[A.A. Cunningham]

About the only decent well known conversion is Larry Kudlow who is a decent guy.

Hardly

Tony Snow, Robert Bork, Robert Novak, John Cardinal Newman, Laura Ingraham, Jane Wyman, Israel Zolli, Alec Guinness, John Wayne, Dave Brubeck, G.K. Chesterton, Clare Booth Luce, Sam Brownback, Gary Cooper, Francis Cardinal Arinze, Avery Cardinal Dulles, Scott Hahn, Bob Hope, Bobby Jindal, Peter Kreeft, Marcus Grodi, Jeb Bush, Norma McCorvey, Richard John Neuhaus, Linda Poindexter, Ramesh Ponnuru, Vincent Price, J. R. R. Tolkien, Bill Veeck, William Tecumseh Sherman, the Apostles, St. Paul, ad infintium.

[irishjuggler]

J. R. R. Tolkien

Technically, yes, but Tolkien's mother, Mabel, was the real "convert." When JRRT and his brother were baptized along with their mother, they were only 8 and 6, respectively.