List of patron saints by occupation and activity

A

• Adrian of Nicomedia – arms dealers, butchers, guards, soldiers
• Agatha – bakers, bellmaking, nurses
• Albertus Magnus – medical technicians, philosophers, scientists, students, natural scientists
• Alexander of Comana – charcoal-burners
• Alexius – belt makers and nurses
• Aloysius Gonzaga – Catholic students, Jesuit scholastics
• Amand – bartenders, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners,
• Ambrose of Milan – beekeepers, beggars, candle-makers, chandlers, wax-melters and refiners
• Anastasia of Sirmium – weavers, healers, martyrs, exorcists
• Anastasius the Fuller – fullers
• Andrew Kim – clergy of Korea
• Andrew the Apostle – cattlemen, butchers, farm workers; fishmongers, fishermen
• Anne – miners, mothers, equestrians, cabinet makers, homemakers, teachers, stablemen, French-Canadian voyageurs and sailors
• Ansovinus – gardeners
• Anthony Mary Claret – weavers
• Anthony of Padua – those seeking lost items or people, nomadic travelers, brush makers, women seeking a husband
• Anthony the Abbot – basket-makers, gravediggers, butchers, swineherds and motorists
• Antipas – dentists
• Apollonia – dentists
• Arnold of Soissons – brewers
• Arnulph – millers
• Augustine of Hippo – printers, brewers and theologians

  B

• Barbara – miners, artillerymen, military engineers and firefighters, Italian marines, architects, builders, foundry workers, fireworks makers, service-men of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, mathematicians, geoscientist, stonemasons
• Bartholomew the Apostle – leatherworkers, plasterers, tanners, trappers, curriers
• Basil the Great – hospital administrators
• Basilides – Italian prison officers
• Basilissa – nursing mothers
• Bede – historians and English writers
• Benedict of Nursia – farmers, farmhands, engineers, architects, Italian speleologists, students, husbandry, heraldry and officers of arms
• Bénézet – bridge-builders
• Benno – fishermen
• Bernadette of Lourdes – shepherds
• Bernard of Clairvaux – bee keepers, chandlers, advertisers, wax melters and refiners
• Bernard of Menthon – mountaineers, skiers
• Bernard of Vienne – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Bernardine of Feltre – pawnbrokers, bankers
• Bernardine of Siena – advertisers
• Bernward of Hildesheim – architects
• Blaise – veterinarians, wool combers and weavers, town criers
• Boethius – philosophy
• Bona of Pisa – flight attendants, travelers, specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims
• Botolph – travellers, sailors, farmers.
• Brendan the Navigator – sailors, navigators, mariners, seafarers, those traveling by sea
• Brigid of Ireland – dairy workers, scholars, nuns, medicine/healers

  C

• Cajetan – unemployed, gamblers, odd lot dealers, and of job seekers
• Camillus of Lellis – nurses, hospital workers
• Cassian of Imola – shorthand writers, stenographers, school teachers, parish clerks
• Catherine of Alexandria – tanners, librarians, students, philosophers, secretaries, scribes, stenographers, preachers, nurses, wheelwrights and mechanics
• Catherine of Siena – jurors, Italian nurses
• Cecilia – musicians
• Charles Borromeo – Catechists, seminarians
• Christina the Astonishing – millers, psychiatrists
• Christopher – travelers, bookbinders, gardeners, mariners, drivers, surfers, athletes, pilots
• Clare of Assisi – theatre performers, embroiderers, gilders, laundry workers, goldsmiths
• Claude – sculptors, secretaries
• Clement – marble-workers, tanners, mariners, stonecutters
• Columbanus – motorcyclists
• Cosmas – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers
• Crispin – tanners, shoemakers, cobblers, leatherworkers, curriers, saddle-makers
• Cuthbert – shepherds
• Cuthman – shepherds

  D

• Damian – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers
• Dismas – undertakers
• Dominic – astronomers, astronomy, scientists
• Dominic de la Calzada – civil engineers
• Dominic of Silos – shepherds
• Dorothea of Caesarea – florists, horticulture, brewers
• Drogo of Sebourg – coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, shepherds
• Dunstan – blacksmiths, goldsmiths, musicians, locksmiths
• Dymphna – mental health professionals, psychiatrists, therapists

  E

• Edward the Confessor – kings
• Eligius – metal-workers, jewelers, mechanics, taxi drivers, farriers, harness makers, numismatists, Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers soldiers, veterinarians, farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Elisabeth of Hungary – bakers, beggars, nursing services
• Elizabeth Seton – sailors
• Ephrem the Syrian – spiritual directors and spiritual leaders
• Erasmus of Formiae or Elmo – sailors, pyrotechnicians, steeplejacks, chimney sweeps and anyone who works at great heights
• Eustachius – hunters, trappers, firefighters

  F

• Ferdinand III – engineers
• Fiacre – gardeners, florists, herbalists, ploughboys, hosiers, pewterers, tilemakers, box-makers, taxi-drivers, drivers, gardeners, horticulturists
• Florian – firefighters, chimney sweeps
• Foillan – dentists, surgeons, truss-makers, children's nurses
• Frances of Rome – automobile drivers
• Frances Xavier Cabrini – hospital administrators, immigrants
• Francis Caracciolo – chefs
• Francis de Sales – writers/authors, journalists
• Francis of Assisi – ecologists, merchants, animal welfare, and rights workers
• Francis Xavier - missionary

  G

• Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows – students, seminarians, clerics
• Gabriel the Archangel – communications workers, postal workers, broadcasters, messengers, radio/television workers, radiologists, diplomats, ambassadors, emergency dispatchers, police dispatchers
• Gangulphus – tanners, shoemakers
• Gemma Galgani – students, pharmacists
• Genesius – actors, comedians, clowns, dancers, theatrical performers of all kinds, also attorneys, barristers, lawyers
• George – agricultural workers, archers, armourers, Boy Scouts, butchers, cavalry, soldiers, Crusaders, equestrians, horsemen, husbandry, knights, saddle makers, shepherds, Teutonic Knights
• Gerard Majella – Patron of Expectant Mothers; safe delivery
• Germaine Cousin – shepherdesses
• Gerolamo Emiliani - orphans
• Giles – beggars, spur makers
• Gottschalk – linguists, princes, translators
• Gregory the Great – teachers
• Gummarus – lumberjacks

  H

• Helen of Constantinople – archeologist
• Homobonus – businessmen, tailors, and clothworkers
• Honorius of Amiens – bakers, confectioners, bakers of altar bread, candle-makers, florists, flour merchants, oil refiners, and pastry chefs
• Hubertus – hunters, furriers
• Hunna – laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen

  I

• Ignatius of Loyola – Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Educators and Education.
• Isidore of Seville – computer scientists, software engineers, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students
• Isidore the Farmer – farmers, farmhands, husbandry, manual laborers

  J

• Jadwiga of Poland – queens
• James, son of Alphaeus – pharmacists
• James, son of Zebedee – veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists, traveler, pilgrimage
• Jerome – librarians, translators, spectacle makers
• Joan of Arc – soldiers
• John Baptist de la Salle – Christian teachers, educators
• John Berchmans – altar servers
• John Bosco – Apprentices, editors, printers/publishers
• John Gualbert – foresters
• John of Capistrano – jurists
• John of Damascus – makers of images of the crucifix
• John of God – hospital workers, nurses, booksellers
• John Regis – medical social workers
• John the Almoner – Knights Hospitaller
• John the Apostle – tanners
• John the Baptist – farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller
• John the Evangelist – editors, authors, art dealers, tanners, and theologians
• John Vianney – priests
• Joseph – cabinetmakers, carpenters, craftsmen, laborers, traveler, workers, and working people
• Joseph of Arimathea – funeral directors, tinsmiths
• Joseph of Cupertino – air travelers, aviators, astronauts, test takers, poor students
• Jude – police officers, children, hospital workers
• Julian the Hospitaller – shepherds, boatmen
• Justa and Rufina – potters

  K

• Kateri – ecologists, environmentalists, thomasites

  L

• Laura of Langley – marketeers
• Lawrence – librarians, archivists, students, tanners, cooks, comedians
• Leodegar – millers
• Lidwina – ice skaters
• Lucy – authors, cutlers, glaziers, labourers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers.
• Luke the Evangelist – doctors, surgeons, artists, painters, notaries

  M

• Macarius of Unzha, Venerable – craftsmen, merchants, travelers
• Madeleine Sophie Barat – school girls
• Magnus of Avignon – fish dealers, fishmongers
• Malo – pig-keepers
• Marcellin Champagnat – education and teachers
• Margaret of Antioch – nurses
• Martha – dieticians, cooks
• Martin of Tours – soldiers
• Mary Magdalene – tanners, hairdressers, pharmacists.
• Matthew – accountants, tax collectors, bankers, bookkeepers, joiners, custom agents, security guards, perfumers
• Matthias – carpenters, tailors
• Maturinus – comic actors, jesters, clowns, sailors, tinmen and of plumbers.
• Maurice – infantrymen
• Maurice and Lydia – dyers
• Medard – meteorologists, field workers
• Michael the Archangel – soldiers, paramedics, paratroopers, police officers, security officers

  N

• Nicholas of Myra – sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, the falsely accused, brewers, pawnbrokers and students in various cities and countries around Europe
• Nicholas of Tolentine – mariners
• Notburga – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

  O

• Our Lady of Loreto – aviators
• Our Lady of Salambao – fishermen

  P

• Pantaleon – doctors, midwives, physicians
• Patrick – engineers, paralegals
• Paul the Apostle – hospital public relations
• Peter the Apostle – popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, bridge builders, cloth makers
• Peter of Alcantara – guards
• Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – homeless and of those who serve the sick
• Philip – Special Forces, pastry chefs
• Phocas the Gardener – farmers, farmhands, gardeners, husbandry, sailors
• Phoebe the Deaconess- female deacons
• Piran – tinners, tin miners, pastie-makers, cream-clotters
• Pope Celestine V – bookbinders
• Pope John XXIII – Papal delegates

  Q

• Quentin – bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, surgeons

  R

• Raphael the Archangel – doctors, pharmacists, nurses, shepherds, matchmakers, travelers
• Raymond Nonnatus – midwives, obstetricians
• Raymond of Penyafort – medical record librarians, Canon lawyers
• Rebekah – physicists
• Regina – shepherdesses
• Reinold – Stonemasons
• René Goupil – anaesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists
• Robert Bellarmine – Catechists
• Roch – surgeons, tile-makers, second-hand dealers, gravediggers
• Rose of Lima – embroiderers, gardeners

  S

• Sebastian – soldiers, athletes
• Severus of Avranches – silk and wool makers, drapers; milliners and hatters
• Simon – tanners
• Solange – shepherdesses
• Stephen – bricklayers, casketmakers, deacons, altar servers

  T

• Tarcisius – altar servers
• Tatiana of Rome – students
• Teresa of Ávila – lace workers, chess
• Teresa of Calcutta – missionaries
• Theobald of Provins – farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, beltmakers, charcoal-burners
• Thérèse of Lisieux – florists, aviators, missionaries
• Thomas the Apostle – architects, politicians, land surveyors
• Thomas Aquinas – students, teachers, academics
• Thomas Becket – diocesan priests
• Thomas More – politicians, statesmen, lawyers, civil servants, court clerks

  U

• Urban of Langres – vine-growers, vine-dressers, gardeners, vintners, and coopers
• Ursula – archers, orphans, students

  V

• Valentine – beekeeping
• Verena – lighthouse keepers
• Veronica – laundry workers; photographers
• Vincent de Paul – volunteers
• Vincent Ferrer – builders
• Vincent of Saragossa – winemakers, vinegarmakers
• Vitus – comedians, dancers

  W

• Walstan – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Winnoc – millers
• Wolbodo – students
• Wolfgang of Regensburg – woodworkers, woodcarvers

  X

Y

• Yves – lawyers

  Z

• Zeno of Verona – fishermen
• Zita – domestic servants, waiters