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Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813), born in Estadilla, Spain, was a Benedictine monk and the first historian to extensively document Puerto Rico's history, nationality and culture.
When Napoleon instigated the secularization of religious houses in south Germany, Spencer used local British agent and Benedictine monk, Alexander Horn to acquire many of their rare books and manuscripts.
Among others are: St. Veranus, son of St. Eucherius, Archbishop of Lyons and a monk of Lérins, bishop before 451 and at least until 465; St. Lambert, first a Benedictine monk (died 1154); Alessandro Farnese (1505–11).
Following Upadhyay and Sen came French priest Jules Monchanin (who was later to adopt the name Parma Arupi Anananda), and French Benedictine monk Henri le Saux (who was later to adopt the name Abhishiktananda), the co-founders of Saccidananda Ashram (also called Shantivanam) an ashram founded in 1938 at Tannirpalli in Tiruchirapalli District and still surviving into the 21st century.
Born in Yorkshire, he made his profession as a Benedictine monk in the monastery of St. Laurence at Dieulward in Lorraine in 1610, and pursued his studies in St. Gregory's monastery at Douai.
Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033 – 1109), Benedictine monk, theologian, philosopher, Archbishop of Canterbury and Doctor of the Church
Later he was taught by the Benedictine monk Frei Estevao from the monastery of Cucujaes.
Dom Benet Jones, a Benedictine monk, encouraged her to join his projected religious foundation, Our Lady of Comfort, in Cambrai.
Saint Goban, a 6th-century Irish Benedictine monk and Abbot, brother to Molaise of Leighlin
Thereafter, he founded the monastery Wilten which he hands over Benedictine monks from the monastery of Tegernsee.
Dom Henri Quentin was a French Benedictine monk, born 7 October 1872 at Saint-Thierry, died 4 February 1935 at Rome.
In 1532, 'Hôtel-Dieu' appointed former Franciscan/Benedictine monk-turned-doctor and great Humanist François Rabelais, who would write his Gargantua and Pantagruel during his tenure here.
In the course of 1686 James II discovered that John Lightfoot had not taken the oaths when he was admitted to his master's degree at Cambridge, and he furnished with royal letters patent a Roman Catholic candidate for the degree, the Benedictine monk Alban Francis .
The Archbishop of Kananga, Martin-Léonard Bakole wa Illunga, desired the presence of Benedictine monks in the predominantly Catholic Malandji (Kananga) area.
He left radio broadcasting in 1985 to write In the Stillness Dancing: The Journey of John Main, a biography of Benedictine monk John Main, published in 1986.
Samson of Tottington (b. at Tottington, near Thetford, in 1135; d. 1211) was an English Benedictine monk who became Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds.
Saint Sigfrid (Sigfried, Siegfrid, Siegfried, Sigfridus, Sigurd) (Glastonbury, England, – Växjö, 1045) was a Benedictine monk and bishop in Sweden; he converted king Olof Skötkonung in 1008.
Oddr Snorrason, Latin royal biography attributed to a 12th-century Icelandic Benedictine monk at the Þingeyrar monastery (Þingeyrarklaustur)
St. Ansgar is named for the patron saint of Scandinavia, a French Benedictine monk who Christianized much of Denmark, Sweden, and northern Germany between 830 and 865 A.D. The town is the site of a pioneer Norwegian Lutheran Church founded in December 1853 by Rev. Claus Lauritz Clausen, a Dane who was commissioned by the Lutheran Church of Norway to form congregations for Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
Designated a "city" in 1851, Victoria also features an abbey (Abadía Los Monjes del Niño Dios), founded by Benedictine monks who arrived in 1899.
Orderic Vitalis (1075–c. 1142), English chronicler and Benedictine monk
Around 700 AD St. Willibrord (657 – 739 AD) a Benedictine Monk from Northumbria (Great Britain) brought Christianity to Waxweiler (see also Echternach Dancing Procession) and at that time the Church was founded in the town.
He probably studied at the cathedral school in Reims, though some have argued it was at Laon, prior to his profession as a Benedictine monk.
William of Ramsey, 13th-century English Benedictine monk of Croyland Abbey
Willigis Jäger (born 7 March 1925 in Hösbach) is a German Benedictine monk, mystic, and Zen master, who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition (being given the Japanese name Koun-ken) until 2009, and then continued his own sangha independently.
Gregorius Thomas Ziegler (1770–1852), a Benedictine monk and bishop of Linz