John Allen Chau
John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe, after illegally travelling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity. Early life Chau was born on December 18, 1991, in Scottsboro, Alabama, the third and youngest child of Lynda Adams-Chau, an organizer for Chi Alpha, and Patrick Chau, a Chinese-American psychiatrist who left China during the Cultural Revolution. Chau grew up in Vancouver, Washington and attended Vancouver Christian high school. He loved camping, hiking and travelling, and excelled at various club, charity and other extracurricular activities. He admired numerous explorers and missionaries including David Livingstone and Bruce Olson. He attended Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, where he managed the university soccer team, and graduated cum laude in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in exercise science. Before 2018, Chau had participated in missionary trips to Mexico, South Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan. He first traveled to the Andaman Islands in 2015 and 2016 as part of his missionary trips, but did not visit North Sentinel Island at that time. Contact with Sentinelese and death In 2017, Chau participated in 'boot