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			{{short description\|Notable people who converted to Islam}}
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	The following is a list of notable converts to Islam.
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	* ] - Photographer<ref> "Q: Am I right that you became a Moslem in the mid-1960s? Answer: I think it was '65 or '66."</ref>
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	* ] (Lew Alcindor) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer<ref></ref>

	* ] (Chris Jackson) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player<ref></ref>
			According to the Pew Research Center, Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion, with its population expected to increase by 70% between 2015 and 2060, compared to the global population growth of 32%.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Why Muslims Are the World's Fastest-Growing Religious Group\|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/\|website=Pew Research Center\|date=6 April 2017\|access-date=15 November 2024}}</ref> = *According to '']'', in the ] and ], up to 100,000 people converted in the last decade in each country.<ref>, ''The Jerusalem Post''. Retrieved 1 February 2013.</ref>
	* ] - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings<ref></ref>
			*According to '']'', ] has up to 4,000 a year.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3353920,00.html\|title=Germany: Sharp rise in Muslim converts\|newspaper=Ynetnews\|access-date=25 February 2010\|date=18 January 2007\|last1=Beck\|first1=Eldad}}</ref>
	* ] (Sharmon Shah) - American, from Christianity, former NFL football player<ref></ref>
			*According to '']'', about 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, mostly women.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Mistiaen\|first=Veronique\|date=11 October 2013\|title=Converting to Islam: British women on prayer, peace and prejudice\|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/islam-converts-british-women-prejudice\|access-date=26 March 2021\|website=The Guardian\|language=en}}</ref>
	* ] - Iraqi politician (deathbed conversion rumored by media)<ref> "As a supreme irony, in their obituaries for arch-secularist Michel Aflaq, the Iraqi media declared that he had experienced a deathbed conversion to Islam."</ref>
			*According to '']'', 25,000 Americans convert to Islam every year.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Wilgoren\|first=Jodi\|date=22 October 2001\|title=A NATION CHALLENGED: AMERICAN MUSLIMS; Islam Attracts Converts By the Thousand, Drawn Before and After Attacks\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/us/nation-challenged-american-muslims-islam-attracts-converts-thousand-drawn-before.html\|access-date=25 March 2021\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
	* ] - famous Swedish painter.<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. ] Academic Publishers. pg.28</ref><ref> states "He changed his name to Ivan Aguéli. Later he converted to Islam."</ref>
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	* ] - Canadian Singer/poet, from Christianity.<ref></ref><ref></ref>{{Verify source}}
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	* ] (Cassius Clay), American, from Christianity to ] to ] Islam to ],<ref></ref> SI's Sportsman of the Century
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	* ] - British soldier and ].<ref>History of the London Central Mosque and the Islamic Cultural Centre 1910-1980, A. L. Tibawi, Die Welt des Islams, New Ser., Bd. 21, Nr. 1/4 (1981), pp. 193-208</ref>
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	* ] - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for ]<ref></ref><ref></ref>
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	*] - French football player<ref></ref>
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	* ] - of ], under trial for an attempted coup as of March 9, 2006<ref></ref>
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	* ] - professor of Urdu, former chair of the ]'s Department of South Asian studies and creator of the ] fantasy world.<ref>], ''Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds'', University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1983. Reprinted in 2002.</ref>
			The following is a list of ] who ] from a different ] or ] ''(who have individual ])''. This article addresses only past professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations. Such cases are noted in their list entries. The list is categorized alphabetically with their former religious affiliation, where known.
	* ] - American, fled to ] after ] ], an Iranian ],<ref></ref> is charged with murder<ref></ref>
	* ] - Polish-Hungarian general, considered a national hero of Poland. <ref>. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. </ref>
	* ] - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963-1969), Spain (1973-1976) and Morocco (1976-1983)<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. ] Academic Publishers. pg.130</ref>
	* ] - journalist and son of former BBC Director General ], also director of ].<ref></ref>
	* ] - ] ] musician<ref> In 1948, Art told reporters he had visited Africa, where he learned polyrhythmic drumming and was introduced to Islam, taking the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.</ref>
	* ] (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] - ] convert to ] who associated with ] in ] and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in ].<ref name=TRIAL> ABC News</ref>
	* ] - American musician.<ref></ref>
	* ] - Italian ambassador; converted from Catholicism.<ref></ref>
	* ] – Comedian and television star<ref></ref>
	* ] - Controversial former head of the ]; joined the Nation of Islam<ref></ref>
	* ] and ] - two French brothers, convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists<ref></ref><ref>[http://www.liberation.fr/page.
	php?Article=217105]</ref><ref></ref>
	* ] - Belgian suicide bomber<ref>" by ], '']'' ], 2005</ref>
	*] - author of several Islamic books and former Christian minister.<ref></ref>
	], a convert to Islam, is the National Muslim Chaplain for American Muslims.<ref name="uconn">{{cite news \| publisher=Advance, ] \| date=11-17-2003 \| title=Ramadan Awareness Event Designed To Debunk Negative Images \| author=Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu \| url=http://advance.uconn.edu/2003/031117/03111715.htm}}</ref>]]
	* ] - from ] Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer<ref></ref>
	* ] - from ], Mayor of ]<ref></ref>
	* ] - ], raised ], Representative from ], first ] to be elected to ]<ref name=KE></ref>
	* ] - from Christianity, former preacher and federal prison chaplain.<ref name="uconn"/>
	* ] - ] boxer<ref></ref>
	* ] - spokesperson for Al-Qaeda; on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list<ref name=adam></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] - Saffavid commander.<ref></ref>
	* ] - from Christianity, French Author in the field of metaphysics <ref></ref>
	* ] - from Catholicism, ] official<ref></ref>
	* ] - Danish journalist and explorer; converted from Catholicism.<ref></ref>
	* ] - ] boxer<ref></ref>
	* ]- ] ] journalist, ] and terrorist supporter<ref>{{cite news \|first= \|last= \|authorlink= \|coauthors= \|title=INSIGHT \|url=http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/05/i_ins.01.html \|work= \|publisher=] \|date=], ] \|accessdate=2007-05-31 }} </ref>
	* ] (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of ] and brother of popstars ] and ].<ref></ref>
	* ] - commentator on women's issues and founder of ].<ref>''''. ]</ref>
	* ] - from Catholicism to ] to ], Islamic scholar.<ref>Keller, Nu Ha Mim. ''''.</ref>
	* ] - the American Taliban (convicted terrorist) <ref><</ref>
	* ] - participated and died in the ]<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] – ] scholar and current president of the ] (2006)<ref> Article's title says "Raised Catholic, this Muslim professor is bringing the moderate viewpoint to the world."]</ref>
	* ] – Ethiopian emperor.<ref>Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia (London: James Currey, 1991), p. 121.</ref>
	] known as the '''shoe bomber''' was a convert to ]<ref name=adam></ref>]]
	* ] - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup<ref> http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/07/31/soccer_ed3__8.php </ref>
	* ] - from Christianity, poet <ref>Moore, Abd al-Hayy. . .</ref>
	* ] - American comedian and comedy writer.<ref>. IslamOnline.net</ref>
	* ] (formerly Matthew Franklin) - from Catholicism, former boxer.<ref></ref>
	* ] - Swedish human ecologist, lecturer at ].<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. ] Academic Publishers. pg.110</ref>
	* ] (formerly Lisa Najeeb Halaby)<ref>, The Canadian Encyclopedia</ref>
	*] - physician, naturalist, and Egyptian governor.<ref></ref>
	*] - conqueror of the ].<ref>Davidson, Basil. Africa in History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.</ref>
	* ] - from Christianity, Islamic scholar and author<ref></ref>
	* ] – ] soldier, later human rights activist.<ref> </ref>
	* ] - famous translator of the ].<ref></ref>
	* ] - from Christianity, poet, ambassador & journalist.<ref></ref>
	* ] – prince of Moldavia.<ref>'''The Historians' History of the World''' by Henry Smith Williams, p. 137, published 1907</ref>
	* ] - Activist who fought for the rights of violent mentally ill patients to refuse medication, recently charged with murder<ref></ref>
	* ] - Shoe Bomber (convicted terrorist) <ref></ref>
	* ]- a French soccer player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal. <ref>http://worldcup.sportinglife.com/football/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/07/04/WORLDCUP_France_Ribery.html</ref>
	* ] - ], from ], fugitive, founder of the ] & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an ] operative<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] - American ]<ref></ref>
	*] - British writer, who lives and works in Egypt, was a former Catholic priest. <ref>. The Journal of Turkish Weekly. Retrieved June 9, 2007</ref><ref></ref>
	*] - French, former football player & trainer of a Japanese football team<ref></ref>
	* ] - Controversial American-Born Imam of ] in ], ]. Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims and has links to a suspected Al Qaeda operative ].<ref> ]- January 18,2007</ref>
	* ] - African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate ]'s drug problems.<ref>Kohn, Rachael. </ref>
	* ] - British boxer<ref></ref>
	* ] - ], from ] to ] to mainstream ], ] ] leader.<ref></ref>
	] ], raised ], Representative from ], first ] to be elected to ]<ref name=KE></ref>]]
	* ] - Former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.<ref></ref>
	* ] - from ], ] cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year.<ref></ref>
	* ] - American convert from ] to ]; head of the ].<ref></ref>

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	* ] - Journalist, Black Panther, political activist, convicted murderer <ref></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] - French noble<ref></ref>
	* ]- sentenced to ] for the ] of two fellow soldiers during the ]<ref>The Associated Press. (2003). ''CNN.com''. Retrieved November 25, 2006.</ref>
	*] - British public figure.<ref></ref>
	* ] - University lecturer, 9/11 conspiracy theorist.<ref></ref>
	*] - musician.<ref></ref>
	*] - musician.<ref></ref>
	* ] - Swedish ambassador.<ref></ref>
	* ] - banker, member of the Royal Family of Jordan.<ref></ref>
	* ] - American rapper.<ref></ref>
	* ] - ], President of ]<ref></ref>
	* ]- convicted ]- first person to be executed by ] in the ]<ref> from the ]. Retrieved ], ].</ref>
	*] - civil rights activisit.<ref></ref>

			===A===
	* ] - mother of ]<ref></ref>
	* ] - Swiss writer and scholar.<ref></ref>
	* ]- Author, Engineer and Islamic ]<ref></ref>
	*]- ] suspected ]<ref name=bbc>{{cite news\|title=Bodybuilding stuntman who turned to Islam\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2230630.stm\|publisher=]\|date=2002-09-30\|accessdate=2006-12-27}}</ref>
	*] - Jamaican raggae musician.<ref></ref>
	* ] - ], fought in ], paid ] ], author of an ] book<ref></ref>
	*] - American rapper.<ref></ref>
	* ] - Australian, girlfriend of convicted killer and drug trafficker ], arrested on March 26, 2006 for attempted murder of unnamed people<ref>http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18602182%255E903,00.html]</ref><ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
	*] - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.<ref></ref>
	*] - ] and actor<ref> </ref>
	*] - French mercenary.<ref></ref>
	*] - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.<ref></ref>
	*] - explorer and writer.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_4_45/ai_91040708</ref>
	*] - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.<ref>Dr S. M. Abdullah (Khulusi 1963, pp. 234–235).</ref>
	*] - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.<ref></ref>
	*] - sued the state of Florida for ] restrictions.<ref></ref>
	* ]- Head of "] in Europe".<ref></ref>
	* ] - British socialite, upon marrying ]<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3829383.stm</ref>
	*] - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.<ref></ref>
	*] - former NBA player.<ref></ref>
	*]- Convicted Australian terrorist<ref>Ian Munro and Penny Debelle,, ''The Age'', Fairfax, ], ]</ref>
	*] - former NBA player.<ref></ref>
	* ] (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic ], spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (])<ref></ref>
	*] - South African Jazz musician.<ref></ref>
	*] - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the ] in the ]<ref name=BBC_converts></ref>
	*] - Malaysion actress.<ref>New Sunday Times, Malaysia. "Tiara's true to her roles" (September 18, 2005)</ref>
	*] - Jazz pianist.<ref></ref>
	*] - Dutch pirate.<ref>Vrijman, L.C. Kaapvaart en zeeroverij / L.C. Vrijman. - Amsterdam, </ref>
	*] - retired American professional basketball player.<ref></ref>
	* ]- leader of the ]- converted in prison<ref>http://vypusk.kursk.ru/pic/Beslan.doc</ref>
	*] - member of the ].<ref></ref>
	* ] - advisor to ] known for his anti-Semitic polemics<ref>]'' edited by ], (], ISBN 0-13-089301-3)</ref><ref>]'' by ] (], ISBN 0-316-51959-6)</ref><ref>]: ]'s strange bedfellows; prelude to ]?'' by ] and ] (], ], ])</ref>
	*] - convicted of capital murder and arrested for the ], for being involved in 16 murders and 7 additional attempted murders.<ref>http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Lee_Boyd_Malvo.html</ref>
	*] - French general<ref>Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot. ''Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt''. p. 90.</ref>
	*] - convicted serial killer, known as the ''Beltway Sniper''<ref></ref><ref></ref>
	*] - Australian Boxer<ref>http://www.eastsideboxing.com/ade2510.html</ref>
	*] - the respondent in ] currently on trial as an alleged ] operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault<ref> </ref>
	*] (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda<ref></ref><ref></ref>
	*] - former boxing world heavyweight champion.<ref></ref>
	* ] - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after she was kidnapped, and subsequently treated respectfully, by the Taliban.<ref> , By Hannah Bayman, ''BBC News'' (online), 21 September, 2004</ref>
	*] - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.<ref></ref>
	* ] - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France<ref></ref>
	*] - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the ] in the ]<ref name=BBC_converts></ref>
	*] - American hip-hop musician.<ref></ref>
	* ] - ] politician<ref></ref>
	*] (''Malik Abdul Aziz'') - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world and convicted rapist, prior to conversion.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] (Don Stewart-White) - accused of participating in the ]<ref></ref><ref></ref>
	* ] - of the ], member of the ], convicted on charges of terrorism<ref>, the dutch foreign minister bans convicted Hofstadgroep terrorists from any financial transactions, by Rien Meijer and Bart Mos, ], ], 2006 (Dutch)</ref>
	* ]- (Yusuf Reis) ] known for raiding ships in the Mediterranean.<ref>http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/tajir/pirateresources/documents/ward/wardintro.htm</ref>
	* ]- Suspected al-qaeda terrorist<ref>http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP111206</ref>
	* ] - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of ].<ref></ref>
	*] - ] ] in the ] and convicted ].<ref>UPS (May 17, 1975) "Militant is Hanged in Trinidad After Long Fight for Clemency." ''New York Times''.</ref>

			*] (born Janice Huff) – former Southern Baptist preacher who converted to Islam while attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Who was Aminah Assilmi?\|url=https://www.soundvision.com/article/who-was-aminah-assilmi\|access-date=1 July 2021\|website=SoundVision.com}}</ref>
	==From ]==
			*] – former ] actor, converted to ] from ].<ref>{{Cite web\|date=15 November 2019\|title=Hamza Ali Abbasi quits acting, reveals journey from atheism to Islam\|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/2099801/4-hamza-ali-abbasi-quits-showbiz-reveals-journey-atheism-islam\|access-date=17 March 2021\|website=The Express Tribune\|language=en}}</ref>
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			* ] (born Régis Fayette-Mikano) – French rapper and poet.<ref><{{cite web\| url=https://www.telerama.fr/livre/abd-al-malik-l-islam-est-meconnu-par-les-musulmans-eux-memes-et-par-les-autres,123130.php\| language=fr\| title=Abd Al Malik : "l'islam est méconnu, par les musulmans eux-mêmes et par les autres"\| work=]\| date=23 February 2015}}</ref>
	*] - the first ]<ref></ref>
			*] (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Dokosi \|first1=Michael Eli \|title=Why the NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar converted to Islam at 24 \|url=https://face2faceafrica.com/article/why-the-nbas-all-time-leading-scorer-kareem-abdul-jabbar-converted-to-islam-at-24 \|access-date=24 March 2021 \|work=Face2Face Africa \|date=5 July 2020 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Abdul-Jabbar \|first1=Kareem \|title=OPINION: Why I converted to Islam \|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/why-i-converted-to-islam.html \|access-date=24 March 2021 \|publisher=Al Jazeera \|date=29 March 2015}}</ref>
	*] - from ], ]-activist<ref></ref>
			*] – (born Chris Wayne Jackson) – American former professional ] player.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Uitti \|first=Jacob \|date=15 October 2022 \|title=Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf: 'I lost millions because I couldn't keep my mouth shut' \|language=en-GB \|work=The Guardian \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/oct/15/mahmoud-abdul-rauf-nba-protest-national-anthem \|access-date=26 April 2023 \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	*] - Ottoman architect.<ref></ref>
			*] (born Leroy Bland) – American jazz trumpeter.<ref name="ahmedabdullah">Abdullah, Ahmed Abdullah & Louis Reyes Rivera. , ahmedian.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.</ref>
			*] – ]n Director-General of Health in leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic; born Yew Ming Seong.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.thesundaily.my/local/health-dg-dr-noor-hisham-joins-global-scientists-to-fight-covid-19-YI2208166\|title=Health DG DR Noor Hisham joins global scientists to fight Covid-19\|publisher=]\|via=]\|date=3 April 2020\|access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref>
			*] – photographer and writer for '']''<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040602187.html\|newspaper=The Washington Post\|first1=Patricia\|last1=Sullivan\|title=Thomas J. Abercrombie; Photographer For National Geographic Magazine\|date=7 April 2006}}</ref>
			*] (born Mark Fidel Kools) – American citizen, and ], diagnosed with psychiatric problems, later sentenced to ] for an attack of resentment.<ref name="GoldmanDR">Goldman, Russell. "Fort Hood Shooter Could Join 5 Others on Death Row." ]. 13 November 2009. . Retrieved 21 October 2010.</ref>
			*] (a.k.a. The Jacka, born Dominick Newton) – American rapper.<ref> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306145717/http://www.illumemag.com/zine/articlePrint.php?13130 \|date=6 March 2012 }}, illumemag.com. Retrieved 10 December 2017.</ref>
			*] – ] ] and ]; born Philippe Fragione.<ref name="globalnoise">{{cite book\|last1=Swedenburg\|first1=Ted\|editor=Mitchell, Tony\|title=Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA\|date=September 2002\|publisher=]\|location=]\|isbn=978-0-8195-6502-0\|pages=57–85\|chapter=Islamic Hip-hop vs. Islamophobia\|chapter-url-access=registration\|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/globalnoiseraphi00mitc}}</ref>
			*] – American interfaith activist and founder of Women in Islam<ref name="Nevel2017">{{Cite news \|title=Finding the Inspiration to Stand Up for Each Other: An Interview With Sister Aisha al-Adawiya \|url=https://truthout.org/articles/finding-the-inspiration-to-stand-up-for-each-other-an-interview-with-sister-aisha-al-adawiya/ \|publisher=] \|last=Nevel \|first=Donna \|date=19 March 2023 \|access-date=7 September 2024 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Iranian-born American film developer, games developer, and businessman.<ref name="youtube">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXj2h4w5XNs \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/WXj2h4w5XNs \|archive-date=21 December 2021 \|url-status=live\|title=Indonesian – How did you convert to Islam (session 1 finale)\|publisher=ufsubtitles\|date=26 July 2007\|access-date=26 August 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
			*] (formerly known by his birth name Cassius Clay) – professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.<ref name="beliefnet">{{cite web\|access-date=20 May 2008\|url=http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Islam/2005/02/Muhammad-Alis-New-Spiritual-Quest.aspx\|title=Muhammad Ali's New Spiritual Quest\|publisher=]\|author=Caldwell, Deborah}}</ref>]]]
			*] (born Sri Gaur Kishore Sen) – Bengali author.<ref>{{citation\|title=Foundational Maḥabbat-nāmas: Jāmī's Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Bengal (ca. 16th–19th AD)\|first=Thibaut\|last=d'Hubert\|chapter=The khādim and the munshī: Śāh Garībullāh and Sādek Ālī\|year=2018 \|pages=649–691 \|doi=10.1163/9789004386600_020 \|isbn=9789004386600 \|s2cid=197848652 \|chapter-url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004386600/BP000030.xml?lang=en&language=en#FN300072}}</ref>
			*] – ] ] manager and former player.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/feb/14/newsstory.sport9\|title=How Big Sam and Allah made Le Sulk smile\|date=13 February 2007\|work=The Guardian\|access-date=18 August 2017\|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
			*] – American actor; father of actors David, Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis, and Richmond Arquette; son of ].<ref>, ''Jewish Journal'', 12 October 2002.</ref>
			*] (born Leopold Weiss) – Austro-Hungarian born Deputy Secretary in the ], known for an English translation of the Quran.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Muhammad Asad: The Polish Jewish Muslim Intellectual\|url=https://culture.pl/en/article/muhammad-asad-the-polish-jewish-muslim-intellectual\|access-date=24 March 2021\|website=Culture.pl\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] (born Banke Lal) – author, scholar, professor and former Dean of the Department of Hadith at ].
			*] – ] wandering ], painter and author.
			*] – ] military leader, who served as the ] (Prime Minister) of the ].
			*] – Scottish convert to Islam who from 1775 was the chief instructor in the new Ottoman naval mathematical academy (the Hendishâne).
			*] – French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.
			*] – born Joseph Anthelme Sève, was a French-born Egyptian commander.
			*] – was the eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat S.p.A.,He converted to Shia Islam when he was living in New York City

			===B===
	==From ]==
			*] – Chaldean Catholic priest known for his book Muhammad in Bible.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Dawood\|first=Abdul Ahad\|title=Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) In The Bible - English - Abdul Ahad Dawood\|url=https://islamhouse.com/en/books/401819\|access-date=4 June 2021\|website=IslamHouse.com\|language=en}}</ref>
	*]- a suspect in an alleged terrorist attack on the ].<ref name="isikoff">{{cite news \|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5738292/site/newsweek/ \|title=Bin Laden’s Mystery Man \|publisher=Newsweek \|date=August 20, 2004 \|author=Isikoff, Michael and Mark Hosenball}}</ref><ref>. Retrieved November 20, 2006.</ref>
			*] (stage name for Al Hasan Naqiyy, born Arlandis Hinton) – American ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://hiphop.discogs.com/artist/B.G.+Knocc+Out+&+Dresta\|title=B. G. Knocc Out & Dresta\|publisher=discogs\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313004407/http://hiphop.discogs.com/artist/B.G.+Knocc+Out+%26+Dresta\|archive-date=13 March 2007}}</ref>
	*] - Bengali actress and filmmaker.<ref></ref>
			*] – German television presenter.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Esselborn \|first1=Priya \|title=Former German MTV host promotes Islam with new autobiography {{!}} DW {{!}} 7 July 2009 \|url=https://www.dw.com/en/former-german-mtv-host-promotes-islam-with-new-autobiography/a-4461534 \|access-date=23 March 2021 \|publisher=Deutsche Welle}}</ref>
	* ] ''(formerly A. S. Dileep Kumar)'' - famous Indian music composer<ref>http://members.tripod.com/gopalhome/arrbio.html</ref>
			*] – American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam.<ref>{{Cite book\| last = Bowen \| first = Patrick D. \| year = 2015 \| title = A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975 \| page=171 \|publisher = Brill \| place = Leiden \| isbn = 978-90-04-29994-8 \| url = https://brill.com/view/title/25296?lang=en}}</ref>
	* ] ''(formerly Kamala Das)'' - Anglo-Malayalam writer of Hindu background<ref>http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/16varsha.htm</ref>
			*] (born Lennox Philip) – leader of the ], a ] group in ].<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10774647\|work=BBC News\|title=Trinidad marks 1990 coup attempt\|date=27 July 2010}}</ref>
			*] – better known as ''Napoleon'', former member of ]'s rap group, the Outlawz.<ref name="Moussly">{{Cite web \|date=18 March 2009 \|title=Hip Hop don't stop as it goes Islamic \|url=https://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009%2F03%2F18%2F68722.html \|access-date=20 August 2023 \|website=Al Arabiya English \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] (born Rajkunwari) – consort of the ].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzOmy2y0Zh4C&pg=PA194\|title=A History of Modern India, 1480-1950\|last=Markovits\|first=Claude\|date=2004\|publisher=Anthem Press\|isbn=9781843310044}}</ref>
			* ] – French choreographer.<ref>, ''The New York Times'', 3 April 1990.</ref>
			*] – American musician.<ref>{{Cite news\|author=Staff\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/01/db0103.xml\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717124509/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/01/db0103.xml\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=17 July 2006\|title=Charles Smith\|work=The Telegraph\|date=1 July 2006\|access-date=7 April 2010\|location=London, UK}}</ref>
			*] – Swedish ambassador.<ref>Archive for the Psychology of Religion By Jacob A. Belzen, Nils G. Holm, p. 51.<!-- publishing info and ISBN needed --></ref>
			*] – Polish musician; Bible translator.<ref>{{dead link\|date=December 2017 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}, siratalmustaqim.blog.onet.pl. Retrieved 25 March 2015.</ref>
			*] – British<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.malefirst.co.uk/im-a-celeb-get-me-out/Im+A+Celebrity+Get+Me+Out+Of+Here-26260.html\|title=Biodata\|website=Malefirst.co.uk\|access-date=11 December 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916104756/http://www.malefirst.co.uk/im-a-celeb-get-me-out/Im+A+Celebrity+Get+Me+Out+Of+Here-26260.html\|archive-date=16 September 2008}}</ref> ], ] and ] activist.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7593921.stm\|title=Blair's relative 'stuck in Gaza'\|date=2 September 2008\|access-date=11 December 2017\|publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref name="site 1">{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/oct/24/lauren-booth-converts-to-islam\|title=Tony Blair's sister-in-law converts to Islam\|access-date=24 October 2010\|work=The Guardian\|location=London, UK\|first1=Helen\|last1=Carter\|date=24 October 2010}}</ref>
			*] – first person in the United States to be executed using ], converted to Islam in prison, shortly before death.<ref name="meals3">. '']'' (12 September 2003); archived from on 2 December 2003. Retrieved 17 August 2007.</ref>
			*] – American civil rights activist.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/dnd.html\|title=Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)\|publisher=Historyisaweapon.org\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – American Islamic scholar and assistant professor at Georgetown University.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://faculty.washington.edu/brownj9/cv.html \|title=Untitled Document \|access-date=3 October 2012 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007020502/http://faculty.washington.edu/brownj9/cv.html \|archive-date=7 October 2012 }}</ref>]]]
			*] – French family physician of King Faisal. It is disputed whether he ever converted, and if he did, whether he publicly declared his conversion. He is reported in a 2013 Arab News newspaper article, "In his excitement, he stood before the attendants and loudly said, 'I have converted to Islam and believed in this Qur'an{{'"}}; however, no references are given.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=1 March 2013\|title=The story of Maurice Bucaille's inspiring conversion to Islam\|url=https://www.arabnews.com/news/443500\|access-date=24 March 2021\|website=Arab News\|language=en}}</ref> In other articles and videos he was normally very careful not to claim allegiance to any one faith.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Maurice\|first=Bucaille\|title=Why I embraced Islam\|url=https://islamicbulletin.org/en/newsletters/IB_6/10/\|website=The Islamic Bulletin}}</ref>
			*] (born Arthur Blakey) – American musician, also known as Arthur "Art" Blakey, American jazz drummer and bandleader; stopped being a practicing Muslim in the 1950s and continued to perform under the name "Art Blakey" throughout his career.<ref name="muslim-american">{{Cite book \|last=Curtis \|first=Edward E. \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owZCMZpYamMC \|title=Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History \|date=2010 \|publisher=Infobase Publishing \|isbn=978-1-4381-3040-8 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Swiss writer and scholar.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197603/the.world.of.islam-its.arts.htm\|title=The World of Islam: Its Arts\|publisher=SaudiAramcoWorld.com\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – grandson of ], a Mongol military commander and ruler of the ], who was responsible for the first official establishment of Islam in a khanate of the ].
			*] – American historian who specializes in Islamic and middle eastern studies.<ref name="iol">{{cite web\|url=http://www.islamonline.net/LiveDialogue/English/Guestcv.asp?hGuestID=z1C6GT \|title=Islamonline.net Biography \|access-date=10 October 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317023855/http://www.islamonline.net/livedialogue/english/Guestcv.asp?hGuestID=z1C6GT \|archive-date=17 March 2007 }}</ref>
			*] – During the First World War, he converted to Islam while serving with the general staff of the Ottoman Empire.
			*] – convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam.

			===C===
	==From ]==
			*] – Panamanian boxer and former ] Champion.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/4445/caballero-clobbers-thai-wins-title\|title=Caballero Clobbers Thai, Wins Title\|publisher=Thesweetscience.com\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414154810/http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/4445/caballero-clobbers-thai-wins-title\|archive-date=14 April 2010}}</ref>
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			*] – American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=16 May 2005 \|title=TIME.com: On the Beach With Dave Chappelle \|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1061415,00.html \|access-date=20 August 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050516081506/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1061415,00.html \|archive-date=16 May 2005 }}</ref>
	* ] – 13th century ] physician<ref></ref>
			*] – Swedish bodybuilding stuntman<ref name="bbc">{{cite news\|title=Bodybuilding stuntman who turned to Islam\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2230630.stm\|work=BBC News\|date=30 September 2002\|access-date=27 December 2006}}</ref>
	* ] - from ], essayist, poet, journalist & author<ref>'''', Muslim American Society.</ref>
			*] – British actor and rapper.<ref>{{cite web\|date=3 December 2013\|title=Issue 5 - July 2009\|url=http://www.muslimyouthskills.co.uk/social-initiatives/connect/35-issue-5-july-2009\|access-date=9 January 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033850/http://www.muslimyouthskills.co.uk/social-initiatives/connect/35-issue-5-july-2009\|archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|last=Admin\|date=30 March 2020\|title=Muslim Belal talks about the changing face of Dawah in a digital age\|url=https://www.britishmuslim-magazine.com/2020/03/30/muslim-belal-talks-about-the-changing-face-of-dawah-in-a-digital-age/\|access-date=9 January 2021\|website=British Muslim Magazine\|language=en-GB}}</ref>
	* ] - prolific author on the topics of Middle East and Russian history; the ] propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds" before discovering he was an ethnic Jew. <ref name=Lazare>Lazare 2005.</ref>
			*] (born Lady Evelyn Murray) – Scottish noblewoman.<ref>Facey, William (2008). {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610012145/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200805/mayfair.to.makkah.htm \|date=10 June 2011 }}, ''Saudi Aramco World'', Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 18–23.</ref>
	* ] (Muhammad Asad) - Viennese ] who became Pakistani ambassador to the ]<ref></ref>
			*] – French explorer, writer and military officer.<ref name="WDL">{{cite web\|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11762\|title=Life in the Desert, or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa\|website=]\|year=1860\|access-date=23 September 2013}}</ref>
	* ] – 17th century mystic and pseudo-Messiah, given choice between conversion and execution.<ref></ref>
			*] – Polish noble who served in the Ottoman army for nearly 25 years.
	* ], Jewish community forced on pain of death to convert in 1839. Most continued Jewish practices in secret and many of their descendents returned to Judaism in the early 20th century.<ref name="Patai">{{cite book
			*] – American activist. He was an adviser to President Richard Nixon and was the deputy director for planning of the United States National Security Council.
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			===D===
	==From Non-Religious to Islam==
			*] – Middle East academic and activist who works on civil rights in ], Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East<ref name="Zmag"> {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103123838/http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6257 \|date=3 November 2007 }}. Retrieved 12 June 2006.</ref>
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			*] – French mercenary.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5097580.stm\|title=French mercenary Bob Denard profile\|work=BBC News\|date=20 June 2006\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
	*] - British diplomat and writer.<ref></ref>
			*] – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/nyregion/21dna.html\|work=The New York Times\|title=DNA Evidence Frees a Man Imprisoned for Half His Life\|first1=Fernanda\|last1=Santos\|date=21 September 2006\|access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>
	* ] ''(formerly ]'') - British musician and singer (nominally Christian upbringing, but never a believer in it)<ref></ref>
			* ] – French rapper, born Mélanie Georgiades, converted in 2010.<ref>{{cite web\|title=French rapper stuns fans, makes first TV appearance wearing hijab\|work=Al Arabiya News\|date=1 October 2012\|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/01/241253.html\|access-date=9 November 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107204401/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/01/241253.html\|archive-date=7 November 2012\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
	* ] - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. (Raised Catholic, but atheist from age 18 to conversion)<ref></ref><ref>''Struggling to Surrender, Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam '' by Dr. Jeffrey Lang, </ref>
			* ] (born Alphonse-Étienne Dinet) – French orientalist painter, converted to Islam in 1908.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Nasreddine Dinet: The French Orientalist\|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2019/04/nasreddine-dinet-french-orientalist-190408064747182.html\|access-date=9 July 2020\|publisher=Al Jazeera}}</ref>
			*] (Abu Talha al-Almani, born Denis Cuspert) – former German rapper who departed Germany to fight in Syria.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/deso-dogg-german-rapper-turned-islamist-wounded-syria-fighting-rebels-video-1403702\|title=Deso Dogg, German Rapper-Turned-Islamist, Wounded in Syria Fighting With Rebels\|work=International Business Times\|date=9 September 2013\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>
			*] – Dutch politician.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Arnoud van Doorn: from anti-Islamic film-maker to hajj pilgrim \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/oct/23/arnoud-van-doorn-anti-islamic-convert-hajj \|access-date=23 March 2021 \|work=The Guardian \|date=23 October 2013 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Indian television actor<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Sanjeeiv \|first=Niharika \|date=28 March 2023 \|title=Vivian Dsena, Married To An Egyptian, Reveals He Has Followed Islam Since 2019 \|url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/vivian-dsena-married-to-an-egyptian-reveals-he-has-followed-islam-since-2019-3900516 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027105602/https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/vivian-dsena-married-to-an-egyptian-reveals-he-has-followed-islam-since-2019-3900516 \|archive-date=27 October 2023\|work=] \|access-date=17 October 2024 }}</ref>
			*] (stage name for Stephan Allen) – British rapper.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Yameen \|first=Tahir \|date=4 August 2022 \|title=Watch: British rapper Dutchavelli accepts Islam in viral video \|url=https://www.bolnews.com/entertainment/2022/08/watch-british-rapper-dutchavelli-accepts-islam-in-viral-video/ \|access-date=28 August 2022 \|website=BOL News \|language=en-US}}</ref>
			*] – Muslim scholar, thinker, author, translator, and the Khalifah (successor) for North America of the Shadhdhuli School for Tranquility of Being and the Illumination of Hearts, Green Mountain Branch.
			*] – American scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.
			*] – Welsh Muslim scholar, writer and broadcaster who specialised in Islam.

	==~~See also~~==		===E===
			*] – American rapper and actor.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/03/dave-east-converting-islam-jail/ \|title = Dave East Opens up About Converting to Islam After Being in Jail - XXL\| date=16 March 2017 }}</ref>
			*] – Swiss explorer and writer.<ref name="the">{{cite web\|url=http://www.geneve.ch/fao/2002/20020902.asp\|title=Isabelle Eberhardt, Reporter et Voyageuse\|work=Feuille d'Avis Officielle\|publisher=Canton Geneva\|access-date=25 March 2015\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115163715/http://www.geneve.ch/fao/2002/20020902.asp\|archive-date=15 January 2013}}</ref>
			*] – American politician and lawyer; first ] to be elected to ] and the first ] representative from ].<ref>{{Cite web\|date=22 February 2017\|title=10 Things You Didn't Know About Keith Ellison\|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-02-22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-keith-ellison\|access-date=9 January 2021\|website=US News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|last=MacFarquhar\|first=Neil\|date=10 November 2006\|title=Muslim's Election Is Celebrated Here and in Mideast (Published 2006)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/us/politics/10muslims.html\|access-date=9 January 2021\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|date=6 January 2007\|title=Q&A: First Muslim Rep. in Congress - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC\|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16474497/site/newsweek/\|access-date=9 January 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106003610/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16474497/site/newsweek/\|archive-date=6 January 2007}}</ref>]]]
			*] (stage name for Erik Schrody) – American rapper and singer-songwriter.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://hiphopdx.com/interviews/id.1787/title.everlast-talks-new-album-20-plus-years-of-evolution-juggling-house-of-pain-and-la-coka-nostra\|title=Everlast Talks New Album, 20-Plus Years Of Evolution, Juggling House Of Pain And La Coka Nostra \|website=Hiphopdx.com \|date=22 October 2011 \|access-date=5 May 2021\|quote="It's not really any focus on any kind of religion or anything because, even though I would consider myself still to be Muslim, I don't really. I really kinda reject all organized religion."}}</ref>
			*] (born Joseph Estes) – American preacher and founder of Guide US TV.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Yusuf Estes - USA priest converted to Islam\|url=http://tellmeaboutislam.com/yusuf-estes.html\|access-date=9 January 2021\|website=tellmeaboutislam.com}}</ref>
			]]]
			*] – prominent Muslim of Austrian origin.
			*] – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.

			===F===
	* ]
			*] (formerly Alys George) – human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet ].<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Poets \|first=Academy of American \|title=Faiz Ahmed Faiz \|url=https://poets.org/poet/faiz-ahmed-faiz \|access-date=20 August 2023 \|website=Poets.org \|language=en}}</ref>
	* ]
			*] – ] journalist for ] and a writer.<ref name="arnews">{{Cite web\|date=9 May 2020\|title='The simplest things opened my eyes to Islam': Writer shares experience of being Spanish Muslim woman\|url=https://arab.news/w32fr\|access-date=4 May 2021\|website=Arab News\|language=en}}</ref>
	* ]
			*] – radicalised individual, attempted to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building to protest the Afghan war. Finton's local mosque condemned and disassociated from his ideologies.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2447383520090924\|title=Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices\|work=Reuters\|date=24 September 2009\|access-date=14 November 2009\|first1=Jeremy\|last1=Pelofsky}}</ref><ref>, ], 25 September 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.</ref>
	* ]
			*] – American film maker and founder of ].<ref>{{Cite web\|last=WISE\|first=LINDSAY\|date=13 June 2008\|title=A new faith changes one man\|url=https://www.chron.com/lifestyle/houston-belief/article/A-new-faith-changes-one-man-1594752.php\|access-date=24 March 2021\|website=Houston Chronicle\|language=en-US}}</ref>
	* ]
			*] (of the ]) – part of a group based in the U.S. Arrested for charges of terrorism, Ford's representative claimed the arrests were a governmental strategy to cover-up America's activities in foreign wars.<ref name="Willamette"> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104926/http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=3246 \|date=29 September 2007 }}, '']'', 6 June 2002.</ref>
	* ]
			*] – English-French writer and broadcaster.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Ergas \|first1=Henry \|title=ABC blames France when jihadis murder its innocents \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/abc-blames-france-when-jihadis-murder-its-innocents/news-story/2a4b5390045d770ea7815254964932ab \|access-date=23 March 2021 \|work=The Australian \|date=20 November 2020}}</ref>
	* ]
			*] (born Sandra Michele Keller) – Florida woman, popular in a local controversy for wearing face veil in drivers-license picture.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2970514.stm\|work=BBC News\|title=US Muslim ordered to lift veil\|date=6 June 2003}}</ref>
			*] – South African professional cricketer. On 24 April 2021, Fortuin reverted to Islam.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://newsglory.in/bjorn-fortuin-a-south-african-cricketer-has-converted-to-islam-and-adopted-the-muslim-name-emad/ \|title=Bjorn Fortuin, a South African cricketer, has converted to Islam and adopted the Muslim name Emad \|work=News Glory \|access-date=25 April 2021 \|archive-date=25 April 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425125152/https://newsglory.in/bjorn-fortuin-a-south-african-cricketer-has-converted-to-islam-and-adopted-the-muslim-name-emad/ \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

			===G===
			*] - SS Standartenführer<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Wistrich \|first1=Robert S. \|title=Between Redemption & Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity \|date=6 April 2020 \|publisher=Routledge \|isbn=978-1-000-04339-6 \|page=211 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVLbDwAAQBAJ&dq=Leopold+Gleim+converted+to+islam&pg=PT211 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – American rapper, content creator, entrepreneur and web series' host<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Popular American rapper Bing Bong accepted Islam \|url=https://www.jugantor.com/international/788779/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A3-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%B0%E2%80%8C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%82 \|work=]}}</ref>
			*] – British socialite and ex-wife of ].<ref name="conversion">{{cite news\|newspaper=The Sunday Telegraph\|url=http://www.islamicity.com/Mosque/MyJourney/Jemina_Goldsmith.htm \|first1=Jemima\|last1=Khan\|date=28 May 1995\|access-date=5 October 2008\|title=Why I chose Islam}}</ref>
			*] – Cuban former ] Boxing Champion.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/6643/eccentric-juan-carlos-gomez\|title=The Eccentric Juan Carlos Gomez\|publisher=Thesweetscience.com\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802030826/http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/6643/eccentric-juan-carlos-gomez\|archive-date=2 August 2009}}</ref>
			*] – Portuguese American actor and musician (born Paul Pires Gonçalves), convert to Islam from ].<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Robbins\|first1=Christopher\|title=Bay Ridge Muslims Vs. The Trump Effect\|url=http://gothamist.com/2015/12/14/meet_your_muslim_neighbors.php\|website=The Gothamist\|publisher=Gothamist LLC.\|access-date=4 February 2016\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205165901/http://gothamist.com/2015/12/14/meet_your_muslim_neighbors.php\|archive-date=5 February 2016}}</ref>
			*] (born Anthony Green) – British Islamic preacher and founder of ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://islamicvoice.com/november.97/WHYI.HTM\|title=Islamic Voice\|publisher=IslamicVoice.com\|access-date=3 August 2014\|archive-date=7 April 2013\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407040729/http://islamicvoice.com/november.97/WHYI.HTM\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			*] – French doctor; first Muslim MP in France<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.saphirnews.com/Docteur-Philippe-Grenier_a1740.html\|title=Docteur Philippe Grenier\|publisher=Saphirnews.com\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gigigryce.com\|title=Gigi Gryce Biography\|publisher=Gigigryce.com\|date=17 March 1983\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – French perennial philosopher, first adopted ] in 1912, he insisted on recalling that the purely religious concept of an immediate conversion did not apply to his case, indicating he had previous acquaintance with the Islamic faith.
			*] – French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982.
			*] – was a British writer, journalist, translator and publisher.
			*] – He is a French astrophysicist ,He converted to Islam in 1987 after being introduced to it in Morocco.

			===H===
			]]]
			*] – Lebanese-born Islamic scholar, hadith expert (muhaddith), author, and translator of classical Islamic texts <ref name=SunnahBio>{{cite web\|author1=Fouad Haddad\|author-link1=Gibril Haddad\|title=How I came to Islam\|url=http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/fouad1.htm\|website=Sunnah.org\|access-date=9 December 2015\|location=Lebanon\|date=28 January 1997\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111712/http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/fouad1.htm\|archive-date=24 September 2015\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			*] – New Zealand-born British scholar of Islam<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Bardsley \|first1=Daniel \|title=How New Zealand-born Joel Hayward became one of the world's 500 most influential Muslims \|url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/heritage/2022/11/26/how-new-zealand-born-joel-hayward-become-one-of-the-worlds-500-most-influential-muslims/ \|access-date=22 July 2023 \|work=The National \|date=26 November 2022}}</ref>
			*] (Islamic name Mahdi Abdul-Rahman) – former NBA player and college basketball coach<ref>{{cite web\|author=Ralph Hickok\|url=http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/hazzardwalt.shtml#other\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021226092156/http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/hazzardwalt.shtml#other\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=26 December 2002\|title=Biography: Walt Hazzard\|publisher=HickokSports.com\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – American musician, born Joseph Arrington, Jr.; formerly known professionally as ]<ref> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410060515/http://raresoul.com/2012/07/27/joe-tex-becomes-muslim-minister-gives-it-all-up/ \|date=10 April 2015 }}, Raresoul.com. Retrieved 2 April 2015.</ref>
			*] – Austrian ] doctor, also known as Dr. Death<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/war-criminal-search-ends-court-rules-that-aribert-heim-is-dead-a-857220.html\|title=War Criminal Search Ends: Court Rules that Aribert Heim Is Dead\|work=Der Spiegel\|date=21 September 2012\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>
			*] – German diplomat and author who converted from Catholic Christianity.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Murad Wilfried Hofmann - Obituary {{!}} Convert Muslim Foundation\|url=https://www.convertmuslimfoundation.org.uk/blog/murad-wilfried-hofmann\|access-date=1 July 2021\|website=convertmuslimfoundation.org.uk\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Australian-born ] ] and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.waterwaystravel.com/surf_maldives/index.php\|title=Maldives Surfing, Surf Charter Maldives\|publisher=Waterwaystravel.com\|access-date=3 August 2014\|archive-date=6 September 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906205017/http://waterwaystravel.com/surf_maldives/index.php\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			*] – Indian merchant<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Hanif \|first1=N. \|title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia \|date=2000 \|publisher=Sarup & Sons \|isbn=978-81-7625-087-0 \|page=328 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3GXOqPa67MC&pg=PA328 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Singapore's second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959<ref>"The Man Who Thumped the Reds", ''The Straits Times'', 1 December 1984.</ref>
			* ] – Danish journalist, author and explorer<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ia5AAQAAQBAJ\|title=Yearbook of Muslims in Europe\|last1=Nielsen\|first1=Jørgen\|last2=Akgönül\|first2=Samim\|last3=Alibašić\|first3=Ahmet\|last4=Racius\|first4=Egdunas\|date=19 September 2013\|publisher=BRILL\|isbn=9789004255869\|page=209\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Hungarian physicist and architect also known as Sharif Horthy.
			*] – Swiss-German journalist and convert to Islam, who was active in both Islamist and far-right politics, including with Neo-Nazism.

			===I===
			*] (born Adolph Brand) – South African jazz musician<ref>{{cite news\|author=Maya Jaggi\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/saturday_review/story/0,3605,614946,00.html\|title=The sound of freedom\|newspaper=The Guardian\|date=8 December 2001\|access-date=7 April 2010\|location=London, UK\|author-link=Maya Jaggi}}</ref>
			*] (born Rebeka Koha) – Latvian-born Qatari ], two time Junior World Champion and two time European Champion.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Latvia's champion weightlifter announces conversion to Islam \|url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/sport/latvias-champion-weightlifter-announces-conversion-to-islam.a368576/ \|access-date=6 February 2023 \|website=eng.lsm.lv \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – English singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and activist; born Steven Demetre Georgiou; known professionally as ]<ref name="Marrakech">{{cite news\|url=http://www.yusufislam.org.uk/\|title=Playing God's Music\|last1=Garner\|first1=Lesley\|date= 19 April 2002\|work=Evening Standard\|pages=Life Articles\|access-date=12 October 2008}}</ref><ref name="BBC Radio2">{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/catstevens.shtml\|title=Cat Stevens – A Musical Journey\|last=Fitzsimmons \|first=Mick \|author2=Harris, Bob\|date=5 January 2001\|work=Taped documentary interview synopsis\|publisher=BBC2\|access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref>]]]
			*] (born Trevor Brooks) – English-born extremist and hate-preacher, spokesman for Al Ghurabaa<ref>{{cite news\|author=Roxanne Escobales\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/apr/18/uksecurity2\|title=Q&A: Abu Izzadeen\|work=The Guardian\|access-date=3 August 2014\|date=18 April 2008}}</ref>
			* ] (born Kanji Inoki) – Japanese retired professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Leiby\|first1=Richard\|title=Wrestling, anyone? Pakistan welcomes back a flamboyant Japanese hero of the ring.\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/wrestling-anyone-pakistan-welcomes-back-a-flamboyant-japanese-hero-of-the-ring/2012/12/13/b9cffed2-3fb8-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html\|newspaper=]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006081010/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/wrestling-anyone-pakistan-welcomes-back-a-flamboyant-japanese-hero-of-the-ring/2012/12/13/b9cffed2-3fb8-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html\|archive-date=6 October 2014\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ] – American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Kyrie Irving opens up about observing Ramadan while playing \|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-nets-kyrie-irving-ramadan-fast-muslim-while-playing-154503387.html \|work=sports.yahoo.com}}</ref>
			*] – Polish-Ottoman military officer and general. A Polish independence activist and insurgen

			===J===

			*] – American biologist and anthropologist, professor of biology at Howard University and Director of its Cobb Research Laboratory.<ref name= knudson>{{cite book\| url= http://wonderwise.unl.edu/02teach/afrplbio.pdf \| title= Fatimah Linda Collier Jackson Biography\| first= Mary\| last= Knudson\| year= 1997 \| publisher= University of Lincoln\| place= Lincoln, Nebraska\| via= UNL.edu}}</ref>
			*] – American former professional ] player who played 14 seasons in the ] (NBA)<ref>{{Cite web\|last=sialtv.pk\|date=24 January 2021\|title=World famous basketball player Stephen Jackson has converted to Islam\|url=https://www.sialtv.pk/world-famous-basketball-player-stephen-jackson-has-converted-to-islam.html\|access-date=24 January 2021\|website=sialtv.pk\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last=TalkBasket.net\|date=25 January 2021\|title=Former NBA star Stephen Jackson converts to Islam\|url=https://www.talkbasket.net/120242-former-nba-star-stephen-jackson-converts-to-islam\|access-date=27 January 2021\|website=TalkBasket.net\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Malaysian actress<ref>"Tiara's true to her roles", ''New Sunday Times'', Malaysia (18 September 2005).</ref>
			*] (born Frederick Jones) – American jazz pianist<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Huey\|first1=Steve\|url={{AllMusic\|class=artist\|id=p6799/biography\|pure_url=yes}}\|title=Biography\|publisher=AllMusic\|date=2 July 1930\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – formerly Margret Marcus; author of many books covering several subjects, including modernism, ], ], ], ] and ]<ref>, jannah.org. Retrieved 15 November 2014.</ref>
			*] – Dutch pirate, later sent his son to America, to become one of the first settlers of modern-day Brooklyn (called ] at the time)<ref>Vrijman, L. C. Kaapvaart en zeeroverij/L. C. Vrijman – Amsterdam (1938)</ref>
			*] – retired American professional basketball player<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Roberts\|first1=Selena\|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E0DA1739F937A15752C0A96F958260&sec=health&pagewanted=print\|title=PRO BASKETBALL; A Diet of Discipline\|newspaper=The New York Times\|date=24 January 1999\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] (Islamic name Abdul Karim Jossot) – French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://al.alawi.1934.free.fr/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=50\|title=Les Amis du Cheikh Ahmed al-Alawi: Content\|publisher=Al.alawi.1934.free.fr\|date=10 February 2006\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224153406/http://al.alawi.1934.free.fr/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=50\|archive-date=24 December 2010}}</ref>

			===K===
			*] (d. 1316) – military commander of ]
			*] – American professional mixed martial artist.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Nag \|first=Sayan \|title=UFC fighter reveals conversion to Islam influenced major career decision and future in the UFC \|url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-fighter-reveals-conversion-islam-influenced-major-career-decision-future-ufc \|access-date=6 February 2023 \|website=www.sportskeeda.com \|date=9 January 2023 \|language=en-us}}</ref>
			*] – Indian television actress<ref>{{Cite news\|title=Dipika Kakar on converting to Islam: I have done it and I am proud of it - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/dipika-kakar-on-converting-to-islam-i-have-done-it-and-i-am-proud-of-it/articleshow/63180939.cms\|access-date=20 September 2020\|website=The Times of India\|date=6 March 2018 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – French ]an former football player<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7141005.stm\|title=Devout worshipper\|access-date=12 December 2007\|work=BBC Sport\|first1=Phil\|last1=Minshull\|date=12 December 2007}}</ref>]]]
			*] – American aid worker, formerly a ], converted to Islam and changed name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig; taken hostage and killed by ]<ref name="YouTube">{{cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLk4yxc9aks \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/NLk4yxc9aks \|archive-date=21 December 2021 \|url-status=live\|title=Islamic State Siege of Kobane Intensifies\|date=6 October 2014 \|via=YouTube\|access-date=7 October 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/10/06/peter-kassig-conversion-islamic-state-beheading\|title=Peter Kassig's Conversion Unlikely to Halt ISIS Headsman, Experts Say\|work=U.S. News & World Report\|access-date=7 October 2014\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007132909/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/10/06/peter-kassig-conversion-islamic-state-beheading\|archive-date=7 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Sherlock">{{cite news\|last1=Sherlock\|first1=Ruth\|title=ISIL hostage Peter Kassig 'is now devout Muslim who prays five times a day', says ex-captive\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11149947/Isil-hostage-Peter-Kassig-is-now-devout-Muslim-who-prays-five-times-a-day-says-ex-captive.html \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11149947/Isil-hostage-Peter-Kassig-is-now-devout-Muslim-who-prays-five-times-a-day-says-ex-captive.html \|archive-date=12 January 2022 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live\|access-date=12 October 2014\|newspaper=The Telegraph\|date=8 October 2014\|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
			* ] – founder of the ]
			* ] – former leader of ] in Ireland<ref>{{cite web\|author=Henry McDonald, Ireland editor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/07/terrorism.iraq\|title=Hostage-taking 'legitimate'\|work=The Guardian\|date=6 November 2004\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>
			*] – British author, originally named Sonya Miller<ref>{{cite book\|last1=Shahid\|first1=Muhammad Haneef\|title=Why Women Are Accepting Islam\|year=2002\|publisher=Darussalam\|isbn=978-9960-861-72-2\|pages=282–284\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMOreBqoaKMC&q=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&pg=PA283}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_84CPd7_exkC&q=%22Saida+Miller+Khalifa%22&pg=PA504\|title=One Thousand Roads to Mecca\|first1=Michael\|last1=Wolfe\|year=1998\|publisher=Grove Press\|page=506\|isbn=978-0-8021-3599-5}}</ref>
			*] (born Yvette Blanche Labrousse) – Miss France 1930, wife of ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://boomer-cafe.net/version2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=83\|title=Yvette Labrousse, Begum Om Habibeh Elles et eux dans les années 50\|publisher=Boomer-café.net\|date=2 July 2007\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] (born Dhondia Wagh) – 18th-century military soldier and adventurer<ref>{{citation\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkbJ6xA1_jEC&q=271&pg=PA105\|author=Mohibbul Hasan\|page=271\|title=History of Tipu Sultan\|year=2005\|publisher=Aakar Books \|isbn=9788187879572}}</ref>
			*] (born Surya Narayan Mishra) – First ] (r. 1717–1727)<ref>{{cite book \|editor-last=Sarkar \|editor-first=Jadunath \|editor-link=Jadunath Sarkar \|year=1973 \|orig-year=First published 1948 \|title=The History of Bengal \|volume=II: Muslim Period, 1200-1757 \|location=Patna \|publisher=Academica Asiatica \|oclc=924890}}
			</ref>
			*] – militant zealot who converted to Islam in prison, and was the leader of the ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://vypusk.kursk.ru/pic/Beslan.doc\|title=Archived copy\|access-date=24 April 2006\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210170930/http://vypusk.kursk.ru/pic/Beslan.doc\|archive-date=10 February 2006}}</ref>
			*] – Swedish cleric<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.paraplyprojektet.se/news.php?id=656&categoryID=12\|title=A man's domain or a woman's realm?\|publisher=Paraplyprojektet.se\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928181520/http://www.paraplyprojektet.se/news.php?id=656&categoryID=12\|archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref>
			*] – American ] activist <ref>{{Cite news\|author=Sakina fatima\|title=Renowned US activist Shaun King and his wife embrace Islam\|url=https://www.siasat.com/renowned-us-activist-shaun-king-and-his-wife-embrace-islam-2990149/\|date=11 March 2024\|access-date=11 March 2024}}</ref>
			*] – ] in ]<ref>Nile Green, ''Indian Sufism since the seventeenth century'', p. 83.</ref>
			*] – Latvian weightlifter<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Latvia's champion weightlifter announces conversion to Islam \|url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/sport/latvias-champion-weightlifter-announces-conversion-to-islam.a368576/ \|date=28 July 2020 \|publisher=] \|access-date=31 July 2020}}</ref>
			*] – German rapper<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Skandal-Rapper aus Düsseldorf: Die Welt des Kollegah \|url=https://rp-online.de/kultur/die-welt-des-kollegah_aid-22531873 \|work=] \|language=de \|date=9 May 2018 \|access-date=12 May 2024}}</ref>
			*] – radical Russian rebel wanted by the ] of Russia for suspected extremist activities<ref>{{cite news\|author=Staff\|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/fsb-hunts-for-muslim-convert/225907.html\|title=FSB Hunts for Muslim Convert\|newspaper=The Moscow Times\|date=14 January 2005\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>
			*] – Scottish POW who converted to Islam and joined the Ottoman army. He died in 1815 as governor of Medina while fighting the rising power of the Saudi dynasty
			*] – is a German Muslim leader, theologian and scholar.
			*] – American Islamic scholar, teacher and author,studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and the UCLA, converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism in 1977.<ref name="auto">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V5EuDAAAQBAJ\|title=Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism\|last=Hamid\|first=Sadek\|date=30 December 2015\|publisher=I.B.Tauris\|isbn=978-1-78453-231-4\|pages=81–82\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Japanese screenwriter who created various tokusatsu series; Kawauchi converted to Islam in 1959.
			*] – American civil rights activist,In 1971, Kochiyama secretly converted to Sunni Islam.
			*] – Köhler converted to Sunni Islam in 1963 at the age of 25 during his student days.

			===L===
			]]]
			*] – American rapper, DJ, and record producer<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Arts & Entertainment Desk \|date=17 March 2024 \|title=American rapper Lil Jon converts to Islam \|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/music/news/american-rapper-lil-jon-converts-islam-3568781 \|access-date=25 March 2024 \|website=The Daily Star \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – American citizen, known for having adopted radicalised ideologies and conspiring a plot against Swedish cartoonist ]<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/03/10/2010-03-10_jihad_jane_wanted_death_for_cartoonist.html\|title='Jihad Jane' wanna-be Colleen LaRose intended to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks: prosecutors \|work=Daily News\|location=New York \|date=10 March 2010\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – American jazz musician<ref>{{cite web\|author=LynnSys\|url=http://www.yuseflateef.com/AboutYusef.html\|title=About Yusef\|publisher=Yusef Lateef\|date=9 October 1920\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – advisor to ] and head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism<ref>] (ed.), '']'' (1991, {{ISBN\|0-13-089301-3}})</ref><ref>], '']'' (1997, {{ISBN\|0-316-51959-6}}).</ref>
			*] – American philosopher and writer<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://terrypatten.typepad.com/iran/2007/06/in_qom_meeting_.html\|title=Integral in Iran: In Qom: Meeting with Conservative Clergy\|publisher=Terrypatten.typepad.com\|date=3 June 2007\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] (stage name for Durk Banks) – American drill rapper
			*] – Chinese scholar of the ] who converted to Islam after visiting ]. He went on to marry a ] or Arab woman and brought her back to ] in ] province<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=067On0JgItAC&q=ch'ang+fond+persian+girl&pg=PA817\|title=A-L, Volumes 1–2\|author=Association for Asian studies (Ann Arbor;Michigan)\|year=1976\|publisher=Columbia University Press\|page=817\|isbn=9780231038010\|access-date=29 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="Chen">{{cite web\|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/chinese-iranian-vii\|title=CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS vii. Persian Settlements in Southeastern China during the T'ang, Sung, and Yuan Dynasties\|last1=Chen\|first1=Da-Sheng\|publisher=Encyclopedia Iranica\|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l6TVhvYLaEwC&q=li+nu+persian+girl&pg=PA495\|title=Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4\|author=Joseph Needham\|year=1971\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|page=495\|isbn=9780521070607\|access-date=29 June 2010}}</ref>
			*] – Indonesian doctor and politician, former Minister of Health (1953–1955)
			*] – British intellectual and author
			*] (1917–2010) – ]n politician, former government minister and founder of the ]<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/omar-ong-yoke-lin-the-passing-of-an-era/\|title=Omar Ong Yoke Lin: the passing of an era\|date=1 July 2010\|work=]\|access-date=1 July 2010}}</ref>
			*] – British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961.
			*] – British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service,allegedly converted to Islam in Britain and was rumoured to have told his father he had converted to Islam on his death bed.<ref>{{cite news\|author=Luke Harding\|date=3 February 2015\|title=Marina Litvinenko recounts last words of dying husband\|newspaper=The Guardian\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/marina-alexander-litvinenko-last-words-inquiry\|access-date=2 August 2015\|archive-date=1 August 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801054222/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/marina-alexander-litvinenko-last-words-inquiry\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			*] – American writer, media personality, and political activist.

			===M===
			*] (born Merah Silu) – founder of the ] (r. 1267–1297)
			*] (born Timothée Marboua) – Central African military officer and politician.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Bradshaw \|first1=Richard \|last2=Rius \|first2=Juan Fandos \|title=Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic (Historical Dictionaries of Africa) \|date=2016 \|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield \|location=Lanham \|page=430}}</ref>
			*] (born Adrian Russel Elms) – British citizen, with a history of once heavy-drinking and drug-use, later adopted extremist beliefs; perpetrator of the ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/25/khalid-masood-was-a-convert-with-a-criminal-past-so-far-so-familiar\|title=Khalid Masood was a convert with a criminal past. So far, so familiar\|first1=Jason\|last1=Burke\|date=25 March 2017\|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
			*] – Australian ] fighter. Converted in 2023.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Bradford \|first1=Brendan \|date=28 July 2023 \|title=UFC 291: Jake Matthews has found new strength after conversion to Islam \|url=https://www.codesports.com.au/ufc/ufc-291-jake-matthews-has-found-new-strength-after-conversion-to-islam/news-story/55f307df08c6e67e1dc92a4bfd6f13b7 \|url-status=live \|work=Code Sports \|publisher=] \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125073623/https://www.codesports.com.au/ufc/ufc-291-jake-matthews-has-found-new-strength-after-conversion-to-islam/news-story/55f307df08c6e67e1dc92a4bfd6f13b7 \|archive-date=25 November 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Walshaw \|first1=Nick \|date=29 July 2023 \|title='It's a big ask': Why Aussie star will link up with GOAT in ultimate 'dream' after UFC 291 \|url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/ufc/its-a-big-ask-why-aussie-star-will-link-up-with-goat-in-ultimate-dream-after-ufc-291/news-story/788a1d73b5ac80bdcff2244f7da1925c \|url-status=live \|work=] \|publisher=News Corp Australia \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802043201/https://www.foxsports.com.au/ufc/its-a-big-ask-why-aussie-star-will-link-up-with-goat-in-ultimate-dream-after-ufc-291/news-story/788a1d73b5ac80bdcff2244f7da1925c \|archive-date=2 August 2023 }}</ref>
			*] – American citizen, international lawyer, served in the ]. Was later issued a formal apology and $2 million settlement by the ] after being falsely linked with the ]<ref>{{Cite news\|last1=Lichtblau\|first1=Eric\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/us/30settle.html\|title=US will pay $2 million to \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date=30 November 2006\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – 13th-century tribal chief
			*] – French general under Napoleon and military governor of Egypt
			*] (born Martin Koutamadji) – Central African rebel leader.
			*] (stage name for DeMario White Jr.) – American rapper
			*] (stage name for Rekha Maruthiraj) – former Indian film actress, starred predominantly in ] films; converted to Islam in 2014<ref name="tof">"", ''The Times of India'', 31 May 2014</ref>
			*] – member of ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.giantstep.net/artists/553/bio\|title=GIANT STEP Artist: Ali Shaheed Muhammad\|publisher=Giantstep.net\|date=1 March 1902\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225031231/http://www.giantstep.net/artists/553/bio\|archive-date=25 December 2010}}</ref>
			*] (born Leo Morris) – American ] ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/biography/viewentry.php?id=3312\|title=Salaam Knowledge\|publisher=Salaam.co.uk\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] (born Jadu) – ]<ref>{{citation\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3GXOqPa67MC&pg=PA320\|title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: South Asia\|author=N. Hanif\|year=2000\|page=320\|publisher=Sarup & Sons \|isbn=9788176250870}}</ref>
			*] (born John Allen Williams) – convicted serial killer who carried out the ] of October 2002; later executed for his crimes<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/US/10/28/sproject.sniper.muhammad.profile/index.html\|publisher=CNN\|title=Muhammad a Gulf War vet, Islam convert\|date=28 October 2002}}</ref>
			*] – Australian boxer; former two-time ] champion<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.eastsideboxing.com/ade2510.html\|title=The Politics of Anthony Mundine\|publisher=Eastsideboxing.com\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – Persian poet in the 8th century, converted to Islam from Zoroastrianism
			*] – was khan of the ], division of the ] from 1280 to 1287, he converted to ] in 1280
			*] was born in Kolozsvár (present-day ], ]). He was an ] ] who converted to ]
			]]]
			*] – British Islamic scholar, author and television presenter,She converted to Islam in 1999.
			*] – French traditionalist and translator who specialized in Islamic art and Sufism.
			*] – Canadian activist and scholar. A professor of Islamic studies.
			] – French scholar of Islam, a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and a translator and writer.<ref>{{citation\|year=1995\|language=fr\|isbn=978-2226077530 \|last1=Vitray-Meyerovitch \|first1=Eva de\|first2=Rachel \|last2=Cartier \|first3=Jean-Pierre\|last3=Cartier \|title=Islam, l'autre visage : Entretiens avec Rachel et Jean-Pierre Cartier\|publisher=Albin Michel\|page=39}}</ref>
			*] – Japanese Muslim who is considered the first-ever Muslim to translate the Quran into the Japanese language.
			*] – Mixed martial artist, boxer, and submission grappler who converted to Islam in June 2024 <ref>{{cite web\|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2478565/jeffrey-monson-american-born-russian-mma-fighter-converts-to-islam\|title=Jeffrey Monson, American-born Russian MMA fighter, converts to Islam\|publisher=The Express Tribune\|date=10 July 2024}}</ref>

			===N===
			*] (c. 1530 – 12 October 1576) –Protestant pastor of Heidelberg who held Antitrinitarian views. He later converted to Islam<ref>Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: his life and his works By Helen Zimmern, pg. 312</ref> and traveled to Istanbul where he served the Ottoman Sultan.<ref>The suffering servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian sources By Bernd Janowski, Peter Stuhlmacher, pg. 425</ref>

			===O===
			*] (changed name to Shuhada' Sadaqat) – ] singer-songwriter; a former ] Roman Catholic before becoming as ] for several years and later Islam over theological reasons<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2018/10/25/singer-sinead-oconnor-converts-islam-changes-name/\|title=Singer Sinead O'Connor converts to Islam and changes her name {{!}} I Am Birmingham\|date=25 October 2018\|work=I Am Birmingham\|access-date=26 October 2018\|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-renounces-catholicism-converts-islam-161261\|title=Sinead O'Connor renounces Catholicism and converts to Islam\|last1=Lonergan\|first1=Aidan\|work=The Irish Post\|access-date=25 October 2018\|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45987127 \|access-date=26 October 2018\|work=BBC News \|date=26 October 2018 }}</ref>] ]]
			*] – German ] and aid worker who had worked in ] since 1991, and was abducted en route to Abdil, for 3 weeks. She was later quoted to have said her kidnappers did not want ransom, but German humanitarian aid<ref> {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626013536/http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=16808 \|date=26 June 2007 }}, Al Jazeera.net. Retrieved 25 March 2015.</ref>
			*] – Italian farmer, then Ottoman privateer and admiral.

			===P===
			*] – born-American citizen, known for controversial '']'' case. Padilla was arrested on allegations of intended terrorism, but was refused a trial in civilian courts, as well as a defense counsel and civilian court review; he was later convicted for 21 years in prison. Economist ] criticized the sentence as having "overthrown" the Constitution<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Sontag \|first1=Deborah \|title=Terror Suspect's Path from Streets to Brig \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/us/terror-suspect-s-path-from-streets-to-brig.html \|website=The New York Times\|date=25 April 2004 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine\|last1=Ripley\|first1=Amanda\|url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,262917,00.html\|title=The Case of the Dirty Bomber\|magazine=Time\|date=16 June 2002\|access-date=7 April 2010\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020619230823/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,262917,00.html\|archive-date=19 June 2002\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			*] – South African politician, educator and academic serving as the ] since 2019. She has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the ] (ANC) since 1994.
			*] – Australian professional rugby league player<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/north-queensland-cowboys-nrl-star-cory-paterson-converts-to-islam/story-e6frexnr-1226106289628\|title=North Queensland Cowboys NRL star Cory Paterson converts to Islam\|last1=Massoud\|first1=Josh\|date=2 August 2011\|work=]\|access-date=28 August 2013}}</ref>
			*
			*] – South African cricketer<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Jang\|first1=Online\|title=Wayne Parnell embraces Islam\|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=19624&title=South-Africa%E2%80%99s-Parnell-converts-to-Islam\|publisher=TheNews\|access-date=29 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|last1=The Express\|first1=Tribune\|title=S.African bowler Wayne Parnell converts to Islam\|date=29 July 2011\|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/219889/s-african-bowler-wayne-parnell-converts-to-islam\|publisher=News\|access-date=29 July 2011}}</ref>
			*] – Ghanaian football player<ref>{{Cite web \|date=19 March 2022 \|title=Arsenal football player Thomas Partey converts to Islam \|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220319-arsenal-football-player-thomas-partey-converts-to-islam/ \|access-date=4 June 2022 \|website=Middle East Monitor \|language=en-GB}}</ref>
			*] – radicalised extremist, pleaded guilty to his affiliations and actions with al Qaeda<ref>{{cite news\| url=http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2009Feb26/0,4675,OverseasTerrorPlot,00.html\|title=Alleged Ohio terror plotter sentenced to 20 years\|author=Stephen Majors\|publisher=Fox News\|date=26 February 2009}}</ref>
			*] (born Reino Arild Pedersen) – Danish Imam.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Ahmefirst=Akbar\|date=29 July 2017\|title=Imam Abdul Wahid Pedersen\|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/123435/imam-abdul-wahid-pedersen/\|access-date=24 March 2021\|work=Daily Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>
			*] (Abdul Mateen) – 8th ]<ref>{{cite news\|title=Islamic Britain lures top people\|newspaper=The Sunday Times\|date=22 February 2004\|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1026534.ece\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710152856/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1026534.ece\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=10 July 2010\|location=London, UK\|first1=Nicholas\|last1=Hellen\|first2=Christopher\|last2=Morgan\|access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref>
			*] (born Dennis Philips) – Jamaican-born Canadian contemporary ] teacher, speaker, and author<ref name="berger-2011">{{cite web \|last1=Berger \|first1=J.M. \|url=http://news.intelwire.com/2011/04/interview-with-bilal-philips-about.html \|title=A Conversation About Jihad With Controversial Preacher Bilal Philips \|website=news.intelwire.com \|date=19 April 2011 \|language=en \|access-date=6 July 2017 \|archive-date=12 December 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212051520/http://news.intelwire.com/2011/04/interview-with-bilal-philips-about.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>
			*] – British Islamic scholar and former Anglican clergyman, known for an English translation of the Quran<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Marmaduke Pickthall - Converted to Islam\|url=http://tellmeaboutislam.com/marmaduke-pickthall.html\|access-date=24 March 2021\|website=tellmeaboutislam.com}}</ref>
			]]]
			*] – Australian Islamic State group recruiter<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-38103439\|title=Confused Buddhist who became top jihadist\|date=25 November 2016\|access-date=11 December 2017\|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
			*] – last king of ] and the founder of ]<ref>{{citation\|url=https://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200104/beyond.the.monsoon.htm\|title=Beyond the Monsoon\|author=Douglas Bullis\|access-date=19 June 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007000513/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200104/beyond.the.monsoon.htm\|archive-date=7 October 2012\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			*] – Ottoman field marshal and governor. Born in Austrian territory to Serbian Orthodox Christian parent
			*] – was a leading figure of Sufism in Europe ,his spiritual quest led him to convert to Islam in 1951 thanks to the teachings of Titus Burckhardt.

			===Q===
			*] (born William Henry Quilliam) – British convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre.<ref>Geaves, R. (2010). {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707202928/https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Islam_in_Victorian_Britain.html%3Fid%3Duz09BAAAQBAJ%26redir_esc%3Dy \|date=7 July 2019 }}. Markfield, Kube Publishing</ref>

			===R===
			*] – American rapper, born as Corey Woods<ref>, marvinsparks.blogspot.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015.</ref>
			*] (born Neeru Bheda) – Indian dancer, model, actress.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=13 January 2023 \|title=Rakhi Sawant converts to Islam, changes name to Fatima \|url=https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/13-Jan-2023/rakhi-sawant-converts-to-islam-changes-name-to-fatima \|access-date=6 February 2023 \|website=Daily Pakistan Global \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Indian composer, musician, singer-songwriter, producer and philanthropist; he converted to Islam along with other members of his family in 1989 at age 23, changing his name from A. S. Dileep Kumar Mudhaliar to ''Allah Rakha Rahman''<ref>{{cite magazine\|author=Corliss, Richard\|date=22 February 2011\|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2044968_2052929_2053238,00.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227093201/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2044968_2052929_2053238,00.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=27 February 2011\|title=The 2011 Oscar Race: TIME Picks the Winners\|magazine=]\|access-date=26 February 2011\|author-link=Richard Corliss}}</ref><ref>{{Cite video\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEaMVY-TnvQ \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/WEaMVY-TnvQ \|archive-date=21 December 2021 \|url-status=live\|title=AR Rahman talks about his Conversion to Islam\|via=]\|access-date=5 April 2011\|location=Chennai}}{{cbignore}}</ref>]]]
			*] – Indian ]; music director from ]<ref>{{cite web\|author=Staff\|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/538037/20140210/yuvan-shankar-raja-marriage-islam-convert-yuvanshankar.htm\|title=Music Composer Yuvanshankar Raja Denies Third Marriage; Reveals he Follows Islam\|publisher=Ibtimes.co.in\|date=10 February 2014\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>
			*] (born Robert Earl Moore), U.S. pro football player and sportscaster for '']''
			*] – British citizen, who adopted militant ideologies. Popularly known as the "Shoe Bomber" after unsuccessfully attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92054&page=1\|title=Shoe Bomb Suspect Had Enough Explosives to Bring Down Plane\|date=7 January 2006\|website=ABC News\|access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref>
			*Nicky Reilly – resident of Plymouth, England, known for the ]; his psychologist says his mental disabilities (which included Asperger syndrome) made him vulnerable to radicalisation<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Box \|first1=Dan \|title=Failed Exeter bomber Nicky Reilly was 'easy target for radicalisation' \|work=BBC News \|date=26 November 2018 \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-46344833 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|author=Jo Adetunji and agencies\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/oct/15/uksecurity\|title=Man pleads guilty to attempted restaurant suicide bombing\|work=The Guardian\|date=15 October 2008\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>
			*] (born Lorenzo Patterson) – American rapper and hip-hop producer<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/962/000095677\|title=MC Ren\|publisher=Nndb.com\|date=2 December 2000\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – ] player<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:WAFP&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11EEAA834643F160&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815\|title=Ribery making his mark in Germany\|date=19 February 2008\|access-date=11 March 2009\|publisher=]\|agency=]\|first1=Yannick\|last1=Pasquet}}</ref>
			*] (born Tom Robertson) – English singer<ref name="awakeningentertainment">{{cite web\|url=http://www.awakening.org/entertainment/theartists/artist_hamza.htm\|title=Hamza Robertson\|publisher=Awakening.org\|access-date=28 August 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327055601/http://www.awakening.org/entertainment/theartists/artist_hamza.htm\|archive-date=27 March 2012}}</ref>
			*] – British-born migrant in Sydney. Former member of the ] sect, involved in its militant schemes, Roche later chose to divulge his information (of plots such as the ], the ], etc.) to ASIO officers, but his calls were dismissed. Later convicted for 4-years, Roche has left the lifestyle behind but remains critical of the ASIO's failure to prevent the attacks<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Neighbour \|first1=Sally \|title=My life as a terrorist \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/my-life-as-a-terrorist/news-story/3a86b8be718ade5db0f94e32808d9215 \|website=The Australian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=McGeown\|first1=Kate\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3757017.stm\|title=Jack Roche: The naive militant\|work=BBC News\|date=1 June 2004\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – a ] fighter who converted to Islam shortly after marrying his Muslim wife, Aida Looksaikongdin.
			*] – Filipino footballer, he decided to convert to Islam from Catholicism<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.suaramerdeka.com/bola/0410295742/mualaf-berganti-nama-yasir-ali-bek-persita-christian-rontini-menemukan-damai-dalam-agama-islam\|title=Mualaf Berganti Nama Yasir Ali; Bek Persita Christian Rontini Menemukan Damai dalam Agama Islam\|website=www.suaramerdeka.com\|language=id\|publisher=Suara Merdeka\|first=Ahmad\|last=Rifki\|trans-title=Convert to Islam Changes Name Yasir Ali; Persita defender Christian Rontini finds peace in Islam\|access-date=24 July 2024\|date=26 September 2023}}</ref>
			*] – Italian publisher, anarchist, and prolific author, her experience living briefly in ], Egypt, cemented her interest in Eastern ideas and led to her studying the ] and converting to ]

			===S===
			*] – historian, bureaucrat, and writer of ]<ref>Sourdel, D. ''Hilāl''. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.</ref>
			*] – established the first Muslim state of ]<ref>Thomas Walker Arnold, ''The Preaching of Islam'', p. 297.<!-- publishing info and ISBN needed --></ref>
			*] – formerly the world's most wanted terrorist; popularly known as "Carlos the Jackal"<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3022358.stm\|title='Jackal' book praises Bin Laden\|work=BBC News\|date=26 June 2003\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – radicalised individual arrested on suspected links with the 2006 UK transatlantic aircraft plot<ref name="BBC_converts">{{Cite magazine\|last1=Farouky\|first1=Jumana\|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1225687,00.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813072830/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1225687,00.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=13 August 2006\|title=Profiling the Suspects: Converts to Islam\|magazine=Time\|date=11 August 2006\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – American ], ], and author<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/articles/conversion_schwartz.htm\|title=conversion article by journalist Steven Schwartz\|publisher=Naqshbandi.org\|access-date=7 April 2010\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509005924/http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/articles/conversion_schwartz.htm\|archive-date=9 May 2010}}</ref>
			*] – Dutch former professional football players, widely seen as one of the greatest midfielders of all time.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Clarence Seedorf becomes Muslim but what other football players have converted to Islam? \|url=https://www.islamchannel.tv/blog-posts/clarence-seedorf-became-muslim-but-what-other-football-players-are-converts-to-islam \|access-date=4 June 2022 \|website=islamchannel.tv}}</ref>
			*] (born Dharam Chand Chib) – former Governor of Kashmir and Kandahar<ref>{{citation\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWEbAQAAMAAJ\|page=72\|title=Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics - Volume 11\|last1=Hastings\|first1=James\|last2=Selbie\|first2=John Alexander\|last3=Gray\|first3=Louis Herbert\|year=1961}}</ref>
			*] – U.S. resident of Chicago, arrested for attempted terror plot in ] in ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16110298\|title=Illinois man arrested for alleged bomb plot\|publisher=NBC News\|date=8 December 2006\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] (born Edmund Gregory) – American jazz saxophonist and flautist<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.emusic.com/artist/Sahib-Shihab-MP3-Download/11736427.html\|title=Sahib Shihab, MP3 Music Download\|publisher=Emusic.com\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] − ] Islamic cleric and author affiliated with ]<ref name="Au"> ''The Australian''. Retrieved 18 October 2017.</ref>
			*] - Bosnian actor
			*] – well known political, religious and revolutionary scholar<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.sindhidunya.com/the-influential-politician-maulana-ubaidullah-sindhi/\|title=The Influential Politician: Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi\|date=11 January 2016\|website=Sindhidunya.com\|access-date=11 December 2017\|archive-date=21 June 2018\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621195449/https://www.sindhidunya.com/the-influential-politician-maulana-ubaidullah-sindhi/\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
			*] – Anglo-Austrian soldier and colonial administrator of Sudan<ref name="Ringhoffer">{{Cite web \|author= Ringhoffer, E. \|title= Slatin \|language= de \|url= http://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon/133-boehmen/2225-lex-slatin.html \|access-date=28 December 2009 \|url-status= dead \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033514/http://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon/133-boehmen/2225-lex-slatin.html \|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
			*] – British politician<ref name="bbc2">{{cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48069763\|title=The British Victorians who became Muslims\|work=BBC News\|date=18 May 2019\|access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref>
			*] – American hip hop musician<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30232586_ITM\|title=Divine Styler: Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light Colorlines Magazine\|publisher=Accessmylibrary.com\|date=1 March 2007\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] (born Ian Dallas) – Scottish convert, a ], leader of the ], founder of the ].<ref>{{cite web\|last=Henderson \|first=Barney \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/7271752/Radical-Muslim-leader-has-past-in-swinging-London.html \|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/7271752/Radical-Muslim-leader-has-past-in-swinging-London.html \|archive-date=12 January 2022 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|title=Radical Muslim leader has past in swinging London \|work=The Telegraph\|date=20 February 2010 \|access-date=5 May 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
			*] – ] artist<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.mp3.com/artist/one-be-lo/summary/ \|title=One Be Lo MP3 Downloads – One Be Lo Music Downloads – One Be Lo Music Videos – One Be Lo Pictures \|publisher=MP3.com \|access-date=7 April 2010 \|archive-date=19 October 2008 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019234247/http://www.mp3.com/artist/one-be-lo/summary/ \|url-status=dead }}</ref>
			*] (born Suman Chattopadhyay) – Indian singer-songwriter, musician, music director, poet, journalist, political activist, TV presenter, and occasional actor; he stated, "I wanted to keep the name my parents gave me, so I kept Suman. I took the name Kabir after Sheikh Kabir, a ] poet who wrote ''Baishnab Padabali''."<ref name="telegraphindia.com">{{cite news\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070902/asp/7days/story_8265265.asp\|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912050102/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070902/asp/7days/story_8265265.asp\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=12 September 2012\|title='I am a polygamous man. Maybe I'm still searching for love': Kabir Suman\|work=The Telegraph\|location=Kolkota\|access-date=18 March 2015\|date=2 September 2007}}</ref>
			*] – legendary king, said to be the first ], according to ]. He was the last Hindu ], styled ''Sri Paduka Maharaja Durbar Raja'' before his accession. After his conversion to ], he later became the founder of the ].<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Iskandar \|first1=Yusoff \|title=The Malay Sultanate of Malacca: A Study of Various Aspects of Malacca in the 15th and 16th Centuries in Malaysian History \|date=1992 \|publisher=Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Ministry of Education Malaysia \|isbn=978-983-62-2841-3 \|page=169 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYMuAQAAIAAJ&q=Sultan%20Mudzafar%20Shah%20I%20islam \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] (born John Gilbert Lennard) – British convert.<ref>''Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty-First Century Pakistan'' By Robert Rozehnal, pg.60</ref>
			*] – Jewish poet and diplomat, born in 1212–3 to a Jewish family in Seville
			*] – He was the first Chagatai Khan to convert to Islam
			*] – French writer, poet, painter, playwright, art critic, choreographer, lecturer and journalist. She is primarily known for being the first woman to have written a ]. She converted to Islam and moved to Egypt where she died and was buried right next to Imam al-Shafii.
			*] – A Maronite Christian by birth, was an Ottoman scholar, writer and journalist who grew up in what is now Lebanon
			*] – Japanese-born Indonesian; she was one of the wives of the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno.
			*] – He is a British photographer ,He converted to Islam in 1971.

			===T===
			*] (born Malla Yugandharudu) – Vizier of the ]
			*] (stage name for Begum Ayesha Sultana) – Indian actress<ref>{{cite news\|title=Celebrities who converted to Islam\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/photo-features/celebrities-who-converted-to-islam/photostory/30985658.cms\|access-date=24 March 2021\|website=The Times of India}}</ref>
			]]]
			*] – retired American-British kickboxing champion and ].
			*] – ] and son of ]<ref>Ibn Khallikān, ''Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary'', p. 45.</ref>
			*] – former Swedish poker player<ref>, ''Aftonbladet''. Retrieved 25 March 2015.</ref>
			*] (born 1964) – American Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician; later converted back to Christianity
			*] – ]an politician<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/193221\|title=Tvnz.co.nz\|publisher=Tvnz.co.nz\|date=27 May 2003\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – New Zealand rugby player<ref>{{cite web\|date=28 March 2019\|title=Sonny Bill Williams' mother and All Black teammate Ofa Tu'ungafasi have converted to Islam\|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/news/latest-news/sonny-bill-williams-mother-and-ofa-tuungafasi-convert-to-islam-40912}}</ref>
			*] – American boxer; performer<ref name="The New York Times 1994-11-13">{{cite news\|title=The Tyson, Olajuwon Connection\|date=13 November 1994\|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E3D81731F930A25752C1A962958260\|newspaper=]\|access-date=14 March 2008\|first1=Dave\|last1=Anderson}}</ref>
			*] (born Andreas Tzortzis) – British public speaker and researcher on Islam. He is known for his book: ''The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Farooqui\|first=Ayaz\|date=9 August 2016\|title=ISIS are spiritually diseased, sick people: Hamza Tzortzis, UK preacher named in NIA chargesheet\|url=https://news.abplive.com/news/india/isis-are-spiritually-diseased-sick-people-hamza-tzortzis-uk-preacher-named-in-nia-chargesheet-395372\|access-date=28 June 2021\|website=news.abplive.com\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|last=Shaker\|date=21 May 2015\|title=About me\|url=https://www.hamzatzortzis.com/about-me/\|access-date=9 January 2021\|website=Hamza Andreas Tzortzis\|language=en-US}}</ref>
			]]]
			*] – He is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist ,He converted to Islam in 1990.

			===U===
			*] (born James Earnest Thompson) – social activist/entrepreneur from Seattle, known for helping black youth; established the Bly training camp; accused of militant intentions, but allegations were negated; later convicted for violating IEEPA, by installing software for a friend, to use on a computer owned by the Taliban<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Carter\|first1=Mike\|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2009127495_ujaama27m.html\|title=Seattle militant to testify in high-stakes terror trial\|work=The Seattle Times\|access-date=3 August 2014}}</ref>

			===V===
			*] – former Dutch politician who attempted to ban mosques and all Islamic practices from ]; after working on a book to conclusively 'disprove' Islam, Joram's research (and discussions with ]) drastically changed his views, he later converted to Islam<ref>{{cite news\|title=Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders' ex-ally converts to Islam\|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/dutch-leader-geert-wilders-ally-converts-islam-190205175958375.html\|access-date=5 May 2021\|website=Aljazeera.com\|date=6 February 2019}}</ref>]]]
			*] – ]-] football coach<ref>, ''The Guardian''.</ref>
			*] – Hispanic American, once joined al Qaeda training camps, later turning on them to help the US, in attempt to turn his life around; his prosecutors called him the "single most valuable cooperating witness" about Qaeda activities; his judge was angered when, after a 3-month sentence, the FBI refused to provide him witness-protection<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Goldman \|first1=Adam \|title=He Turned on Al Qaeda and Aided the U.S. Now He's on Food Stamps and Needs a Job \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/bryant-neal-vinas-terrorism-cooperation-fbi-witness-protection.html \|work=The New York Times\|date=6 March 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine\|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1912512,00.html\|title=Bryant Neal Vinas: An American in Al Qaeda\|author=Claire Suddath\|magazine=Time\|date=24 July 2009}}</ref>
			*] – ] diplomat and author
			*] – German former boxer, now an Islamic preacher<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/world/europe/15germany.html\|work=The New York Times\|first1=Alan\|last1=Cowell\|first2=Michael\|last2=Slackman\|title=German Authorities Raid Islamic Groups in 3 States\|date=14 December 2010}}</ref>
			]]]
			*] – Siamese-born French lawyer and anti-colonial activist.

			===W===
			*] – New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/27/sport/sonny-bill-williams-rugby-new-zealand/.\|title=Sonny Bill Williams: Islam brings me happiness\|author1=Gary Morley\|author2=Neil Curry\|date=27 November 2013 \|publisher=CNN\|access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref>]]]
			*] – Dutch citizen, former member of the ], convicted on acts of terror; currently writing his Master's thesis about de-radicalisation, and is an active speaker against radical zealotry, as an Analyst at Blue Water Intelligence<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://blue-water-intelligence.com/medewerkers/jason-walters \|website=Blue Water Intelligence\|title=Jason Walters\|access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref><ref>, the Dutch foreign minister bans convicted Hofstadgroep terrorists from any financial transactions, by Rien Meijer and Bart Mos, '']'', 20 April 2006 (Dutch)</ref>
			*] – American diplomat and writer<ref>{{cite book \| last=Webb \| first=Mohammed Alexander Russell \| author-link=Alexander Russell Webb \| year=1893 \| title=Islam in America \| publisher=The Oriental Publishing Co.}}</ref>
			*] – Canadian singer songwriter.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Wharnsby Finds Loving Audience Among Muslims\|url=https://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/2000/11/wharnsby-finds-loving-audience-among-muslims.aspx\|access-date=24 March 2021\|website=beliefnet.com\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] (a.k.a. Abdul Hakim Murad) – English convert who is the Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at ], ].<ref name="Sufism in Britain">{{cite book \|last1=Geaves\|first1=Ron\|last2=Theodore\|first2=Gabriel\|title=Sufism in Britain\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AbuOAQAAQBAJ&q=Muhammad+Al-Ninowy&pg=PA172\|year=2013\|publisher=Bloomsbury 3PL\|page=172\|isbn=978-1441112613}}</ref>
			*] – American comics writer.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Journal\|first=Samara Kalk Derby {{!}} Wisconsin State\|title=Author G. Willow Wilson talks faith and creating a Muslim superhero\|url=https://madison.com/entertainment/books/author-g-willow-wilson-talks-faith-and-creating-a-muslim-superhero/article_5b59ebd9-8e92-54b7-81aa-e9714c2a0744.html\|access-date=25 March 2021\|website=madison.com\|date=7 April 2019 \|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week806/profile.html\|title=Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly\|publisher=PBS\|date=8 October 2004\|access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref>
			*] – American Muslim theologian. In 1972, she converted to Islam, while a student at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="voice">{{cite book \|editor-last= Kamrava\|editor-first= Mehran\|last=Wadud\|first=Amina\|date= 2006\|title= The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity: A Reader\|chapter=Aishah's Legacy: The Struggle for Women's Rights within Islam\|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SI50zP_dhEwC&q=University%20of%20Pennsylvania%20amina%20wadud&pg=PA201\|publisher= University of California Press\|page= 201\|isbn= 0520250990}}</ref>

			===X===
			*] (1925–1965) (born Malcolm Little) – ] ] leader and activist<ref>Ali, p.{{nbsp}}61.</ref>
			]

			===Y===
			*] – ] preacher and ]<ref>{{cite web\| title=Islam Events - Sheikh Hussain Yee Biography\| url=https://www.islamevents.com/speakers/speaker_detail.php?spid=37\| access-date=9 January 2021\| website=islamevents.com\| archive-date=30 March 2022\| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330050559/https://www.islamevents.com/speakers/speaker_detail.php?spid=37\| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|title=Hussein Yee – How he came to Islam {{!}} Dawah Monthly Magazine\|url=http://dawahmonthly.com/2016/02/hussein-yee-how-he-came-to-islam/\|access-date=9 January 2021\|language=en-US}}</ref>
			]]]
			*] – Malaysian supermodel, former ''Playboy'' Bunny<ref> (). '']''. Retrieved 15 September 2014.</ref><ref>, ''Toronto Star''. Retrieved 25 March 2015.</ref>
			*] – American scientist and researcher based in Singapore<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boh\|first=Samantha\|date=24 December 2015\|title=Singapore-based scientist wins top science and technology award of Islamic world\|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-based-scientist-wins-top-science-and-technology-award-of-islamic-world\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=30 July 2020\|website=The Straits Times\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] (born Joseph Youhana) – former Pakistani cricketer<ref name="yousuf_cricinfo">{{citation\|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/43650.html\|title=Mohammad Yousuf profile\|publisher=ESPNcricinfo\|access-date=9 February 2007}}</ref>
			*] (born Mark Hanson) – American Islamic preacher<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Convert Plays Leadership Role in Muslim Community\|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6057297\|access-date=26 April 2021\|website=NPR.org\|language=en}}</ref>
			*] – Japanese Islamic and Judaic scholar known for being the first Japanese pilgrim to Mecca.
			*] – vigilante, local hero, and saboteur who was active in Malaya.
			*] – American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain.

			===Z===
			* ] – American master of ], best known for his work on the popular ] U.S. postage stamp<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Goodstein\|first=Laurie\|date=20 November 2001\|title=U.S. Muslims Push Stamp As Symbol of Acceptance (Published 2001)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/20/us/us-muslims-push-stamp-as-symbol-of-acceptance.html\|access-date=10 January 2021\|issn=0362-4331\|archive-date=11 April 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411025111/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/20/us/us-muslims-push-stamp-as-symbol-of-acceptance.html\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|title=Saudi Aramco World : The World of Mohamed Zakariya\|url=https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199201/the.world.of.mohamed.zakariya.htm\|access-date=10 January 2021\|website=archive.aramcoworld.com\|archive-date=1 October 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001184633/https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199201/the.world.of.mohamed.zakariya.htm\|url-status=live}}</ref>

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A

Aminah Assilmi (born Janice Huff) – former Southern Baptist preacher who converted to Islam while attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.
Hamza Ali Abbasi – former Pakistani actor, converted to Islam from atheism.
Abd Al Malik (born Régis Fayette-Mikano) – French rapper and poet.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer.
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – (born Chris Wayne Jackson) – American former professional basketball player.
Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland) – American jazz trumpeter.
Noor Hisham Abdullah – Malaysian Director-General of Health in leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic; born Yew Ming Seong.
Thomas J. Abercrombie – photographer and writer for National Geographic.
Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) – American citizen, and Sergeant, diagnosed with psychiatric problems, later sentenced to death for an attack of resentment.
Shaheed Akbar (a.k.a. The Jacka, born Dominick Newton) – American rapper.
Akhenaton – French rapper and producer; born Philippe Fragione.
Aisha al-Adawiya – American interfaith activist and founder of Women in Islam
Baba Ali – Iranian-born American film developer, games developer, and businessman.
Muhammad Ali (formerly known by his birth name Cassius Clay) – professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.
Muhammad Ali
Sadeq Ali (born Sri Gaur Kishore Sen) – Bengali author.
Nicolas Anelka – French football manager and former player.
Lewis Arquette – American actor; father of actors David, Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis, and Richmond Arquette; son of Cliff Arquette.
Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss) – Austro-Hungarian born Deputy Secretary in the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan, known for an English translation of the Quran.
Ziaur Rahman Azmi (born Banke Lal) – author, scholar, professor and former Dean of the Department of Hadith at Islamic University of Madinah.
Ivan Aguéli – Swedish wandering Sufi, painter and author.
Malik Ambar – Siddi military leader, who served as the Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate.
Campbell Mustafa Ağa – Scottish convert to Islam who from 1775 was the chief instructor in the new Ottoman naval mathematical academy (the Hendishâne).
Claude Alexandre, Count of Bonneval – French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.
Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi – born Joseph Anthelme Sève, was a French-born Egyptian commander.
Edoardo Agnelli – was the eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat S.p.A.,He converted to Shia Islam when he was living in New York City

B

David Benjamin – Chaldean Catholic priest known for his book Muhammad in Bible.
B.G. Knocc Out (stage name for Al Hasan Naqiyy, born Arlandis Hinton) – American rapper.
Kristiane Backer – German television presenter.
A. George Baker – American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam.
Yasin Abu Bakr (born Lennox Philip) – leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago.
Mutah Beale – better known as Napoleon, former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz.
Lutfunnisa Begum (born Rajkunwari) – consort of the Nawab of Bengal.
Maurice Béjart – French choreographer.
Robert "Kool" Bell – American musician.
Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador.
Wojciech Bobowski – Polish musician; Bible translator.
Lauren Booth – British broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.
Charles Brooks, Jr. – first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection, converted to Islam in prison, shortly before death.
H. Rap Brown – American civil rights activist.
Jonathan A.C. Brown – American Islamic scholar and assistant professor at Georgetown University.
Jonathan A.C. Brown
Maurice Bucaille – French family physician of King Faisal. It is disputed whether he ever converted, and if he did, whether he publicly declared his conversion. He is reported in a 2013 Arab News newspaper article, "In his excitement, he stood before the attendants and loudly said, 'I have converted to Islam and believed in this Qur'an'"; however, no references are given. In other articles and videos he was normally very careful not to claim allegiance to any one faith.
Abdullah ibn Buhaina (born Arthur Blakey) – American musician, also known as Arthur "Art" Blakey, American jazz drummer and bandleader; stopped being a practicing Muslim in the 1950s and continued to perform under the name "Art Blakey" throughout his career.
Titus Burckhardt – Swiss writer and scholar.
Berke – grandson of Genghis Khan, a Mongol military commander and ruler of the Golden Horde, who was responsible for the first official establishment of Islam in a khanate of the Mongol Empire.
Khalid Yahya Blankinship – American historian who specializes in Islamic and middle eastern studies.
Harun el-Raschid Bey – During the First World War, he converted to Islam while serving with the general staff of the Ottoman Empire.
Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley – convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam.

C

Celestino Caballero – Panamanian boxer and former Super Bantamweight Champion.
Dave Chappelle – American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist.
Kérim Chatty – Swedish bodybuilding stuntman
Ashley Chin – British actor and rapper.
Zainab Cobbold (born Lady Evelyn Murray) – Scottish noblewoman.
Louis du Couret – French explorer, writer and military officer.
Mustafa Celalettin Pasha – Polish noble who served in the Ottoman army for nearly 25 years.
Robert Dickson Crane – American activist. He was an adviser to President Richard Nixon and was the deputy director for planning of the United States National Security Council.

D

Uri Davis – Middle East academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East
Bob Denard – French mercenary.
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.
Diam's – French rapper, born Mélanie Georgiades, converted in 2010.
Nasreddine Dinet (born Alphonse-Étienne Dinet) – French orientalist painter, converted to Islam in 1908.
Deso Dogg (Abu Talha al-Almani, born Denis Cuspert) – former German rapper who departed Germany to fight in Syria.
Arnoud van Doorn – Dutch politician.
Vivian Dsena – Indian television actor
Dutchavelli (stage name for Stephan Allen) – British rapper.
Nooruddeen Durkee – Muslim scholar, thinker, author, translator, and the Khalifah (successor) for North America of the Shadhdhuli School for Tranquility of Being and the Illumination of Hearts, Green Mountain Branch.
Maria Massi Dakake – American scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.
Merryl Wyn Davies – Welsh Muslim scholar, writer and broadcaster who specialised in Islam.

E

Dave East – American rapper and actor.
Isabelle Eberhardt – Swiss explorer and writer.
Keith Ellison – American politician and lawyer; first Muslim to be elected to Congress and the first African American representative from Minnesota.
Keith Ellison
Everlast (stage name for Erik Schrody) – American rapper and singer-songwriter.
Yusuf Estes (born Joseph Estes) – American preacher and founder of Guide US TV.

Baron Umar Rolf von Ehrenfels – prominent Muslim of Austrian origin.
George Bethune English – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.

F

Alys Faiz (formerly Alys George) – human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
Amanda Figueras – Spanish journalist for El Mundo and a writer.
Michael Finton – radicalised individual, attempted to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building to protest the Afghan war. Finton's local mosque condemned and disassociated from his ideologies.
Jaime Fletcher – American film maker and founder of IslamInSpanish.
Patrice Lumumba Ford (of the Portland Seven) – part of a group based in the U.S. Arrested for charges of terrorism, Ford's representative claimed the arrests were a governmental strategy to cover-up America's activities in foreign wars.
Myriam François – English-French writer and broadcaster.
Sultaana Freeman (born Sandra Michele Keller) – Florida woman, popular in a local controversy for wearing face veil in drivers-license picture.
Bjorn Fortuin – South African professional cricketer. On 24 April 2021, Fortuin reverted to Islam.

G

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Gorilla Nems – American rapper, content creator, entrepreneur and web series' host
Jemima Goldsmith – British socialite and ex-wife of Imran Khan.
Juan Carlos Gomez – Cuban former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.
Khalid Gonçalves – Portuguese American actor and musician (born Paul Pires Gonçalves), convert to Islam from Catholicism.
Abdur Raheem Green (born Anthony Green) – British Islamic preacher and founder of iERA
Philippe Grenier – French doctor; first Muslim MP in France
Gigi Gryce – American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator
René Guénon – French perennial philosopher, first adopted Islam in 1912, he insisted on recalling that the purely religious concept of an immediate conversion did not apply to his case, indicating he had previous acquaintance with the Islamic faith.
Roger Garaudy – French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982.
Faris Glubb – was a British writer, journalist, translator and publisher.
Bruno Guiderdoni – He is a French astrophysicist ,He converted to Islam in 1987 after being introduced to it in Morocco.

H

Gibril Haddad – Lebanese-born Islamic scholar, hadith expert (muhaddith), author, and translator of classical Islamic texts
Joel Hayward – New Zealand-born British scholar of Islam
Walt Hazzard (Islamic name Mahdi Abdul-Rahman) – former NBA player and college basketball coach
Yusuf Hazziez – American musician, born Joseph Arrington, Jr.; formerly known professionally as Joe Tex
Aribert Heim – Austrian SS doctor, also known as Dr. Death
Murad Wilfried Hofmann – German diplomat and author who converted from Catholic Christianity.
Tony Hussein Hinde – Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam
Baba Ratan Hindi – Indian merchant
Lim Yew Hock – Singapore's second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959
Knud Holmboe – Danish journalist, author and explorer
István Horthy Jr. – Hungarian physicist and architect also known as Sharif Horthy.
Ahmed Huber – Swiss-German journalist and convert to Islam, who was active in both Islamist and far-right politics, including with Neo-Nazism.

I

Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Brand) – South African jazz musician
Rebeka Ibrahima (born Rebeka Koha) – Latvian-born Qatari weightlifter, two time Junior World Champion and two time European Champion.
Yusuf Islam – English singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and activist; born Steven Demetre Georgiou; known professionally as Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens
Abu Izzadeen (born Trevor Brooks) – English-born extremist and hate-preacher, spokesman for Al Ghurabaa
Muhammad Hussain Inoki (born Kanji Inoki) – Japanese retired professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.
Kyrie Irving – American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA.
Antoni Aleksander Iliński – Polish-Ottoman military officer and general. A Polish independence activist and insurgen

J

Fatimah Jackson – American biologist and anthropologist, professor of biology at Howard University and Director of its Cobb Research Laboratory.
Stephen Jackson – American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Tiara Jacquelina – Malaysian actress
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Jones) – American jazz pianist
Maryam Jameelah – formerly Margret Marcus; author of many books covering several subjects, including modernism, sociology, history, jihad, theology and technology
Jan Janszoon – Dutch pirate, later sent his son to America, to become one of the first settlers of modern-day Brooklyn (called New Amsterdam at the time)
Larry Johnson – retired American professional basketball player
Gustave-Henri Jossot (Islamic name Abdul Karim Jossot) – French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter

K

Malik Kafur (d. 1316) – military commander of Alauddin Khalji
Kevin Lee – American professional mixed martial artist.
Dipika Kakar – Indian television actress
Frédéric Kanouté – French Malian former football player
Frédéric Kanouté
Peter Kassig – American aid worker, formerly a Methodist, converted to Islam and changed name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig; taken hostage and killed by The Islamic State
Mudzaffar Shah I of Kedah – founder of the Kedah Sultanate
Khalid Kelly – former leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland
Saida Miller Khalifa – British author, originally named Sonya Miller
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (born Yvette Blanche Labrousse) – Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III
Malik Jahan Khan (born Dhondia Wagh) – 18th-century military soldier and adventurer
Murshid Quli Khan (born Surya Narayan Mishra) – First Nawab of Bengal (r. 1717–1727)
Vladimir Khodov – militant zealot who converted to Islam in prison, and was the leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis
Abd al Haqq Kielan – Swedish cleric
Shaun King – American Black Lives Matter activist
James Achilles Kirkpatrick – British Resident in Hyderabad
Rebeka Koha – Latvian weightlifter
Kollegah – German rapper
Pavel Kosolapov – radical Russian rebel wanted by the Federal Security Service of Russia for suspected extremist activities
Thomas Keith – Scottish POW who converted to Islam and joined the Ottoman army. He died in 1815 as governor of Medina while fighting the rising power of the Saudi dynasty
Halima Krausen – is a German Muslim leader, theologian and scholar.
Nuh Ha Mim Keller – American Islamic scholar, teacher and author,studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and the UCLA, converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism in 1977.
Kōhan Kawauchi – Japanese screenwriter who created various tokusatsu series; Kawauchi converted to Islam in 1959.
Yuri Kochiyama – American civil rights activist,In 1971, Kochiyama secretly converted to Sunni Islam.
Ayyub Axel Köhler – Köhler converted to Sunni Islam in 1963 at the age of 25 during his student days.

L

Lil Jon – American rapper, DJ, and record producer
Colleen LaRose – American citizen, known for having adopted radicalised ideologies and conspiring a plot against Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks
Yusef Lateef – American jazz musician
Johann von Leers – advisor to Mohamed Naguib and head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism
Gary Legenhausen – American philosopher and writer
Lil Durk (stage name for Durk Banks) – American drill rapper
Lin Nu – Chinese scholar of the Ming dynasty who converted to Islam after visiting Persia. He went on to marry a Persian or Arab woman and brought her back to Quanzhou in Fujian province
Lie Kiat Teng – Indonesian doctor and politician, former Minister of Health (1953–1955)
Martin Lings – British intellectual and author
Omar Ong Yoke Lin (1917–2010) – Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association
Aisha Lemu – British-born author and religious educator who converted to Islam in 1961.
Alexander Litvinenko – British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service,allegedly converted to Islam in Britain and was rumoured to have told his father he had converted to Islam on his death bed.
Umar Lee – American writer, media personality, and political activist.

M

Malikussaleh (born Merah Silu) – founder of the Samudera Pasai Sultanate (r. 1267–1297)
Mohamed Mahdi Marboua (born Timothée Marboua) – Central African military officer and politician.
Khalid Masood (born Adrian Russel Elms) – British citizen, with a history of once heavy-drinking and drug-use, later adopted extremist beliefs; perpetrator of the 2017 Westminster attack
Jake Matthews – Australian mixed martial arts fighter. Converted in 2023.
Brandon Mayfield – American citizen, international lawyer, served in the United States Army Reserve. Was later issued a formal apology and $2 million settlement by the U.S. government after being falsely linked with the 2004 Madrid train bombings
Ali Mech – 13th-century tribal chief
Jacques-François Menou – French general under Napoleon and military governor of Egypt
Abdoulaye Miskine (born Martin Koutamadji) – Central African rebel leader.
Moneybagg Yo (stage name for DeMario White Jr.) – American rapper
Monica (stage name for Rekha Maruthiraj) – former Indian film actress, starred predominantly in Tamil language films; converted to Islam in 2014
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – member of A Tribe Called Quest
Idris Muhammad (born Leo Morris) – American jazz musician
Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah (born Jadu) – Sultan of Bengal
John Allen Muhammad (born John Allen Williams) – convicted serial killer who carried out the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002; later executed for his crimes
Anthony Mundine – Australian boxer; former two-time Super Middleweight champion
Ibn al-Muqaffa' – Persian poet in the 8th century, converted to Islam from Zoroastrianism
Tode Mongke – was khan of the Golden Horde, division of the Mongol Empire from 1280 to 1287, he converted to Islam in 1280
Ibrahim Muteferrika was born in Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He was an ethnic Hungarian Unitarian who converted to Islam

Rebecca Masterton – British Islamic scholar, author and television presenter,She converted to Islam in 1999.
Jean-Louis Michon – French traditionalist and translator who specialized in Islamic art and Sufism.
Ingrid Mattson – Canadian activist and scholar. A professor of Islamic studies.
Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch – French scholar of Islam, a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and a translator and writer.
Ryoichi Mita – Japanese Muslim who is considered the first-ever Muslim to translate the Quran into the Japanese language.
Jeff Monson – Mixed martial artist, boxer, and submission grappler who converted to Islam in June 2024

N

Adam Neuser (c. 1530 – 12 October 1576) –Protestant pastor of Heidelberg who held Antitrinitarian views. He later converted to Islam and traveled to Istanbul where he served the Ottoman Sultan.

O

Sinéad O'Connor (changed name to Shuhada' Sadaqat) – Irish singer-songwriter; a former excommunicated Roman Catholic before becoming as Nondenominational Trinitarian Christian for several years and later Islam over theological reasons
Sinéad O'Connor
Susanne Osthoff – German archaeologist and aid worker who had worked in Iraq since 1991, and was abducted en route to Abdil, for 3 weeks. She was later quoted to have said her kidnappers did not want ransom, but German humanitarian aid
Occhiali – Italian farmer, then Ottoman privateer and admiral.

P

José Padilla – born-American citizen, known for controversial Rumsfeld v. Padilla case. Padilla was arrested on allegations of intended terrorism, but was refused a trial in civilian courts, as well as a defense counsel and civilian court review; he was later convicted for 21 years in prison. Economist Paul Craig Roberts criticized the sentence as having "overthrown" the Constitution
Naledi Pandor – South African politician, educator and academic serving as the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation since 2019. She has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994.
Cory Paterson – Australian professional rugby league player
Wayne Parnell – South African cricketer
Thomas Partey – Ghanaian football player
Christopher Paul – radicalised extremist, pleaded guilty to his affiliations and actions with al Qaeda
Abdul Wahid Pedersen (born Reino Arild Pedersen) – Danish Imam.
Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen) – 8th Earl of Yarborough
Bilal Philips (born Dennis Philips) – Jamaican-born Canadian contemporary Muslim teacher, speaker, and author
Marmaduke Pickthall – British Islamic scholar and former Anglican clergyman, known for an English translation of the Quran

Neil Prakash – Australian Islamic State group recruiter
Parameswara (king) – last king of Singapura and the founder of Malacca
Omar Pasha – Ottoman field marshal and governor. Born in Austrian territory to Serbian Orthodox Christian parent
Abd al Wahid Pallavicini – was a leading figure of Sufism in Europe ,his spiritual quest led him to convert to Islam in 1951 thanks to the teachings of Titus Burckhardt.

Q

Abdullah Quilliam (born William Henry Quilliam) – British convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre.

R

Raekwon – American rapper, born as Corey Woods
Rakhi Sawant (born Neeru Bheda) – Indian dancer, model, actress.
A. R. Rahman – Indian composer, musician, singer-songwriter, producer and philanthropist; he converted to Islam along with other members of his family in 1989 at age 23, changing his name from A. S. Dileep Kumar Mudhaliar to Allah Rakha Rahman
A. R. Rahman
Yuvan Shankar Raja – Indian musician; music director from Tamil Nadu
Ahmad Rashad (born Robert Earl Moore), U.S. pro football player and sportscaster for The NFL on NBC
Richard Reid – British citizen, who adopted militant ideologies. Popularly known as the "Shoe Bomber" after unsuccessfully attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight
Nicky Reilly – resident of Plymouth, England, known for the 2008 Exeter attempted bombing; his psychologist says his mental disabilities (which included Asperger syndrome) made him vulnerable to radicalisation
MC Ren (born Lorenzo Patterson) – American rapper and hip-hop producer
Franck Ribéry – France national football team player
Hamza Robertson (born Tom Robertson) – English singer
Jack Roche – British-born migrant in Sydney. Former member of the Jemaah Islamiyah sect, involved in its militant schemes, Roche later chose to divulge his information (of plots such as the September 11 attacks, the 2002 Bali bombings, etc.) to ASIO officers, but his calls were dismissed. Later convicted for 4-years, Roche has left the lifestyle behind but remains critical of the ASIO's failure to prevent the attacks
Rodtang Jitmuangnon – a Muay Thai fighter who converted to Islam shortly after marrying his Muslim wife, Aida Looksaikongdin.
Christian Rontini – Filipino footballer, he decided to convert to Islam from Catholicism
Leda Rafanelli – Italian publisher, anarchist, and prolific author, her experience living briefly in Alexandria, Egypt, cemented her interest in Eastern ideas and led to her studying the Arabic language and converting to Islam

S

Hilal al-Sabi' – historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic
Malik ul Salih – established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – formerly the world's most wanted terrorist; popularly known as "Carlos the Jackal"
Ibrahim Savant – radicalised individual arrested on suspected links with the 2006 UK transatlantic aircraft plot
Stephen Schwartz – American journalist, columnist, and author
Clarence Seedorf – Dutch former professional football players, widely seen as one of the greatest midfielders of all time.
Baba Shadi Shaheed (born Dharam Chand Chib) – former Governor of Kashmir and Kandahar
Derrick Shareef – U.S. resident of Chicago, arrested for attempted terror plot in CherryVale Mall in Rockford
Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory) – American jazz saxophonist and flautist
Felix Siauw − Chinese-Indonesian Islamic cleric and author affiliated with Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia
Aleksandar Seksan - Bosnian actor
Ubaidullah Sindhi – well known political, religious and revolutionary scholar
Rudolf Slatin – Anglo-Austrian soldier and colonial administrator of Sudan
Robert Stanley (mayor) – British politician
Divine Styler – American hip hop musician
Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Dallas) – Scottish convert, a Shaykh of Instruction, leader of the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri Tariqa, founder of the Murabitun World Movement.
Nahshid Sulaiman – alternative hip hop artist
Kabir Suman (born Suman Chattopadhyay) – Indian singer-songwriter, musician, music director, poet, journalist, political activist, TV presenter, and occasional actor; he stated, "I wanted to keep the name my parents gave me, so I kept Suman. I took the name Kabir after Sheikh Kabir, a Bengali Muslim poet who wrote Baishnab Padabali."
Mudzaffar Shah I of Kedah – legendary king, said to be the first Sultan of Kedah, according to Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa. He was the last Hindu king of Kedah, styled Sri Paduka Maharaja Durbar Raja before his accession. After his conversion to Islam, he later became the founder of the Kedah Sultanate.
Shah Shahidullah Faridi (born John Gilbert Lennard) – British convert.
Ibn Sahl of Seville – Jewish poet and diplomat, born in 1212–3 to a Jewish family in Seville
Mubarak Shah (Chagatai Khan) – He was the first Chagatai Khan to convert to Islam
Valentine de Saint-Point – French writer, poet, painter, playwright, art critic, choreographer, lecturer and journalist. She is primarily known for being the first woman to have written a futurist manifesto. She converted to Islam and moved to Egypt where she died and was buried right next to Imam al-Shafii.
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq – A Maronite Christian by birth, was an Ottoman scholar, writer and journalist who grew up in what is now Lebanon
Dewi Sukarno – Japanese-born Indonesian; she was one of the wives of the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno.
Peter Sanders (photographer) – He is a British photographer ,He converted to Islam in 1971.

T

Malik Maqbul Tilangani (born Malla Yugandharudu) – Vizier of the Delhi Sultanate
Sharmila Tagore (stage name for Begum Ayesha Sultana) – Indian actress

Andrew Tate – retired American-British kickboxing champion and internet personality.
Sinan ibn Thabit – physician and son of Thābit ibn Qurra
William Thorson – former Swedish poker player
Conrad Tillard (born 1964) – American Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician; later converted back to Christianity
Apisai Tora – Fijian politician
Ofa Tuʻungafasi – New Zealand rugby player
Mike Tyson – American boxer; performer
Hamza Tzortzis (born Andreas Tzortzis) – British public speaker and researcher on Islam. He is known for his book: The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism.

Danny Thompson – He is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist ,He converted to Islam in 1990.

U

James Ujaama (born James Earnest Thompson) – social activist/entrepreneur from Seattle, known for helping black youth; established the Bly training camp; accused of militant intentions, but allegations were negated; later convicted for violating IEEPA, by installing software for a friend, to use on a computer owned by the Taliban

V

Joram van Klaveren – former Dutch politician who attempted to ban mosques and all Islamic practices from Netherlands; after working on a book to conclusively 'disprove' Islam, Joram's research (and discussions with Timothy Winter) drastically changed his views, he later converted to Islam
Joram van Klaveren
Jorvan Vieira – Luso-Brazilian football coach
Bryant Neal Vinas – Hispanic American, once joined al Qaeda training camps, later turning on them to help the US, in attempt to turn his life around; his prosecutors called him the "single most valuable cooperating witness" about Qaeda activities; his judge was angered when, after a 3-month sentence, the FBI refused to provide him witness-protection
Michel Valsan – Romanian diplomat and author
Pierre Vogel – German former boxer, now an Islamic preacher

Jacques Vergès – Siamese-born French lawyer and anti-colonial activist.

W

Sonny Bill Williams – New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer
Sonny Bill Williams
Jason Walters – Dutch citizen, former member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on acts of terror; currently writing his Master's thesis about de-radicalisation, and is an active speaker against radical zealotry, as an Analyst at Blue Water Intelligence
Alexander Russell Webb – American diplomat and writer
Dawud Wharnsby – Canadian singer songwriter.
Timothy Winter (a.k.a. Abdul Hakim Murad) – English convert who is the Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
G. Willow Wilson – American comics writer.
Michael Wolfe – American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation
Amina Wadud – American Muslim theologian. In 1972, she converted to Islam, while a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

X

Malcolm X (1925–1965) (born Malcolm Little) – African American civil rights leader and activist

Y

Hussein Ye – Malaysian preacher and Islamic scholar

Felixia Yeap – Malaysian supermodel, former Playboy Bunny
Jackie Ying – American scientist and researcher based in Singapore
Mohammad Yousuf (born Joseph Youhana) – former Pakistani cricketer
Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson) – American Islamic preacher
Mitsutarō Yamaoka – Japanese Islamic and Judaic scholar known for being the first Japanese pilgrim to Mecca.
Tani Yutaka – vigilante, local hero, and saboteur who was active in Malaya.
James Yee – American former United States Army chaplain with the rank of captain.

Z

Mohamed Zakariya – American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp

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To Christianity	to Catholicism from Islam Anglicanism from Bahá'í Buddhism Confucianism Hinduism Islam Judaism Nontheism Paganism Sikhism Zoroastrianism
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To Islam	from Nontheism Buddhism Hinduism Christianity Judaism Paganism Zoroastrianism
From Islam	to Atheism Bahá'í Buddhism Hinduism Christianity Catholicism Judaism
To Judaism	from Irreligion Christianity Islam Paganism
From Judaism	to atheism Bahá'í Hinduism Islam Christianity

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To Buddhism	from Hinduism Christianity
From Buddhism	to Hinduism Islam Christianity
To Hinduism	from Buddhism Christianity Islam
From Hinduism	to Buddhism Islam Christianity Sikhism
To Sikhism	from Christianity Hinduism
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