- From Christianity [edit]
 
Woods preparing for a photo shoot in 2006.
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje – famous actor of Nigerian descent[1]
- Roberto Baggio (born 1967), an Italian footballer (former Catholic)[2][3]
- Solomon Bandaranaike (1899–1959), Sri Lankan leader who converted from Christianity.[4]
- Orlando Bloom (born 1977), actor[5][6]
- Ajahn Candasiri (born 1947), Thai Buddhist nun from Scotland. (from Christianity)[7][8]
- Pema Chödrön (born 1936), Tibetan Buddhist nun from New York (from Catholic Christianity)[9]
- Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922), British scholar of the Pāli language[10]
- Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (1898–1990), religious teacher [11]
- Junius Richard Jayewardene (1906–1996), First President of Sri Lanka, and former Prime minister[12]
- Steve Jobs (1955–2011) – co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.[13][14]
- Charles R. Johnson (born 1948), Political cartoonist, novelist, and Buddhist writer who converted at 14. (from African Methodist Episcopal Church)[15]
- Irvin Kershner (1923–2010), American film director [16]
- Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), founder of Theosophical Society at New York, and first well known person to convert to Buddhism. He helped bring about a resurgence and renaissance of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
- Wayne Shorter (born 1933), saxophonist[17]
- Herman Vetterling (1849–1931), American mystic (from Swedenborgianism, but he maintained elements of Swedenborg thought after his conversion)[18][19]
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