The following is a list of former Buddhists who no longer identify as such, organized by their current religious affiliation or ideology.

• Mihirakula – Huna ruler^[17]
• Rajasinghe I – Sri Lankan king who conquered Kandy^[18]
• Rishabhadatta – Satrap viceroy^[19]
• Rudradaman I – Satrap ruler and conqueror of the Satavahanas^[20]

• The Barmakid family – originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate^[21]
• Muhammad ibn Suri – king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 10th-century to 1011
• Mahmud Ghazan – seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate^[22]
• Korguz – was a Uyghur governor of Khorasan^[23] during the reign of the Mongol ruler Ogedei Khan^[24]
• Muhammad Khodabandeh – eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316^[25]
• Mubarak Shah – head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266)^[26]
• Donei Kalaminjaa – king of the Maldives^[27]
• Tarmashirin – Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur^[28]
• Hussein Ye – Islamic scholar of Chinese Malaysian descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV^[29]
• Benjamin Liljedahl – Islamic scholar of Swedish descent whose lectures are frequently heard in the Maharishi International University dining hall. Former member of Yiguandao and a practitioner of both Tai Chi and Karate.^[30]