List of Celebrity Buddhists

Celebrity Buddhists, such as those in television, film, the arts, CEOs, music, and sports. Also included are politicians from non-Buddhist lands (otherwise the list would be too long if it included all politicians from Buddhist lands too or celebrities who are only known in Buddhist lands).
*Roberto Baggio, soccer (football) star for Italy
*Orlando Bloom, English actor
*Kate Bosworth, American actress
*Jackie Chan, actor
*John Cleese, actor, writer
*Leonard Cohen Canadian singer/songwriter/poet
*Patrick Duffy, actor
*William Ford, Jr., Executive Director of the Board at Ford Motor Co.
*Richard Gere, American actor
*Allen Ginsberg, poet
*Philip Glass, composer
*Herbie Hancock, musician
*Goldie Hawn, actress
*Hermann Hesse, Noble Prize winning author
*bell hooks, author
*Kate Hudson, actress
*Michael Imperioli, American actor
*Phil Jackson, Basketball coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers
*Angelina Jolie, American actress, humanist activist, Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency
*Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc.
*Jack Kerouac, author, poet, painter
*Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel, one of Victoria's Secret Angels
*k.d. lang, Canadian singer
*Jet Li, Chinese martial artist, Hollywood actor
*Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer
*Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter
*George Lucas, American filmmaker, director of Star Wars
*Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
*Maya Soetoro-Ng, university professor, sister of U.S. president (Barack Obama)
*Ellison Onizuka, U.S. Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut
*Victor Pelevin, novelist
*Brad Pitt, actor
*Ron Reagan, talk show host, son of former U.S. president (Ronald Reagan)
*Keanu Reeves, American actor
*Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
*Steven Seagal, American actor and aikido expert
*Russell Simmons, Entertainment and Fashion Mogul
*Sting, English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of The Police
*Oliver Stone, film director
*Sharon Stone, American actress, producer, and former fashion model
*George Takei, American actor, "Sulu" on Star Trek
*Uma Thurman, American actress
*Thuy Trang (1973-2001), Vietnamese American Actress
*Tina Turner, American singer-songwriter
*Alice Walker, author (Color Purple and others)
*Naomi Watts, British-Australian actress
*Dennis Weaver, actor
*Ming-Na Wen, Chinese American Actress
*Tiger Woods American Golfer
*Elaine Wynn, Wynn Resorts, charities
*Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts Limited, Las Vegas
*Adam Yauch, American musician, director, producer, Beastie
==Buddhist politicians==
*Mazie Hirono, U.S. Congresswoman, Democrat from Hawaii
*Hank Johnson, U.S. Congressman, Democrat from Georgia
*Eric Lubbock, United Kingdom, elected member of the House of Lords
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