List of Christian martyrs

Apostolic Age—1st century

According to the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles

• John the Baptist
• Stephen
• James, son of Zebedee

  According to early sources

• James, brother of Jesus - attested by Josephus ca. AD 94
• Simon Peter, first attested by Tertullian about AD 200
• Paul the Apostle, first attested by Ignatius of Antioch probably about AD 110

  According to tradition

• Andrew the Apostle
• Matthew the Apostle - not attested by contemporary sources
• Philip the Apostle - conflicting accounts
• Thomas the Apostle
• Jude Thaddeus
• Bartholomew - conflicting accounts
• Barnabas
• Simon Zelotes - contradictory late traditions.
• Mark the Evangelist
• Timothy - not attested by contemporary sources
• Philemon - not attested by contemporary sources

  Age of Martyrdom—2nd to 4th centuries

According to early Christian tradition

With some historical attestation within a hundred years of the event

• Polycarp of Smyrna
• Justin Martyr
• Scillitan Martyrs
• Perpetua and Felicity
• Ptolemaeus and Lucius
• Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, with Blandina and several others, the "Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne"
• Pope Fabian
• Saint Sebastian
• Shmona and Gurya''
• Saint Agnes
• Felix and Adauctus
• Marcellinus and Peter
• Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
• Euphemia
• Cyprian

  With some historical attestation more than a hundred years after the event

• Saint Alban
• Ignatius of Antioch
• Gelasinus
• Saint Pancras
• Saint Valentine
• Saint Petronilla

  Largely or wholly legendary

• Saint Afra
• Saint George
• Januarius
• Vincent of Saragossa
• Saint Behnam
• Saint Lucy
• Lawrence of Rome
• Saint Cecilia
• Catherine of Alexandria
• Vitus
• Pelagia of Tarsus
• Sophia the Martyr and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Charity

  Middle Ages—5th to 15th-centuries

• Tewdrig, 6th c.
• Sigismund of Burgundy, 524
• Edwin of Northumbria, 633 in the Battle of Hatfield Chase
• Oswald of Northumbria, 642 in the Battle of Maserfield
• Projectus of Clermont, 676
• Warinus of Poitiers, 677
• Dagobert II of the Franks, 676
• Kilian, Colman, and Totnan, 689
• Fructus, Valentine & Engratia of Segovia, ca. 715
• Theofrid of Orange, 728/-32 by Saracens
• Porcarius of Lérins, ca. 732 by Saracens
• Boniface, 754
• Æthelberht II of East Anglia, 794
• Martyrs of Iona, 806 by Vikings
• Gohard of Nantes, 843 by Normans
• Roderick, Eulogius, Perfectus, Laura, Flora and Maria, Aurelius and Natalia, Nunilo and Alodia, and other Martyrs of Cordoba, 850-59
• Bertharius of Monte Cassino, 883 by Saracens
• Edmund of East Anglia, 869
• Ludmila of Bohemia, 921
• Wiborada of St. Gall, 921 by Magyars
• Wenceslaus I of Bohemia,935
• King Edward the Martyr, 979
• Adalbert of Prague, 997 by Old Prussians
• Bruno of Querfurt, 1009
• Jovan Vladimir, 1014
• Olaf II of Norway, 1030 in the Battle of Stiklestad
• Gerard of Csanád, 1046
• Stanislaus of Szczepanów, 1079
• Canute IV of Denmark, 1086
• William of Norwich, 1144
• Eric IX of Sweden, 1161
• Thomas Becket, 1170 - The most famous martyr of the Middle Ages.
• Berard of Carbio and companions, 1220
• Serapion of Algiers, 1240
• Buzád Hahót, 1241
• Peter of Verona, 1252 by Cathars - Canonized 11 months after his death; the fastest in history.
• Martyrs of Sandomierz, 1260
• Antonio Pavoni, 1374 by Waldensians
• Tsar Lazar, 1389
• Nicholas Tavelic, 1391
• John of Nepomuk, 1393
• Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic Council of Constance
• Joan of Arc, 1431 - executed for heresy by an English Roman Catholic tribunal; exonerated by the French inquitision in 1456

  Reformation">Protestant Reformation">Reformation Era—16th century

• Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake
• Felix Manz, 1527
• Patrick Hamilton, 1528
• George Blaurock, 1529
• St Thomas More, 1535, executed
• St John Fisher, 1535
• William Tyndale, 1535
• Carthusian Martyrs, 1535–1537
• St. Arthur of Glastonbury, 1539
• Margaret Pole, 1541
• Juan de Padilla, Spanish missionary to New Mexico, 1542
• Anne Askew, 1546
• George Wishart, 1546
• Luis de Cancer, Spanish missionary to La Florida, 1549
• Lady Jane Grey, 1554
• Hugh Latimer, 1555
• Nicholas Ridley, 1555
• Rowland Taylor, 1555
• John Hooper, 1555
• John Rogers, 1555
• William Hunter, 1555
• Lawrence Saunders, 1555
• Thomas Cranmer, 1556
• Dirk Willems, 1569
• Martyrs of Gorkum, 1572, including Nicholas Pieck and John of Cologne
• St Edmund Campion, 1581
• Margaret Ball, 1584
• The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, various dates

  Modern Era—17th to 21st centuries

• Martyrs of Japan, 1597-1639,
• Francis Taylor, 1621
• Vietnamese Martyrs, 1625 - 1886
• Magdalene of Nagasaki, 1634
• Lorenzo Ruiz, 1637
• Canadian Martyrs, North American Martyrs, 1642–1649
• Arthur Bell, O.F.M., 1643
• Isaac Jogues, S.J., 1646
• John de Britto, 1647–1693, born in Portugal and beheaded in India
• Francis Ferdinand de Capillas, O.P., 1648, missionary to China
• Diego Luis de San Vitores, S.J., and Pedro Calungsod, 1672
• Feodosia Morozova, 1675, Russian Old Believer
• Oliver Plunkett, 1681, Archbishop of Armagh
• Felipe Songsong, S.J., 1685
• Devasahayam Pillai, 1712-1752
• Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714
• Vicente Liem de la Paz, O.P., 1773
• Luís Jayme, O.F.M., Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1775
• Cosmas of Aetolia, 1779
• Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1781
• Martyrs of Compiegne, 1794
• Andrés Quintana, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1812
• Chinese Martyrs, 19th and 20th centuries
• Pedro Marieluz Garces, 1825
• Tārore, 1836
• Andrew Dung-Lac, 1839
• Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, 1844
• Hyrum Smith, 1844
• Korean Martyrs, 1839, 1846, 1866
• Peter Chanel, S.M., 1841
• Andrew Kim Taegon, 1846
• Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Whitman, and companions, 1847
• Lucy Yi Zhenmei, one of the 19th century Chinese Catholic Martyrs, 1862
• Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji
• Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887
• Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas, S.J., 1897
• Amandina of Schakkebroek, F.M.M., 1900
• Maria Goretti, 1902
• Armenian Martyrs, 1915-1923
• Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, 1918
• Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Family, 1918
• Nun Barbara, 1918
• James Coyle, 1921
• Gregory of Cydonia, 1922
• Saints of the Cristero War 1926–1927, including:
• *Miguel Pro, S.J., 1927
• *Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, 1927
• *Mateo Correa Magallanes, 1927
• Toribio Romo González, 1928
• Manche Masemola,
• José Sánchez del Río 1928
• Innocencio of Mary Immaculate, C.P., 1934
• Bartolome Blanco Marquez, 1936
• Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War 1934, 1936–1939
• Alexander Hotovitzky, 1937
• Peter of Jesus Maldonado, 1937
• Paul Schneider, 1939
• Martyrs of Songkhon, 1940
• Maximilian Kolbe, O.F.M.Cap., 1941, died at Auschwitz
• Edith Stein O.C.D., 1942, died at Auschwitz
• Gorazd, 1942, Bishop of Prague
• Lucian Tapiedi, 1942
• Franz Jägerstätter, 1943
• Dusty Miller, 1945, a Methodist layman killed as a P.O.W. of the Japanese in Thailand during World War II
• Marcel Callo, 1945
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1945, Lutheran pastor and member of the German Resistance
• Rolando Rivi, fourteen-year-old seminarian, 1945
• Peter To Rot, 1945
• Martyrs of Albania, 1945-1974
• Theodore Romzha, 1947, Ruthenian Eparch of Mukachevo
• Nykyta Budka, 1949, Ukrainian Bishop of Canada, died in Soviet gulag
• Beda Chang, S.J., 1951
• Alberto Hurtado, S.J., 1952
• Francis Xavier Ford, M.M., 1952
• Martyrs of Laos, 1954-1970
• Zdenka Cecilia Schelingová, 1955
• Jim Elliot, 1956
• Nate Saint, 1956, killed while attempting to evangelize the Waodani people
• Ed McCully, 1956
• Pete Fleming, 1956
• Roger Youderian, 1956
• Esther John 1929–1960, Found Killed in Chichawatni commemorated at Westminster Abbey.
• Wang Zhiming, 1973, Chinese pastor, publicly executed
• Martyrs of La Rioja, 1976
• Janani Jakaliya Luwum, 1977, Archbishop of Uganda
• Óscar Romero, 1980, Archbishop of San Salvador
• Ita Ford, M.M., 1980
• Maura Clarke, M.M., 1980
• Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U., 1980
• Jean Donovan, 1980
• Stanley Rother, 1981
• Martyrs of Algeria, 1994-1996
• Rani Maria Vattalil, 1995
• Kosheh Martyrs, Egypt, 1998–2000
• Rufus Halley, S.S.C., 2001
• Martin Burnham, 2002
• Mary Stachowicz, 2002
• Andrea Santoro, 2006
• Fabianus Tibo, 2006
• Leonella Sgorbati, 2006
• Ragheed Ganni and companions, 2007
• Paulos Faraj Rahho, 2008, Chaldean Archeparch of Mosul
• Nicholas Pillai Pakiaranjith, 2008
• Nag Hammadi martyrs, Egypt 2010
• Baghdad martyrs, 2010
• Luigi Padovese, 2011
• Shahbaz Bhatti, 2011
• Nigerian martyrs, 2012
• Frans van der Lugt, S.J., 2014
• Christians martyred by ISIL, 2014-2019
• 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya, 2015
• Jacques Hamel, Normandy 2016
• Cairo martyrs, 2016
• Alexandria martyrs, 2017
• Sutherland Springs martyrs, 2017
• Sri Lankan martyrs, 2019