Auteur : pravoslavac
Date : 03 mars07, 23:51
Message : Venant de l'athéisme  
Ulf Ekman - pasteur suédois et fondateur de l'Église Charismatique Livets Ord ("Monde de la Vie") 
Tony Fontane - artiste populaire de la chanson dans les années 1940 et 1950 
René Girard - anthropologiste philosophique 
Zhang Guotao - ancien leader communiste chinois 
Khang Khek Leu (ou Comrade Duch) - ancien directeur cambodgien de l'infame centre de détention de Phnom Penh 
C. S. Lewis - écrivain 
Josh McDowell - écrivain 
William J. Murray - auteur et fils de l'activiste Madalyn Murray O'Hair 
Enoch Powell - politicien britannique 
George R. Price - généticien américain 
John Woo - Réalisateur 
Jane Fonda - actrice 
Blaise Pascal - mathématicien, physicien et philosophe Français 
Anne Rice - écrivain 
Maurice G. Dantec - écrivain 
Venant du bouddhisme  
Selon l'agence Asia Harvest, le christianisme fait une gigantesque percée dans le monde asiatique et particulièrement en Chine, depuis sa récente ouverture économique sur le monde  : On rapporte ainsi que près 30 000 personnes se convertissent chaque jour en Chine.
David Yonggi Cho - Leader Chrétien Coréen; Pasteur de la plus grande église du monde (Yoido Full Gospel Church). 
Bảo Đại - Dernier empereur d'Annam 
Stephen Kaung - Orateur chrétien chinois et écrivain 
Don Stephen Senanayake - activiste srilankais 
Talduwe Somarama - assassin du Premier minisre du Sri Lanka en 1959 
Charlie Soong - Missionaire chinois 
Yang Xiuqing - Leader de la rebellion Taiping 
Feng Yuxiang - seigneur de guerre durant la république de Chine 
Ling-Sheng Zhang - activiste chrétien chinois 
Venant de l'hindouisme  
Tal Brooke - apologiste chrétien 
Mariamma Chedathy - musicienne folklorique 
Bobby Jindal - homme politique américain 
Devasahayam Pillai - martyr chrétien indien du 18e siècle 
Pandita Ramabai - activiste et réformeur social indien 
Begum Samru - femme puissante du nord de l'Inde, dirige une large zone du Sardhana, en Uttar Pradesh 
Gabriel Sharma - Archevêque des îles Fidji 
 Venant de l'islam  
L'Encyclopédie universelle chrétienne estime qu'aux États-Unis, il y a sans doute plus de 20 000 conversions de l'islam vers le christianisme chaque année. De plus, Aljazeera indique qu'en Afrique, 6 millions de musulmans se convertissent au christianisme chaque année.
Hussain Andaryas - Activiste chrétien afghan 
Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky - Officier russe qui mena la première expédition militaire russe en Asie Centrale 
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Empereur de Centrafrique (du christianisme à l'islam puis retour au christianisme) 
Emir Caner - Doyen du College Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 
Ergun Caner - President du Liberty Theological Seminary à Liberty University 
Djibril Cissé - joueur de football français d'origine ivoirienne 
Nonie Darwish - écrivain indépendant 
Mark A. Gabriel - écrivain, spécialiste de l'islamisme 
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila - joueur de football américain, NFL 
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila - joueur de football américain, NFL 
Tunch Ilkin - ancie joueur de football américain, NFL 
Qadry Ismail - ancien joueur de football américain, NFL 
Raghib Ismail - ancien joueur de football américain, NFL 
Tuğçe Kazaz - Miss Turquie 2001 
Mathieu Kérékou - President du Bénin (du christianisme à l'islam puis retour au christianisme) 
Emir Kusturica - Réalisateur Serbe 
Carlos Menem - ancien président de l'Argentine 
Jeremiah Fard Muhammad - ancien ministre musulman, désormais chrétien évangéliste 
Barack Obama - Sénateur de l'Illinois 
Hamid Pourmand - ancien colonel de l'armée iranienne, désormais révérend 
Abdul Rahman Jawed - activiste afghan 
Emily Ruete - Princesse du Zanzibar et d'Oman 
Ibrahim Rugova - Premier President du Kosovo 
Salah - musicien du G-Soul 
Bilquis Sheikh - ancienne femme du ministre de l'Intérieur du Pakistan 
Walid Shoebat - auteur et ancien membre de l'OLP 
Amir Sjarifuddin - ancien 1er ministre Indonésien 
Patrick Sookhdeo - directeur de l'Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity 
Ghorban Tourani - ancien musulman iranien, désormais ministre chrétien 
George Weah - ancien joueur de football libérien (du christianisme à l'islam puis retour au christianisme) 
Saye Zerbo - ancien président du burkina fasso 
Venant du judaïsme  
L'Encyclopédie juive donne quelques statistiques sur les conversions des Juifs vers le protestantisme, le catholicisme romain, et le christianisme orthodoxe. Près de 2 000 Juifs européens se sont convertis au christianisme chaque année durant le 19e siècle.
Michael Solomon Alexander - ancien rabbin et premier archevêque de Jérusalem 
Petrus Alphonsi - médecin du roi Alphonse VI de Castile 
Saint Angelus - Saint palestinien et martyr 
Leo de Benedicto Christiano - financier du Moyen-Âge 
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky - Milliardaire russe en exil 
Otto Maria Carpeaux - crtique littéraire austro-brésilien 
Morris Cerullo - télévangeliste 
Jehuda Cresques - cartographe catalan 
Fernando de Rojas - auteur castillan de la Renaissance 
Juan de Valladolid - poète castillan de la Renaissance 
Benjamin Disraeli - Premier ministre britannique au XIXe siècle 
Bob Dylan - musicien 
Pero Ferrús - poète castillan 
Jacob Frank - réformateur du XVIIIe siècle 
Heinrich von Friedberg - juriste allemand 
Arnold Fruchtenbaum - fondateur et directeur du ministère Ariel 
Eduard Gans - juriste allemand 
Tamsin Greig - Actrice anglaise 
Joy Gresham - écrivain américain 
Fritz Haber - Prix Nobel de chimie 
Heinrich Heine - écrivain allemand 
Samuel Aba de Hongrie - 3Troisième roi de Hongrie 
Edmund Husserl - philosophe allemand, père de la phénomenologie 
Jorge Isaacs - écrivain, homme politique et soldat colombien 
Georg Jellinek - philosophe allemand 
Lawrence Kudlow - économiste 
Osip Mikhailovich Lerner - intellectuel 
Steve Levicoff - écrivain 
Jean-Marie Lustiger - Cardinal et ancien archevêque de Paris 
Friedrich Mandl - manufacturier allemand dans l'armement 
Karl Marx - Socialiste Allemand, auteur du Manifeste du Parti communiste 
Felix Mendelssohn - compositeur (1809-1847) 
Judah Monis - professeur à l'Université d'Harvard 
Bernard Nathanson - activiste 
Robert Novak - journaliste 
Harry Oppenheimer - milliardaire sud-africain 
Paul de Tarse - auteur de plusieurs versets du Nouveau Testament 
Leonid Pasternak - peintre russe 
Johannes Pfefferkorn - théologien allemand 
Friedrich Adolf Philippi - théologien allemand 
Howard Phillips - activiste; inventeur de l' U.S. Taxpayers Party 
Maria Ratisbonne - visionnaire et missionnaire 
Harry Reems - acteur porno 
Daniel Rona - théologien 
Moishe Rosen - ministre 
Joel C. Rosenberg - auteur 
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy - philosophe social 
Hans Rothfels - historien allemand 
Yitzhak Salkinsohn - traducteur hébreu 
Allan Sandage - astronome 
James R. Schlesinger - Secrétaire à la Défense aux États-Unis de 1973 à 1975 
Alfred Schnittke - compositeur russe 
Israel Shamir - écrivain et journaliste 
Helen Shapiro - chanteuse anglaise 
Aquila of Sinope - traducteur de l'Ancien Testament 
Dan Spitz - guitariste du groupe de heavy metal Anthrax 
Edith Stein - philosphe allemand 
Mordechai Vanunu - technicien nucléaire 
Rahel Varnhagen - écrivain 
Heinrich von Friedberg - juriste allemand et homme d'État 
Simone Weil - philosophe Français 
Otto Weininger - philosophe autrichien 
Richard Wurmbrand - fondateur roumain des Voix des Martyrs 
David Levy Yulee - Sénateur de Floride 
Israel Zolli - ancien rabbin de Rome 
Venant du manichéisme  
St Augustin - grand penseur 
Venant du paganisme  
Alexander Babatunde Akinyele - premier archevêque anglican de Ibadan, Nigeria 
Saint Alban - martyr chrétien 
Saint Apollonius - martyr et apologiste 
Athénagoras d'Athènes - apologiste 
Saint Barbara - martyr chrétien orthodoxe 
Saint Bavon - moine 
Borivoj I de Bohêmie - Duc de Bohême (852/853 - 888/889) 
Brigid d'Irelande - saint irlandais 
Pertinax de Byzance - archevêque de Byzance de 169 à 187 
Seru Epenisa Cakobau - chef fidjien 
Clovis I - Roi des Francs 
Commodianus - poète 
Constantin le Grand - Empereur de Rome 
Samuel Ajayi Crowther - première archevêque du Nigeria 
Saint Cyriacus - saint chrétien 
Leif Ericson - explorateur viking 
Saint Eskil - saint patron 
Saint Eustace - martyr chrétien 
Saint Florian - soldat romain et martyr 
Gaius Marius Victorinus - philosophe 
Roi Godfried - leader viking danois 
Hone Heke - Chef Maori et leader de la guerre de Nouvelle-Zélande 
Horapollon - leader de l'ancienne Égypte 
Jogaila - ancien roi de Pologne 
Saint Julius - martyr chrétien 
Reine Kaʻahumanu - femme du roi de Hawaii 
Helen Kalvak - artiste inuit du Canada 
Jomo Kenyatta - 1er Premier inistre et président du Kenya 
Vladimir I de Kiev - Grand-prince de Kiev 
Guthrum - Roi des Vikings danois 
Lactantius - auteur chrétien 
Gediminas de Lituanie - Roi de Lituanie au Moyen-Âge 
Saint Ludmila - saint et martyr orthodoxe 
Bernard Mizeki - missionnaire africain et martyr 
Justin Martyr - apologiste 
Nzinga de Ndongo et Matamba - reine de Ndongo et Matamba 
Leonard de Noblac - noble des Francs 
Rollo de Normandie - Fondateur de la province viking de Normandie 
Samson Occom - ministre mohican 
Edwin de Northumbrie - Roi de Deira et Bernicia 
Saint Pancrace - martyr 
Saint Pantaleon - martyr 
Pocahontas - célébrité indienne 
Ranavalona II - Reine de Madagascar 
Rorik - leader viking danois 
Rumwold - saint 
Sabinian de Troyes - martyr 
Joseph Shabalala - chanteur et directeur musical en Afrique du Sud 
Erling Skjalgsson - homme politique norvégien 
Cenwalh de Wessex - Roi de Wessex 
Venant du rastafarianisme  
Judy Mowatt - chanteuse Jamaïcaine 
Venant du shintoïsme  
Matsunaga Hisahide - daimyo du Japon au XVIe siècle 
Chika Honda - important défenseur/avocat des criminels en Australie 
Musashi - combattant K-1 
 Venant du sikhisme  
Duleep Singh - Maharajah de Punjab 
Gurmit Singh - acteur populaire de Singapour et comédien 
 Venant du taoïsme  
Lim Bo Seng - Combattant de la Résistance anti-japonaise durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale 
Allen Yuan - activiste chinois 
en Anglais
From Agnosticism or Atheism
Brother Andrew - Dutch Missionary, Author of "God's Smuggler" 
Kirk Cameron - Actor, star of Growing Pains 
Francis Collins - Biologist, head of the Human Genome Project. 
Marie Dähnhardt - German intellectual and wife of atheist philosopher Max Stirner 
Ulf Ekman - Swedish pastor and founder of the charismatic church Livets Ord ("Word of Life") 
Tony Fontane - popular recording artist in the 1940s and 1950s 
René Girard - philosophical anthropologist 
Joy Gresham - American writer and wife of C.S. Lewis 
Zhang Guotao - former Chinese Communist leader 
Khang Khek Leu (also known as Comrade Duch) - Cambodian director of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng detention center 
C. S. Lewis - writer 
Gabriel Marcel - French existentialist philosopher. 
Norma McCorvey - "Jane Roe" in Roe v. Wade 
Josh McDowell - Christian apologist 
Alister McGrath - Biochemist and Christian theologian. Founder of 'Scientific theology' and critic of Richard Dawkins in his book Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life 
Alfred Moisiu - First non-Muslim Albanian president. Converted to Greek Orthodoxy 
William J. Murray - author and son of atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair 
Benito Mussolini - Italian Fascist dictator. Baptized in the Roman Catholic Church in 1927 (most likely a political move, Mussolini remained personally atheistic). 
John Newton - author of Amazing Grace 
Barack Hussein Obama - United States Senator from Illinois 
Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. 
Enoch Powell - British politician 
George R. Price - American population geneticist 
Anne Rice - author of Interview with the Vampire 
Edith Stein - Phenomenologist philosopher 
Lee Strobel - Author of The Case for Christ 
Richard Wagner - German composer[citation needed] 
Keith Ward - British theologian from Oxford and theistic evolutionist. Ordained as Anglican priest. 
Monty White - British Young Earth Creationist 
 From Buddhism
David Yonggi Cho - Korean Christian leader; Senior Pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church. 
Bảo Đại - last Emperor of Vietnam 
Chiang Kai-shek - Leader of Nationalist China from late 1920s to his death. 
Stephen Kaung - Chinese Christian speaker and writer in Richmond, Virginia 
Jaruvan Maintaka - Auditor-General (Thai: ผู้ว่าการตรวจเงินแผ่นดิน) of the Kingdom of Thailand 
Don Stephen Senanayake - Sri Lankan independence activist 
Talduwe Somarama - assassin of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1959
Charlie Soong - Chinese missionary 
Yang Xiuqing - Leader of the Taiping Rebellion 
Feng Yuxiang - warlord during Republican China 
Ling-Sheng Zhang - Chinese Christian activist 
From Hinduism
Tal Brooke - Christian apologist 
Mariamma Chedathy - authority on Paraya folklore 
Bobby Jindal - American politician; Republican congressman from Louisiana 
Sister Nirmala- succeeded Mother Teresa as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997. 
Devasahayam Pillai - 18th century Christian martyr in India 
Ramesh Ponnuru- Political columnist for National Review Magazine 
Pandita Ramabai - Indian social reformer and activist 
Gabriel Sharma - Anglican Bishop in Fiji 
Michael Madhusudan Dutt - Bengali kayastha and epic poet 
Anak Agung Pandji Tisna - last king of Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia 
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.
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 Additionally, Ahmad Al-Katani suggests in an interview on Aljazeera that in Africa, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity every year.
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Sobron Aidit - Indonesian poet and writer 
Hussain Andaryas - Afghani Christian activist 
Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky - Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia (note: was converted under unknown circumstances) 
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity) 
Emir Caner - Dean of the College at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 
Ergun Caner - President of Liberty Theological Seminary at Liberty University 
Eldridge Cleaver - Mormon, former minister of the Nation of Islam 
Djibril Cissé _ french soccer player 
Nonie Darwish - freelance writer 
Mehdi Dibaj - Iranian pastor and Christian martyr 
Jeremiah Fard Muhammad - Former Nation of Islam minister, now evangelist and writer 
Mark A. Gabriel - writer on Islamic affairs 
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila - American football player 
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila - American football player 
Tunch Ilkin - former American football player 
Qadry Ismail - former American football player 
Raghib Ismail - former American football player 
Lina Joy - Malay Muslim convert to Christianity, who is fighting to have the word Islam removed from her identity card 
Alexander Kazembek - Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of Azeri origin 
Mathieu Kérékou - President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity) 
Emir Kusturica - Bosnian film director 
Carlos Menem - former President of Argentina 
Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan - last khan of Kazan Khanate 
Abdul Rahman - Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the death penalty because of foreign pressure 
Emily Ruete - Born Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman 
Begum Samru - powerful lady of north India, ruling a large area from Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh 
Walid Shoebat - author and former member of the PLO 
Amir Sjarifuddin, Indonesian freedom fighter and socialist 
Rev. Hossein Soodmand - Christian martyr, pastor of the Assemblies of God (AOG) Church in Mashad, Iran 
Patrick Sookhdeo - British Anglican canon 
Ghorban Tourani - former Iranian Sunni Muslim who became a Christian minister 
George Weah - Liberian soccer player (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity) 
Saye Zerbo - former President of Burkina Faso 
 From Judaism
The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity (which it calls "Greek Catholicism"). 
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 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.
Michael Solomon Alexander - former Rabbi and first Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem[4] 
Petrus Alphonsi - physician in ordinary to King Alfonso VI of Castile[5] 
Saint Angelus - Jerusalem saint and martyr 
Juan Alfonso de Baena - medieval Castillian troubadour[6] 
Yahia Ben Bakr - Portuguese tax collector 
Eduard Bendemann - German painter [7] 
Sir Julius Benedict - English composer [8] 
Leo de Benedicto Christiano - medieval financier[9] 
Theodor Benfey - German philologist [10] 
Boris Berezovsky - exiled Russian billionaire 
Michael Bernays - German professor of literature [11] 
Gottfried Bernhardy - German philologist and literary historian [12] 
Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church 
Ludwig Börne - German political writer and satirist[13] 
John Braham - English tenor opera star[14] 
Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach - German jurist[15] 
Otto Maria Carpeaux - Austro-Brazilian literary critic and multilingual scholar 
Morris Cerullo - televangelist 
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim - German pathologist[16] 
Isaac da Costa - Dutch language poet[17] 
Jehuda Cresques - Catalan cartographer[18] 
Ferdinand David - German virtuoso violinist and composer[19] 
Robert Debré - French pediatrician, father of Michel Debré 
Ludwig Dessoir - German actor[20] 
Benjamin Disraeli - British Prime Minister and leader of the British Conservative Party in the 19th century
Alfred Döblin - German writer 
Bob Dylan - popular musician (current religious status disputed)[22] 
Alfred Edersheim - Biblical scholar[23] 
Rachel Felix - French-Swiss theatre actress[24] 
Pero Ferrús - Castilian poet[25] 
Achille Fould - French financier and politician[26] 
Jacob Frank - 18th century Jewish reformer[27] 
Heinrich von Friedberg - German jurist and statesman[28] 
Egon Friedell - Austrian philosopher and journalist 
Ludwig Friedländer - German philologist[29] 
Arnold Fruchtenbaum - founder and director of Ariel Ministries 
Eduard Gans - German philosopher and jurist, exponent of the conservative Right Hegelians[30] 
Kathie Lee Gifford - American singer and talk show host 
Tamsin Greig - English actress[31][32] Tamsin Greig's status as a Jew is disputed (but see Who is a Jew?). 
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt - German astronomer and painter[33] 
Fritz Haber - German Nobel Prize-winning chemist 
Kurt Hahn - noted German educator 
Heinrich Heine - German writer[34] 
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle - German physician, pathologist and anatomist[35] 
Samuel Aba of Hungary - Third King of Hungary[36] 
Edmund Husserl - German philosopher, father of phenomenology 
Jorge Isaacs - Colombian writer, politician and soldier[37] 
Heinrich Jacoby - German educator[38] 
Georg Jellinek - German legal philosopher[39] 
Paul S. L. Johnson - american scholar and pastor[40] 
David Kalisch - German playwright and humorist[41] 
Felix Philipp Kanitz - Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel notes [42] 
Fritz Kohn - grandfather of Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts 
Leopold Kronecker - German mathematician and logician[43] 
Lawrence Kudlow - conservative economist and host of Kudlow & Co. on CNBC 
Hermann Lebert - German physician[44] 
Karl Lehrs - German classical scholar [45] 
Osip Mikhailovich Lerner - 19th century Russian intellectual and lawyer[46] 
Steve Levicoff - American writer and educator 
Fanny Lewald - German author[47] 
Jean-Marie Lustiger - Catholic Cardinal and former Archbishop of Paris 
Heinrich Gustav Magnus - German chemist and physicist[48] 
Ludwig Immanuel Magnus - German mathematician[49] 
Gustav Mahler - Austrian composer 
Osip Mandelstam - Russian poet 
Friedrich Mandl - German armaments manufacturer 
Heinrich Marx - Father of Karl Marx 
Felix Mendelssohn - composer (1809-1847)[50] 
Judah Monis - Harvard University Hebrew language instructor 
Edgardo Mortara - Italian Catholic priest 
Rich Nathan - Senior Pastor of the Vineyard Church of Columbus 
Bernard Nathanson - former abortionist turned pro-life activist 
Karl Friedrich Neumann - German orientalist[51] 
Robert Novak - journalist 
Harry Oppenheimer - South African billionaire 
Francis Palgrave - English historian[52] 
St. Paul - author of many New Testament epistles 
Leonid Pasternak, Russian painter, father of Boris Pasternak 
Johannes Pfefferkorn - German Christian theologian 
Friedrich Adolf Philippi - German Lutheran theologian[53] 
Howard Phillips - American conservative activist; founder of U.S. Taxpayers Party / Constitution Party 
Lorenzo Da Ponte - Italian librettist[54] 
Maria Ratisbonne - Catholic priest, visionary and missionary 
Harry Reems - US theater and adult film actor 
Astruc Remoch - proselytizer during the Spanish Inquisition 
David Ricardo - English political economist[55] 
Fernando de Rojas - Renaissance Castilian author 
Daniel Rona - Mormon theologian 
Moishe Rosen - Baptist minister 
Joel C. Rosenberg - author 
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy - Dartmouth social philosopher 
Joe Rosenthal - American photographer who took the photo of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima 
Hans Rothfels - German historian 
Anton Rubinstein - Russian pianist, composer, and conductor[56] 
Oswald Rufeisen - Carmelite monk who was denied Israeli citizenship 
Epiphanius of Salamis - Church Father and heresiologist 
Yitzhak Salkinsohn - Hebrew translator 
Allan Sandage - American astronomer 
Max Scheler - German Phenomenologist philosopher 
James R. Schlesinger - United States Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 
Alfred Schnittke - Russian composer 
Samuel Scherschewsky - Anglican Bishop of Shanghai, China 
Jay Sekulow - head of conservative legal group ACLJ 
Israel Shamir - writer and journalist 
Helen Shapiro - English singer 
Martin Eduard von Simson - German jurist and politician[57] 
Dan Spitz - lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Anthrax 
Friedrich Julius Stahl - Prussian jurist and conservative thinker[58] 
Edith Stein - German philosopher, nun 
Juan de Valladolid - Renaissance Castilian poet 
Mordechai Vanunu - Israeli nuclear technician 
Rahel Varnhagen (born Rahel Levin) - writer and saloniste[59] 
Heinrich von Friedberg - German jurist and statesman 
John von Neumann - Hungarian/American mathematician and physicist 
Simone Weil - French philosopher and mystic 
Mieczysław Weinberg - Russian composer 
Otto Weininger - Austrian philosopher 
Joseph Wolff - German missionary[60] 
Richard Wurmbrand - Romanian underground church leader; founder of Voice of the Martyrs 
Sir Moses Ximenes - 18th century English merchant[61] 
David Levy Yulee, United States Senator from Florida 
Israel Zolli - former Chief Rabbi of Rome 
The Twelve Apostles 
From Manichaeanism
St. Augustine of Hippo 
From Paganism
Aebbe the Elder - Scottish monastic founder 
Alexander Babatunde Akinyele - first Anglican Diocesan Bishop of Ibadan, Nigeria 
Saint Alban - Christian martyr 
Amphibalus - Early Roman Christian priest 
Saint Apollonius - 2nd century Christian martyr and apologist 
Charles Atangana - paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane ethnic groups in Cameroon, c. 1899 
Francis Cardinal Arinze - Nigerian Roman Catholic cardinal 
Athenagoras of Athens - early Christian apologist 
Saint Barbara - Orthodox Christian martyr 
Saint Bavo - monk during the dark ages 
Borivoj I of Bohemia - Duke of Bohemia (852/853 - 888/889) 
Brigid of Ireland - early Irish saint 
Pertinax of Byzantium - Bishop of Byzantium from 169 until his death in 187 
Seru Epenisa Cakobau - Fijian chief and warrior 
Clovis I - first king of all Franks 
Coelia Concordia - last Roman vestal virgin 
Commodianus - Latin language poet 
Constantine the Great - Emperor of Rome 
Constantine of Cornwall - 6th century King of Cornwall 
Samuel Ajayi Crowther - first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria 
Saint Cyriacus - early Christian saint 
Dionysius the Areopagite - judge of the Areopagus and early Bishop of Athens 
Raedwald of East Anglia - King of East Anglia from about AD 599 to about AD 625 
Sigeberht of East Anglia - King of East Anglia from AD 631 to 634 
Leif Ericson - Icelandic Viking explorer 
Saint Eskil - patron saint of Södermanland, Sweden 
Saint Eustace - legendary Christian martyr 
Evodius - early Bishop of Antioch 
Saint Florian - Roman soldier, patron saint of Poland, Linz, Austria, and firefighters. Catholic martyr. 
Gaius Marius Victorinus - Roman philosopher 
Gelelemend - A prominent Lenape convert to the Moravian Church. 
Sea-King Godfried - Danish Viking leader of most of Friesland between 880 and 885 
Hone Heke - Māori chief and war leader in New Zealand 
Honoratus - former Archbishop of Arles 
Horapollo - one of the last leaders of Ancient Egyptian priesthood 
Jogaila - former King of Poland 
Saint Julius the Veteran - early Christian martyr 
Queen Kaʻahumanu - Hawaiian monarch and wife of King Kamehameha I 
Helen Kalvak - Inuit artist from Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada 
Ethelbert of Kent - King of Kent 
Jomo Kenyatta - first Prime Minister and President of Kenya 
Vladimir I of Kiev - Grand Prince of Kiev 
Kuchug - Pecheneg khan who ruled during the 990s 
Guthrum the Old - King of the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw 
Lactantius - early Christian author 
Aidan of Lindisfarne - founder of the Lindisfarne monastery 
Gediminas of Lithuania - king of Lithuania in the Middle Ages 
Saint Ludmila - Orthodox Christian saint and martyr 
Bernard Mizeki - African Christian misssionary and martyr 
Justin Martyr - early Christian apologist 
Peada of Mercia 
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba - queen of Ndongo and Matamba in the 16th century 
Leonard of Noblac - Frankish noble in the court of Clovis I 
Rollo of Normandy - Founder of Viking province of Normandy 
Samson Occom - Mohegan minister 
Edwin of Northumbria - King of Deira and Bernicia 
Saint Pancras - early Christian Roman martyr 
Saint Pantaleon - early Christian martyr 
Pocahontas - Native American celebrity in 17th century London 
Polycarp - early Christian bishop 
Rabbula - early Bishop of Edessa 
Ranavalona II - Queen of Madagascar 
Rorik - Danish Viking Leader 
Rumwold - famous "infant saint" 
Sabinian of Troyes - Christian martyr 
Joseph Shabalala - lead singer, founder and musical director of Ladysmith Black Mambazo 
Erling Skjalgsson - early Norwegian political reformer 
Telerig of Bulgaria - ruler of Bulgaria, 768–777 
Uyaquk - Yupik Moravian missionary 
Cenwalh of Wessex - king of Wessex 
From Rastafarianism
Judy Mowatt - Jamaican singer 
From Shintoism
Mitsuo Fuchida - Japanese World War II fighter pilot who led the Attack on Pearl Harbor 
Matsunaga Hisahide - 16th century daimyo of Japan 
Chika Honda - famous criminal defendant in Australia 
Oda Nagamasu - brother of 17th century daimyo Oda Nobunaga 
 From Sikhism
Duleep Singh - Maharajah of Punjab (later converted back to Sikhism in 1886) 
Gurmit Singh - popular Singaporean actor and comedy performer 
Sadhu Sundar Singh - Indian Christian 
 From Taoism
Lim Bo Seng - World War II anti-Japanese Resistance fighter