List of Celebrity Buddhists

Naima Mora

Sarah Jessica Parker

Jennifer Lopez

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).

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Nigerian-English actor
• Jennifer Aniston, American actress, director
• Roberto Baggio, soccer (football) star for Italy
• Mario Balotelli, soccer (football) star for Italy
• Fabien Barthez, soccer (football) star for France
• Orlando Bloom, English actor
• Kate Bosworth, American actress
• David Bowie, musician, writer, actor
• Abby Brammell, American television and stage actress
• Jeff Bridges, American actor
• Jackie Chan, actor
• Tisca Chopra, Indian actress
• John Cleese, actor, writer
• Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer/songwriter/poet
• Combat Jack, hip hop music attorney and executive
• Penelope Cruz, Spanish actress and model
• Manuel De Peppe, Italian actor, musician, songwriter, producer
• Patrick Duffy, actor
• George Dvorsky, Transhumanist, futurist
• William Ford, Jr., Executive Director of the Board at Ford Motor Co.
• Boy George, British singer-songwriter
• Richard Gere, American actor
• Allen Ginsberg, poet
• Philip Glass, composer
• Herbie Hancock, musician
• Dan Harris, American journalist, anchorman Nightline news show
• 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
• Charles R. Johnson, Writer, academic, artist, philosopher, Black American literature scholar
• 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
• Naima Mora, fashion model
• 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
• Kenneth Pai, Chinese-American writer
• Sarah Jessica Parker, actress, producer
• 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
• Mehmet Scholl, soccer (football) star for Germany
• Steven Seagal, American actor and aikido expert
• Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer
• 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)
• Marcia Wallace, American actress
• Naomi Watts, British-Australian actress
• Dennis Weaver, actor
• Ming-Na Wen, Chinese American Actress
• David Woodard, American businessman
• 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
• Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress
• Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, philantropist

Buddhist politicians

• Bill Clinton, U.S. President (1993-2001)
• Colleen Hanabusa, U.S. Congresswoman (2011- ) from Hawaii
• Mazie Hirono, U.S. Congresswoman, (2007-2013) and U.S. Senator (2013- ) Democrat from Hawaii
• Hank Johnson, U.S. Congressman, (2007- ) Democrat from Georgia
• Eric Lubbock, United Kingdom, elected member of the House of Lords
• Rosa Parks, U.S. Civil Rights activist