List of converts to Islam from Judaism

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This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.

• Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 7th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.Muhammad ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life of Muhammad, pp. 240–241. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wifeStowasser, Barbara. The Mothers of the Believers in the Hadith. The Muslim World, Volume 82, Issue 1-2: 1-36.
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Baruch Ben Malka) – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.{{cite book |title=Routledge History of Philosophy |volume=3 |first=Stuart |last=Shanker |first2=John |last2=Marenbon |first3=George Henry Radcliffe |last3=Parkinson |page=76 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |year=1998 |isbn=0415053773 }}
• Ka'ab al-Ahbar – 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.{{Cite encyclopedia | edition = 2nd| publisher = Brill Academic Publishers| volume = 4| pages = 316–317| last = Schmitz| first = M.| title = KaʿB al-Aḥbār,| encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia of Islam|year = 1974|ISBN=9004057455}}{{Cite book| publisher = SUNY Press| isbn = 978-0-7914-4356-9| last = Ṭabarī| title = The History of Al-Tabari: The Sasanids, the Lakhmids, and Yemen| date = 4 November 1999|page=146|volume=5}}
• Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=174&letter=A |title=Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewish Encyclopedia |date=n.d.|accessdate=7 April 2010}}{{cite book |title=Medieval Cultures in Contact |first=Richard |last=Gyug |page=123 |isbn=0823222128 |publisher=Fordham University Press |location=New York |year=2003 }}
• Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.{{cite web |url=http://www.thetruecall.com/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=194 |title=Biography of Muhammad Asad |publisher=Thetruecall.com |date=23 February 1992 |accessdate=7 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606053010/http://www.thetruecall.com/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=194 |archivedate=6 June 2009 }}
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.sma-alumni.org/kg0706b.pdf |title=TAPS |accessdate=6 February 2007 |date=July 2006 |work=The Kablegram |publisher=Staunton Military Academy Foundation |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006140822/http://www.sma-alumni.org/kg0706b.pdf |archivedate=6 October 2007 }}
• Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist{{cite web|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/profile.htm|title=Youssef Darwish: The courage to go on|work=Al-Ahram Weekly|date=2 December 2004|accessdate=29 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420011907/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/profile.htm|archive-date=20 April 2009|url-status=dead}} who was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
• Tali Fahima – Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3902175,00.html Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam]
• Rayhana bint Zayd - Wife of Prophet Muhammad
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062730/Rashid-ad-Din |title=Encyclopædia Britannica, "Rashid ad-Din", 2007 |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=n.d.|accessdate=7 April 2010}}
• Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.{{cite journal |title=In the Court of Yaʿqūb Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah |first=Mark R. |last=Cohen |first2=Sasson |last2=Somekh |journal=Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=80 |issue=3/4 |year=1990 |pages=283–314 |jstor=1454972 }}
• Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.{{Cite news|agency=Reuters |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE7D71339F930A15752C1A963958260 |title=Leila Mourad, Egyptian Film Actress, 77 |work=The New York Times |date=23 November 1995 |accessdate=7 April 2010}}
• Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.{{cite book |title=A companion to Julius Caesar |url=https://archive.org/details/companiontojuliu00grif |url-access=limited |editor-first=Miriam Tamara |editor-last=Griffin |page=[https://archive.org/details/companiontojuliu00grif/page/n102 84] |isbn=140514923X |location=Chichester |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2009 }}
• Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=6&letter=Q |title=Querido, Jacob |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |date=n.d.|accessdate=7 April 2010}}
• Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.{{cite book |title=The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews |first=Paul |last=Wexler |location=Albany |publisher=State University of New York Press |year=1996 |page=84 |isbn=0791427951 }}
• Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.Ignác Goldziher, Schools of Koranic commentators, pg. 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006.
• Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 5, pg. 174, fascicules 81–82. Eds. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, E. van Donzel, Bernard Lewis and Charles Pellat. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1980. {{ISBN|9789004060562}}
• Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century Jewish messiah claimant who converted to Islam under threat of death from the Ottoman authorities.{{Cite web |title=SHABBETHAI ẒEBI B. MORDECAI - JewishEncyclopedia.com |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13480-shabbethai-zebi-b-mordecai |access-date=2023-01-18 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}