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

List of people who have converted to Anglicanism

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

List of people who have converted to Anglicanism

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

List of people who have converted to Anglicanism

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