United Kingdom; converted 22 December 2007, after stepping down as prime minister Andrea Bocelli: Italian tenor Cherry Boone: daughter of devoutly evangelical Christian entertainer Pat Boone; she went public about her battle with anorexia nervosa John Wilkes Booth: 19th-century actor; assassin of President Abraham Lincoln; his sister Asia Booth asserted in her 1874 memoir that Booth, baptized an Episcopalian at age 14, had become a Catholic; for the good of the Church during a notoriously anti-Catholic time in American history, Booth's conversion was not publicized Robert Bork: American jurist and unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court; converted to Catholicism in 2003; his wife was a former Catholic nun Louis Bouyer: French theologian; converted to Catholicism in 1939 Jim Bowie: American pioneer, slave smuggler and trader, and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. Bowie was baptized in San Antonio on April 28, 1828, sponsored by the alcalde (chief administrator) of the town, Juan Martín de Veramendi, and his wife, Josefa Navarro. His conversion was to take advantage of a land grant John Randal Bradburne: warden of the leper colony at Mutoko, Rhodesia and a candidate for canonization William Maziere Brady: Irish historian and journalist, formerly a Church of Ireland priest Elinor Brent-Dyer: English writer Alexander Briant: one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales John Broadhurst: formerly an Anglican bishop Heywood Broun: sportswriter, columnist, author; was converted by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen George Mackay Brown: Scottish poet, author and dramatist from the Orkney Islands Sam Brownback: Governor of Kansas Orestes Brownson: American writer Dave Brubeck: American jazz musician Elizabeth Bruenig: American journalist working as an opinion writer for The Atlantic. David-Augustin de Brueys: French theologian and dramatist Ismaël Bullialdus: French astronomer; converted from Calvinism and became a Catholic priest Andrew Burnham: formerly an Anglican bishop John Ellis Bush: American politician, forty-third Governor of Florida Thomas Byles: priest who died serving others on the RMS Titanic C Roy Campbell: South-African-born, English-based (later Portuguese-based) poet Edmund Campion: Jesuit martyr who wrote Decem Rationes, which denounced Anglicanism; one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales Alexis Carrel: French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 Rianti Cartwright: Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ; two weeks before departure to the United States to get married, Rianti left the Muslim faith to become a baptized Catholic with the name Sophia