard Feeney, ultra-conservative American theologian
- Wolfgang Feneberg, German Jesuit convert to Evangelical Lutheranism
- Richard Michael Fernando, Filipino Jesuit cleric, missionary in Cambodia and Servant of God
- Joseph Fessio, publisher of Ignatius Press
- Joseph M. Finotti, pastor of Saint Mary's parish in Alexandria, Virginia; pastor of Saint Ignatius parish in Oxon Hill, Maryland; librarian at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
- Pierre-René Floquet, Quebec-based priest sympathetic to the Americans during the American Revolutionary War
- Jean de Fontaney, missionary to China
- Balthazar Francolini, attritionist professor at the Gregorian University who wrote Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707 against Jansenism
- Saint Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Society of Jesus and missionary to Asia who initiated a large conversion movement in India, Malacca, and Japan
- Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary to Japan; author of a history of Japan
- Fabian Fucan, Japanese Jesuit brother who converted to Zen Buddhism
- Jon Fuller, medical doctor known for his work with AIDS patients
G
- Père Louis Gaillard, French missionary to China
- Marion M. Ganey, pioneer in credit union and coop movement in British Honduras and the South Pacific
- Saint Henry Garnet, first English Provincial; executed after being implicated in the Gunpowder Plot
- Saint Charles Garnier, North America martyr
- John Gerard, English Jesuit; one of the few men to escape from the Tower of London
- Jean-François Gerbillon, early missionary to China
- Aquiles Gerste, philologist and linguist best known for his ethnographic and linguistic studies of the indigenous peoples of Mexico
- Niccolò Gianpriamo, Italian missionary to China, astronomer
- Filippo Salvatore Gilii, contributor in the field of South American historical linguistics
- Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta
- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian jesuit; patron saint of students
- Thyrsus González, Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- José Ignacio González Faus, Professor of Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia
- John Goodman, jailed in England during the Long Parliament
- Saint John Soan de Goto, martyred in Japan
- Saint René Goupil, Jesuit brother and North American martyr
- Baltasar Gracián, Spanish prose writer
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi, 17th-century Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer; accurately mapped the Moon; one of the first to suggest the wave-like nature of light
- Saint Melchior Grodziecki, Polish martyr, patron of the city of Katowice
- Gabriel Gruber, Viennese scientist, engineer and teacher, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during the Suppression of the Society
- Paul Guldin, father of Guldinus theorem
- José Gumilla, naturalist who studied the Orinoco, South America
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian-Portuguese priest and mathematician; said to be an early inventor of the dirigible
H
- Juraj Habdelić, Croatian writer and lexicographer
- Cyrus Habib, American politician turned Jesuit
- Walter Halloran, assistant in the exorcism which inspired the novel and film The Exorcist
- John Hardon, wrote The Catholic Catechism and many other works
- Peter Hasslacher, German preacher
- Irénée Hausherr, Alsatian specialist in Greek patristic and monastic spirituality
- Bernhard Havestadt, German missionary in Chile
- Timothy Healy, late president of Georgetown University and president of the New York Public Library system
- Martin Heidegger, German philosopher who was briefly a Jesuit novice
- Raymond Helmick, American theologian and author
- Robert Louis Hodapp, American missionary bishop of Belize, Central America
- John-Baptist Hoffmann, German Apostle of the Mundas in India
- Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein, missionary to China that was made a mandarin
- Christopher Holywood, Irish priest of the Counter-Reformation
- Eduardo Hontiveros, Filipino philosopher, theologian and composer of sacred and liturgical music
- Frederick C. Hopkins, English missionary to Belize Central America; bishop and vicar apostolic
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, renowned English poet
- Johann Baptiste Horvath, 18th-century Hungarian/Slovak physics professor and textbook author
- Vincent Houdry, preacher and writer
- Gerard W. Hughes, Scottish Jesuit priest and spiritual writer
- Franz Hunolt, German priest and author
- Saint Alberto Hurtado, social reformer in Chile
I
J
- Andreas Jaszlinszky, 18th-century Hungarian physics professor and textbook author
- Saint Francis de Geronimo, Italian priest and missionary
- Franz Jetzinger, theology professor, Austrian political figure, and principal biographer of Adolf Hitler's early years
- Pierre Johanns, Luxemburger priest and missionary in India
- Saint Isaac Jogues, 17th-century French martyr and missionary to North America
- Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, Mexican priest, executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles
- Claude Judde, 18th century French teacher
K
- Georg Joseph Kamel, Czech botanist assigned to the Philippines; the Camellia flower was named after him
- Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian
- Franciszek Kareu, Polonised architect of British descent who was elected Vice General of the Russian province during the suppression of the Society
- Blessed Leonardo Kimura, Japanese martyr
- Eusebio Francisco Kino, missionary and cartographer of Mexico and Arizona
- Athanasius Kircher, 17th-century German scientist; discoverer of microbes
- Saint James Kisai, Japanese martyr
- Lev Kobylinsky, Russian poet, translator and religious theorist
- Adam Adamandy Kochański, Polish mathematician and clockmaker
- Anthony Kohlmann, early Catholic priest in New York whose decision not to testify established American precedent for "priest-penitent privilege" or "clergy confidentiality" in law
- Peter Hans Kolvenbach, linguist; 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Adam Krupski, professor of philosophy, legal expert on the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, author of the school dialogue.
- Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec, Prisoner for Christ
- Saint Stanislaus Kostka, patron saint of Jesuit novices
- George Kovalenko, Russian convert from Eastern Orthodoxy
- Adam Kozłowiecki, Polish Dachau concentration camp survivor, missionary in Zambia, archbishop of Lusaka and Cardinal
- Franz Xaver Kugler, Doctor of chemistry and mathematics; known also for his Babylonian studies
- Kurien Kunnumpuram, Indian theologian (Ecclesiology)
- Thomas Kunnunkal, Indian educationist and writer
L
- Saint Jean de Lalande, North American martyr
- Saint Gabriel Lalemant, North American martyr
- Quentin Lauer, American priest, philosopher and Hegel scholar
- Antoine Lavalette, French priest, slave-owning missionary in Martinique whose unpaid debts contributed to the Jesuits being banned in France in 1764
- Pierre de Lauzon, superior of the Jesuits in New France
- Włodzimierz Ledóchowski, Polish Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Gabriel Lenkiewicz, Polish teacher and architect, elected Vicar General of the Russian province during there suppression of the Society
- Leonardus Lessius, Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
- Saint David Lewis, Welsh martyr
- Constant Lievens, Apostle of Chotanagpur, Flemish Jesuit who worked among the Adivasis of Central India
- Segundo Llorente, Spanish-born priest in rural western Alaska; was elected by write-in vote to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1960 by residents of the Wade Hampton district,[2] becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature[3]
- William Lonc, professor of physics and translator of French-Canadian Jesuit records into English
- Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian, Companion of the Order of Canada
- Cardinal Henri de Lubac, French theologian, and patrologist
M
- Marius Macrionitis, Archbishop of Athens
- Jack Mahoney, ethicist and moral theologian
- Louis Maimbourg
- Matt Malone, 14th editor in chief of America magazine
- Joseph Maréchal, Belgian transcendental philosopher
- Juan de Mariana
- Jacques Marquette, French explorer of the Mississippi and Northern Michigan areas
- James Martin, author of My Life With the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything; culture editor of the America magazine
- Malachi Martin, author of sixteen books, had three Ph.Ds, spoke ten languages
- Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr of El Salvador
- Martino Martini, Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese Atlas and the first Ancient History and a chronicle of the tartarian war
- Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
- William Francis Masterson, American educator to the Philippines; (Ateneo de Manila University, Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan), founder of the Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan College of Agriculture
- Saint Lèon-Ignance Mangin, martyred in China
- Juan Francisco Masdeu, historian
- Blessed Julien Maunoir, 17th-century missionary to the Breton people
- Blessed Rupert Mayer, Servant of God, resisted the Nazis
- John McElroy, one of two of the Army's first Catholic Chaplains. Chaplain during the Mexican–American War, founder of St. John's Literary Institute, Boston College High School, and Boston College.[4]
- Horace McKenna, founder of So Others Might Eat and advocate of the Sursum Corda Cooperative
- John McLaughlin, American political commentator; left the Jesuits after a failed bid for a Senate seat in Rhode Island
- Richard McSorley (1914-2002), peace activist; peace studies Professor at Georgetown University.
- Domingo Patricio Meagher, Spanish writer and university professor of Irish descent
- Anthony de Mello, Indian spiritual guide and writer
- Everard Mercurian, Belgian, 4th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Brice Meuleman, Belgian, 2nd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
- Saint Paulo Miki, Japanese martyr
- Jorge Loring Miró, Spanish Jesuit
- Ignacio Molarja, explorer and missionary to New Spain
- Yves de Montcheuil, French philosopher, theologian, and French resistant.
- Segundo Montes, martyr of El Salvador
- Saint Henry Morse, English martyr
- Simon Le Moyne, French New World explorer
- Franz Magnis-Suseno, German-born Indonesian Jesuit priest and philosopher
- W. G. Read Mullan, American academic and university president
- Joseph Anthony Murphy, Irish missionary, bishop and vicar apostolic to Belize, Central America
- John Courtney Murray, American theologian credited with the drafting of the Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom
N
O
- Mikołaj Stanisław Oborski (1576-1646), Polish teacher
- Bernard Michael O'Brien, New Zealand Jesuit priest and philosopher
- Joseph T. O'Callahan, U.S. Navy chaplain; awarded Medal of Honor
- Saint John Ogilvie, Scottish martyr
- Joseph A. O'Hare, former president of Fordham University and chairman of the New York City Charter Revision Commission and the first New York City Campaign Finance Board
- Gian Paolo Oliva, Italian 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- John W. O'Malley, American academic and Catholic historian
- William O'Malley, author and actor (played Father Joe Dyer in The Exorcist)
- Walter J. Ong, American cultural historian and spiritual writer
- Wilhelm Josef Oomens, painter
- John H. O'Rourke, American retreat leader and master of novices
- Saint Nicholas Owen, martyr saint of England and Wales
P
- Mitch Pacwa, scholar; host on EWTN
- Francesco Palliola, Italian missionary and martyr in the Philippines
- Kuruvilla Pandikattu, Indian philosopher
- Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro, pioneer philologist
- Raimon Panikkar, Spanish priest, theologian, philosopher, interfaith dialogist, scholar, writer and chemist
- Álvarez de Paz, preacher and mystic
- Péter Pázmány, Cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom, leader of the Catholic revival in Hungary
- Ferdinand Perier, Belgian, 3rd Archbishop of Calcutta (now Kolkata)
- Denis Pétau, French scholar and theologian
- François Para du Phanjas, French writer
- Giambattista Pianciani, Italian scientist
- Joseph Pignatelli, Italian leader of the Jesuits in exile
- John Pinasco, Italian theologian and educator to America
- Luca Pinelli, Italian scholar and theologian
- Bartolomé Pou, Spanish writer
- John Powell, American author and professor
- Andrea Pozzo, great artist of the Baroque genre
R
- Karl Rahner, 20th-century German theologian
- Samuel Rayan, Indian proponent of liberation theology
- Saint Bernardino Realino, pastor of Lecce
- Sebastian Redford, 18th-century author
- Joseph Redlhamer, 18th-century Austrian physics professor and textbook author
- Saint John Francis Regis, French rural missionary preacher
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Franz Retz, Czech 15th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Johann Baptist Reus, German-Brazilian religious leader
- Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary to Vietnam; linguist
- Servant of God Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary to China, linguist and published the first Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli, 17th-century Italian astronomer; devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard
- William A. Rice, American missionary, founder of Baghdad College, bishop and vicar apostolic in Belize
- Didier Rimaud, French composer and poet
- Alberto Rivera, claimed to be ex-Jesuit (disputed by Catholic Church), anti-Catholic activist
- Saint Alonso Rodriguez, martyr of the Río de la Plata
- Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez, Jesuit brother; mystic
- João Rodrigues Tçuzu ("the Translator"), 16th-century Portuguese missionary who served as a translator for Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, wrote early works on Japanese linguistics, and introduced Western science and culture to Korea through his gifts to the ambassador Jeong Duwon
- Saint José María Rubio, Spanish priest; canonized in 2003
- Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Jesuit missionary in Paraguay
- Francis Tiburtius Roche, first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin.
S
- Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, contributions to the theory of logarithms
- Karel San Juan, Filipino president of Ateneo de Zamboanga University
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Latin poet of the Counter-Reformation, crowned poet laureate by Pope Urban VIII
- Alonso de Sandoval, missionary to African slaves in Cartagena de Indias, mentor of Saint Peter Claver
- Johann Schreck, 17th-century German polymath and missionary to China
- Gaspar Schott, first published mention of the universal joint
- Angelo Secchi, astronomer
- Juan Luis Segundo, liberation theologian
- Gerolamo Sersale, astronomer
- Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman
- Swami Shilananda, Spanish missionary who spent his active years in India
- Piotr Skarga, Polish polemicist, leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and hagiographer
- Tadeusz Ślipko, Polish ethicist
- Pierre-Jean De Smet, American explorer and missionary
- Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki, introduced logarithms to China
- Cypriano de Soarez, author of De Arte Rhetorica
- Jon Sobrino, author of Christology at the Crossroads, liberation theologian
- Carlos Sommervogel, scholar and author of Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus
- Arturo Sosa, 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Saint Robert Southwell, Elizabethan poet and martyr
- Cardinal Tomáš Špidlík, Czech theologian and professor
- Buck Stanton (Jesuit), naturalist and Jesuit missionary to British Honduras.
- Walter Steins Bisschop, 19th-century Dutch bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Bombay and then Calcutta and 3rd Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand
- Andrew Sterpin, Chinese-born Russian priest who was influential in both Russian and French culture
- Francisco Suárez, scholastic philosopher
- Blessed John Sullivan (Jesuit)|, Irish convert and teacher; renowned for his special interest in the poor
- Jón Sveinsson, Icelandic poet and writer
- Martin Szentiványi, writer
- Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian mathematician and astronomer
- Stan Swamy, tribal rights activist
T
- Joel Tabora, Filipino philosopher and president of Ateneo de Davao University
- Guy Tachard, two important embassies to Siam
- André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician whose works facilitated the discovery of calculus
- Michelangelo Tamburini, Italian 14th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
- Francesco Lana de Terzi, creator of the first realistic technical plans for an airship
- Richard Thimelby, 17th century English missionary priest, Rector of the College of St Omer
- Antoine Thomas, Belgian astronomer in China
- Vitus Georg Tönnemann, German priest who was the only confessor to Emperor Charles VI of France (1711-1740)
- Girolamo Francesco Tornielli, Italian preacher and writer
- Cosme de Torrès, contemporary of Francis Xavier
- Diego de Torres Bello, pioneer of the Paraguay province
- Pascal Tosi, Italian co-founder of the Alaska Mission
- Nicolas Trigault, early missionary to China
- Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung, first Mandarin-speaking Chinese to become a Jesuit
- John Nepomuk Tschupick, Austrian preacher
- George Tyrrell, Anglo-Irish modernist theologian and scholar
U
V
- Luca Valerio, corresponded with Galileo Galilei
- Alessandro Valignano, Italian canonical visitor to the Asian missions; promoter of an inculturated missionary approach
- Carlos G. Vallés, writer of Gujarati, English and Spanish languages; and mathematics
- Albert Vanhoye, Biblical scholar and cardinal
- John Vattanky, Indian classical philosopher
- José María Vélaz, founder of Fe y Alegría
- Ferdinand Verbiest, Belgian missionary to China; astronomer and mathematician
- António Vieira, 17th-century Portuguese missionary and diplomat
- Juan Bautista Villalpando, Isaac Newton referred to his works
- Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish mathematician
- Claude de Visdelou, early missionary to China
W
- Edmund A. Walsh, founder of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
- Saint Henry Walpole, English martyr
- Heinrich Wangnereck, German theologian, preacher, and author
- Anthony Watsham, entomologist with emphasis on scelionidae
- Andrew White (Jesuit), 17th century English Jesuit, influential figure in the early Maryland Colony who led efforts to convert and improve relations with local Native American tribes
- George J. Willmann, American priest regarded as the "Father of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines" and Servant of God
- Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who was briefly a Jesuit
- Jakub Wujek, scholar and translator
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See also
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Jesuit Survival and Restoration: A Global History, 1773-1900. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Robert Aleksander Maryks . Jonathan Wright. revised reprint. BRILL. 2014. 393. 978-9-0042-8387-9.
- Book: Official Returns - General Election - November 8, 1960. January 23, 2012. 1960. Office of the Alaska Secretary of State. Juneau. 27.
- News: Abuse claims breathe life into dead priests' past. Nicole. Tsong. Anchorage Daily News. Anchorage. December 30, 2004. A1. A popular Jesuit priest -- the country's first Roman Catholic priest to serve in a state Legislature.
- O’Conner, Thomas H. "Breaking the religious barrier", The Boston Globe, 10 May 2004.
