List of Catholic priests

Roman Catholic Church

• Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña – Jesuit explorer
• Alger of Liège – History
• Abraham Armand – Missionary to Hawaii
• Alexis Bachelot – Missionary to Hawaii
• Antonio Vivaldi - Italian baroque composer
• Nicolas Aubry - French priest
• Tissa Balasuriya - Sri Lankan Sinhala theologian
• Mary Bastian – Murdered activist in Sri Lanka.
• Father David Bauer – Hockey player turned priest.
• Father Josef Bisig – Formerly of the Society of St. Pius X, currently of the recognized Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
• Martin Adolf Bormann – Son of Nazi Martin Bormann who works against Holocaust denial.
• Jim Borst - Dutch Missionary in India since 1960

• Martin Stanislaus Brennan - Astronomer and author
• Vincent Robert Capodanno - U.S. Navy chaplain and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Francisco Fernández Carvajal – Author and Opus Dei priest.
• Solanus Casey – Declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.
• William Joseph Chaminade – Faced persecution for being a priest during the French Revolution
• Daniel Comboni – Missionary to Africa, canonized.
• John M. Corridan – Anti-corruption activist.
• Horacio de la Costa – Filipino Jesuit and writer.
• Les Costello – A founder of the Flying Fathers exhibition hockey team.
• Peter Coudrin – Faced persecution during French Revolution, later became a missionary to Hawaii.
• James Coyle – A murdered Catholic priest.
• Johannes Czerski - German clergyman who resigned his vicariate to found German Catholicism
• Father Damien – Canonized, worked with lepers.
• Chandra Fernando – Murdered human rights activist.
• Piero Folli – Italian antifascist parish priest.
• Joseph Freinademetz – Missionary to China, canonized.
• Mariano Gagnon – Franciscan friar and author who helped indigenous people resist the Shining Path in Peru
• Georg Gänswein – Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI
• Augustine Geve - Solomon Islands Catholic priest and politician, murdered in 2002
• Lionel Groulx – French Canadian Nationalist.
• Jacques Hamel – Priest killed in the 2016 Normandy church attack.
• Elmer Heindl - American WWII chaplain
• Ignatius of Loyola – Founder of the Society of Jesus
• Mancio Ito – First official Japanese emissary to Europe, after that he became a Jesuit priest.
• Saint Arnold Janssen – Missionary
• Marcelline Jayakody, Sri Lankan Sinhala author, composer of hymns, author, journalist
• Mychal F. Judge – Chaplain, 9-11 victim.
• Georg Joseph Kamel – Jesuit botanist of whom the Camellia is named after. Compiled works on Philippine medicinal plants, which is well known in pharmacology
• Georges Lemaître – Physicist and Astronomer. Proposed what would become known as the Big Bang Theory.
• Georges-Henri Lévesque – Sociologist.
• Father Eustáquio van Lieshout – Did work in Brazil
• Michael J. McGivney – Founder of the Knights of Columbus
• Columba Murphy – Involved in gaining an Edict of Toleration for Hawaiian Catholics
• Hugh O'Flaherty – World War II hero.
• Nemesi Marqués Oste – Rector in Andorra and political figure there.
• Wolfgang Rösch – Vicar general of Limburg
• Jean-Baptiste de la Salle – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
• Abraham a Sancta Clara – Catholic preacher in Austria.
• Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to Japan
• Vinkenti Peev - Bulgarian Capuchin monk
• Thomas Byles - English priest who stayed on board the sinking RMS Titanic hearing confessions
• Renato Ventajar - Filipino Priest
• Brian McMaster - American priest, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M University
• Fr. Henry Wasielewski - American priest, Author

Eastern Catholic Churches

• Ghevont Alishan – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church who designed Armenia's first modern flag.
• Walter Ciszek – Byzantine Rite member of the Society of Jesus who was imprisoned at Lubyanka (KGB).
• Eddie Doherty – Ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
• Ed Evanko – Actor who became a Ukrainian Catholic priest.
• Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini – Catholic saint.
• Louis Massignon – Scholar of Islam who transferred to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church after converting to Catholicism and later became a priest.
• Alphonse Mingana – Chaldean Catholic Church priest and Orientalist.
• Youakim Moubarac – Maronite Church – priest and scholar.
• Joseph Raya – a Melkite Greek Catholic priest (later archbishop) active in the U.S. civil rights movement and advocate of Israeli Christian Arabs.