List of Jesuits - G

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  • Saint Henry Garnett, first English Provincial; executed after being implicated in the Gunpowder Plot
  • Saint Charles Garnier, North America martyr
  • John Gerard, English Jesuit; one of the few men to escape from the Tower of London
  • Jean-François Gerbillon, early missionary to China
  • Filippo Salvatore Gilij, contributor in the field of South American historical linguistics
  • Paul Goethals, Belgian, first Archbishop of Calcutta
  • Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian priest; patron saint of students
  • Thyrsus González, Spanish 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus
  • John Goodman, jailed in England during the Long Parliament
  • Saint John Soan de Goto, martyred in Japan
  • Saint René Goupil, Jesuit brother and North American martyr
  • Baltasar Gracián, Spanish prose writer
  • Francesco Maria Grimaldi, 17th-century Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer; accurately mapped the Moon; one of the first to suggest the wave-like nature of light
  • Paul Guldin father of Guldinus theorem
  • José Gumilla, Naturalist who studied the Orinoco, South America
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Brazilian-Portuguese priest and mathematician; said to be an early inventor of the dirigible

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