List of converts to Buddhism

The following people are all converts to Buddhism.

From Atheism or Agnosticism

NameProfession/BackgroundReferences
Akshara HaasanIndian actress and model[1][2][3]
Brittney Palmer American actress [4]
Stephen BatchelorBritish author and former Tibetan Buddhist monk[5]
E. F. SchumacherGerman-British economist and author
Jorge SassiArgentine actor[6][7]
Shaila CatherineAmerican meditation teacher[8][9]
Sister UppalavannaGerman Buddhist nun and violinist[10]
Ludwig AnkenbrandGerman Buddhist teacher, journalist, and activist[11]
SangharakshitaBritish Buddhist teacher[12]

From Abrahamic religions

From Christianity

Name Former denomination Nationality Notes Refs.
Cher Armenian Apostolic Church American musician and actress [13][14][15]
Nyanatiloka Mahathera (Anton Walther Florus Gueth) Catholic Church German one of the earliest western Buddhist monks and founder of Island Hermitage [16]
Penélope Cruz Spanish actress and model [17]
Eileen Gu Anglicanism Chinese-American freestyle skier [18][19]
Anthony Lee Baptist American actor and activist [20]
Ananda Metteya (Charles Henry Allan Bennett) Catholic Church British one of the earliest western Buddhist monk and established the first Buddhist Mission in the United Kingdom [21]
Chris Evans American actor and producer [22][23]
Thomas William Rhys Davids Congregationalism British scholar of the Pāli language and founder of Pali Text Society [24]
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott Presbyterianism American military officer, lawyer and first well-known American to make a formal conversion to Buddhism [25]
Lokanatha (Salvatore Cioffi) Catholic Church Italian Theravadin Buddhist missionary monk [26]
Roberto Baggio Catholic Church Italian footballer [27][28]
Kotahene Soma Maha Thera Sri Lankan Theravadin Buddhist monk, translator and missionary [29]
Aliana Lohan American actress, singer and fashion model [30][31][32][33][34]
Alanis Morissette American singer-songwriter and musician [35]
Sophia Abrahão Brazilian model and actress [36]
Venerable Gotamī (Martina Catania) Italian bhikkuni and author [37]
Solomon Bandaranaike Anglicanism Sri Lankan former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and founder of Sri Lanka Freedom Party [38]
Melody Gardot Dutch Reformed Church American singer and model [39]
Catherine Spaak Protestantism French actress and singer [40]
Dewi Lestari Catholic Church Indonesian writer, singer-songwriter [41]
Dayenne Mesquita Brazilian actress and model [42]
Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky Russian Orthodox Church Russian poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast [43]
Helena Blavatsky Russian Orthodox Church Russian philosopher, occultist, founder of the Theosophical Society [44]
Richard Tiffany Gere Methodism American actor and producer, co-founder of Tibet House US [45]
Jimmy Barnes Protestantism Australian singer and rapper [46]
Orlando Bloom Church of England English actor and leading man in Hollywood films [47][48]
Ajahn Sumedho (Robert Karr Jackman) Episcopal Church (United States) American the one who introduced Thai Forest Tradition to the West and most senior western disciple of Ajahn Chah [49]
Ajahn Viradhammo (Vitauts Akers) Lutheranism Canadian senior western disciple of Ajahn Chah, founder & abbot of Tisarana Buddhist Monastery [50]
Ajahn Brahm Not specific English senior western disciple of Ajahn Chah and abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery [51]
Ajahn Candasiri Not specific Scottish Theravada Buddhist nun of Thai Forest Tradition and one of the senior monastics in western Buddhist circle [52][53]
Ayya Nirodha (Elizabeth Gorski) Catholic Church Austrian, later Australian Theravada Buddhist nun of Thai Forest Tradition, former Abbess of Santi Forest Monastery [54]
Tara Brach Unitarianism American psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. (IMCW) [55]
Belinda Carlisle Southern Baptist Convention American singer (the Go-Go's), songwriter [56][57]
Houn Jiyu-Kennett Church of England English Soto Zen rōshi and founder of Shasta Abbey [58]
John Daido Loori Catholic Church American Zen Buddhist rōshi, abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery [59]
Ananda Claude Dalenberg Dutch Reformed Church American Zen priest ordained by Shunryū Suzuki [60]
Michael David Zimmerman Episcopal Church (United States) American prominent attorney and former justice of the Utah Supreme Court [61]
William Oliver Stone Episcopal Church (United States) American film director, producer, and screenwriter [62]
Pema Chödrön Catholic Church American Tibetan Buddhist nun [63]
Fabian Fucan Catholic Church (Society of Jesus) Japanese writer of tracts, at first supporting Christianity and then criticizing it [64]
Ko Ye Lwin Not specific Burmese prominent musician, guitarist and peace activist [65]
Alfred Bloom Evangelicalism American professor and dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies [66]
Seungsahn Haengwon Presbyterianism Korean Seon master and the founder of Kwan Um School of Zen [67]
Junius Richard Jayewardene Not specific Sri Lankan first President of Sri Lanka and former Prime minister [68]
Steve Jobs Lutheranism American co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. [69]
Charles R. Johnson African Methodist Episcopal Church American political cartoonist, novelist and Buddhist writer [70]
Dewi Lestari Pentecostalism Indonesian singer and writer [71][72]
Tsai Chih Chung Catholic Church Taiwanese famous cartoonist, well known in both Taiwan and mainland China [73]
Leung Man-tao Chinese writer, critic and host [74]
Christine Rankin New Zealander politician and former civil servant who served as head of the Ministry of Social Development [75]
Seta Manoukian Armenian Apostolic Church Armenian Armenian painter [76]
Tina Turner Baptist Swiss singer and actress [77]
Herman Vetterling Swedenborgianism American mystic but he retained elements of Swedenborg thought after his conversion [78][79]
Michael Imperioli Catholicism American actor, writer, director, and musician [80][81]
Sam Lao Church of the East Chinese Rishi, Dalit Buddhist and New Age Scientist [82][83]
Theodor Schultze Protestantism German Civil servant, religious writer [84]
Pamela Ayo Yetunde Methodist American Pastoral counselor, hospice worker, writer and educator [85]

From Islam

From Judaism

From Indian religions

From Hinduism

From other or undetermined

Richard Gere converted to Buddhism.

See also

References

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