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Template:Unreferencedarticle The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion. Inclusion on this list is not an assertion that an individual continued to practice Christianity throughout life after conversion. This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations.

List of notable converts to Christianity

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.

From Agnosticism or Atheism

From Buddhism

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Bảo Đại, convert from Buddhism to Christianity.

From Hinduism

From Islam

The World Christian Encyclopedia estimates that, within the United States, there may be as many as twenty thousand converts from Islam to Christianity every year. Additionally, Ahmad Al-Katani suggests in an interview on Aljazeera that in Africa, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity every year. Furthermore, although there are Christian converts in the Middle East, there are currently no definitive figures available as Christian converts are usually persecuted in this region (and may keep their conversion hidden from society), and therefore can not be reliably numbered.

Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina, a convert from Islam to Christianity.

From Judaism

The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity (which it calls "Greek Catholicism"). Some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year, — 1,000 in Austria Hungary (Galizian Poland), 1,000 in Russia (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania), 500 in Germany (Posen), and the remainder in the English world.

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Benjamin Disraeli, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Georg Jellinek, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Paul of Tarsus, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
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Mordechai Vanunu, convert from Judaism to Christianity.

From Manichaeanism

From Paganism

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Statue of baptism of Clovis I, a convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Constantine I, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
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Jomo Kenyatta, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Rollo of Normandy, convert from Paganism to Christianity.

From Rastafarianism

From Shintoism

Duleep Singh, convert from Sikhism to Christianity.

From Sikhism

From Taoism

See also

Notes and references

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  21. Alexander's Apostasy: First Steps to Jerusalem. by Brian Taylor, from the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
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  27. Robert Blake, Disraeli, 3. Norman Gash, reviewing Blake's work, argued that Benjamin's claim to Spanish ancestry could not be entirely dismissed. Norman Gash, review of Disraeli, by Robert Blake. The English Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 327. (Apr., 1968), 360-364.
  28. Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades: Revisited, Clinton Heylin, pgs. 491-520; Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Howard Sounes, pgs. 324-326, 356; The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan (2nd edition), Nigel Williamson, pgs. 112-113; Jewsweek: Bob Dylan's Unshakeable Monotheism -- Part III: The 1980s; Encyclopedia Britannica: Bob Dylan; Bob Dylan Finds His Source, from Christianity Today, Noel Paul Stookey, January 4, 1980; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
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