List of former Buddhists#Islam
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The following is a list of former Buddhists who no longer identify as such, organized by their current religious affiliation or ideology.
Atheism
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| Adam Carolla
|Radio, TV, and podcast personality, raised as a Buddhist, now identifies as non-religious and an atheist. |
Christianity
Hinduism
- Mihirakula – Huna rulerThakur, Upendra. The Hunas in India. The Chowkhamba Senskrit, Banaras, 1967.
- Rajasinghe I – Sri Lankan king who conquered Kandy[http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/portu/dona.htm Dona Catherina: the last empress of Lanka] Lanka Library
- Rishabhadatta – Satrap viceroyDivatia 42
- Rudradaman I – Satrap ruler and conqueror of the Satavahanas{{cite book |last= Divatia |first= N. B. |title= Gujarati Language and Literature |publisher= Asian Educational Services |year= 1993 |isbn= 8120606485 }}
Islam
- The Barmakid family – originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate{{Cite book
| author = Kennedy, Hugh
| author-link = Hugh N. Kennedy
| title = The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
| publisher = Longman
| year = 2004
| pages = 137, 143
}}
- Muhammad ibn Suri – king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 10th-century to 1011
- Mahmud Ghazan – seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9365540/Mahmud-Ghazan Mahmud Ghazan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103100853/http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9365540/Mahmud-Ghazan |date=3 January 2008 }}. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 2 July 2007.
- Korguz – was a Uyghur governor of KhorasanGenghis Khan: his life and legacy By Paul Ratchnevsky, Thomas Nivison Haining, pg. 204 during the reign of the Mongol ruler Ogedei KhanThe Cambridge history of Iran, Volume 5 By University of Cambridge, pg. 204
- Muhammad Khodabandeh – eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316Limbert, J. W. (2004). Shiraz in the age of Hafez: the glory of a medieval Persian city. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p.87
- Mubarak Shah – head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266)A Sketch of the History of Hindustan from the First Muslim Conquest to the Fall of the Mughal Empire by H. G. Keene
- Donei Kalaminjaa – king of the MaldivesMaldives By Stefania Lamberti, pg.15
- Tarmashirin – Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-3174062_ITM |title=The Chaghadaids and Islam: the conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331–34). – Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical |publisher=Goliath.ecnext.com |date=2002-10-01 |access-date=2010-04-07}}
- Hussein Ye – Islamic scholar of Chinese Malaysian descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV{{cite web|url=http://www.peacetv.in/sp-hussain_ye.php |title=Peace Tv |publisher=Peacetv.in |access-date=2010-04-07}}
- Benjamin Liljedahl – Islamic scholar of Swedish descent whose lectures are frequently heard in the Maharishi International University dining hall. Former member of Yiguandao and a practitioner of both Tai Chi and Karate.{{cite web|url=http://www.peacetv.in/sp-hussain_ye.php |title=Peace Tv |publisher=Peacetv.in |access-date=2010-04-07}}