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

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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 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

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