This is an incomplete list of famous members of the Society of Jesus.
- Adolfo Nicolás, 30th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- John Ballard, English Jesuit priest executed for being involved in an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England in Babington Plot.
- Augustin Barruel, French writer
- Augustin Bea, German cardinal
- St. Alberto Hurtado, social reformer inChile
- Alessandro Valignano, Italian Jesuit, Canonical Visitor of the Asian missions, Promoter of an 'inculturated' missionary approach
- Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary to Vietnam, linguist
- Alfred Delp, German Jesuit hanged for his opposition to Hitler
- St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit, Patron Saint to young students
- St. Andrew Bobola, Polish Missionary, killed by the Cossacks
- Anthony de Mello, Indian Spiritual Guide and Writer
- 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
- Anthony Azzarto, American Famous teacher at St. Peter's Preparatory School.
- Antoine Thomas, Belgian, Astronomer in China
- 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
- Baltasar Gracián, Spanish prose writer
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian-Portuguese priest and mathematician said to be the early inventor of the Balloon
- Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian
- Bienvenido Nebres, Filipino Jesuit, President of the Ateneo de Manila University, former President of Xavier University, former Provincial Superior, Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus
- Carlo Maria Martini, Italian scripture scholar, Archbishop* Emeritus of Milan, Cardinal
- Catalino Arevalo, Filipino Jesuit, Professor at the Ateneo de Manila University and Loyola School of Theology, hailed by the late Cardinal Jaime Sin as the "dean of Filipino theologians"
- Charles de Noyelle, 12th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Belgian.
- Christopher Holywood, Irish Jesuit of the Counter Reformation
- Claude Dablon. Superior General of all the Canadian Missions; 1670-1680.
- Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
- Daniel Berrigan, American Political Activist, poet, and professor at Fordham University
- Domenico Zipoli, Italian Composer and Musician.
- 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 Arizona
- Everard Mercurian, 4th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Belgian.
- Ferdinand Verbiest, Belgian missionary to China, astronomer and mathematician
- Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan Jesuit of the Twentieth Century.
- Filippo Salvatore Gilij, important to South American historical linguistics
- Francesco Lana de Terzi, created the first realistic technical plans for an airship
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi, 17th centure Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, accurately mapped the Moon, one of the first to suggest the wave-like nature of light
- 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
- Frank Brennan, Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal Australians
- Franz Jetzinger, theology professor, Austrian political figure, and principal biographer of Adolf Hitler's early years
- Frans Jozef van Beeck, theologian
- Franz Retz, 15th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Czech.
- Frederick Copleston, English writer, author off a definitive History of Western Philosophy (vol 1-12)
- Gabriel Druillettes, the Apostle of Maine, missionary and explorer
- 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.
- Georges LeMaitre, Belgian physicist, one of the originators of the "Big Bang" theory
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, renowned English poet
- Gian Paolo Oliva, 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1664–1681, Italian
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli, 17th century Italian astronomer, devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard
- Giovanni Botero, Italian thinker, discharged from the Society in 1579
- Giulio Alenio, Italian Missionary to China, "Confucius of the West"
- Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, 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
- Isaac Jogues 17th century French martyr and missionary to North America
- Jacques Courtois, French Painter in 17th Century
- Jacques Dupuis, Belgian theologian, expert on Inter-Religious Dialogue and Theology of Religions
- Jacques Marquette, French explorer of the Mississippi area
- 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
- St. Jean de Brebeuf, 17th century French Canadian missionary and martyr
- Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
- Jeremiah Delgado
- Joaquin G. Bernas, Filipino Jesuit, Constitutionalist, Dean Emeritus and former Dean of the Ateneo Law School, former President of the Ateneo de Manila University, former Provincial Superior, Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus
- Joaquín López y López
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary to China, astronomer
- St. John Berchmans, Jesuit Seminarian from Belgium
- John Carroll (priest), first bishop of the United States and founder of Georgetown University
- John M. Corridan, labor activist and "waterfront priest," his story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront.
- 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 Goodman, jailed in England during the Long Parliament
- 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-Baptist Hoffmann, German, Apostle of the Mundas in India
- John Paul Oliva, 11th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- St. John Francis Regis, French rural missionary preacher (Ardèche)
- José de Acosta, Spanish Historian,Natural and Moral History of the Indies
- José de Anchieta, Portuguese Missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
- St. José María Rubio, Spanish, 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
- Joseph Maréchal, Belgian, Transcendental Philosopher
- Joseph T. Durkin, historian of the American Civil War
- Juan Andres, Prolific 18th Century Spanish Writer
- Blessed Julien Maunoir, 17th century missionary to the Breton people.
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Karl Rahner, German Theologian 20th century
- Leonardo Castellani, Argentine writer and theologian, 20th century
- Leonard Feeney, Controversial Ultra-Conservative American Jesuit, American
- Leonardus Lessius, Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
- Louis Bertrand Castel, French Scientist
- Louis Bourdaloue, French Preacher and Orator
- Louis Maimbourg
- Luis Frois, Portuguese Missionary to Japan, wrote History of Japan
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Latin poet of the Counter-Reformation, crowned poet laureate by Pope Urban VIII
- 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
- Mateo Aimerich, Spanish philologist
- Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary to China, Linguist, Initiator of the Inculturation of the Faith movement in China
- Michel Baudouin, was Superior-General of the Louisiana mission (1749-1763)
- Michel de Certeau, French Cultural Theorist
- Michelangelo Tamburini, 14th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Italian
- Mitch Pacwa, EWTN host and scholar
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning
- Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta (India)
- Pascal Tosi, Italian, co-Founder of the Alaska mission and Church
- 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, Early companion of St Ignatius, Co-founder of the Society of Jesus, missionary in Germany
- Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Linguist, 29th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- St. Petrus Canisius, German theologian, writer of the widely used 'little catechism', Doctor of the Church
- Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, an expert in the Old Javanese language and literature
- Pierre Cholonec, Superior of Montreal
- Pierre-Jean De Smet, American explorer and missionary
- Pierre Johanns, Luxemburger, Vedanta christian Theologian
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
- Piotr Skarga, Polish priest, homilist, and hagiographer
- St. Robert Bellarmine, Italian Theologian, Doctor of the Catholic Church
- Robert Drinan, the 1st Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of US Congress (congressman from Massachusetts) [1]
- Robert Southwell Elizabethan poet and martyr.
- 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
- Simon Le Moyne, New World Explorer
- Timothy Healy, late president of Georgetown University and president of the New York Public Library system.
- Thyrsus González, 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Spanish.
- Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of a US Civil War Union Army Major General William T. Sherman
- Tomas Spidlik, Czech theologian, Cardinal, and professor
- 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
- José Gumilla Naturalist. Studied the Orinoco, South America.
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References
- ^ Note: Father Gabriel Richard briefly was in the US Congress in the 1820s, but as a territorial representative. Under guidelines released by Pope John Paul II, Catholic clergy are expected not to serve in positions of civil authority.
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