WAmy Beatrice Carmichael was an Irish Christian missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years without furlough and wrote many books about the missionary work there.
WAmerica McCutchen Drennan was an American educator and pioneer missionary to Japan. She did not acquire the Japanese language, and from the beginning of her career as a missionary, she was met with opposition and discouragement but it did not dissuade her. Yet, she organized classes in English language for young men; the Chautauqua Circle was formed and a periodical started; children's meetings and old women's meetings were held; Sunday schools were introduced; a Christian Endeavor Society was organized; and orphanage was started; and a girls' school was opened.
WHenry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.
WPeter Johnson Gulick was a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii and Japan. His descendants carried on the tradition of missionary work, and included several scientists.
WJames Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, translator, educator, and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary.
WWilliam Imbrie was an American missionary to Japan.
WDivie Bethune McCartee (1820–1900) was an American Protestant Christian medical missionary, educator and U.S. diplomat in China and Japan, first appointed by the American Presbyterian Mission in 1843.
WErnest Adolphus Sturge, M.D., Ph.D. was a physician and Presbyterian missionary who built hospitals in Asia. From 1886 to 1934 he was the General Superintendent of the Japanese Presbyterian Church.
WJessie Trout was a Canadian missionary to Japan for nearly 20 years until she left Japan during World War II. She was a leader in the Disciples of Christ and the first woman to serve as vice president of the United Christian Missionary Society. She was a member of the Disciples of Christ, an author, translator, and co-founder of the Christian Women's Fellowship (1950) and the International Christian Women's Fellowship (1953).
WKate M. Youngman was an American missionary who established the Ihaien leprosy hospital in Tokyo, Japan, in 1894. It was active from 1894 until 1942.