Former Protestants or ex-Protestants are people who used to be Protestant for some time, but no longer identify as such. This is a list of people who were, but no longer are, followers of Protestant churches. It is organized by what church they left; when applicable, the religion they joined is mentioned. As implied it is limited to those who left Protestantism for a non-Protestant faith and so does not include those who switched from one Protestant denomination to another.

Baptists

  • Ahuva Gray – former Baptist minister, who converted to Orthodox Judaism.[4][5]
  • Keith Ham (a.k.a. Swami Kirtanananda; 1937–) – son of a fundamentalist Baptist pastor, Ham met ISKCON founding guru A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in New York City in 1966. After Prabhupada's death, Ham assumed leadership of ISKCON, claiming to be the sole successor to Prabhupada. He was later expelled after various criminal charges were brought against him.[6]
  • Carolivia Herron – author, convert to Judaism.[7]
  • Belinda Carlisle – lead singer of the Go-Go's, raised as Southern Baptist and converted to Buddhism.[8]
  • H. P. Lovecraft – fantasy-horror writer who rejected the practice as a teenager, and became an atheist.[9]
  • Gene Roddenberry – television producer and creator of Star Trek. Raised Southern Baptist, denounced his former faith and became a secular humanist.[10]

Calvinists

Evangelicals

Lutherans

Christina's conversion to Catholicism led to her abdication

Methodists

  • Sam Brownback – converted to Catholicism[28]
  • Richard Gere – American actor and producer, converted to Buddhism and co-founder of Tibet House US[29]
  • Kate Capshaw – converted to Judaism[30]
  • Isla Fisher – Australian actress and author, convert to Judaism
  • Capers Funnye – converted to Judaism; he is the first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, serves on the boards of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs and the American Jewish Congress of the Midwest, and is active in the Institute for Jewish and Community Research; he is also the cousin of Michelle Obama
  • John P. Greene – Methodist minister who joined the Latter Day Saint movement and became a Council of Fifty member.[31]
  • Julius Lester – son of a Methodist minister, and famous author who converted to Judaism.[7]
  • Arnold Lunn – son of minister Henry Simpson Lunn, who converted to Catholicism after initial opposition to that religion.[32]
  • Margaret Noble (1867–1911) – daughter of a minister of the Wesleyan Church in North Ireland (a branch of Methodism), she was a fervent Christian as a child, desiring to become a missionary to India. In 1895, Noble met Swami Vivekananda in London, converted to his version of Hinduism and was renamed "Sister Nivedita." Moved to India where she worked for nationalist causes and wrote several books, most notably, Kali The Mother.[33]
  • Asher Wade – ex-Methodist pastor; he converted in 1978 to Orthodox Judaism after studying the history of the holocaust.[34]
  • Earl Williams – American basketball player; converted to Judaism

Pentecostals

Presbyterians

Anglicans

See also

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