List of Jesuits - C

C

• Niccolò Cabeo, many early contributions to physics
• Saint Edmund Campion, English martyr
• Saint Petrus Canisius, Dutch theologian, writer of the widely-used Little Catechism; Doctor of the Church
• John Carroll, first bishop of the United States and founder of Georgetown University
• Paolo Casati, Mathematician, supported Galileo..
• John II Casimir Vasa, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Louis Bertrand Castel, French Scientist
• Leonardo Castellani, 20th-century Argentine writer and theologian
• Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit brother; artist to the Chinese Emperor
• Saint Juan del Castillo, martyr of the Río de la Plata
• Jean Pierre de Caussade, spiritual director, college rector, and author of Abandonment to Divine Providence
• Michel de Certeau, French cultural theorist
• Francesco Cetti, mathematician and zoologist
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist, theologian/philosopher and spiritual writer
• Saint Noël Chabanel, North American martyr
• Pierre Cholonec, Superior of Montreal
• Walter Ciszek, missionary and religious prisoner in Soviet Union; author
• Saint Peter Claver, Spanish missionary in South America
• Christopher Clavius main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar
• Saint Claude de la Colombière, preacher to the seventh Duchess of York, Mary of Modena
• Louis Le Comte, early missionary to China
• Guy Consolmagno
• Frederick Copleston, English writer, author of the definitive History of Philosophy
• John M. Corridan, labor activist and "Waterfront priest" whose story inspired the classic film On the Waterfront
• Horacio de la Costa, Philippine historian and the first Filipino Jesuit provincial superior in the Philippines
• Jacques Courtois, 17th-century French painter
• Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
• Johann Baptist Cysat, published the first printed European book concerning Japan
• Stanisław Czerski, Polish graphic designer