Notable Columbans
- Bishop Edward J. Galvin (founder)
- Father John Blowick (co-founder)
- Father Shay Cullen, campaigner for the elimination of child prostitution in the Philippines and defender of human rights, co-founder of the PREDA Foundation
- Father Francis Douglas (1910-1943), New Zealand missionary murdered by Japanese soldiers the Philippines.
- Father Brian Gore, Australian missionary to the Philippines who suffered false imprisonment
- Father Rufus Halley, missionary to the Philippines who was murdered in 2001
- Father Robert McCulloch, missionary to Pakistan for more than 27 years
- Father W. Aedan McGrath, missionary to the China who suffered false imprisonment in the early 1950s
- Father Nguyen Van Hung, anti-human trafficking activist in Taiwan
- Father Niall O'Brien, missionary to the Philippines who suffered false imprisonment
- Father Sean Nolan, founder and former president of Saint Columban College, Pagadian City and co-founder of other Columban schools in the Philippines.
- Father James Stuart saved the lives of many refugees and American airmen in Northern Burma during World War II. In appreciation of the valuable service he rendered British and American Intelligence, the "Fighting Father", as he was referred to afterwards, was awarded the O.B.E.
- Archbishop Patrick Cronin D.D., second archbishop of Cagayan de Oro and founded the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, located in that city.
- Archbishop Harold Henry, D.D., first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kwangju (1962-1971).
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