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This is a list of notable people who have converted to Islam sometime during their lives.

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From Christianity

File:Yusuf estes.jpg
Yusuf Estes, a convert to Islam, is the National Muslim Chaplain for American Muslims.
File:Richard reid.jpg
Richard Colvin Reid known as the shoe bomber was a convert to Islam
Keith Ellison American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to Congress

Undetermined Former Religion

From Paganism

From Hinduism

From Judaism

From Non-Religious to Islam

  • Charles le Gai Eaton - British diplomat and writer.
  • Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (nominally Christian upbringing, but never a believer in it)
  • Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. (Raised Catholic, but atheist from age 18 to conversion)
  • A. R. Rahman (formerly A. S. Dileep Kumar) - famous Indian music composer
  • Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) - Anglo-Malayalam writer of Hindu background

See also

References

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