# List of people who have converted to Anglicanism

The following is a list of notable individuals who converted to Anglicanism from a different religion or no religion.

## Formerly Irreligious

* Phillip Blond, English political philosopher
* Karl Dallas, British journalist, folk musician, peace activist
* Tamsin Greig, British actress
* Nicky Gumbel, priest, developer of Alpha course
* Geri Halliwell, Ginger Spice, singer, songwriter, and actress
* Peter Hitchens, columnist, commentator, and journalist; brother of the anti-theist writer Christopher Hitchens
* C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher
* Alister McGrath, biochemist, historian, scientist, Christian apologist
* C. S. Lewis, Oxford professor, writer, Christian apologist
* Michael Reiss, British bioethicist, educator, journalist, and priest
* Fay Weldon, British novelist and playwright

## Formerly Buddhist

* Ivan Lee, Australian bishop
* Kanishka Raffel, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney

## Formerly Catholic

* Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
* Pete Buttigieg, American politician, U.S. Secretary of Transportation
* Miriam Byrne, Scottish priest, former Roman Catholic nun
* James Francis Byrnes, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State, governor of South Carolina
* Alice Callaghan, priest, former Roman Catholic nun
* Robert Corrigan, Irish-Canadian settler and farmer
* Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, English Reformer
* Alberto Cutié, television and radio host, priest
* Tim Dlugos, American poet
* John Donne, English poet and priest
* Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church, Dublin
* Matthew Fox, scholar, priest, former Dominican friar
* Bernard Kenny, American politician, president of the New Jersey Senate
* Joanna Manning, priest, author, feminist, former Roman Catholic nun
* Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
* Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta, Belgian Benedictine scholar, Anglican priest, former Catholic priest and monk
* Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
* Autumn Phillips, former wife of Peter Phillips
* Katharine Jefferts Schori, first woman primate in the Anglican Communion

## Formerly Hindu

* Santosh Marray, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton
* Pandita Ramabai, Indian social reformer, scholar
* Gabriel Sharma, Bishop of Viti Levu West, Fiji

## Formerly Jewish

* Robert Adley, British politician
* Michael Solomon Alexander, first Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem
* Joy Davidman, wife of C. S. Lewis; poet
* Alfred Edersheim, Biblical scholar, author
* Giles Fraser, priest
* Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Birmingham
* Ernest Oppenheimer, mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist
* Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, founder of Saint John's University, Shanghai, Bible translator
* Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli former nuclear technician, nuclear whistleblower, peace activist
* Lauren Winner, historian, scholar of religion, priest

## Formerly Mormon

* Carrie Sheffield, American columnist, broadcaster and policy analyst

## Formerly Muslim

* Parveen Babi, Indian actress, model
* Barkatullah, Archdeacon and Christian apologist
* Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, Bishop of the Diocese of Iran
* Dean Mahomed, Indian traveler, writer, surgeon, and entrepreneur
* Abdul Masih, Indian indigenous missionary, writer, and minister

## Formerly Orthodox

* Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II

## Formerly another branch of Protestantism

* T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, playwright, and critic, formerly a Unitarian
* Enmegahbowh, Native American priest and missionary
* Queen Emma of Hawaii, queen of Hawaii
* Austin Farrer, philosopher, theologian, and biblical scholar, formerly a Baptist
* Emily Ford, artist, feminist, former a Quaker
* Kim Jackson, priest, American politician, first openly LGBTQ+ state senator from Georgia, formerly a Baptist
* Don Edward Johnson, Bishop of the Diocese of West Tennessee, formerly a Baptist
* King Kamehameha IV, king of Hawaii
* Queen Liliʻuokalani, last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom
* Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, American actress, and humanitarian
* John Newton, priest, slavery abolitionist, hymnwriter, author of Amazing Grace
* Rupert Sheldrake, English biochemist, author, formerly a Methodist
* Margaret Thatcher, UK prime minister, formerly a Methodist
* Morris King Thompson, Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana, formerly a Baptist and Presbyterian

## Formerly other religions

* Samuel Ajayi Crowther, linguist, clergyman, and first African Anglican bishop in West Africa
* Thomas Davis, Mohawk war chief
* King Kyebambe III, king of Toro
* Magema Magwaza Fuze, author of the first book in the Zulu language published by a native speaker
* Manteo, Croatan tribe member, first Native American to convert to Anglicanism
* Spokane Garry, Middle Spokane tribal leader