| 传教士 | chuán jiào shì | missionary |  |
| 传教 | chuán jiào | to preach / missionary / to evangelize |  |
| 传道者 | chuán dào zhě | missionary / preacher | |
| 利玛窦 | Lì Mǎ dòu | Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China | |
| 西里尔 | Xī lǐ ěr | Cyril (name) / Saint Cyril, 9th century Christian missionary / Cyrillic | |
| 丁韪良 | Dīng Wěi liáng | William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Peking University | |
| 利马窦 | Lì Mǎ dòu | Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Jesuit missionary and translator in Ming China / erroneous spelling of 利瑪竇|利玛窦 | |
| 提多 | tí duō | Titus (1st century AD), Christian missionary, disciple of St. Paul | |
| 郎世宁 | Láng shì níng | Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Jesuit missionary and artist who served as a painter in the Qing court for 50 years | |
| 理雅各 | Lǐ Yǎ gè | James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English | |
| 马礼逊 | mǎ lǐ xùn | Robert Morrison (1782-1834), Presbyterian minister, translator, and the London Missionary Society's first missionary to China | |
| 司徒雷登 | Sī tú Léi dēng | John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China | |
| 非洲卫理圣公会女传教士协会 | | Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church | |
| 殷弘绪 | Yīn Hóng xù | François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664-1741), French Jesuit missionary to Kangxi court | |
| 郭居静 | Guō Jū jìng | Lazzaro Cattaneo (1560-1640), Italian Jesuit missionary in China | |
| 刘松龄 | Liú Sōng líng | Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court | |
