List of converts to the Baháʼí Faith

This is a list of converts to the Baháʼí Faith organised by former religion.

Most of the early followers of Baháʼu'lláh came from an Islamic background.

• Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl (1844–1914) – foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States.^[1]
• Persia.^[2]
• Nabíl-i-Aʻzam (1831–1892) – Baháʼí historian and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh^[3]
• Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.^[4]
• Ibn-i-Abhar (died 1917) – appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.^[5]
• Mírzá Mahmúd (died 1927/1928) – eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.^[6]
• Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn – two brothers who were beheaded in the city of Isfahan in 1879.^[7]
• Somaya Ramadan^[8] (born 1951) – 2001 winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
• Hand of the Cause of God.^[9]

• Holocaust
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• John Ferraby (1914–1973) – British, Baháʼí Hand of the Cause
• Flora Purim (born 1942) – Brazilian jazz singer
• Ethel Jenner Rosenberg (1858–1930) – painter, the first English Baháʼí, secretary and publisher of Baháʼí books.
• Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966) – American billionaire businessman, the founder of Paylocity.

• Russell Garcia^[10] (1916–2011) – motion picture composer
• David Krummenacker^{[11][non-primary source needed]} (born 1975) – Track & Field indoor World Champion in 800m in 2003, NCAA Champion (Georgia Tech) 1997, 1998
• Jacqueline Left Hand Bull^[12] (born 1943) – American Indian Health care policy administrator (from Catholicism)^[13]
• Queen of Romania as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania
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• Methodist
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• Luke McPharlin^[16] (born 1981) – Australian footballer for the Fremantle Dockers
• Julia Lynch Olin (1882–1961) – American author and Baháʼí who co-founded the New History Society in New York City.
• Anglican^[17]
  earned the title Hand of the Cause of God.
• Mason Remey^[18] (1874–1974) – prominent American Baháʼí.

• Arvid Nelson – American comic book writer, best known for Rex Mundi ^[19]
• Zhang Xin (born 1965) – Chinese businesswoman.^[20]
• David Kelly (1944–2003) – former employee of the British Ministry of Defence and a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq who was an authority on biological warfare.^[21]

• List of Baháʼís
• List of excommunicated Baháʼís

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