in Physiology or Medicine; converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1890 Joseph Lane: Territorial Governor of Oregon; first U.S. Senator from Oregon; pro-slavery Democratic candidate for US Vice President in 1860; openly sympathetic to the Confederacy during the Civil War; studied Catholic doctrine and converted with his family in 1867 John Lawe, Wisconsin Territory fur trader and land magnate. Lawe, who was of Jewish background, was baptised a Protestant, and had served as vestryman and treasurer of Wisconsin's first Episcopalian church, was reported to have made a deathbed conversion to Catholicism, and was buried in a Catholic cemetery next to his wife Thérèse. Local speculation was that the purpose of his conversion was to allow this burial. Halldór Laxness: Icelandic writer; received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; converted in 1923; left the Church, but returned at the end of his life Graham Leonard: former Anglican Bishop of London Ignace Lepp: French psychiatrist whose parents were freethinkers; joined the Communist party at age fifteen; broke with the party in 1937 and eventually became a Catholic priest Shane Leslie: Irish-born diplomat and writer. He was a first cousin of Winston Churchill Dilwyn Lewis: Welsh clothes designer and priest Li Yingshi: Ming-era Chinese military officer and a renowned mathematician, astrologer and feng shui expert, who was among the first Chinese literati to become Christian Francis Libermann: venerated Catholic, raised in Orthodox Judaism; has been called "the second founder of the Holy Ghost Fathers" Antonio Ligabue: Italian painter of Swiss birth Luca Lionello: being an atheist for 40 years, this Italian actor converted when he was part of the cast of the 2004 epic drama The Passion of the Christ, playing Judas Ischkariot William Lockhart: first member of the Oxford Movement to convert and become a Catholic priest James Longstreet: Confederate general turned Republican "scalawag" Frederick Lucas: Quaker who converted and founded The Tablet Clare Boothe Luce: American playwright, editor, politician, and diplomat; wife of Time-Life founder Henry Luce;worked on the screenplay of the nun-themed film Come to the Stable; became a Dame of Malta Arnold Lunn: skier, mountaineer, and writer; agnostic; wrote Roman Converts, which took a critical view of Catholicism and the converts to it; later converted to Catholicism due to debating with converts, and became an apologist for the faith Jean-Marie Lustiger: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005; a Cardinal James Patterson Lyke: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta, 1991-1992