Raised as a Roman Catholic, by his early adulthood Bartók had become an atheist.

Raised by a communist mother and a socialist father in an austere environment, he converted at the age of 30 to the Catholic Church.

Raised a Roman Catholic, he was the son of the sexton of the village church, Friedrich Heidegger, and his wife Johanna, née Kempf.

Raised as a Catholic, at nine years old he was placed in the hands of Dominican nuns in the hope of transforming his behavior.

Raised a devout Catholic, Lamartine became a pantheist, writing Jocelyn and La Chute d ' un ange.

Raised initially at the family home in Crosby, Robinson attended a private Roman Catholic convent Boarding School in Hampshire, Farnborough Hill School.

Raised UCC, now is Catholic.

Raised as a Roman Catholic but maintaining a pro-choice stance on abortion, he stated as governor that he would not receive Communion at public church services.

Raised as a Roman Catholic he was educated at the military College of Lyons, and at the age of seventeen he entered the body-guard of Louis XVI.

Raised in Commack, New York on Long Island, he attended Catholic University before transferring to George Washington University for his B. A.

Raised in what he described as " comfortable destitution " by his deeply religious Catholic mother, whose sole support came from peddling homemade quince jelly in the streets of New York ( his mother once offered a jar of it to FDR when the President was cutting the ribbon for the Queens Midtown Tunnel, telling him, " For when you have company "), he lived at twenty-eight different addresses during his childhood due to constant evictions by landlords for non-payment of rent.

Raised as a Roman Catholic, Griffin started singing in his church choir as a boy, and by his teens was earning extra money as a church organist.

Raised as a Roman Catholic, Regis attended Kensal Rise Primary School and later, Cardinal Hinsley RC Secondary School in Harlesden.

Raised Roman Catholic, Burke later became an avowed agnostic.

Raised Catholic, Wagner attended St. Gertrude's parochial school and St. Francis Borgia Regional High School in his hometown, where he played football and basketball.

Raised agnostically, after the family spent two years in Schwerte they returned to Darmstadt where Wolff was educated at the local Roman Catholic school.

Raised as a Roman Catholic, he maintained that faith for the whole of his life.

Raised in Garden City, New York, Phillips was raised in an Irish Catholic family, the only boy out of six children.

Raised a Roman Catholic, Wilders left the church at his coming of age.

Raised as a Catholic, she found little inspiration in the church choir, and so attended predominantly African-American Baptist churches, feeling the music was " less repressed and more like a celebration of God.

Raised a Roman Catholic, his young life in Iesi revolved around religion and football.

Raised a Catholic, in 1994 he married Helen Bourke, an Irish-Australian seamstress.

Raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Brennan graduated as the all-time leading scorer at Phillipsburg Catholic High School.

Raised in a Methodist family devoid of religious pretentiousness, Grant prayed privately and was not an official member of the church.

Raised in a military family in the American Old West, MacArthur was valedictorian at the West Texas Military Academy, and First Captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated top of the class of 1903.

Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Bundy came from a wealthy family long involved in Republican politics.

Raised by an upper class family in the province of Heredia, Óscar Arias concluded his secondary schooling at the Saint Francis College in the capital city of San José.

Raised in an anarchist family that had left Spain before the Spanish Civil War, he became a key figure of the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro.

Raised in a musical family, Gann began composing at the age of 13.

Raised in Webster, New York, to a Chinese family.

Raised in a family of farmers, Turner served in the North Carolina volunteer militia during the American Revolutionary War in 1780.

Raised in Boston, Massachusetts he came from a family long involved in politics.

Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child.

Raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, his family moved to Yonkers, New York in his early teen years.

Raised in a Quaker family, White always believed that she was deserving of the same education as a man.

Raised Presbyterian, Mark is the first non-Mormon politician in the family.

Raised in Cincinnati, her family moved to Germany for several years when she was a teenager, so her father could concentrate on the European expansion of his company.

Raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Raised in Bessemer, Pennsylvania, the only son of seven children, the family moved to Pittsburgh when his father was killed in an industrial accident in 1925.

Raised by a musical family, White began playing the drums at age five through the instruction of his father.

Raised in a musical family, he learned the guqin from his father, and in 1921 became a student of Wu Jinyang.

Raised in a large family in Omemee, Ontario, Canada, Flora McCrea moved to Toronto to become a nurse at Rotherham House, a private hospital on Sherbourne street.

Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood.

Raised in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, at the age of fifteen, Eder left the home of his abusive and alcoholic adoptive family.