List of Celebrity Buddhists

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).

• Roberto Baggio, soccer (football) star for Italy
• Orlando Bloom, English actor
• Kate Bosworth, American actress
• Jackie Chan, actor
• John Cleese, actor, writer
• Leonard Cohen Canadian singer/songwriter/poet
• Patrick Duffy, actor
• William Ford, Jr., Executive Director of the Board at Ford Motor Co.
• Richard Gere, American actor
• Allen Ginsberg, poet
• Philip Glass, composer
• Herbie Hancock, musician
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Steven Seagal, American actor and aikido expert
• 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)
• Naomi Watts, British-Australian actress
• Dennis Weaver, actor
• Ming-Na Wen, Chinese American Actress
• 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

Buddhist politicians

• Mazie Hirono, U.S. Congresswoman, Democrat from Hawaii
• Hank Johnson, U.S. Congressman, Democrat from Georgia
• Eric Lubbock, United Kingdom, elected member of the House of Lords