| abstract | - This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Atheism.
* Steve Beren - former member of the Socialist Workers Party (United States) who became a Christian conservative politician.
* Anders Borg - Sweden's Minister for Finance.
* Julie Burchill – British journalist and feminist.
* Kirk Cameron - Actor, star of Growing Pains (former atheist)
* Whittaker Chambers – Former Communist turned conservative writer.
* Francis Collins - physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (former atheist)
* Larry Darby – Former Holocaust denier and former member of the American Atheists.
* Joy Davidman – Poet and wife of C. S. Lewis.
* André Frossard - French journalist and essayist.
* Maggie Gallagher – Conservative activist and a founder of the National Organization for Marriage.
* Bo Giertz - Swedish Confessional Lutheran Bishop, theologian, and writer (former atheist).
* Patrick Greene, former atheist activist.
* Keir Hardie – Raised atheist and became a Christian Socialist.
* Anna Haycraft - Raised in Auguste Comte's atheistic "church of humanity", but became a conservative Catholic in adulthood.
* Peter Hitchens – Journalist who went from Trotskyism to Traditionalist conservatism, and estranged brother of outspoken anti-theist and Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens.
* Paul Jones – Musician, of Manfred Mann. Previously atheist and in 1967 he argued with Cliff Richard about religion on a TV show.
* Ignace Lepp - French psychiatrist whose parents were freethinkers and who joined the Communist party at age fifteen. He broke with the party in 1937 and eventually became a Catholic priest.
* Khang Khek Leu (also known as Comrade Duch) - Cambodian director of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng detention center
* C. S. Lewis - Oxford professor and writer; well known for The Chronicles of Narnia series, and for his apologetic Mere Christianity.
* Leah Libresco - Atheist blogger, recently turned Catholic.
* Shelley Lubben - former pornographic actress, current author and Executive Director of the Pink Cross Foundation, anti-pornography activist.
* Norma McCorvey - "Jane Roe" in Roe v. Wade
* Claude McKay – Bisexual Jamaican poet who went from Communist-leaning atheist to an active Catholic Christian after a stroke.
* Alister McGrath - Biochemist and Christian theologian. Founder of 'Scientific theology' and critic of Richard Dawkins in his book Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life
* Czesław Miłosz - Nobel prize winning poet
* Nina Karin Monsen - a Norwegian moral philosopher and author who grew up in a humanist family, but later convert to Christianity through philosophic thinking.
* Crissy Moran - former pornographic actress and current anti-pornography activist.
* Lacey Mosley - Vocalist and lyricist for Alternative metal band Flyleaf.
* William J. Murray - author and son of atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair
* Bernard Nathanson Medical doctor who was a founding member of NARAL, later becoming a Pro-Life proponent.
* Marvin Olasky - former Marxist turned Christian conservative, he edits the Christian World magazine.
* Giovanni Papini – He went from pragmatic atheism to Catholicism, also a Fascist.
* Rosalind Picard – Director of the Affective computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. She was raised atheist, but converted to Christianity in her teens.
* Enoch Powell – Conservative Party (UK) member who converted to Anglicanism.
* George R. Price - Geneticist who became an Evangelical Christian and wrote about the New Testament. Later he moderated his evangelistic tendencies and switched from religious writing to working with the homeless.
* Gerald Priestland – News correspondent who discusses having once been the "school atheist" in Something Understood: An Autobiography. He became a Quaker after an emotional breakdown.
* Allan Sandage - a prolific Astronomer converted to Christianity later in his life stating that "I could not live a life full of cynicism. I chose to believe, and a peace of mind came over me."
* Dame Cicely Saunders - Templeton Prize and Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize winning nurse known for palliative care. She converted to Christianity as a young woman.
* E. F. Schumacher – Economic thinker known for Small Is Beautiful, his A Guide for the Perplexed criticizes what he termed "materialistic scientism." He went from atheism to Buddhism to Catholicism.
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Nobel Prize-winning dissident author who converted to Russian Orthodoxy.
* Edith Stein - Phenomenologist philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun; declared a saint by John Paul II.
* Peter Steele - Lead singer of Type O Negative.
* Lee Strobel - Author of The Case for Christ (former atheist)
* Allen Tate - American poet, essayist and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
* Fay Weldon - British novelist and feminist.
* Monty White - British Young Earth Creationist (former atheist)
* A. N. Wilson – Biographer and novelist who entered the theological St Stephen's House, Oxford before proclaiming himself an atheist and writing against religion. He announced his return to Christianity in 2009.
* John C. Wright - Science fiction author.
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