- Abu Bakr
Abū Bakr was a senior companion of and the first Muslim ruler after Muhammad (632–634). Sunnis regard him as his rightful successor ("caliph") and the first of four righteous Caliphs ("Rashidun"). The Shi'a believe he violated Muhammad's direct orders and orchestrated a coup d'état. Scholarly consensus lists him as the first Muslim Caliph.
- Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (Arabic: يوسف إسلام, who was known as Cat Stevens from 1966 to 1978, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. Under the name "Cat Stevens," he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s.
- Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and winner of an Olympic gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by "Sports Illustrated" and the BBC. Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay.
- Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim; he also founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- Keith Ellison
Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician belonging to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He became the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress when he won the open seat for Minnesota's 5th congressional district (which contains the entire city of Minneapolis) in the House of Representatives in 2006. He is also the first African American elected to the House from Minnesota, …
- Yusuf Estes
Yusuf Estes, PhD. (born 1944), is an American convert to Islam and Chairman of "the Muslim Foundation International", a Islamic Promotional and Missionary Organization dedicated to spreading the message of al-Islam according to the Quraan, Sunnah. He was brought up in a Protestant Christian family; members of the Disciples of Christ. Estes was known then as "Skip Estes". From 1962 until 1990, he had a varied career as a music minister, preacher, …
- Ibrahim Hooper
Ibrahim Hooper (aka Doug Hooper) Bosnian American convert to Islam who is the National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based Muslim advocacy organization. During the late 80s and early 90s at KSTP-TV, Hooper, then known as "Doug" worked as a news producer in the the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis.
- Yvonne Ridley
Yvonne Ridley (born 1959, Stanley, County Durham, England) is a British journalist and Respect Party politician best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam.
- Hamza Yusuf
Hamza Yusuf Shaykh Hamza Yusuf embraced Islam in 1977. He spent several years studying in the Middle East and Africa under numerous scholars. Currently, he is the director of the Zaytuna Institute, in California, which is dedicated to the Revival of Islamic Sciences and the preservation of traditional teaching methods. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson was born in Walla Walla, Washington and raised in Northern California.
- Bilal Philips
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips is a Muslim teacher, speaker, and author
- David Hicks
David Matthew Hicks also known as Abu Muslim al-Austraili and Muhammed Dawood (born August 7, 1975) is an Australian citizen. After five years in legal limbo, he confessed in 2007 to a retroactive charge of "providing material support to terrorism." and was sentenced to 7 years jail, most of which was suspended.
- Steve Centanni
Steven James Centanni (born 1946) is an American news reporter for Fox News Channel.
- John Walker Lindh
John Phillip Walker Lindh is an American who was captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting there for the Taliban. His capture made worldwide headlines. Walker prefers to go by the name Hamza Walker Lindh today, although during his time in Afghanistan, he went by Sulayman al-Faris. He earned the nicknames Jihad Johnny and Ratboy in the same style as Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose, …
- Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine LaJaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954), is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, bass guitarist, former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.
- Brandon Mayfield
Brandon Mayfield (born July 15, 1966) is an American attorney-at-law with a practice in Washington County, Oregon best known for being erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings. On May 6 2004, the FBI arrested Mayfield as a material witness in connection with the Madrid attacks and held him for over two weeks before releasing him. Mayfield was never charged, and an FBI internal review later acknowledged serious errors in their investigation.
- Suhaib Webb
Suhaib Webb is a American Islamic activist and speaker, known for his moderate views and rapport with American Muslim youth.
- Jemima Goldsmith
Jemima Khan, also known as Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (born January 30, 1974, London), ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan, is a British socialite and a UK ambassador for UNICEF.
- Gary Miller
Dr Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) is a Canadian Muslim. He is notable for being a former Christian theologian and minister who converted to Islam in 1978. Since his conversion he has been active in giving public presentations on Islam including radio and television appearances. He has also given many lectures and he is also the author of several articles and publications about the religion Islam and about the dialogue between Islam and Christianity.
- Dhiren Barot
Dhiren Barot (known under various aliases: Bilal, Abu Musa al-Hindi, Abu Eissa al-Hindi, and Issa al-Britani) (1971 -) is a convicted terrorist from the United Kingdom.
- Stephen Schwartz
Stephen (Suleiman) Schwartz (born 1948) is an American journalist, columnist and author. His background is on the political left, but now describes himself as a neoconservative. He is a practicing Muslim and vocal critic of Islamic terrorism. Schwartz is also the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.
- Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in what was then Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv in Ukraine; died 1992) was a Jew who converted to Islam.
- Ali
‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib ("'"') Approximately: March 17, 599 - February 28, 661 was an early Islamic leader, the first Shi'a Imam and the fourth and final Sunni caliph. Ali had vast influence on the developments of events during the time of the early Muslims as a military leader, close companion, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. Later, his stature as a foremost authority on the Qur'an, …
- Jeffrey Lang
Jeffrey Lang is an American mathematician, currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1981. His thesis, on Zariski surfaces, was written under the direction of William Heinzer and Piotr Blass. Lang was born in a Roman Catholic family in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Jan 30, 1954. Although he went to a Roman Catholic school, by the time Jeffrey was 18, he was an atheist.
- Khalid Yasin
Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI), an organization dedicated to the work of Da'wah. He has studied the Arabic language in Medina, Saudi Arabia and Cairo, Egypt and has had many mentors and teachers who tutored him in Islamic history and the memorization and recitation of the Qur'an.
- Ingrid Mattson
Ingrid Mattson , the recently elected president of the 43-year-old Islamic Society of North America, is the first convert, first non-immigrant and first woman to lead the largest Muslim umbrella organization on the continent. Her rise to prominence comes as more women and native-born Muslims are defining the faith, making Islam more of an American religion.
- Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson, (born June 30, 1966) is a former American world heavyweight boxing champion. To date Tyson is the youngest man to have won a boxing world heavyweight title belt. During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s Tyson was one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. Nicknamed "Iron Mike Tyson", "Kid Dynamite", and "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson adopted the Muslim name, Malik Abdul Aziz, …
- Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897 - February 25, 1975) is notable for his leadership of the Black Muslims, African-Americans, and the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. He also was an early important teacher and mentor to Malcolm X.
- Adam Yahiye Gadahn
Adam Yahiye Gadahn is an American-born English-language spokesman for the al-Qaeda organization. He is notable for his suspected appearances as "Azzam the American" (ʿAzzām al-Amrīki, عزام الأمريكي), a spokesperson in 2004-2006 videotapes which claim to be messages from Al Qaeda to the United States. In 2004, he was added to the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list. On October 11, 2006 he was removed from that list, …
- Muriel Degauque
Muriel Degauque (July 19, 1967-November 9, 2005) was a Belgian woman from Charleroi and a convert to Islam. "La Derniere Heure", a Belgian newspaper, claimed on December 1, 2005 that she was a suicide bomber in Iraq. According to Belgian authorities, a Belgian woman committed a suicide car bomb attack on November 9, 2005 against a U.S. military convoy south of Baghdad. The Belgian was the only person killed, but one American soldier was injured.
- Carlos The Jackal
Vladimir Ilich Ramírez Sánchez is a Venezuelan-born self-proclaimed leftist revolutionary and mercenary. He was given the "nom de guerre" Carlos the Jackal when he became a member of the leftist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez obtained notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters, resulting in the deaths of three people.
- Siraj Wahhaj
Siraj Wahhaj (English: Bright light; born as Jeffrey Kearse) is an African-American Muslim convert to Islam and public speaker in North America. He's the Imam of Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, New York.
- Larry Johnson
Larry Demetric Johnson (born March 14, 1969 in Dallas, Texas) is a retired American professional basketball player who spent his professional career with the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks in the NBA. He was listed as a 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) forward. Johnson played his collegiate ball at UNLV, winning the 1990 NCAA Championship title with them, was selected first overall in the 1991 NBA Draft by the Hornets, …
- Aminah Assilmi
Aminah Assilmi is the director of the International Union of Muslim Women. Her organization successfully lobbied for the Eid postage stamp. She is working on making "Eid Day" a national holiday. She speaks at college campuses and Islamic conferences. Before converting to Islam, she was a Southern Baptist and a broadcast journalist. Aminah is a renowned female scholar of Islam.
- Wadih El-Hage
Wadih el-Hage alias Abd'al Sabur alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. He and some of his codefendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
(Mohammed) Marmaduke William Pickthall, was a Western Islamic scholar, noted as a poetic translator of the Qur'an into English. A convert from Christianity to Islam, Pickthall was a novelist, esteemed by D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, and E.M. Forster, as well as a journalist, headmaster, and political and religious leader. Educated at Harrow, he was born into a comfortable middle class English family, …
- Zaid Shakir
Imam Zaid Shakir is an African-American Muslim speaker and intellectual in the United States. In 2003, he moved to Hayward, California with his family to serve as a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute where he now teaches regular courses on Arabic, Islamic Law, History, and Islamic Spirituality.
- Umar
`Umar ibn al-Khattāb (c. 584 - November 7, 644), sometimes referred by Sunni Muslims as `Umar al-Farūq ("Umar the Distinguisher (between Truth and Falsehood)"), and is regarded by them as the second of the four "Khulafā' ar-Rashīdīn" ('rightfully-guided caliphs'). also known in English as Omar or Umar, was from the Banu Adi clan of the Quraysh tribe.
- Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (30 August 1962 – 23 November 2006) was a lieutenant-colonel in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and later a Russian dissident and writer. A son of a physician, Litvinenko was schooled in Nalchik, before being drafted into the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a private. After graduating in 1985 from the Kirov Higher Command School, he became a platoon commander in an Internal Troops regiment.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 's outstanding play on the court thrust him into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1995. After 20 seasons, Kareem is the only player in NBA History to win the MVP award six times and is the NBA's all-time regular season scoring leader. As president of Kareem Productions, he now spends time on his second passion, film making.
- Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (born April 10, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in Arabic, French, and English feature films. Sharif is most famous for his roles in "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia".