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The following is a list of people who have at one time converted to Christianity.

Important note: This list is known to include some individuals whose initial conversion experience may have since lapsed or reverted. Inclusion on this list is not necessarily an assertion that an individual continued to practice as a Christian throughout his life after his conversion.

List of notable converts to Christianity

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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.
Tamsin Greig, English convert from Judaism to Christianity
Georg Jellinek, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Paul of Tarsus, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
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Joel C. Rosenberg, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
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Mordechai Vanunu, convert from Judaism to Christianity.

Controversial

  • Bob Dylan - popular musician (While it is a generally accepted fact that Dylan converted to Christianity in the late 70's, he has never renounced his Jewish roots and appears comfortable in both Jewish and Christian contexts.)

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

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