List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism

This is a list of notable converts to Buddhism from Hinduism.

Persons

• Balachandran Chullikkadu (born 1957), Malayalam language poet from Kerala
• Laxman Mane (born 1949), author and social worker.
• Swami Prasad Maurya, politician
• Udit Raj (born 1958), prominent Indian social activist and Buddhist polemicist
• Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963), Hindi author and translator
• Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), Siddha practitioner and leader of the Dravidian movement
• Lenin Raghuvanshi (born 1970), activist, one of the founding members of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)
• Lalai Singh Yadav (1921–1993), a social justice activist and play writer. He translated Periyar E. V. Ramasamy's The Key To Understanding True Ramayan from Tamil to Hindi as Sachi Ramayan Ki Chabi

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