List of Jesuits - L

L

  • Saint Jean de Lalande, North American martyr
  • Saint Gabriel Lalemant, North American martyr
  • Brendan Lally, American; Famous spiritual director at the Pontifical North American College and Saint Joseph's University
  • Stephen Francis Latchford, American; spiritual leader and industrial relations expert.
  • Georges LeMaitre, Belgian physicist; one of the originators of the "Big Bang" theory
  • Leonardus Lessius, Belgian moral theologian and writer on economics
  • Léon Degrelle, Belgian Soldier
  • Saint David Lewis, Welsh martyr
  • Constant Lievens, the Apostle of Chotanagpur, a Flemish Jesuit who worked among the Adivasis of Central India
  • Segundo Llorente, Spanish-born priest in rural western Alaska; was elected by write-in vote to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1960 by residents of the Wade Hampton district, becoming the first Catholic priest to serve in a U.S. state legislature
  • Bernard Lonergan, Canadian philosopher and theologian, Companion of the Order of Canada
  • Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus
  • Cardinal Henri de Lubac, French theologian, and patrologist

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