List of Jesuits - A

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• José de Acosta, Spanish historian; author of The Natural and Moral History of the Indies
• Francois d'Aguillon, Belgian mathematician and physicist
• Mateo Aimerich, Spanish philologist
• Giulio Alenio, Italian missionary to China, called the "Confucius of the West"
• Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit, missionary to Wisconsin
• Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary to China
• Yves Marie André, French mathematician, philosopher, and essayist
• José de Anchieta, Portuguese missionary in Brazil, founder of São Paulo, Brazil
• Saint Modeste Andlauer, martyred in China
• Juan Andres, prolific 18th-century Spanish writer
• Saint Edmund Arrowsmith, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
• Pedro Arrupe, 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, led the first rescue party in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb
• Xabier Arzalluz, Spanish Basque leader; later left the Society