List of Jesuits
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This is an incomplete list of famous members of the Society of Jesus.
- Simon Le Moyne, New World Explorer
- Abbé Augustin Barruél, French writer
- St. Andrew Bobola, Polish Missionary, killed by the Cossacks
- Anthony de Mello, Indian Spiritual Guide and Writer
- Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary to Vietnam, linguist
- Joseph T. Durkin, historian of the American Civil War
- Alfred Delp, German Jesuit hanged for his opposition to Hitler
- St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit, Patron Saint to young students
- St. Alberto Hurtado, Chilean social reformer
- 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
- Antonio Vieira, (1608–1697), Portuguese missionary and diplomat.
- Amando López, one of the six Jesuit martyrs in UCA El Salvador
- Athanasius Kircher, 17 Century prolific German Scientist, discoverer of microbes
- Avery Dulles, American theologian, Cardinal, and professor at Fordham University
- Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian
- Carlo Maria Martini, Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop-Cardinal Emeritus of Milan
- Catalino Arevalo, hailed by the late Cardinal Jaime Sin as the "dean of Filipino theologians"
- Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
- Daniel Berrigan, American Political Activist, poet, and professor at Fordham University
- John M. Corridan, labor activist and "waterfront priest," his story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront.
- Edmund A. Walsh, founder of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
- St. Edmund Campion, English martyr
- Eduardo Dougherty, American-Brazilian educator, communicator and leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil
- Eusebio Francisco Kino, Prolific Missionary and Cartographer of Mexico and New Mexico
- Leonard Feeney, Controversial Ultra-Conservative American Jesuit
- Ferdinand Verbiest, Belgian missionary to China, astronomer and mathematician
- Filippo Salvatore Gilij, important to South American historical linguistics
- Francesco Lana de Terzi, created the first realistic technical plans for an airship.
- St. Francis Xavier, Spanish (Navarre) missionary to Asia who initiated a large conversion movement in India, Malacca, and Japan.
- Francois d'Aguillon, Belgian Mathematician and Physicist
- Franz Jetzinger, theology professor, Austrian political figure, and principal biographer of Adolf Hitler's early years
- Frans Jozef van Beeck, theologian
- Frederick Copleston, English writer of a definitive History of Western Philosophy (vol 1-12)
- Gabriel Richard, co-founder of University of Michigan, "second founder" of Detroit, first congressional representative from Michigan (then a territory, not yet a state)
- Georg Joseph Kamel Czech botanist assigned to the Philippines and whose work is well known in Pharmacy. The Camellia flower was named after him.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, renowned English poet
- Gian Paolo Oliva, 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1664–1681, Italian
- Giovanni Botero, Italian thinker, discharged from the Society in 1579
- Giulio Alenio, Italian Missionary to China, "Confucius of the West"
- Giuseppe Castiglione, artist to Chinese Emperor
- 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.
- Henri de Lubac, French theologian, patrologist, and later cardinal.
- St. Henry Garnett, First English Provincial, executed after being falsely implicated in the 'Gunpowder Plot'
- Horacio De La Costa Philippine historian and the first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
- Horace McKenna, Founder of So Others Might Eat and advocate of the Sursum Corda Cooperative
- Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian mathematician and Astronomer
- Ignacio Ellacuría, Rector of University of Central America, El Salvador - shot dead in 1989
- Ignacio Martín-Baró
- Jacques Courtois, French Painter in 17th Century
- Jacques Dupuis, Belgian theologian and expert on Inter-Religious Dialogue and Theology of Religions
- Jacques Marquette
- Jaime Bulatao, professor of psychology at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, considered as the father of "Filipino psychology"
- Jakob Balde, German latinist, court chaplain to Maximillian I
- James Reuter, considered as the father of Catholic mass communications in the Philippines
- James Walsh, Georgetown University professor of Theology, musician, and philosopher
- Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French Missionary to China
- Jeremiah Delgado
- Joaquín López y López
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary to China
- St. John Berchmans, Jesuit Seminarian from Belgium
- John Carroll (priest), first bishop of the United States and founder of Georgetown University
- John Courtney Murray, American theologian (credited with the drafting of the Second Vatican Council Declaration on Religious Freedom)
- John Dear, American Jesuit Peace Activist and Spiritual Author
- John Gerard, English Jesuit - one of the few men to escape from the Tower of London
- John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- John McLaughlin, American political commentator, left the Jesuits after a failed bid for a Senate seat in Rhode Island
- John O'Sullivan, Irish ascetic
- John Francis Regis, French rural missionary preacher (Ardeche)
- José de Acosta, Spanish Historian,Natural and Moral History of the Indies
- José de Anchieta, Missionary to Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
- St. José María Rubio, Spanish Jesuit, canonised by the late Pope John Paul II in 2003
- José María Vélaz, founder of Fe y Alegria.
- 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
- Juan Andres, Prolific 18th Century Spanish Writer
- Juan Ramón Moreno
- Karl Rahner, German Theologian 20th century
- Leonardus Lessius, Flemish moral theologian and writer on economics
- Louis Bourdaloue, French Preacher and Orator
- Louis Maimbourg
- Luis Frois, Portuguese Missionary to Japan, wrote History of Japan
- Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit, founder of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro
- Martin Heidegger, German philosopher, spent a very short time as a novice before beginning his philosophical career
- Martin Royackers, Canadian priest martyred in Jamaica in 2001
- Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary to China, Linguist, Initiator of the Inculturation of the Faith movement in China
- Michel de Certeau, French Cultural Theorist
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning
- Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- St. Peter Claver, Spanish missionary in South America, Saint to the Slave Ships in South America
- Peter Faber, Highly Esteemed companion of Ignatius, Apostle of Germany
- St. Petrus Canisius, German theologian, wrtier of the widely used 'little catechism', Doctor of the Church
- Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, an expert in the Old Javanese language and literature
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
- St. Robert Bellarmine, Italian Theologian, Doctor of the Catholic Church
- Robert Drinan, only Catholic priest ever to serve as a voting member of US Congress (congressman from Massachusetts) [1]
- Roberto de Nobili, Italian missionary to India, linguist, initiator of the Inculturation of the faith approach in South-India
- Romeo Intengan, Philippine Jesuit, former Provincial, and surgeon by training, jailed during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos for his views against the dictatorship
- Roque Ferriols, Filipino philosopher
- Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary, martyr
- Ruđer Josip Bošković (aka Roger Boscovich), Croatian atomic physicist, forerunner of Faraday
- Sebastian Kappen, Indian Theologian
- Segundo Montes
- Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.).
- Timothy Healy, late president of Georgetown University and president of the New York Public Library system.
- Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of a US Civil War Union Army Major General William T. Sherman
- Alessandro Valignano, Italian Jesuit, Canonical Visitor of the Asian missions, Promoter of an 'inculturated' missionary approach
- Walter Ciszek, missionary and religious prisoner in Soviet Union, author
- Walter J. Ong, American cultural historian and spiritual writer
- Walter Kerber, German Professor of Ethics
- William O'Malley, author and actor
- Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish Basque leader, later left the Society
- John Goodman, jailed in England during the Long Parliament
Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher-theologian Gustave Weigel, American theologian, ecumenist
See also: the Canadian Martyrs and Jesuit China missions
