British Christian Missionaries
- John Wesley
- Robert Morrison (missionary), Bible translator to China
- William Milne (missionary), Bible translator to China
- Benjamin Hobson, medical missionary to China, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic (惠愛醫館( in Guangzhou, China.
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