Buddhist Practitioners Notable in Other Fields
- Orlando Bloom, English actor (SGI Nichiren Buddhist)
- Kate Bosworth, American actress (SGI Nichiren Buddhist)
- Chow Yun-fat, Chinese actor
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer/songwriter/poet (Zen Buddhist)
- George Dvorsky, transhumanist futurist and one of directors of Humanity+. (Secular Buddhist)
- Richard Gere, American actor (Tibetan Buddhist)
- Allen Ginsberg, poet (Tibetan Buddhist)
- Herbie Hancock, American pianist and composer (SGI Nichiren Buddhist)
- Steve Jobs, American businessman and inventor (Zen Buddhist)
- k.d. lang, Canadian singer (Tibetan Buddhist)
- Jet Li, Chinese martial artist, Hollywood actor (Tibetan Buddhist)
- Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter (SGI Nichiren Buddhist)
- Kenneth Pai, Chinese-American writer
- Steven Seagal, American actor and aikido expert (Tibetan Buddhist)
- Oliver Stone, American film director
- Sharon Stone, American actress, producer, and former fashion model.
- Tina Turner, American singer-songwriter (SGI Nichiren Buddhist)
- Wong Ah Kiu – Malaysian of mixed Chinese and Malay descent
- Tiger Woods American golfer
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