List of converts to Hinduism from Christianity

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This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Christianity.

Name Nationality Notes Refs Image
Job Charnock British trade agent who has been controversially described as the founder of Calcutta [1]
Alice Coltrane American raised Baptist but became a follower of Satya Sai Baba; jazz pianist, organist, harpist and composer[2][3] [4]
George Sudarshan Indian physicist, professor and winner of Dirac Prize and Padma Bhusan [5]
David Frawley[6] American acharya and author on Hinduism, yoga, and Ayurveda [7]
George Harrison British musician, member of The Beatles famously associated with A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and ISKCON
Kirtanananda Swami American son of a Baptist minister; Hare Krishna guru; co-founder of the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna community
Christopher Isherwood British novelist [8]
Jomol Indian actress [9]
Lizy Indian actress [10][10][11]
Timothy Leary American Harvard professor, writer and psychologist [12]
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami American senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada [13][14][15][16][17][18]
Savitri Devi Mukherji French writer, animal rights, deep ecology and Nazism activist, syncretist of Hinduism and Nazism
Sister Nivedita Irish social worker, author, and teacher [19]
Leelawathy Ramanathan Australian writer and Hindu activist who converted upon marrying Ponnambalam Ramanathan [20]
John Levy British philosopher and translator of books on Advaita Vedanta [21]
Annie Indian actress [22]
Joseph Ritson British antiquarian and traveller [23]
Julia Roberts American actress [24]
Satyananda Stokes British farmer [25]
Bhakti Tirtha Swami American guru and disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada[26] [26]
Romapada Swami American Vaishnavia sannyasi and initiating guru [27]
Shaunaka Rishi Das Irish Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
Nayantara Indian actress and model [28]
Alfred Ford American heir to the Ford family fortune [29]

References

  1. Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art And the Prospect of India – Hermione De Almeida
  2. Jazz Musician Alice Coltrane dead at 69 News Australia – January 15, 2007
  3. Alice Coltrane; Musician, Spiritual Guru Washington Post – January 15, 2007
  4. "Da Capo companion to twentieth-century popular music", by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, p. 195, publisher = Da Capo Press
  5. Reflections on Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan 2009
  6. "Padma Awards 2015". Press Information Bureau. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  7. Religion and ethnicity The Hindu – May 27, 2003
  8. Acclaimed American Author Christopher Isherwood Adherents
  9. Actress accuses her father Times of India  April 25, 2005
  10. 1 2 asianetnews (April 18, 2011). "Lissy Priyadarshan-ON Record (Ep 2, Part 2)" via YouTube.
  11. Ltd, Asianet News Network Pvt. "Asianet News".
  12. Time to Mutate TIME – April 29, 1966
  13. Smith, Huston; Harry Oldmeadow (2004). Journeys East: 20th century Western encounters with Eastern religious traditions. Bloomington, Ind: World Wisdom. p. 272. ISBN 0-941532-57-7. Before his death Prabhupada appointed eleven American devotees as gurus.
  14. Rochford, E. Burke (1985). Hare Krishna in America. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. p. 222. ISBN 0-8135-1114-3. In the months preceding his death Srila Prabhupada appointed eleven of his closest disciples to act as initiating gurus for ISKCON
  15. Ron Rhodes (2001). Challenge of the Cults and New Religions. Zondervan. p. 179. ISBN 0-310-23217-1. Before Prabhupada died in 1977, he selected senior devotees who would continue to direct the organization.
  16. Rodney Stark (1985). Religious movements. Paragon House Publishers. p. 100. ISBN 0-913757-43-8. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, one of the eleven initiating gurus Bhaktivedanta appointed to succeed him ...
  17. Shinn ISKCON Communications Journal-1994, 2.1
  18. Hare Krishna leader visits local followers Daily Collegian, Penn State University, August 5, 1981
  19. Defying the Hindutva canon The Hindu – January 30, 2004
  20. Lady Ramanathan Passes away The Hindu – January 31, 1953
  21. Sedgwick, Mark. Against The Modern World: Traditionalism And The Secret Intellectual History Of The Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2004. 93. Print.
  22. "YouTube".
  23. Morton, Timothy, Marilyn Butler, and James Chandler. Shelley and the Revolution in Taste : The Body and the Natural World. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.
  24. Blake, Heidi (August 5, 2010). "Julia Roberts: I'm a Hindu". Daily Telegraph. London.
  25. Clymer, Kenton J. (January 1, 1990). "Samuel Evans Stokes, Mahatma Gandhi, and Indian Nationalism". Pacific Historical Review. 59 (1): 51–76. doi:10.2307/3640095. JSTOR 3640095.
  26. 1 2 "BTSwami.com".
  27. Biography on Romapada's website
  28. "Exclusive- Nayanthara is now a Hindu".
  29. Raj Nanda (December 21, 2012). "Ambarish das - Memories of Srila Prabhupada" via YouTube.
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