[Mrs. Don-o]

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future." -- Oscar Wilde

Because of excerpt, I cut this list back from 50 to 13. It's hugely interesting to read the whole list: there ill be some names there that will really surprise you.

Loving Jesus!

[Alberta's Child]

One notable omission from that list is Harold Abrahams. His conversion was noteworthy because he is most renowned for his portrayal in the Academy Award winning film, Chariots of Fire, in which his Judaism and family ancestry is very much a part of his character's personality. He converted to Catholicism in the 1930s, and viewers of the movie would have had a hint of this because the scenes from his memorial service at the start and end of the movie take place in a Christian church.

[heterosupremacist]

Scott Hahn & Thomas Merton?

Yikes!

[chajin]

Dave Brubeck (1920-2012): Renowned American jazz musician. He converted in 1980; composed the Mass to Hope.

He became a Catholic after writing the Mass. He had earlier written two oratorios in the late 1960s, The Gates of Justice and The Light in the Wilderness; the latter includes a fascinating example of program music, a jazz piece in 5/4 time presenting the experience of Jesus being tempted by Satan entitled 40 Days.

[AC Beach Patrol]

A few others come to mind, and they are intellectual giants

Reknowned Oxford analytical philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe

Renowned British logician and Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University, Sir Michael Dummett

Philosopher of science, Nicholas Rescher

British writer G.K. Chesterton, whose book, The Everlasting Man, was the major influence of C.S. Lewis' conversion to Christianity.

[ml/nj]

I hope you know I mean no disrespect, but this post made me think of Carlebach's Yossele 1974. I remembered it as "Joe from Krakow," but the internet corrected me. It's a 15 minute Youe Tube audio. I hope you will listen to it. (There it says to listen to Yossele from Krakow first first. It's a 21 minute video, and I don't think this one is necessary to understand why I thought of Joe/Jossele.)

ML/NJ

[Steelfish]

Richard Neuhaus- America’s foremost Lutheran theologian, scholar, historian, and pastor on his conversion to Catholicism and then becoming a Catholic priest.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/04/how-i-became-the-catholic-i-was