Missionary
1. Matteo Ricci (1552)
Missionary
Missionary who went to China and became one of the first explorers to introduce European culture to the locals.
2. Ferdinand Konscak (1970)
Missionary
Jesuit missionary and cartographer who went on three expeditions exploring the Baja California peninsula.
3. Charles Simeon (1970)
Missionary
Remembered as a founder of the Church Missionary Society, this Church of England evangelical minister also penned eloquent sermons and published an important work of biblical commentary titled Horae homileticae.
4. Johnny Appleseed (1774)
Missionary
Born John Chapman, but better known as Johnny Appleseed, he planted apple trees across the American frontier as a missionary for The New Church. Contrary to popular belief, he did...
5. William Richards (1793)
Missionary
American missionary and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He helped reform land titles and was the kingdom's first Minister of Public Instruction.
6. Christina Smith (1809)
Missionary
Nineteenth-century Scottish teacher, missionary, and author who published a book documenting the history, language, and culture of the Buandig group of Indigenous Australians.
7. William Valentine (1862)
Missionary
American teacher who was known as both an educator and missionary in the service of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and ministered for thirty years in Asia.
8. Margaret Dryburgh (1970)
Missionary
Missionary who was captured in Singapore during WWII, and was held captive in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
9. William Cameron Townsend (1896)
Missionary
Remembered for founding both the Summer Institute of Linguistics (also known as SIL International) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators organization, Townsend aimed to make the Bible and American brands of...
10. John Birch (1918)
Missionary
Remembered for his death at the hands of Chinese communists, this 20th-century Baptist missionary and World War II-era United States Office of Strategic Services intelligence officer was the posthumous recipient...
