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=== Performance arts === * [[Parveen Babi]], Indian actress. She joined the movement in the mid-1970s together with her former boyfriend, the producer Mahesh Bhatt, and later became a devotee of philosopher [[U. G. Krishnamurti]].<ref>(17 September 2006). [https://web.archive.org/web/20220622013120/https://www.mid-day.com/news/2006/sep/143802.htm The Parveen Tapes: Now I'm alone]. ''[[MiD Day]]''. Retrieved 5 July 2011.<br />- TNN (30 August 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20120905125802/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-08-30/book-mark/27864904_1_meaning-master-deaths Parveen Babi, and the search for meaning in life]. ''[[The Times of India]]''. Retrieved 5 July 2011.</ref> * [[Mahesh Bhatt]], Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He became a sannyasin in the mid-1970s, but later left the movement and instead found spiritual companionship and guidance with U. G. Krishnamurti, whose biography he wrote in 1992.<ref>{{harvnb|Krishnamurti|Arms|Pant Bansal|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6efkbAiXKoC&pg=PR13 13]}}</ref> * [[Georg Deuter]], also known as Swami Chaitanya Hari, musician of the Rajneesh movement. He composed the music that accompanies Rajneesh's meditation recordings in Poona and later at Rajneeshpuram.<ref>{{harvnb|Menen|2002|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wdszaOG-S54C&pg=PA137 137]}}<br>- {{harvnb|Newport|1998|p=[https://archive.org/details/newagemovementbi00newp/page/478 478]}}</ref> * [[Mike Edwards (musician)|Mike Edwards]], British former member of the [[Electric Light Orchestra]], known as Swami Deva Pramada or simply Pramada.<ref>Martin Kinch (15 August 2009) [https://web.archive.org/web/20101231075252/http://cherryblossomclinic.110mb.com/miked.html The Mike Edwards Interview]. cherryblossomclinic.110mb.com. Retrieved 12 July 2011.</ref> * [[Ted Gärdestad]], Swami Sangit Upasani, Swedish singer and former tennis player. * [[Albert Mol]], Dutch actor and author.<ref name="Shaffy" /> * [[Nena]], German singer and actress. In 2009, she stated that she had become a fan of Rajneesh, his books and meditation techniques, which she had discovered a few years earlier.<ref>{{in lang|de}} (26 September 2009) [https://web.archive.org/web/20090929033503/http://www.welt.de/die-welt/vermischtes/hamburg/article4630861/Nena-bekennt-sich-als-Fan-des-Bhagwan-Gurus-Osho.html Nena bekennt sich als Fan des Bhagwan-Gurus Osho], ''[[Die Welt]]''. Retrieved 12 July 2011.</ref> * [[Ramses Shaffy]], Dutch singer and actor. He was once a heavy drinker, but stopped drinking when he joined the movement in the early 1980s and became Swami Ramses Shaffy. He later relapsed into alcoholism.<ref name="Shaffy">{{harvnb|Shupe|Bromley|1994|p=148}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|nl}} Door Ab Van Leperen, (28 September 2002) [https://web.archive.org/web/20111002125101/http://www.vn.nl/Standaard-media-pagina/RamsesShaffyAanDeVoetenVanShaffy.htm Ramses Shaffy: 'Aan de voeten van Shaffy'], ''Vrij Nederland''. Retrieved 12 July 2011.</ref> * [[Terence Stamp]], British actor. In the 1970s, he spent time at the Poona ashram, meditating and studying the teachings of Rajneesh.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography|url=https://www.satrakshita.com/osho_biography.htm|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.satrakshita.com}}</ref> * [[Kavyen Temperley]], Australian lead singer who forms part of Australian band [[Eskimo Joe]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clayton |first1=Cy |title=Greig Pickhaver returns to screens to unearth Australia's hidden history |date=25 September 2017 |url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/tv/greig-pickhaver-returns-to-screens-to-unearth-australias-hidden-history-ng-b88610216z |publisher=The West Australian |access-date=2017-09-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cubis |first1=Shane |title=Fremantle: beyond the Dockers |date=25 September 2017 |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2017/09/25/fremantle-beyond-dockers |publisher=SBS |access-date=2017-10-06}}</ref> * [[Anneke Wills]] (Ma Prem Anita), British actress most famous for her role as ''[[Doctor Who]]'' sidekick Polly.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120502165343/http://www.annekewills.co.uk/?page_id=16 About Anneke Wills]. annekewills.com. Retrieved 16 July 2011.</ref> After an initial brief visit to India in the late 1970s, Wills moved to India to stay at the Poona ashram with her son Jasper (Swami Dhyan Yogi) during the early 1980s and moved again to a sannyasin commune in California during the mid 1980s.<ref>Gill Swain (15 June 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20121023051017/http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/hard-times-of-the-first-sexy-dr-547045 Hard Times of the first sexy Dr. Who girl]. ''[[Daily Mirror]]''. Retrieved 16 July 2011.</ref>
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