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The following is a list of notable converts to Islam.

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Yusuf Estes, a convert to Islam, is the National Muslim Chaplain for American Muslims.
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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

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From Paganism

From Hinduism

From Judaism

  • Rashid al-Din – 13th century Persian physician
  • Maryam Jameelah - from Reform Judaism, essayist, poet, journalist & author
  • Lev Nussimbaum - prolific author on the topics of Middle East and Russian history; the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds" before discovering he was an ethnic Jew.
  • Leopold Weiss (Muhammad Asad) - Viennese journalist who became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations
  • Sabbatai Zevi – 17th century mystic and pseudo-Messiah, given choice between conversion and execution.
  • Anusim of Meshhad, 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.

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)

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References

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