List of Protestant missionaries in India

Several mission societies, including the Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of Tinnevelly and Travancore, which covers most of southern India Kerala. These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the Church of England.

The following is an incomplete list of Protestant missionaries in India.

Missionaries

  • Rev. John Anderson – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Founder – Madras Christian College
  • Elizabeth Baring-Gould
  • Rev. B. Baring-Gould – CMS Missionary
  • Rev. Graham Basanti – women missionary at Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Rev. James Kershaw Best – SPG missionary at Christianagaram
  • Paul Olaf Bodding
  • Paul Wilson Brand
  • Miss Kathleen Nora Brockway – Founder of St. Christopher's College of Education, Chennai
  • Edith Mary Brown
  • Nathan Brown
  • Rev. Augustus Frederick Caemmerer – SPG missionary
  • Ann Caemmerer – Started the first Girls High School in South India – St. Johns Girls High School, Nazareth – Daughter of Rev. Charles Mead – and Wife of Rev. A.F. Caemmerer
  • Robert Caldwell
  • Eliza Caldwell – Wife of Robert Caldwell, and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault
  • William Carey
  • Amy Carmichael
  • Rev. Robert Carver – Methodist Missionary
  • Alexander Crawford – first Presbyterian missionary to India (1823–29)
  • Alexander Duff
  • Rev. James Duthie – LMS Missionary to Travancore
  • Rt. Rev. James Edward Lesslie Newbigin – Ordained in Church of Scotland; affiliated with the United Reformed Church; served in the Church of South India
  • Cynthia Farrar - One of first unmarried women missionaries. Worked as an educator.
  • Abraham Friesen & Maria Friesen – Mennonite Brethren Missionary from South Russia in Nalgonda, Hyderabad State.
  • Christian William Gericke – S.P.C.K. Missionar
  • James Glasgow (1805–90) – early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841–1864)
  • Anthony Norris Groves
  • Johann Ernst Gründler
  • Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert – German linguist and Basel missionary to India
  • John Christian Frederick Heyer
  • Sam Higginbottom
  • John Nelson Hyde
  • Lyman Jewett
  • E. Stanley Jones
  • Rev. James F. Kearns – Missionary at Puthiamputhur
  • Samuel H. Kellogg – translator of Hindi Bible
  • Alexander Kerr – early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841)
  • Rev. Draviam Koilpillai – Headmaster of St. Aidan's College at Natal (S. Africa), Military Chaplain at Mesapotamia, & a friend of M.K. Gandhi – Missionary at Nazareth
  • Rev. Dr. Eugen Liebendörfer – German physician and Basel missionary to India
  • James Long – Church Missionary Society missionary
  • Joshua Marshman
  • Henry Martyn – Church Missionary Society missionary
  • Rev. Charles Mead – LMS Missionary to Travancore
  • Rev Charles Mault – LMS Missionary to Travancore
  • Rev. Arthur Margoschis – Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary
  • Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie – originally from the Congregational Church; ordained in the Church of South India
  • Rev. Volbrecht Nagel – German missionary to India
  • George Pieritz – SPG missionary
  • Jessie Kelp (later Jessie Pigott) in Allahabad and Delhi (1887–9)
  • Charles Frederick Reeve-commenced the non-denominational Poona and Indian Village Mission in 1893
  • Rev. Luke Rivington - Missionary at Edeyengoody
  • Ida S. Scudder
  • Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
  • Graham Staines
  • Alfred Sturge
  • Rev. Ellis O. Shaw - from the Church of Scotland; served in the Church of South India
  • Rev. Dr. J.M. Strachan – Medical Mission at Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary – Bishop of Rangoon
  • Rev. John Alfred Sharrock – SPG missionary
  • Ralph T. Templin
  • Rev. Adam Compton Thomson – SPG missionary
  • Rev. Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill
  • Rev. Henry Constantine Huxtable – SPG missionary at Sawyerpuram and Christianagaram
  • Rev. Christian Samuel Kohloff – SPG missionary at Christianagaram
  • Rev. H. B. Norman – SPG missionary at Mudalur
  • Rev. James Hough – Chaplain of Palamcottah – Honourable East India Company
  • Rev. John Thomas – C.M.S. Missionary of Prakasapuram and Mengnanapuram – called as Apostle of South Tirunelveli
  • Rev. Schaffter – C.M.S. Missionary
  • Sarah Tucker – C.M.S. Missionary
  • Rev. John Thomas Tucker – C.M.S. Missionary at Paneivilei, Tinnevelly
  • Thomas Gajetan Ragland – C.M.S. Missionary at North Tinnevelly
  • Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube – LMS Missionary to Travancore
  • J.T. Margoschis – SPG Missionary – Principal – SPG High School – Trichinopoly
  • Reginald Heber – Bishop of Calcutta
  • Christian Friedrich Schwarz – German S.P.C.K. Missionary
  • Joseph Daniel Jaenicke – German S.P.C.K. Missionary
  • Dr. Christopher Samuel John – Danish Mission
  • John Caspar Kohlhoff – S.P.C.K. Missionary
  • Dr. C.S. Shelton – American Madura Mission
  • Dr. Steele – American Madura Mission
  • Rev. William Miller – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Madras Christian College
  • Lady White – Methodist Missionary
  • Miss Katie Wilcox – American Board of Congregational Churches – Founder of Lady Doak College, Madurai
  • Miss Eleanor McDougall – Missionary Educator – Founder Principal of Women's Christian College – Madras
  • George Trevor Spencer (Wikisource) – Lord Bishop of Madras
  • Donald McGavran
  • V. Nagel
  • J. Waskom Pickett
  • George Uglow Pope
  • Rev C. T. E. Rhenius – first Church Missionary Society missionary
  • Rev. George Pettitt – Church Missionary Society missionary
  • Bishop Edward Sargent – Church Missionary Society missionary
  • Heinrich Plütschau
  • Rev. Benjamin Schultze – Translated and printed Old Testament – Bible, in Tamil.
  • Johann Fabricius – Translated and printed New Testament – Bible, in Tamil
  • Rev. Dr. J. P. Rottler – Danish Mission
  • Rev. Peter Percival – Wesleyan Methodist Mission
  • Rev. David Rosen – Danish Missionary – Has worked at Nicobar Islands, Nazareth and Mudalur
  • Rev. John Ludovick Irion – Netherland Missionary Society – Has worked at Nazareth and Mudalur
  • Rev. Thomas Brotherton – Missionary at Tanjore, Madras, and Nazareth
  • Rev. Carlin Wilfred Weston – Missionary at Nazareth
  • Rev. Cecil George Stapley – Missionary at Nazareth
  • Rev. Stephen Charles Neill – Nazareth Station – Bishop of Tinnevelly
  • Rev. Charles Hubbard – First English Missionary employed by S.P.G. in Tinnevelly
  • Mason Vaugh and Clara Pennington – Founder of Allahabad Agricultural Institute
  • Elmer Whitcomb and Adella Rodeheffer – Founder of Evangelical Hospital, Tilda
  • Harwood W Raw, 1871–1905 – Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society served in Madras from 1896 until his premature death in 1905
  • Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube, (1770- ?) – London Missionary Society served in the then South Travancore, present revenue district of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu
  • Dr. Boaz Kok Ph.D – Assemblies of God
  • Rev. Robert Turlington Noble – Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam
  • Hopestill Pillow – Zenana Missionary to India
  • William Arthur Stanton – American Baptist Missionary in South Indian town of Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh.
  • N N Hiebert – Mennonite Brethren Missionary from south Russia in Hyderabad State
  • Elizabeth Neufeld – Mennonite Brethren Missionary in Hyderabad
  • Anna Suderman – Mennonite Brethren Missionary in Hyderabad
  • John H. and Maria Pankratz – Mennonite Brethren Missionary in Hyderabad
  • Rev. A. Brotherton Vickers – SPG missionary
  • William Ward
  • Rev. G.T. Washburn – American Madura Mission
  • William Keith Whitcomb and Dorothy Vaugh – United Church Board for World Ministries
  • Charlotte White – first unmarried American woman missionary
  • H. U. Weitbrecht – Church Missionary Society missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament"
  • Sister Joyce M. Woollard
  • Rev. Joseph Light Wyatt – SPG missionary – Bishop Heber College
  • Isabella Wyatt – Wife of Rev. J.L. Wyatt, and the eldest daughter of Robert Caldwell
  • Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg

See also