List of converts to Islam
{{short description|Notable people who converted to Islam}}
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- According to The Jerusalem Post, in the United Kingdom and France, up to 100,000 people converted in the last decade in each country.[http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=48983 "Islam converts change face of Europe"], The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Germany has up to 4,000 a year.{{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}}
- According to The Guardian, about 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, mostly women.{{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}}
- According to The New York Times, 25,000 Americans convert to Islam every year.{{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}}
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The following is a list of notable people who converted to Islam from a different religion or no religion (who have individual Wikipedia articles). 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.
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- Aminah Assilmi (born Janice Huff) – former Southern Baptist preacher who converted to Islam while attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.{{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}}
- Amber Leibrock – American female mixed martial artist, converted to Islam in September 2023.{{Cite web |last=Gazette |first=The Hindustan |date=2 October 2023 |title=Famous American MMA Fighter Amber Leibrock Embraces Islam |url=https://thehindustangazette.com/latest-news/famous-american-mma-fighter-amber-leibrock-embraces-islam-19254 |access-date=27 April 2025 |website=The Hindustan Gazette |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2 October 2023 |title=MM News |url=https://mmnews.tv/american-mma-fighter-amber-leibrock-embraces-islam/ |access-date=27 April 2025 |language=en-US}}
- Armando Bukele Kattán – El Salvadoran industrialist and religious leader, converted to Islam from Christianity.{{Cite web|url=http://elpais.com.sv/inauguran-mezquita-en-santa-ana/|title=Inauguran mezquita en Santa Ana | Periódico EL Pais}}
- Hamza Ali Abbasi – former Pakistani actor, converted to Islam from atheism.{{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}}
- Abd Al Malik (born Régis Fayette-Mikano) – French rapper and poet.{{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=Télérama| date=23 February 2015}}
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer.{{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}}{{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}}
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – (born Chris Wayne Jackson) – American former professional basketball player.{{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}}
- Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland) – American jazz trumpeter.Abdullah, Ahmed Abdullah & Louis Reyes Rivera. [http://www.ahmedian.com/memoirs.html "Excerpts from A Strange Celestial Road (Traveling the Spaceways)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811071109/http://ahmedian.com/memoirs.html |date=11 August 2014 }}, ahmedian.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- Noor Hisham Abdullah – Malaysian Director-General of Health in leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic; born Yew Ming Seong.{{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=Bernama|via=The Sun|date=3 April 2020|access-date=20 April 2021}}
- Thomas J. Abercrombie – photographer and writer for National Geographic{{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}}
- Edoardo Agnelli - American scion of business family
- Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) – American citizen, and Sergeant, diagnosed with psychiatric problems, later sentenced to death for an attack of resentment.Goldman, Russell. "Fort Hood Shooter Could Join 5 Others on Death Row." ABC News. 13 November 2009. [https://abcnews.go.com/WN/militarys-death-row/story?id=9075282 1]. Retrieved 21 October 2010.
- Shaheed Akbar (a.k.a. The Jacka, born Dominick Newton) – American rapper.[http://www.illumemag.com/zine/articlePrint.php?13130 MWA: Muslims With Attitude] {{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.
- Akhenaton – French rapper and producer; born Philippe Fragione.{{cite book|last1=Swedenburg|first1=Ted|editor=Mitchell, Tony|title=Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA|date=September 2002|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|location=Middletown, Connecticut|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}}
- Aisha al-Adawiya – American interfaith activist and founder of Women in Islam{{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=Truthout |last=Nevel |first=Donna |date=19 March 2023 |access-date=7 September 2024 |language=en}}
- Baba Ali – Iranian-born American film developer, games developer, and businessman.{{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}}
- Muhammad Ali (formerly known by his birth name Cassius Clay) – professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.{{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=Beliefnet|author=Caldwell, Deborah}}File:Muhammad Ali NYWTS.jpg]]
- Sadeq Ali (born Sri Gaur Kishore Sen) – Bengali author.{{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}}
- Nicolas Anelka – French football manager and former player.{{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}}
- Lewis Arquette – American actor; father of actors David, Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis, and Richmond Arquette; son of Cliff Arquette.[http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/arquette_reconnects_20021018 "Arquette Reconnects"], Jewish Journal, 12 October 2002.
- Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss) – Austro-Hungarian born Deputy Secretary in the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan, known for an English translation of the Quran.{{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}}
- 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 – 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
- Hamid Algar — is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
- Mercy Aigbe — Nigerian actress{{Cite web |last=Acho |first=Affa |date=10 December 2023 |title=Why I Converted To Islam – Mercy Aigbe |url=https://leadership.ng/why-i-converted-to-islam-mercy-aigbe/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207065826/https://leadership.ng/why-i-converted-to-islam-mercy-aigbe/ |archive-date=7 December 2024 |access-date=5 April 2025 |language=en-US}}
- Amina Titi Atiku-Abubakar — Second lady of Nigeria and women and child rights advocate{{Cite web |title=A Tribute to Titi Atiku-Abubakar: Champion of Women and Children’s Rights |url=https://dawncommission.org/a-tribute-to-titi-atiku-abubakar-champion-of-women-and-childrens-rights/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405132841/https://dawncommission.org/a-tribute-to-titi-atiku-abubakar-champion-of-women-and-childrens-rights/ |archive-date=5 April 2025 |access-date=5 April 2025 |language=en-US}}
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- Yahya al-Bahrumi - Greek American jihadist and spokesperson for the Islamic State
- David Benjamin – Chaldean Catholic priest known for his book Muhammad in Bible.{{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}}
- B.G. Knocc Out (stage name for Al Hasan Naqiyy, born Arlandis Hinton) – American rapper{{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}}
- Kristiane Backer – German television presenter.{{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}}
- A. George Baker – American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam.{{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}}
- Yasin Abu Bakr (born Lennox Philip) – leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago.{{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}}
- Mutah Beale – better known as Napoleon, former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz.{{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}}
- Lutfunnisa Begum (born Rajkunwari) – consort of the Nawab of Bengal.{{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}}
- Maurice Béjart – French choreographer.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DB1231F930A35757C0A966958260 Chronicle], The New York Times, 3 April 1990.
- Robert "Kool" Bell – American musician.{{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}}
- Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador.Archive for the Psychology of Religion By Jacob A. Belzen, Nils G. Holm, p. 51.
- Wojciech Bobowski – Polish musician; Bible translator.[http://siratalmustaqim.blog.onet.pl/2,ID61069769,index.html Wojciech Bobowski profile]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, siratalmustaqim.blog.onet.pl. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- Lauren Booth – British{{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}} broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.{{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}}{{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}}
- Charles Brooks, Jr. – first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection, converted to Islam in prison, shortly before death.[https://web.archive.org/web/20031202214318/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm Final Meal Requests]. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (12 September 2003); archived from [http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm the original] on 2 December 2003. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
- H. Rap Brown – American civil rights activist.{{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}}
- Jonathan A.C. Brown – American Islamic scholar, professor and department chair at Georgetown University.{{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 }}{{cite web|url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-a-c-brown|title=Faculty Profile|access-date=21 March 2025}}File:Jonathan Brown (41555692432).jpg]]
- 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.{{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}} In other articles and videos he was normally very careful not to claim allegiance to any one faith.{{Cite web|last=Maurice|first=Bucaille|title=Why I embraced Islam|url=https://islamicbulletin.org/en/newsletters/IB_6/10/|website=The Islamic Bulletin}}
- 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.{{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}}
- Titus Burckhardt – Swiss writer and scholar.{{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}}
- 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.{{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 }}
- 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.
- Carla Amina Baghajati — She has been described as one of the best-known faces of Islam in Austria.
- Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey — Born Yale Jean Singer to an Orthodox Jewish family, he converted to Islam and took on the name Rafi Sharif in the late 1950s.
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- Celestino Caballero – Panamanian boxer and former Super Bantamweight Champion.{{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}}
- Dave Chappelle – American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist.{{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 }}
- Kérim Chatty – Swedish bodybuilding stuntman{{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}}
- Ashley Chin – British actor and rapper.{{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}}{{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}}
- Zainab Cobbold (born Lady Evelyn Murray) – Scottish noblewoman.Facey, William (2008). [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200805/mayfair.to.makkah.htm "Mayfair to Makkah"] {{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.
- Louis du Couret – French explorer, writer and military officer.{{cite web|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11762|title=Life in the Desert, or, Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa|website=World Digital Library|year=1860|access-date=23 September 2013}}
- 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.
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- Michael D'Andrea - Former Central Intelligence Agency officer and former director of the CIA counterterrorism center.
- Uri Davis – Middle East academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6257 ZMag Bio: Uri Davis] {{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.
- Bob Denard – French mercenary.{{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}}
- Jeffrey Mark Deskovic – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.{{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}}
- Diam's – French rapper, born Mélanie Georgiades, converted in 2010.{{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}}
- Nasreddine Dinet (born Alphonse-Étienne Dinet) – French orientalist painter, converted to Islam in 1908.{{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}}
- Deso Dogg (Abu Talha al-Almani, born Denis Cuspert) – former German rapper who departed Germany to fight in Syria.{{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}}
- Arnoud van Doorn – Dutch politician.{{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}}
- Vivian Dsena – Indian television actor{{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=NDTV |access-date=17 October 2024 }}
- Dutchavelli (stage name for Stephan Allen) – British rapper.{{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}}
- 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.
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- Dave East – American rapper and actor.{{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 }}
- Isabelle Eberhardt – Swiss explorer and writer.{{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}}
- Keith Ellison – American politician and lawyer; first Muslim to be elected to Congress and the first African American representative from Minnesota.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}File:Keith Ellison portrait (cropped).jpg]]
- Everlast (stage name for Erik Schrody) – American rapper and singer-songwriter.{{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."}}
- Yusuf Estes (born Joseph Estes) – American preacher and founder of Guide US TV.{{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}}
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- Baron Umar Rolf von Ehrenfels – prominent Muslim of Austrian origin.
- George Bethune English – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.
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- Alys Faiz (formerly Alys George) – human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.{{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}}
- Amanda Figueras – Spanish journalist for El Mundo and a writer.{{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}}
- 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.{{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}}[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-men-charged-in-alleged-us-bomb-plots/ "2 Men Charged in Alleged U.S. Bomb Plots; Illinois Muslim Convert, Texas Man from Jordan Allegedly Obtained Dummy Bombs from FBI Operatives"], CBS News, 25 September 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- Jaime Fletcher – American film maker and founder of IslamInSpanish.{{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}}
- 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.[http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=3246 The Making of a "Terrorist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104926/http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=3246 |date=29 September 2007 }}, Willamette Week, 6 June 2002.
- Myriam François – English-French writer and broadcaster.{{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}}
- Sultaana Freeman (born Sandra Michele Keller) – Florida woman, popular in a local controversy for wearing face veil in drivers-license picture.{{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}}
- Bjorn Fortuin – South African professional cricketer. On 24 April 2021, Fortuin reverted to Islam.{{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 }}
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- Leopold Gleim - SS Standartenführer{{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}}
- Gorilla Nems – American rapper, content creator, entrepreneur and web series' host{{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=Jugantor}}
- Jemima Goldsmith – British socialite and ex-wife of Imran Khan.{{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}}
- Juan Carlos Gomez – Cuban former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.{{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}}
- Khalid Gonçalves – Portuguese American actor and musician (born Paul Pires Gonçalves), convert to Islam from Catholicism.{{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}}
- Abdur Raheem Green (born Anthony Green) – British Islamic preacher and founder of iERA{{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}}
- Philippe Grenier – French doctor; first Muslim MP in France{{cite web|url=http://www.saphirnews.com/Docteur-Philippe-Grenier_a1740.html|title=Docteur Philippe Grenier|publisher=Saphirnews.com|access-date=7 April 2010}}
- Gigi Gryce – American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator{{cite web|url=http://www.gigigryce.com|title=Gigi Gryce Biography|publisher=Gigigryce.com|date=17 March 1983|access-date=7 April 2010}}
- 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 – French astrophysicist, converted to Islam in 1987 after being introduced to it in Morocco.
- Gyula Germanus — was a professor of oriental studies, a Hungarian writer and Islamologist.
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- Gibril Haddad – Lebanese-born Islamic scholar, hadith expert (muhaddith), author, and translator of classical Islamic texts {{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}}
- Joel Hayward – New Zealand-born British scholar of Islam{{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}}
- Walt Hazzard (Islamic name Mahdi Abdul-Rahman) – former NBA player and college basketball coach{{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}}
- Yusuf Hazziez – American musician, born Joseph Arrington, Jr.; formerly known professionally as Joe Tex[http://raresoul.com/2012/07/27/joe-tex-becomes-muslim-minister-gives-it-all-up Joe Tex becomes Muslim] {{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.
- Aribert Heim – Austrian SS doctor, also known as Dr. Death{{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}}
- Murad Wilfried Hofmann – German diplomat and author who converted from Catholic Christianity.{{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}}
- Tony Hussein Hinde – Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam{{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}}
- Baba Ratan Hindi – Indian merchant{{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}}
- Lim Yew Hock – Singapore's second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959"The Man Who Thumped the Reds", The Straits Times, 1 December 1984.
- Knud Holmboe – Danish journalist, author and explorer{{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}}
- Ahmed Huber – Swiss-German journalist and convert to Islam, who was active in both Islamist and far-right politics, including with Neo-Nazism.
- István Horthy Jr. — Hungarian physicist and architect, converted to Islam in 1965 and took the name Sharif Horthy
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- Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Brand) – South African jazz musician{{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}}
- Rebeka Ibrahima (born Rebeka Koha) – Latvian-born Qatari weightlifter, two-time Junior World Champion and two-time European Champion.{{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}}
- Yusuf Islam – English singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and activist; born Steven Demetre Georgiou; known professionally as Cat Stevens{{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}}{{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}}File:Yusuf Islam BBC2 Folk Awards.jpg]]
- Abu Izzadeen (born Trevor Brooks) – English-born extremist and hate-preacher, spokesman for Al Ghurabaa{{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}}
- Muhammad Hussain Inoki (born Kanji Inoki) – Japanese retired professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.{{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=The Washington Post|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}}
- Kyrie Irving – American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA.{{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}}
- Antoni Aleksander Iliński – Polish-Ottoman military officer and general, Polish independence activist and insurgent
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- Jermaine Jackson – American singer, songwriter of Jackson Family. He is the elder brother of popstar Michael Jackson.
- Fatimah Jackson – American biologist and anthropologist, professor of biology at Howard University and Director of its Cobb Research Laboratory.{{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}}
- Stephen Jackson – American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA){{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}}{{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}}
- Tiara Jacquelina – Malaysian actress"Tiara's true to her roles", New Sunday Times, Malaysia (18 September 2005).
- Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Jones) – American jazz pianist{{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}}
- Maryam Jameelah – formerly Margret Marcus; author of many books covering several subjects, including modernism, sociology, history, jihad, theology and technology[http://www.jannah.org/sisters/jameelah.html "Why I embraced Islam by Maryum Jameelah"], jannah.org. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- 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)Vrijman, L. C. Kaapvaart en zeeroverij/L. C. Vrijman – Amsterdam (1938)
- Jono Carroll – Irish professional boxer{{Cite web |date=2 April 2024 |title=Irish boxing star and Daniel Kinahan pal visits Mecca after converting to Islam |url=https://m.sundayworld.com/sport/boxing/irish-boxing-star-and-daniel-kinahan-pal-visits-mecca-after-converting-to-islam/a1494181747.html |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=SundayWorld.com |language=en}}
- Larry Johnson – retired American professional basketball player{{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}}
- Gustave-Henri Jossot (Islamic name Abdul Karim Jossot) – French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter{{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}}
- Aliqoli Jadid-ol-Eslam — was a Portuguese figure who flourished in late 17th and early 18th century Safavid Iran. Originally an Augustinian friar and missionary, he converted to Shia Islam.
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- Malik Kafur (d. 1316) – military commander of Alauddin Khalji
- Kalapahar formerly Hindu Brahmin and general of Karrani dynasty.
- Kevin Lee – American professional mixed martial artist.{{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}}
- Dipika Kakar – Indian television actress{{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}}
- David Benjamin Keldani - Catholic Former Bishop of Uramiah, author of "Muhammad in the Bible"
- Frédéric Kanouté – French Malian former football player{{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}}File:Frederic Kanoute 2011.jpg]]
- 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{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}
- Mudzaffar Shah I of Kedah – founder of the Kedah Sultanate
- Khalid Kelly – former leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland{{cite web|first=Henry|last=McDonald|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}}
- Saida Miller Khalifa – British author, originally named Sonya Miller{{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}}{{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}}
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (born Yvette Blanche Labrousse) – Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III{{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}}
- Malik Jahan Khan (born Dhondia Wagh) – 18th-century military soldier and adventurer{{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}}
- Murshid Quli Khan (born Surya Narayan Mishra) – First Nawab of Bengal (r. 1717–1727){{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}}
- Vladimir Khodov – militant zealot who converted to Islam in prison, and was the leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis{{cite web|url=http://vypusk.kursk.ru/pic/Beslan.doc|title=БЕСЛАН: КТО ВИНОВАТ?|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}}
- Abd al Haqq Kielan – Swedish cleric{{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}}
- Shaun King – American Black Lives Matter activist {{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}}
- James Achilles Kirkpatrick – British Resident in HyderabadNile Green, Indian Sufism since the seventeenth century, p. 83.
- Rebeka Koha – Latvian weightlifter{{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=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |access-date=31 July 2020}}
- Kollegah – German rapper{{Cite news |title=Skandal-Rapper aus Düsseldorf: Die Welt des Kollegah |url=https://rp-online.de/kultur/die-welt-des-kollegah_aid-22531873 |work=Rheinische Post |language=de |date=9 May 2018 |access-date=12 May 2024}}
- Pavel Kosolapov – radical Russian rebel wanted by the Federal Security Service of Russia for suspected extremist activities{{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}}
- 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 – 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.{{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}}
- Kōhan Kawauchi – Japanese screenwriter who created various tokusatsu series; Kawauchi converted to Islam in 1959.
- Yuri Kochiyama – American civil rights activist, secretly converted to Sunni Islam in 1971
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- Lil Jon – American rapper, DJ, and record producer{{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}}
- Colleen LaRose – American citizen, known for having adopted radicalised ideologies and conspiring a plot against Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks{{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}}
- Yusef Lateef – American jazz musician{{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}}
- Johann von Leers – advisor to Mohamed Naguib and head of the Institute for the Study of ZionismPhilip Rees (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 (1991, {{ISBN|0-13-089301-3}})Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens (1997, {{ISBN|0-316-51959-6}}).
- Gary Legenhausen – American philosopher and writer{{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}}
- 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{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}
- 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{{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=The Malaysian Insider|access-date=1 July 2010}}
- 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.{{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}}
- Umar Lee – American writer, media personality, and political activist.
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- Malikussaleh (born Merah Silu) – founder of the Samudera Pasai Sultanate (r. 1267–1297)
- Mahmudul Hasan Sohag – founder of Rokomari.com and Onnorokom group converted to Islam from Atheism.{{Cite news |title=রকমারির প্রতিষ্ঠাতা মাহমুদুল হাসান সোহাগের নাস্তিক থেকে আস্তিক হওয়া ও রাজনৈতিক বিতর্ক |url=https://www.bbc.com/bengali/news-59146355 |work=BBC News বাংলা |language=bn |date=3 November 2021 |access-date=8 May 2025}}
- Michael Page – English professional mixed martial artist converted to Islam in 2024{{Cite web |last=Bhowmick |first=Tanushree |date=30 January 2025 |title=Real Reason behind Michael ‘Venom’ Page’s Conversion To Islam- Religion and Background |url=https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-real-reason-behind-michael-venom-pages-conversion-to-islam-religion-and-background/ |access-date=27 April 2025 |website=EssentiallySports |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Rathod |first=Vaibhav |date=20 November 2024 |title="Great News", "Wrestling is loading" - Fans share reactions to Michael Page's decision to embrace Islam |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-great-news-wrestling-loading-fans-share-reactions-michael-page-s-decision-embrace-islam |access-date=27 April 2025 |website=www.sportskeeda.com |language=en-us}}
- Mohamed Mahdi Marboua (born Timothée Marboua) – Central African military officer and politician.{{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}}
- 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{{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}}
- Jake Matthews – Australian mixed martial arts fighter. Converted in 2023.{{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=News Corp Australia |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 }}{{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=Fox Sports Australia |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 }}
- Alfred Neville May — was a British PhD Scholar of Cambridge University,He converted to Islam from Christianity in 1988 when he was 44 years old.
- 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{{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}}
- 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"[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/Monica-converts-to-Islam-and-quits-films/articleshow/35832431.cms Monica converts to Islam and quits films]", The Times of India, 31 May 2014
- Indya Moore - American actress [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHPKzD4OUYI/?hl=en Instagraam]
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad – member of A Tribe Called Quest{{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}}
- Idris Muhammad (born Leo Morris) – American jazz musician{{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}}
- Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah (born Jadu) – Sultan of Bengal{{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}}
- 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{{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}}
- Anthony Mundine – Australian boxer; former two-time Super Middleweight champion{{cite web|url=http://www.eastsideboxing.com/ade2510.html|title=The Politics of Anthony Mundine|publisher=Eastsideboxing.com|access-date=7 April 2010}}
- 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, 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.*{{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}}
- 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.{{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}}
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- Adam Neuser (c. 1530 – 12 October 1576) –Protestant pastor of Heidelberg who held Antitrinitarian views. He later converted to IslamGotthold Ephraim Lessing: his life and his works By Helen Zimmern, pg. 312 and traveled to Istanbul where he served the Ottoman Sultan.The suffering servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian sources By Bernd Janowski, Peter Stuhlmacher, pg. 425
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- 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 [Sunni] Islam over theological reasons{{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}}{{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}}{{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 }}File:FIL 2013 - Sinéad O'Connor 01.JPG ]]
- 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[http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=16808 Plea To Free German Captive] {{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.
- Occhiali – Italian farmer, then Ottoman privateer and admiral.
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- Prabir Mitra, Bangladeshi film actor. He changed his name to Hasan Imam.
- 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{{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 }}{{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}}
- 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{{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=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|access-date=28 August 2013}}
- Wayne Parnell – South African cricketer{{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}}{{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}}
- Thomas Partey – Ghanaian football player{{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}}
- Christopher Paul – radicalised extremist, pleaded guilty to his affiliations and actions with al Qaeda{{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}}
- Abdul Wahid Pedersen (born Reino Arild Pedersen) – Danish Imam.{{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}}
- Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen) – 8th Earl of Yarborough{{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}}
- Bilal Philips (born Dennis Philips) – Jamaican-born Canadian contemporary Muslim teacher, speaker, and author{{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 }}
- Marmaduke Pickthall – British Islamic scholar and former Anglican clergyman, known for an English translation of the Quran{{Cite web|title=Marmaduke Pickthall - Converted to Islam|url=http://tellmeaboutislam.com/marmaduke-pickthall.html|access-date=24 March 2021|website=tellmeaboutislam.com}}
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- Neil Prakash – Australian Islamic State group recruiter{{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}}
- Parameswara (king) – last king of Singapura and the founder of Malacca{{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}}
- Omar Pasha – Ottoman field marshal and governor. Born in Austrian territory to Serbian Orthodox Christian parent
- Abd al Wahid Pallavicini – leading figure of Sufism in Europe, his spiritual quest led him to convert to Islam in 1951 thanks to the teachings of Titus Burckhardt
- Gladys Milton Palmer — British film producer and heiress, member of the ruling dynasty of Sarawak
- St John Philby — British Arabist, advisor, explorer, writer, and a colonial intelligence officer who served as an advisor to King Abdulaziz ibn Saud.
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- Abdullah Quilliam (born William Henry Quilliam) – British convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre.Geaves, R. (2010). [https://books.google.com/books?id=uz09BAAAQBAJ Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam] {{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
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- Raekwon – American rapper, born as Corey Woods[http://marvinsparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/marvin-sparks-x-raekwon-interview.html Raekwon interview], marvinsparks.blogspot.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- Rae Lil Black, a former Japanese adult film star (real name: Kae Asakura), transitioned away from the adult industry after embracing Islam{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Quincy |date=15 March 2025 |title=Former Adult Film Star Rae Lil Black Converts to Islam Following Eye-Opening Visit to Malaysia |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-adult-film-star-rae-030302338.html |website=Yahoo Entertainment |access-date=16 March 2025}}
- Rakhi Sawant (born Neeru Bheda) – Indian dancer, model, actress.{{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}}
- 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{{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=Time|access-date=26 February 2011|author-link=Richard Corliss}}{{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=YouTube|access-date=5 April 2011|location=Chennai}}{{cbignore}}File:A. R. Rahman.jpg]]
- Yuvan Shankar Raja – Indian musician; music director from Tamil Nadu{{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}}
- 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{{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}}
- Brittany Renner - American reality-television personality{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Justin |title=Basketball Wives Star Brittany Renner on Her Conversion to Islam |url=https://www.realitytea.com/2025/05/08/basketball-wives-brittany-renner-conversion-islam/ |access-date=2 June 2025 |work=Reality Tea |date=8 May 2025}}
- 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{{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 }}{{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}}
- MC Ren (born Lorenzo Patterson) – American rapper and hip-hop producer{{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}}
- Franck Ribéry – France national football team player{{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=NewsBank|agency=Agence France-Presse|first1=Yannick|last1=Pasquet}}
- Hamza Robertson (born Tom Robertson) – English singer{{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}}
- 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{{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}}{{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}}
- 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{{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}}
- 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
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- Hilal al-Sabi' – historian, bureaucrat, and writer of ArabicSourdel, D. Hilāl. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.
- Malik ul Salih – established the first Muslim state of Samudera PasaiThomas Walker Arnold, The Preaching of Islam, p. 297.
- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – formerly the world's most wanted terrorist; popularly known as "Carlos the Jackal"{{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}}
- Ibrahim Savant – radicalised individual arrested on suspected links with the 2006 UK transatlantic aircraft plot{{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}}
- Stephen Schwartz – American journalist, columnist, and author{{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}}
- Clarence Seedorf – Dutch former professional football players, widely seen as one of the greatest midfielders of all time.{{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}}
- Baba Shadi Shaheed (born Dharam Chand Chib) – former Governor of Kashmir and Kandahar{{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}}
- Derrick Shareef – U.S. resident of Chicago, arrested for attempted terror plot in CherryVale Mall in Rockford{{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}}
- Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory) – American jazz saxophonist and flautist{{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}}
- Felix Siauw − Chinese-Indonesian Islamic cleric and author affiliated with Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/from-indonesian-village-to-philippines-siege-chief/news-story/9b34addb7f4ce5a7b08f1a1ba50b9b9f From Indonesian village to ISIS siege chief.] The Australian. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- Aleksandar Seksan - Bosnian actor
- Ubaidullah Sindhi – well known political, religious and revolutionary scholar{{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=usurped}}
- Rudolf Slatin – Anglo-Austrian soldier and colonial administrator of Sudan{{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}}
- Robert Stanley – British politician{{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}}
- Divine Styler – American hip hop musician{{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}}
- 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.{{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}}
- Nahshid Sulaiman – alternative hip hop artist{{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 }}
- 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."{{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}}
- 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.{{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}}
- Shah Shahidullah Faridi (born John Gilbert Lennard) – British convert.Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty-First Century Pakistan By Robert Rozehnal, pg.60
- 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 – British photographer, converted to Islam in 1971.
- Khalid Sheldrake — in 1903, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Khalid. In 1934, he was briefly declared king of the short-lived state of Islamestan in the Xinjiang region of China during the Warlord era.
- Rudolf von Sebottendorf — was a German occultist, writer, intelligence agent and political activist. He was the founder of the Thule Society, a post-World War I German occultist organization where he played a key role, and that influenced many members of the Nazi Party. He was a Freemason,a Sufi of the Bektashi order - after his conversion to Islam.
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- Malik Maqbul Tilangani (born Malla Yugandharudu) – Vizier of the Delhi Sultanate
- Sharmila Tagore (stage name for Begum Ayesha Sultana) – Indian actress{{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}}
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- Andrew Tate – retired American-British kickboxing champion and internet personality.
- Sinan ibn Thabit – physician and son of Thābit ibn QurraIbn Khallikān, Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, p. 45.
- William Thorson – former Swedish poker player[http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/poker/article18471956.ab From poker star – to Muslim believer], Aftonbladet. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- Conrad Tillard (born 1964) – American Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician; later converted back to Christianity
- Apisai Tora – Fijian politician{{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}}
- Ofa Tuʻungafasi – New Zealand rugby player{{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}}
- Mike Tyson – American boxer; performer{{cite news|title=The Tyson, Olajuwon Connection|date=13 November 1994|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E3D81731F930A25752C1A962958260|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=14 March 2008|first1=Dave|last1=Anderson}}
- 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.{{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}}{{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}}
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- Danny Thompson – English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist, converted to Islam in 1990.
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- 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{{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}}
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- 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{{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}}File:Joram van Klaveren.jpg]]
- Jorvan Vieira – Luso-Brazilian football coach[http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2158374,00.html "If ever anyone needed a win ..."], The Guardian.
- 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{{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 }}{{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}}
- Michel Valsan – Romanian diplomat and author
- Pierre Vogel – German former boxer, now an Islamic preacher{{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}}
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- Jacques Vergès – Siamese-born French lawyer and anti-colonial activist.
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- Sonny Bill Williams – New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer{{cite web|url=https://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}}File:Sonny Bill Williams August 2014 .jpg]]
- 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{{cite web |url=https://blue-water-intelligence.com/medewerkers/jason-walters |website=Blue Water Intelligence|title=Jason Walters|access-date=16 August 2020}}[http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/38526281/Pinverbod_voor_terrorist.html Pinverbod voor terrorist], the Dutch foreign minister bans convicted Hofstadgroep terrorists from any financial transactions, by Rien Meijer and Bart Mos, De Telegraaf, 20 April 2006 (Dutch)
- Alexander Russell Webb – American diplomat and writer{{cite book | last=Webb | first=Mohammed Alexander Russell | author-link=Alexander Russell Webb | year=1893 | title=Islam in America | publisher=The Oriental Publishing Co.}}
- Dawud Wharnsby – Canadian singer songwriter.{{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}}
- 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.{{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}}
- G. Willow Wilson – American comics writer.{{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}}
- Michael Wolfe – American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation{{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}}
- Amina Wadud – American Muslim theologian. In 1972, she converted to Islam, while a student at the University of Pennsylvania.{{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}}
- Charvarius Ward – American profssional football player{{Cite web |last=Branch |first=Eric |date=5 February 2024 |title=How 49ers’ Charvarius Ward was transformed through his daughter’s love |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/charvarius-ward-daughter-18646879.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226200408/https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/charvarius-ward-daughter-18646879.php |archive-date=26 December 2024 |access-date=5 April 2025 |website=San Francisco Chronicle}}
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- Malcolm X (1925–1965) (born Malcolm Little) – African American civil rights leader and activistAli, p.{{nbsp}}61.
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- Hussein Ye – Malaysian preacher and Islamic scholar{{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}}{{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}}
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- Felixia Yeap – Malaysian supermodel, former Playboy Bunny[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/former-playboy-bunny-felixia-yeap-3820497 Former Playboy bunny Felixia Yeap announces 'rebirth' following conversion to Islam] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140910165431/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/former-playboy-bunny-felixia-yeap-3820497 Archive]). The Mirror. Retrieved 15 September 2014.[http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/06/28/Felixia-Yeap-to-embrace-Islam-July-3 Felixia Yeap to embrace Islam], Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- Jackie Ying – American scientist and researcher based in Singapore{{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|access-date=30 July 2020|website=The Straits Times|language=en}}
- Mohammad Yousuf (born Joseph Youhana) – former Pakistani cricketer{{citation|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/43650.html|title=Mohammad Yousuf profile|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 February 2007}}
- Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson) – American Islamic preacher{{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}}
- 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.
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- Mohamed Zakariya – American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp{{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}}{{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}}
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