http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_converts_to_Islam
The following is an incomplete list of notable people who converted to Islam from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations, such as marriage. Such cases are noted in their list entries.
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player[2]
Abu Tammam - 9th century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[3]
Abu Usamah - controversial American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK. Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.[4]
Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[5][6]
Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative converted From Catholicism[7][8][9]
Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[10]
Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[11]
Alexander Litvinenko - former Russian spy converted to Islam on his deathbed.[12] [13]
Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian.[14] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[15][16]
André Carson - former Baptist,[17] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[18]
Anthony Green or Abdul Raheem Green, Converted from Catholicism to Islam, and is now an Islamic lecturer.[19]
Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[21]
Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[22]
Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam, which is not connected with traditional Islam in anyway.[23]
Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[24]
Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[25]
Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[26]
Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[27]
Cat Stevens the English singer of Greek ancestry.[citation needed][28]
Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[29]
Chris Eubank - British boxer[30]
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is 18th century French nobleman.[31]
Daniel Moore - poet [32]
Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[33]
Danny Williams - British boxer[34]
David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[35]
David Chappelle - comedian and television star[36]
Dawud Wharnsby Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[37][38]
Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player , converted to Islam after marriage.[39]
Everlast - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain, converted From Catholicism. [17]
Franck Ribéry- a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.[40]
Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[41]
George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[42]
Germaine Lindsay - participated and died in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[43][44][45]
Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox; head of the Zaytuna Institute.[46]
Hedley Churchward - English painter[47]
Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[48]
Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[49]
Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[50]
Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) converted From Catholicism.[51]
Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer[52]
Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[53][54]
C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[56]
Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[57]
James Yee - previously Lutheran[58] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[59]
Jean de Béthencourt - French explorer who led an expedition to the Canary Islands.[60]
Jean-Louis Michon a French traditionalist scholar and translator
Jeffrey Lang, a mathematics professor in USA.[61]
Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson.[62]
Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[43][63][64]
Jill Courtney an Australian
Jimmy Cliff - Jamaican reggae musician.[65][66]
Johann von Leers or Omar Amin was a German professor that worked with the Nazi germany then Egypt.
St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[68]
John Walker Lindh - the "American Taliban" converted From Catholicism[69][70]
John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[71]
John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[72]
Jonathan Birt, Jonathan Birt, the son of Lord Birt, former director-general of the BBC, and Emma Clark, the granddaughter of former liberal prime minister Herbert Asquith[73].
Jorvan Vieira (born May 24, 1953 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil) is a Luso-Brazilian football manager.
Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[74][75]
Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[76]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[77]
Keith Ellison - American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted From Catholicism[78]
Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[79]
Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[80]
Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer converted From Catholicism.[81]
Prof. Keith L. Moore [82]
Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[83]
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[84]
Malcolm X - American, from Christianity to Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam, African-American civil rights leader.[85]
Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[86]
Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[87]
Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted From Catholicism.[88]
Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[89]
Michael Wolfe the American director.[90]
Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[91]
Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted From Catholicism.[92]
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)[93]
Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[94]
Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (Philip Barker) - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.[95]
Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist[96][97] to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam.[98] famous boxer.
Muhammed al-Ahari born January 6, 1965 as Ray Allen Rudder is an American essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism
Murad Wilfred Hofmann - NATO official, converted From Catholicism[99]
Muriel Degauque a Belgian citizen
Michael Jackson-officially said to have converted to Islam at a ceremny at Los Angels from Jehova's witness on 21st November.[100]
Nicolas Anelka - French football player[101]
Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar.[102]
Queen Noor of Jordan (formerly Lisa Najeeb Halaby)[103]
Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi[1] on 12 January 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist and singer
Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon.[104]
Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[105]
Peter Murphy - vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus, converted From Catholicism.[106]
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Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist, converted From Catholicism.[108]
Preacher Moss - Former Baptist,[109] American comedian and comedy writer.[110]
Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, converted From Catholicism.[111]
René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics, converted From Catholicism. [112][113]
Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist) [114]
Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[115]
Robert D. Crane is the former adviser to the late President Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council.[116]
Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[117]
Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, converted From Catholicism.[118]
Ronald Bell or Khalis Bayyan (born 1 November 1951, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer, composer and saxophonist
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.[119]
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.[120]
Rustie Lee - British television chef and celebrity.[121]
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author, converted from Protestantism.[122]
Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[123][124]
Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos [125]
A.R. Rahman - Indian Composer and Musician from Tamil Nadu[citation needed][126]
Ron Brownz rapper/r&b
Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity[127] who was previously Zoroastrian. In search for truth, he traveled to Syria to follow Christianity. Upon the death of his teachers, he was directed to head to Arabia, where he was told the final prophet will rise. He later converted to Islam and became one of Muhammad's first companions.
Sana al-Sayegh, dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007. Fatah has accused its political rival Hamas of forcing the professor to convert from Christianity, a charge Hamas denies. [128]
Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted From Catholicism.[129]
Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface") - American rapper[130]
Silma Ihram - formerly a born again Baptist who is an Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial tolerance, and Author.[131]
Siraj Wahaj - Former Baptist.[132] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[133]
Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[134]
Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[135]
Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[136]
restrictions.[137]
Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[138]
Tawana Brawley (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.[139][140]
Tekuder - Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[141]
Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[142]
Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[143]
Top Topham - rock guitarist from England.[144]
Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador, converted From Catholicism.[145]
Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted From Catholicism.[146]
Wadih el-Hage born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon, a former al-Qaeda member.[citation needed]
William Abdullah Quilliam - 19th century British poet, ambassador and journalist.[147]
Willie Brigitte - French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.[148]
Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[149]
Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006[150]
Yusuf Estes - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[1]
Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[151][152]
Zaid Shakir - African-American Muslim speaker and intellectual in the United States.[153][154]
Zağanos Pasha - one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councillor, protector, for the sultan.[155]
Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock. [156]
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - 9th century Persian scholar physician (a hakim), who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine.[157]
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari a well-known Jewish convert to Islam doctor, belonging to the famous medical school of Tabaristan or Hyrcania) & a tutor of medicine to Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (known to the West as Rhazes).[158]
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Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi - influential physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[159]
Ibn Kammuna or was a 13th Century physician (ophthalmologist) and philosopher who lived in Baghdad.[160]
Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al was an Arab Muslim mathematician and astronomer of Jewish descent.[161] His father was a Jewish Rabbi from Morocco, but al-Samawʾal converted to Islam.[162]
Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[163]
Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, that was married to Imran Khan [164]
Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.[165]
Lev Nussimbaum - prolific author on the topics of Middle East and Russian history; the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds" before discovering he was an ethnic Jew. [166]
Mohammed Yusuf a Jewish convert to Islam that fought in Bosnia [167].
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations[168], his son Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the City University of New York
Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al - mathematician and astronomer who wrote critical works on Judaism, his former faith.[169]
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Rashid al-Din - 13th century Persian physician[170]
Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by Aurungzebe.[171]
Suleyman Ahmad an American journalist and author[172]
Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[173]
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Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[174]
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The Barmakid family - originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate.[175]
Mahmud Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.[176]
Muhammad Khodabandeh - eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.[177]
Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March-September 1266).[178]
Tarmashirin - Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.[179]
Hussein Ye - An Islamic scholar of Chinese descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV.[180]
Parameswara - Malay prince of Palembang Hindu descent from Srivijaya that founded the Sultanate of Malacca around 1402.[181]
Dhiren Barot - convicted terrorist, who confessed to planning "to detonate a dirty bomb and launch an attack on London's Tube".[182][183][184]
Sumita Devi - Bengali actress and filmmaker.[185]
Vilayil Fazila - popular Mappila songs singer from Kerala.[citation needed]
Malik Kafur - Indian military general.[186]
Abdul Wahid Pedersen - Danish cleric.[187]
Sahaj Ram Sapru - the grandfather of the British-Indian Muslim Philosopher, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, who was an official in Kashmir during the administration of the Afghan Governor Azim Khan. [188]
Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) - Anglo-Malayalam writer[189]
Sharmila Tagore - Bollywood film actress.[190]
Allah Rakha Rahman - Bollywood music director, Singer.[191]
Kabir Suman-excellent modern bengali singer & songwriter officially converted to islam fromHinduism in 2000. [192]
Ubaidullah Sindhi - religious leader and political activist.[193]
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Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan - 9th century Uyghur ruler who was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.[200]
Tuda Mengu - Mongol leader of the Golden Horde[201]
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Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa - author and translator of Kalīla wa Dimna from Middle Persian.[202]
Fadl ibn Sahl - Persian vizier of the Abassid era.[204]
Rattanbai Petit - second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
Saman Khuda - founder of the Samanid dynasty, one of the first native Persian dynasties in the Middle East and Central Asia after the collapse of the Sassanids.[205]
A. R. Rahman (Initially raised Hindu, but was atheist as a teenager until conversion to Islam) - famous Indian music composer[206]
Zhang Chengzhi - contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.[207]
Charles le Gai Eaton - British diplomat and writer.[208]
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)[209]
Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. (Raised Catholic, but atheist from age 18 to conversion)[210][211]
Martin Lings - a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.[212]
Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi (born Lex Hixon) - syncretist, Sufi convert, and co-founder of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order in the United States.[214]
Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano - French rapper of Congolese origins.[215]
Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, and although widely disputed, a convicted murderer.[216][217]
B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.[218]
Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) - American sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.[219]
Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.[220]
Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.[221]
Ronald Bell - musician.[222]
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.[223]
Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.[224]
Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.[225]
H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.[226]
Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.[227]
Amir Butler- author, engineer and Islamic activist.[228]
Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped. [229]
Jill Courtney - Australian, girlfriend of convicted killer and drug trafficker Hassan Kalache, arrested on 26 March 2006 for attempted murder of unnamed people.[231][232][233]
Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.[234]
Ice Cube - Gangsta rapper and actor.[235]
Bob Denard - French mercenary.[236]
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.[237]
Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.[238]
Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.[239]
Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.[240]
Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist;[241] converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.[242]
Jeff Fort - former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism.[243][244]
Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[245]
Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".[246]
Philippe Grenier - (1865–1944) French doctor, first and only Muslim MP in France.[247].[248]
Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.[249]
Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.[250]
David Hicks - convicted Australian terrorist.[251]
Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.[252]
Craig Hodges - former NBA player.[253]
Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).[254]
Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.[255]
Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[256]
Malik ul Salih - established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.[257]
Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysian actress.[258]
Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.[259]
Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.[260]
Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.[261]
Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.[262]
Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.[263]
Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.[264]
Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.[230]
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.[265]
Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.[267][268][269]
Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.[270]
Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.[271]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.[273]
John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.[275][276]
Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer.[277]
Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.[278]
Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.[279]
José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.[280]
Sokollu Mehmet Paşa - Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent.[281]
Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.[282][283]
Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen), 8th Earl of Yarborough.[284]
Q-Tip - North American hip-hop emcee, actor, and hip hop producer who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.[285]
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - former boxing world heavyweight champion.[286]
Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.[287]
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.[288]
Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.[256]
Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.[289]
Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.[290]
Derrick Shareef- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans 22 December at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois during the Christmas rush.[291]
Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.[292]
Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.[293]
Nahshid Sulaiman - alternative hip hop artist.[294]
Apisai Tora - Fijian politician.[295]
Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.[296][297]
Abdul Waheed (Don Stewart-Whyte) - accused of participating in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.[298][299]
Jason Walters - of the Netherlands, member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism.[300]
John Ward - (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.[301]
Rakan Ben Williams - suspected member of Al-Qaeda terrorist.[302]
Michael Wolfe - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.[303][304]
Michael X - civil rights activist in the United Kingdom [305]
Yusuf Chambers - U.K. based Da'ee of international fame. Yusuf Chambers is a young preacher from London, has greatly involved himself in many organizations in U.K. and outside like Peace TV, Islam Channel, Al-Jumuah magazine, Unity TV etc
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