List of converts to Catholicism
This list of converts to Catholicism lists all notable individuals who converted to the Catholic faith from another, or no, religious ideology.
Converts
A
- Greg Abbott: Governor of Texas[1]
- Creighton Abrams: US Army General; converted while commanding US forces in Vietnam
- Vladimir Abrikosov: Russian who became an Eastern-rite priest; husband to Anna Abrikosova[2]
- Anna Abrikosova: Russian convert to Eastern-rite Catholicism who was imprisoned by the Soviets[3]
- John Adams: beatified person and Catholic martyr[4]
- Mortimer J. Adler: American philosopher, educator, and popular author; converted from agnosticism, after decades of interest in Thomism[5][6]
- Afonso I of Kongo: African king; although politically motivated he became quite pious[7]
- Leo Allatius: Greek theologian[8]
- Fanny Allen: daughter of Ethan Allen; became a nun[9][10]
- Thomas William Allies: English writer[11]
- Mother Mary Alphonsa: daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, born "Rose Hawthorne"; became a nun and founder of St. Rose's Free Home for Incurable Cancer[12][13]
- Veit Amerbach: Lutheran theologian and humanist before conversion[14]
- William Henry Anderdon: English Jesuit and writer[15]
- Władysław Anders: General in the Polish Army; later a politician with the Polish government-in-exile in London[16]
- G. E. M. Anscombe: British analytical philosopher and theologian who introduced the term "consequentialism" into the English language[17]
- Francis Arinze: Nigerian Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments[18]
- Audrey Assad: American singer-songwriter and contemporary Christian music artist
- Thomas Aufield: English priest and martyr[19]
B
- Johann Christian Bach: composer; youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach[20]
- Thomas Bailey: royalist and controversialist; his father was Anglican bishop Lewis Bayly[21]
- Beryl Bainbridge: English novelist[22]
- Francis Asbury Baker: American priest, missionary, and social worker; one of the founders of the Paulist Fathers in 1858[23]
- Josephine Bakhita: Sudanese-born former slave; became a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy, living and working there for 45 years; in 2000 she was declared a saint[24]
- Banine: French writer of Azeri descent[25][26]
- Maurice Baring: English intellectual, writer, and war correspondent[27][28]
- Mark Barkworth: English Catholic priest, martyr, and beatified person[29]
- Barlaam of Seminara: involved in the Hesychast controversy as an opponent to Gregory Palamas, possibly a revert[30]
- Edwin Barnes: formerly an Anglican bishop[31]
- Joan Bartlett: foundress of the Servite Secular Institute[32]
- James Roosevelt Bayley: first bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark[33]
- Aubrey Beardsley: English illustrator and author; before his death, converted to Catholicism and renounced his erotic drawings[34]
- Francis J. Beckwith: American philosopher, Baylor University professor, and former president of the Evangelical Theological Society; technically a revert[35]
- Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil: Moroccan scholar and Roman Catholic priest[36]
- Benedict Mar Gregorios: Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum, 1955-1994[37][38]
- Peter Benenson: founder of human rights group Amnesty International[39]
- Robert Hugh Benson: English writer and theologian; son of an Archbishop of Canterbury[40]
- Elizabeth Bentley: former Soviet spy who defected to the West; was converted by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
- Bernardo the Japanese: one of the first Japanese people to visit Europe[41]
- Jiao Bingzhen: painter and astronomer[42]
- Conrad Black: Canadian-born historian, columnist, UK peer, and convicted felon for fraud; his conviction was overturned subsequently on appeal[43]
- Tony Blair: former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; converted December 22, 2007, after stepping down as prime minister[44]
- Andrea Bocelli: Italian tenor[45]
- Cherry Boone: daughter of devoutly evangelical Christian entertainer Pat Boone; she went public about her battle with anorexia nervosa[46]
- John Wilkes Booth: 19th-century actor; assassin of President Abraham Lincoln; his sister Asia Booth asserted in her 1874 memoir that Booth, baptized an Episcopalian at age 14, had become a Catholic; for the good of the Church during a notoriously anti-Catholic time in American history, Booth's conversion was not publicized[47]
- Robert Bork: American jurist and unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court; converted to Catholicism in 2003; his wife was a former Catholic nun[48]
- Louis Bouyer: French theologian; converted to Catholicism in 1939[49]
- William Maziere Brady: Irish historian and journalist, formerly a Church of Ireland priest[50][51]
- Elinor Brent-Dyer: English writer[52]
- Alexander Briant: one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[53]
- John Broadhurst: formerly an Anglican bishop[31]
- George Mackay Brown: Scottish poet, author and dramatist from the Orkney Islands[54]
- Sam Brownback: Governor of Kansas[55]
- Orestes Brownson: American writer[56][57]
- Dave Brubeck: American jazz musician[58]
- David-Augustin de Brueys: French theologian and dramatist[59]
- Ismaël Bullialdus: French astronomer; converted from Calvinism and became a Catholic priest[60]
- Andrew Burnham: formerly an Anglican bishop[31]
- John Ellis Bush: American politician, forty-third Governor of Florida[61]
- Thomas Byles: priest who died serving others on the RMS Titanic[62][63]
C
- Roy Campbell: South-African-born, English-based (later Portuguese-based) poet[64]
- Edmund Campion: Jesuit martyr who wrote Decem Rationes, which denounced Anglicanism; one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[65]
- Alexis Carrel: French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912[66]
- Rianti Cartwright: Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ; two weeks before departure to the United States to get married, Rianti left the Muslim faith to become a baptized Catholic with the name Sophia Rianti Rhiannon Cartwright[67][68]
- Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland: his conversion is disputed by some historians[69]
- Cecil Chesterton: British journalist; younger brother of G.K. Chesterton[70]
- G.K. Chesterton: British writer, journalist and essayist, known for his Christian apologetics Orthodoxy, Heretics and The Everlasting Man[71]
- Christina, Queen of Sweden: seventeenth-century monarch[72]
- Djibril Cissé: French international footballer[73][74]
- Wesley Clark: US Army General; former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO; candidate for Democratic nomination for President in 2004[75]
- Emily Coleman: American-born writer; lifelong compulsive diary keeper[76]
- Henry James Coleridge: son of John Taylor Coleridge; became a priest[77]
- James Collinson: artist who briefly went back to Anglicanism in order to marry Christina Rossetti[78]
- Constantine the African: Tunisian doctor who converted from Islam and became a Benedictine monk[79][80]
- Tim Conway: American comedian; converted to Catholicism because he said he liked the way the Church is structured
- Gary Cooper: American actor who converted to the Church late in life, saying, "that decision I made was the right one"[81]
- Frederick Copleston: English historian of philosophy and Jesuit priest[82]
- Gerty Cori: Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman, and first American woman, to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[83][84]
- Richard Crashaw: English poet; son of a staunch anti-Catholic father[85]
D
- Lorenzo Da Ponte: Italian writer and poet; converted from Judaism on his father's remarriage[86]
- Kim Dae-jung: President of South Korea, 1998-2003; 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient[87]
- Christopher Davenport: Recollect friar whose efforts to show that the Thirty-Nine Articles could be interpreted more in accordance with Catholic teaching caused controversy among fellow Catholics[88]
- Dorothy Day: social activist and pacifist; founder of the Catholic Worker movement; was raised nominally Episcopalian[89]
- David-Augustin de Brueys: French theologian[90]
- Regina Derieva: Russian poet[91]
- Alfred Döblin: German expressionist novelist, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz[92]
- Catherine Doherty: Canadian pioneer of social justice; converted from Russian Christianity[93]
- Diana Dors: actress who was once called a "wayward hussy" by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher; in the 1970s she converted to Catholicism and had a Catholic funeral[94][95]
- David Paul Drach: French Talmudic scholar and librarian of the College of Propaganda in Rome[96]
- Augusta Theodosia Drane: English writer and theologian, also known as Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D[97]
- John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, and playwright[98]
- Avery Dulles: American Jesuit theologian, professor at Fordham University;[99] son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
- Michael Dummett: British Analytic philosopher who devised the Quota Borda system[100]
- Faye Dunaway: American actress[101]
- Joseph Dutton: veteran of the American Civil War who worked with Father Damien[102]
E
- Dawn Eden: rock journalist of Jewish ethnicity; was agnostic, now a Catholic concerned with the moral values of chastity[103][104]
- Martin Eisengrein: German theologian and polemicist[105]
- Ulf Ekman: Swedish charismatic pastor and founder of the Livets Ord congregation of the Word of Faith movement in Uppsala, Sweden[106]
- Black Elk: Oglala medicine man[107]
- Veit Erbermann: German theologian and controversialist[108]
- William Everson: Beat poet whose parents were Christian Scientists; took the name Brother Antoninus in the 18 years he spent as a Dominican[109]
- Thomas Ewing: US Senator from Ohio; served as Secretary of the Treasury and first Secretary of the Interior; foster brother of William Tecumseh Sherman[110]
F
- Frederick William Faber: English theologian and hymnwriter[111]
- Lola Falana: dancer and actress who became a Catholic evangelist after converting; founded The Lambs of God Ministry[112][113]
- Leonid Feodorov: exarch of the Russian Greek Catholic Church; Gulag survivor; beatified by Pope John Paul II[114][115]
- Ronald Firbank: British novelist[116]
- Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet, of Hutton le Forest: converted and spent his last years in a monastery[117][118]
- Kasper Franck: German theologian and controversialist[119]
- Antonia Fraser: British historian, biographer and novelist; her parents converted when she was young[120]
- André Frossard: French journalist and essayist[121][122]
- Georgiana Fullerton: English novelist; converted in 1846 when she was in her 30s[123]
G
- Ivan Gagarin: Russian Jesuit and writer of aristocratic origin[124]
- Maggie Gallagher: conservative activist; a founder of the National Organization for Marriage[125]
- Edmund Gennings and John Gennings: brothers; Edmund was a priest and martyr who converted at sixteen; his death lead to John's conversion; John restored the English province of Franciscan friars[126]
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: historian; founder of the Institute of Women's Studies; wife of Eugene D. Genovese[127]
- Eugene D. Genovese: historian; was once an atheist and Marxist[128]
- Fathia Ghali: daughter of King Fuad I of Egypt and his Queen, Nazli Sabri; in 1950, both mother and daughter converted to Catholicism from Islam; the enraged king forbade them from returning to Egypt; after his death, they asked President Anwar Sadat to restore their passports, which he did
- Vladimir Ghika: Romanian nobleman who became a Catholic monsignor and political dissident[129][130]
- Richard Gilmour: bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland[131]
- Newt Gingrich: American politician; Speaker of the United States House of Representatives[132]
- Rumer Godden: English author of Black Narcissus and the 1972 Whitbread Award winner The Diddakoi; converted to Catholicism in 1968, which inspired the book In This House of Brede[133]
- John Gother: English Roman Catholic convert, priest and controversialist[134]
- John Willem Gran: former Bishop of Oslo; had been an atheist working in the film industry[135][136]
- Graham Greene: British writer whose Catholicism influenced novels like The Power and the Glory,[137] although in later life he once referred to himself as a "Catholic atheist"[138]
- Wilton Daniel Gregory: American Archbishop of Atlanta, 2005–present[139]
- Moritz Gudenus: German priest[140]
- Alec Guinness: British actor,[141] after whom the Catholic Association of Performing Arts (UK) named an award[142]
- Ruffa Gutierrez: Filipina actress, model and former beauty queen; converted from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity[143][144][145]
H
- Theodor Haecker: German writer, translator and cultural critic[146]
- Kimberly Hahn: former Presbyterian; theologian, apologist and author of many books[147]
- Scott Hahn: former Presbyterian minister; theologian, scripture scholar and author of many books[148]
- Jeffrey Hamm: British fascist leader; converted by the renegade Catholic priest Fr. Clement Russell; succeeded Oswald Mosley as head of the British Union of Fascists
- Thomas Morton Harper: Jesuit priest, philosopher, theologian and preacher[149]
- Chris Haw: theologian and author of numerous books, including From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart, which detaile his conversion away from evangelical Protestantism[150]
- Anna Haycraft: raised in Auguste Comte's atheistic "church of humanity", but became a conservative Catholic in adulthood[151]
- Carlton J. H. Hayes: American ambassador to Spain; helped found the American Catholic Historical Association; co-chair of the National Conference of Christians and Jews[152][153]
- Susan Hayward: Academy Award-winning American actress who helped found a church[154][155]
- Isaac Hecker: founder of the Paulist Fathers[156]
- Elisabeth Hesselblad: raised Lutheran; after her conversion, became a nun; beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 9, 2000; recognized by Yad Vashem in 2004 as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for her work in helping Jews during World War II[157][158]
- Dietrich von Hildebrand: German theologian[159][160]
- H.H. Holmes: Chicago serial killer portrayed in Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City; allegedly converted in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison, about a week before he was executed in 1896[161]
- Walter Hooper: trustee and literary advisor of the estate of C.S. Lewis[162]
- James Hope-Scott: English lawyer connected to the Oxford Movement[163]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins: English poet and Catholic priest[164]
- Allen Hunt: American radio personality; former Methodist pastor[165]
- E. Howard Hunt: American spy and novelist[166]
- Reinhard Hütter: American theologian[167]
I
- Laura Ingraham: American broadcaster and political commentator
- Princess Irene of the Netherlands: her conversion, related to her marrying a Carlist, became something of a national issue[168][169]
- Vyacheslav Ivanov: poet and playwright associated with Russian symbolism; received into the Catholic Church in 1926[170][171]
- Levi Silliman Ives: Episcopal Church of the USA Bishop of North Carolina[172][173]
J
- Bobby Jindal: Governor of the US state of Louisiana; converted in his teens[174]
- Gwen John: artist; Auguste Rodin's lover; after the relationship she had a religious conversion and did portraits of nuns[175]
- Abby Johnson: former Planned Parenthood clinic director; converted to Catholicism in 2011, two years after her pro-life conversion in 2009[176][177]
- Walter B. Jones: US politician; Member of the United States House of Representatives[178]
- Nirmala Joshi: Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, 1997-2009[179]
- Johannes Jørgensen: Danish writer, known for his biographies of Catholic saints[180][181]
K
- Nicholas Kao Se Tseien: world's oldest priest[182]
- Katharine, Duchess of Kent: first member of the British royal family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years[183]
- Joyce Kilmer: American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor[184][185]
- Kim Yuna: South Korean figure skater and Olympic gold medalist[186]
- Russell Kirk: American historian, moralist and figure in US Conservatism[187]
- Sister Gregory Kirkus: English Roman Catholic nun, educator, historian and archivist[188]
- Harm Klueting: priest and historian; had been Lutheran and had two children[189]
- Dean Koontz: American novelist known for thrillers and suspense; converted in college[190]
- Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning: Norwegian; had been a Lutheran professor of theology[191]
- Albert Küchler: Danish painter who became a Franciscan friar[192]
- Lawrence Kudlow: CNBC host and business columnist[193][194]
- William Kurelek: Canadian painter[195]
- Stephan Kuttner: expert in canon law[196]
- Demetrios Kydones: Byzantine theologian, writer and statesman[197]
L
- Karl Landsteiner: Austrian biologist and physician; received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1890[198]
- Joseph Lane: Territorial Governor of Oregon; first US Senator from Oregon; pro-slavery Democratic candidate for US Vice President in 1860; openly sympathetic to the Confederacy during the Civil War; studied Catholic doctrine and converted with his family in 1867[199]
- Halldór Laxness: Icelandic writer; received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; converted in 1923;[200] left the Church, but returned at the end of his life[201][202]
- Graham Leonard: former Anglican Bishop of London[203][204]
- Ignace Lepp: French psychiatrist whose parents were freethinkers; joined the Communist party at age fifteen; broke with the party in 1937 and eventually became a Catholic priest[205]
- Dilwyn Lewis: Welsh clothes designer and priest[206]
- Francis Libermann: venerated Catholic, raised in Orthodox Judaism; has been called "the second founder of the Holy Ghost Fathers"[207]
- William Lockhart: first member of the Oxford Movement to convert and become a Catholic priest[208]
- James Longstreet: Confederate general turned Republican "scalawag"[209]
- Frederick Lucas: Quaker who converted and founded The Tablet[210]
- Clare Boothe Luce: American playwright, editor, politician, and diplomat; wife of Time-Life founder Henry Luce;worked on the screenplay of the nun-themed film Come to the Stable; became a Dame of Malta[211][212]
- Arnold Lunn: skier, mountaineer, and writer; agnostic; wrote Roman Converts, which took a critical view of Catholicism and the converts to it; later converted to Catholicism due to debating with converts, and became an apologist for the faith, although he retained a few criticisms of said faith[213]
- Jean-Marie Lustiger: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005; a Cardinal
- James Patterson Lyke: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta, 1991-1992[214]
M
- Alasdair MacIntyre: virtue ethicist and moral philosopher[215]
- Gustav Mahler: Austrian composer; converted from Judaism[216]
- Enrique de Malaca: Malay slave of Ferdinand Magellan; converted to Roman Catholicism after being purchased in 1511[217][218]
- Henry Edward Manning: English Anglican clergyman who became a Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster[219]
- Gabriel Marcel: a leading Christian existentialist; his upbringing was agnostic[220]
- Jacques Maritain: French Thomist philosopher; helped form the basis for international law and human rights law in his writings; also laid the intellectual foundation for the Christian democratic movement[221]
- Tobie Matthew: Member of English Parliament who became a Catholic priest[222]
- James McAuley: Australian poet; converted in 1952[223]
- Claude McKay: bisexual Jamaican poet; went from Communist-leaning atheist to an active Catholic Christian after a stroke[224][225]
- Marshall McLuhan: Canadian philosopher of communication theory; coined the terms "the medium is the message" and "global village"; converted in 1937 after reading the works of G.K. Chesterton
- Thomas Merton: American Trappist monk and spiritual writer[226]
- Vittorio Messori: Italian journalist and writer called the "most translated Catholic writer in the world" by Sandro Magister; before his conversion in 1964 he had a "perspective as a secularist and agnostic"[227][228][229]
- Alice Meynell: poet and suffragist[230]
- Czesław Miłosz: poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat; awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature[231]
- John Brande Morris: priest, writer, student of Patristic theology, and scholar of the Syriac language[232]
- Henry Morse: one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[233]
- Malcolm Muggeridge: British journalist and author who went from agnosticism to the Catholic Church[234][235]
N
- Takashi Nagai: physician specializing in radiology; author of The Bells of Nagasaki[236]
- Bernard Nathanson: medical doctor; a founding member of NARAL; became a pro-life proponent[237]
- Patricia Neal: won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Hud[238]
- Knut Ansgar Nelson: Danish-born convert who was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm[239]
- Irène Némirovsky: author of the controversial David Golder, autobiographical Le Vin de solitude, and posthumous success Suite française[240][241][242]
- Richard John Neuhaus: priest; founder and editor of the journal First Things[243]
- John Henry Newman: English priest and cardinal, famous for his autobiographical book Apologia Pro Vita Sua in which he details his reasons for converting[244]
- Keith Newton: formerly an Anglican bishop[31]
- Donald Nicholl: British historian and theologian who has been described as "one of the most widely influential of modern Christian thinkers"[245]
- Barthold Nihus: German convert who became a bishop and controversialist[246]
- Robert Novak: American journalist and political commentator; raised Jewish, but practiced no religion for many years before converting to Catholicism in the last years of his life[247]
- Alfred Noyes: English poet, best known for "The Highwayman"; dealt with his conversion in The Unknown God; The Last Voyage, in his The Torch-Bearers trilogy, was influenced by his conversion[248][249]
O
- Frederick Oakeley: priest and author known for his translation of "Adeste Fideles" into English as "O Come, All Ye Faithful"[250][251]
- John M. Oesterreicher: Jewish convert who became a monsignor and a leading advocate of Jewish-Catholic reconciliation[252]
- William E. Orchard: liturgist, pacifist and ecumenicist; before becoming a Catholic priest he was a Protestant minister[253]
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck: German painter in the Nazarene movement of religious art[254]
P
- Coventry Patmore: English poet and critic known for The Angel in the House[255]
- Joseph Pearce: anti-Catholic and agnostic British National Front member; became a devoted Catholic writer with a series on EWTN[256][257]
- Vladimir Pecherin: Russian convert and priest whose memoirs were controversial for criticizing both the Russian government and the Catholic Church of his time[258]
- Charles Péguy: French poet, essayist, and editor; went from an agnostic humanist to a pro-Republic Catholic[259]
- Walker Percy: Laetare Medal-winning author of The Moviegoer and Love in the Ruins[260]
- Sarah Peter: American philanthropist; daughter of Ohio governor Thomas Worthington
- Johann Pistorius: German controversialist and historian[261]
- John Hungerford Pollen: wrote for The Tablet; Professor of Fine Arts at the Catholic University of Ireland[262]
- Agni Pratistha: Indonesian actress, model and former beauty queen; elected Puteri Indonesia 2006; converted to Catholicism after marriage, although initially denied rumors of conversion[263][264][265]
- Vincent Price: American actor; converted to Catholicism to marry his third wife, Australian actress Coral Browne (she became an American citizen for him); he reportedly lost interest in the faith after her death[266]
- Erik Prince: founder of Blackwater Worldwide[267]
- Augustus Pugin: English-born architect, designer and theorist of design; known for Gothic Revival architecture; advocate for reviving the Catholic Church in England[268]
R
- Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne: co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, which originally worked to convert Jewish people like himself[269]
- Marie Theodor Ratisbonne: co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion; converted before his brother[270]
- Sally Read: Eric Gregory Award-winning poet who converted to Catholicism[271]
- William Reynolds: English Roman Catholic theologian and Biblical scholar[272]
- Dewi Rezer: Indonesian model of French descent; converted to Roman Catholicism[273][274]
- Anthony Rhodes: English writer
- Paul Richardson: formerly an Anglican bishop[275]
- Knute Rockne: Norwegian-American Notre Dame football coach, 1918-1930; converted from Lutheranism
- Alban Roe: Benedictine; one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[276]
- Lila Rose: president of Live Action (an anti-abortion organization)
- Sylvester Horton Rosecrans: first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus[277]
- William Rosecrans: Sylvester's brother, a Union Army general in the American Civil War[277]
- Anthony Ross: Scottish priest who served as Rector of the University of Edinburgh from 1979 to 1982[278]
- Joseph Rovan: historian, member of the French Resistance, adviser on Franco-German relations[279]
S
- Nazli Sabri: Queen of Egypt; mother of King Farouk of Egypt
- Siegfried Sassoon: English poet, writer and soldier; converted in 1957[280]
- Joseph Saurin: French mathematician and Calvinist minister[281]
- Paul Schenck: converted from Judaism to Episcopalianism to Catholicism; currently a Catholic priest and pro-life activist[282][283]
- Heinrich Schlier: German theologian[284]
- Dutch Schultz (Arthur Flegenheimer): American mobster; converted to Catholicism during his second trial, convinced that Jesus Christ had spared him jail time; after being fatally shot by underworld rivals, he asked to see a priest and was given the last rites; his mother insisted on dressing him in a Jewish prayer shawl prior to his interment in the Catholic Gate of Heaven Cemetery
- E. F. Schumacher: economic thinker known for Small Is Beautiful; his A Guide for the Perplexed criticizes what he termed "materialistic scientism;" went from atheism to Buddhism to Catholicism[285]
- Countess of Ségur: French writer of Russian birth[286]
- John Sergeant: English priest, controversialist and theologian[287]
- Elizabeth Ann Seton: first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church[288][289]
- Frances Shand Kydd: mother of Diana, Princess of Wales[290]
- Michael Shen Fu-Tsung: Qing Dynasty bureaucrat who toured Europe; a painting of him was titled "The Chinese Convert"[291]
- Ralph Sherwin: one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[292]
- Frederick Charles Shrady: American religious artist, primarily of sculpture[293]
- Angelus Silesius: German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet[294][295]
- David Silk: formerly an Anglican bishop[31]
- Richard Simpson: literary writer and scholar; wrote a biography of Edmund Campion[296]
- Edith Sitwell: British poet and critic[297][298]
- Delia Smith: English cook and television presenter; her books A Feast for Lent and A Feast for Advent involve Catholicism[299]
- Timo Soini: politician who leads the Eurosceptic True Finns party; converted during the time of Pope John Paul II[300]
- Reinhard Sorge: expressionist playwright who went from Nietzschean to Catholic[301][302]
- Etsuro Sotoo: Japanese sculptor[303]
- Muriel Spark: Scottish novelist, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie;Penelope Fitzgerald states that Spark said that after her conversion she was better able to, "see human existence as a whole, as a novelist needs to do"[304]
- Ignatius Spencer: son of George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer; became a Passionist priest and worked for the conversion of England to the Catholic faith[305]
- Adrienne von Speyr: Swiss medical doctor and later Catholic mystic[306]
- Henri Spondanus: French jurist, historian, continuator of the Annales Ecclesiastici, and Bishop of Pamiers[307]
- Friedrich Staphylus: German theologian who drew up several opinions on reform for the Council of Trent despite not attending[308]
- Ellen Gates Starr: a founder of Hull House who became an Oblate of the Third Order of St. Benedict[309]
- Jeffrey N. Steenson: first ordinary to the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter; former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande[310]
- Edith Stein: phenomenologist philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun; declared a saint by John Paul II[311]
- Göran Stenius (fi): Swedish-Finnish writer whose Klockorna i Rom (The Bells of Rome) has been praised as a post-war religious novel[312][313]
- Nicolas Steno: pioneer in geology and anatomy who converted from Lutheranism; became a bishop, wrote spiritual works, and was beatified in 1988[314][315]
- Karl Stern: German-Canadian neurologist and psychiatrist; his book Pillar of Fire concerns his conversion[316]
- John Lawson Stoddard: divinity student who became an agnostic and "scientific humanist;" later converted to Catholicism[317]
- Sven Stolpe: Swedish convert and writer[318]
- R. J. Stove: Australian writer, editor, and composer; raised atheist as the son of David Stove[319]
- Su Xuelin: Chinese author and scholar whose semi-autobiographical novel Bitter Heart discusses her introduction to and conversion to Catholicism[320]
- Graham Sutherland: English artist who did religious art and had a fascination with Christ's crucifixion[321]
- Robert Sutton: English priest and martyr[322]
- Sophie Swetchine: Russian salon-holder and mystic[323]
T
- John B. Tabb: American poet, priest, and educator[324]
- John Michael Talbot: American Roman Catholic singer-songwriter-guitarist, once a secular musician in the group Mason Proffit[325][326]
- Allen Tate: American poet, essayist and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress[327]
- Frances Margaret Taylor: founded the Poor Servants of the Mother of God[328]
- Kateri Tekakwitha: Catholic saint informally known as "Lily of the Mohawks"[329]
- Tabaraji of Ternate: Indonesian sultan; converted to Roman Catholicism after 1534; baptised with the name Dom Manuel[330][331]
- Elliot Griffin Thomas: third bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas[332]
- John Sparrow David Thompson: first Catholic to be Prime Minister of Canada[333]
- Alice B. Toklas: American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century; had once been Gertrude Stein's lover[334]
- Meriol Trevor: British biographer, novelist and children's writer[335][336]
- Lou Tseng-Tsiang: Chinese diplomat who became Benedictine abbot and priest "Pierre-Célestin"[337][338][339]
- Hasekura Tsunenaga: Samurai and Keichō diplomat who toured Europe[340]
- Rajah Tupas: Filipino prince and son of the Rajah Humabon; converted with his family by Magellan[341][342]
- Malcolm Turnbull
- Julia Gardiner Tyler: second wife of US President John Tyler[343]
U
- Barry Ulanov: editor of Metronome magazine; a founder of the St. Thomas More Society;[344] Mary Lou Williams's godfather[345]
- Kaspar Ulenberg: theological writer and translator of the Bible who had previously been Lutheran[346]
- Sigrid Undset: Norwegian Nobel laureate who had previously been agnostic[347]
V
- Sheldon Vanauken: author of A Severe Mercy; a contributing editor of the New Oxford Review[348]
- Bill Veeck: American baseball team owner[349]
- Johann Emanuel Veith: Bohemian Roman Catholic preacher[350]
- Jean-Baptiste Ventura: Soldier, mercenary and adventurer of Jewish origin[351]
- Johannes Vermeer: Dutch Golden Age painter[352]
- Mother Veronica of the Passion: founder of the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel[353]
- Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang: politician and editor of the Catholic newspaper Das Vaterland[354]
W
- William George Ward: theologian, philosopher, lecturer in mathematics[355]
- Evelyn Waugh: English writer; his Brideshead Revisited concerns an aristocratic Catholic family[356]
- John Wayne: American actor, known for his roles in war films and Westerns; converted to the Catholic Church shortly before his death[357]
- Zacharias Werner: German poet, dramatist and preacher[358]
- Eustace White: one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales[359]
- E. T. Whittaker: English mathematician who was awarded the cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice in 1935[360]
- Ann Widdecombe: former British Conservative Party politician; novelist since 2000[361]
- Chelsea Olivia Wijaya: Indonesian actress and model; born in the Protestant religion[362]
- Oscar Wilde: Irish writer and poet; converted on his deathbed
- Mary Lou Williams: jazz pianist; after conversion, wrote and performed some religious jazz music like Black Christ of the Andes[345][363]
- Paul Williams: academic who was raised Anglican and lived as a Tibetan Buddhist for twenty years before becoming Catholic[364][365]
- Tennessee Williams: American playwright; converted in his later years as his life spiralled downwards
- Sigi Wimala: Indonesian model and actress, converted to Catholicism after marriage[366][367]
- Lord Nicholas Windsor: son of Catholic convert Katharine, Duchess of Kent; pro-life writer[368][369]
- Gene Wolfe: Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in science fiction and fantasy[370][371]
- John Woodcock: among the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales[372]
- Thomas Woods: American historian and Austrian School economist; wrote How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization[373]
- John Ching Hsiung Wu: wrote Chinese Humanism and Christian spirituality; has been called "one of China's chief lay exponents of Catholic ideas"[374]
- Wu Li: Chinese painter and poet who became one of the first Chinese Jesuit priests[375]
- John C. Wright: acience fiction author who went from atheist to Catholic;[376] wrote Chapter 1 of the book Atheist to Catholic: 11 Stories of Conversion, edited by Rebecca Vitz Cherico[377]
- John Michael Wright: portrait painter in the Baroque style[378]
X
- Xu Guangqi: Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician during the Ming Dynasty;[379] classed as one of the Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism
Z
- Israel Zolli: until converting from Judaism to Catholicism in February 1945, Zolli was the chief rabbi in Rome, Italy's Jewish community from 1940 to 1945
Former Catholics who had been converts
- Magdi Allam: converted in 2008, but left in 2013 to protest what he deemed its "globalism", "weakness", and "soft stance against Islam"[380][381]
- Margaret Anna Cusack: Anglican nun who converted to Catholicism; founded The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and later left due to conflict with a bishop; later became a critic of the Church's hierarchy[382] and the Society of Jesus;[383] her order survived in the Catholic Church
- Rod Dreher: writer and blogger; raised Methodist before converting to Catholicism; converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 2006[384]
- Henry Ford II: converted by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen; twice divorced; later ceased practicing the faith, although he received the last rites of the Catholic Church on his deathbed; his funeral was Episcopalian
- Ernest Hemingway: converted to marry his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer;[385] although he subsequently ceased practicing the faith, he did receive a Catholic funeral
- Ammon Hennacy: Christian anarchist and activist who was Roman Catholic from 1952 to 1965; his essay "On Leaving the Catholic Church" concerns his formal renunciation of the religion[386]
- David Kirk: Baptist by upbringing; converted to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1953 and became a Melkite priest in 1964; became Eastern Orthodox in 2004[387]
- Robert Lowell: a United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice; left the faith by 1951[388]
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.: author of A Canticle for Leibowitz; converted after his experiences in World War II; later renounced the faith[389][390]
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer and political theorist who apostated to Catholicism as a young man but later apostated to Calvinism in 1754[391]
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