List of converts to Islam

Converts to Islam

Total population
In the United Kingdom and France, up to 100,000 people converted in the last decade in each country[1] Germany (up to 4000 a year)[2] and many other places around the world.

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 cases are noted in their list entries. The list is categorized alphabetically by their former religious affiliation.

List of converts to Islam from Major Religions

• List of converts to Islam from Christianity
• List of converts to Islam from Judaism
• List of converts to Islam from Buddhism
• List of converts to Islam from Hinduism
• List of converts to Islam from Zoroastrianism
• List of converts to Islam from Paganism
• List of converts to Islam from Atheism

Sabianism

• Hilal al-Sabi – a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic.^[3]
• Sinan ibn Thabit – a physician and son of Thābit ibn Qurra.^[4]

Undetermined former religion

A

• Abd al Malik – birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese descent^[5]
• Abd al Haqq Kielan – Swedish cleric^[6]
• Abdallah Schleifer – prominent Middle East expert, former NBC Cairo Bureau chief, and a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo who converted to Sufi Islam.
• Abdul Alim Musa – Muslim activist; director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.
• Abdullah ibn Buhaina – American musician, also known as Arthur "Art" Blakey, American jazz drummer and bandleader. He stopped being a practicing Muslim in the 1950s and continued to perform under the name "Art Blakey" throughout his career.^[7]
• Abdullah Ibrahim – South African jazz musician^[8]
• Abdur Raheem Green (born Anthony Greene); Islamic preacher and founder of iERA ^[9]
• Abu Ali ibn Muhammad – King of the Ghurid dynasty
• Abu Izzadeen – spokesman for Al Ghurabaa, a Muslim organization banned under the Terrorism Act 2006 for the glorification of terrorism, that operated in the United Kingdom.^[10]
• Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki – added in November 2012 by the FBI to its Most Wanted Terrorist list. A federal warrant for his arrest was issued in 2007.^[11]
• Ahmad Jamal – American jazz pianist^[12]
• Ahmed Abdullah – American jazz trumpeter.^[13]
• Ajdin Muzaka – military commander in the Battle of Torvioll.
• Akhenaton – French rapper and producer; born Philippe Fragione.^[14]
• Allah-Rakha Rahman – Indian composer, musician, singer-songwriter, producer and philanthropist; he converted to Islam (his mother's religion) with other members of his family in 1989 at age 23, changing his name from R.S. Dileep Kumar to Allah Rakha Rahman.^[15][16]
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad – member of A Tribe Called Quest.^[17]
• Ali Mirza – Georgian prince
• Aghsartan I of Kakheti – King of Georgia
• Alys Faiz – human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.^[18]
• Aminah Assilmi – [United States] Aminah Assilmi (born Janice Huff, 1945 – 5 March 2010)[1] was a broadcast journalist, national Muslim community activist and director of the International Union of Muslim Women. Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity.
• Amina Wadud – [United States] was born as Mary Teasley to an Afro-American Family in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father was a Methodist minister. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, between 1970 and 1975. In 1972 she pronounced the shahadah. She received her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies and her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan in 1988.
• Amir Butler – UK/Australian author, engineer and Islamic activist^[19]
• Andrew Ibrahim – convicted of preparing terrorist acts in the UK.^[20]
• Anthony Mundine – Australian boxer; former two-time Super Middleweight champion.^[21]
• Antoni Aleksander Iliński – Polish-Ottoman military officer and general.
• Apisai Tora – Fijian politician^[22]
• Aribert Heim – Austrian SS doctor, also known as Dr. Death.^[23]

B

• Baba Ali – Iranian-born American film developer, games developer and businessman.^[24]
• B.G. Knocc Out – American rapper.^[25]
• Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan – born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.^[26]
• Berke – Ruler of the Kipchak Khanate
• Bilal Philips – contemporary Muslim teacher, speaker, and author.
• Bob Denard – French mercenary.^[27]
• Brandon Mayfield – American lawyer who was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.^[28]
• Bryant Neal Vinas, Hispanic American convicted of participating in and supporting Al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S.^[29]

C

• Celestino Caballero – boxer and former Super Bantamweight Champion.^[30]
• Charles Brooks, Jr. – convicted murderer, the first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection.^[31]
• Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen) – 8th Earl of Yarborough.^[32]
• Christian Ganczarski – German citizen convicted by a French court sentenced to 18 years in prison for the bombing of a synagogue.^[33]
• Chuck D – American rapper from Public Enemy.
• Christopher Paul – member of al Qaeda, who has pled guilty to acts of terrorism.^[34]
• Claude Alexandre de Bonneval – French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam.
• Colleen LaRose – alleged intended assassin of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.^[35]
• Cory Paterson – Australian professional rugby league player.^[36]

D

• Dave Chappelle – American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist.^[37]
• David Hicks – convicted by the United States Guantanamo military commission under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, on charges of providing material support for terrorism.^[38][39]
• 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.^[40]
• Deso Dogg – former rapper who went to fight in Syria.^[41]
• Diam's – French female rapper, born Mélanie Georgiades, converted 2010.^[42]
• Divine Styler – American hip-hop musician.^[43]
• Louis du Couret – French explorer, writer and military officer.^[44]
• Dwight Muhammad Qawi – former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.

E

• Lady Evelyn Cobbold – Scottish noblewoman.^[45]
• Everlast – Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.^[46]

F

• Felixia Yeap – Malaysian supermodel, former Playboy Bunny^[47][48]
• Franck Ribéry – French national football team player;^[49][50]
• Frédéric Kanouté – French Malian football player^[51]
• Frithjof Schuon - Swiss metaphysician and scholar of religions.

G

• Gary Legenhausen – American philosopher and writer.^[52]
• Gigi Gryce – American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.^[53]
• Gustave-Henri Jossot – French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.^[54]

H

• H. Rap Brown – civil rights activist.^[55]
• Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson) – American Islamic scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna college ^[56]
• 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.^[57]
• Hassan Hamin Assad – born Alvin Burke, American professional wrestler known by his ring name MVP.
• Hamza Robertson – born Tom Robertson, English singer.^[58]

I

• Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) – Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).^[59]
• Ingrid Mattson – Muslim religious leader, a professor of Islamic Studies and an interfaith activist.
• Ibrahim Savant – one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.^[60]
• Idris Muhammad – American jazz musician.^[61]
• Iliaş Colceag – Moldavian military commander in the Ottoman and Russian Empires.
• Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.^[62]
• Isabelle Eberhardt – explorer and writer.^[63]

J

• Jack Roche – convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.^[64]
• James Achilles Kirkpatrick – was the British Resident in Hyderabad.^[65]
• James Ujaama – convicted felon who was found guilty of supporting al-Qaeda.^[66]
• Jan Janszoon – Dutch pirate.^[67]
• Jason Walters – Dutch member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism.^[68]
• 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.^[69][70]
• Jeffrey Mark Deskovic – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.^[71]
• Jermaine Jackson – brother of Michael Jackson and former member of Jackson 5.
• Jesse Curtis Morton – co-founder of Revolution Muslim, jailed for threats against the creators of South Park.^[72]
• Jesse of Kakheti – a ruler of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1614–15.
• John Allen Muhammad – convicted murderer who carried out the Beltway sniper attacks of October 2002 with 17-year-old partner, Lee Boyd Malvo; John Allen Muhammad was later executed.^[73]
• John Ward – (changed name to Yusuf Reis), British corsair and pirate.
• Jonathan A.C. Brown – American Islamic scholar and Assistant professor at Georgetown University ^[74]
• Johann von Leers – advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.^[75][76]
• Jorvan Vieira – Luso-Brazilian football coach.^[77][78][79]
• José Padilla – respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.^[80]
• Juan Carlos Gomez – former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.^[81]
• Julia Volkova – Russian singer and actress best known as a member of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u.^[82]

K

• Kabir Suman – born Suman Chattopadhyay, Indian singer, songwriter, musician, music director, poet, journalist, political activist, TV presenter, and occasional actor. A convert, he stated that "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."^[83]
• Kérim Chatty – Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking; the preliminary inquiry was dropped.^[84]
• Khalid Gonçalves – Portuguese American actor and musician (born Paul Pires Gonçalves), convert to Islam from Catholicism.^[85]
• Khalid Kelly – former leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland.^[86]
• Khalid Sheldrake – English pickle manufacturer who established a branch of the Western Islamic Association in South Shields in 1930.
• Kristiane Backer – former presenter, MTV Europe
• Kumba Iala – Former President of Guinea Bissau, changed his name to Mohamed Ialá Embaló.

L

• Larry Johnson – retired American professional basketball player.^[87]
• Lauren Booth – British^[88] broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.^[89][90]
• Li Nu – Chinese scholar in the Ming dynasty who visited Persia, converted to Islam, married a Persian or an Arab girl and brought her back to Quanzhou in Fujian.^[91][92][93]
• Lim Yew Hock – Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.^[94]
• Laurence Brown (writer) – American writer, novelist,ophthalmologist ^[95]
• Lewis Arquette – actor; father of actors David, Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis and Richmond Arquette; son of Cliff Arquette.^[96]

M

• Malik ul Salih – established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.^[97]
• Maryam Jameelah – formerly Margret Marcus; author of many books covering several subjects, including Modernism, Sociology, History, Jihad, Theology and Technology.^[98]
• Maurice Béjart – French choreographer^[99]
• MC Ren – American rapper and hip-hop producer.^[100]
• Michael Finton – converted to Islam while in prison, who attempted to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building and the adjacent offices of Congressman Aaron Schock in downtown Springfield, Illinois, on September 24, 2009.^[101][102]
• Michael Wolfe – American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.^[103]
• Malcolm X – black revolutionary and civil rights activist (1925–1965) read 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' for more information.
• Mike Tyson – boxer, performer; convert to Sufism^[104]
• Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador.^[105]
• Mohammad Yousuf – former Pakistani cricketer ^[106]
• Muhammad Ali – former world heavy weight champion^[107]
• Muhammad Asad – formerly Leopold Weiss, a Jewish-born Austro-Hungarian born journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, thinker, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar.
• Mutah Beale – better known as Napoleon, former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz.^[108]
• Monica (actress) – former Indian film actress, who starred predominantly in Tamil language films reverted to Islam in 2014.^[109]

N

• Nahshid Sulaiman – alternative hip hop artist.^[110]
• 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.^[111]
• Nicky Reilly – convicted of the 2008 Exeter attempted bombing.^[112]
• Nicolas Anelka – French national team football player who also played for several clubs such as Juventus in Italy and Chelsea F.C. in England.

O

• Omar Ong Yoke Lin – (1917–2010) Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association.^[113]
• Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels – Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.^[114]

P

• Patrice Lumumba Ford (of the Portland Seven) – part of a group based in the US charged with aiding the Taliban and al-Qaeda.^[115]
• Pavel Kosolapov – Chechen rebel wanted by the Federal Security Service of Russia for suspected terrorist attacks.^[116]
• Peter Kassig – American aid worker, taken hostage and ultimately beheaded by The Islamic State; while in captivity, Kassig – formerly a Methodist – converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, sometime between October and December 2013.^{[117][118][119]}
• Philippe Fragione – French rapper and producer of French hip hop.^[120]
• Philippe Grenier – French doctor; first Muslim MP in France.^[121]
• Pierre Vogel – German former boxer, now an Islamic preacher.^[122]

Q

• Q-Tip – North American rapper, and hip hop producer who was part of the A Tribe Called Quest group.^[123]

R

• Raekwon – American rapper, born as Corey Woods.^[124]
• Rakim – Rap musician of Eric B. & Rakim, famous for the 1987 album Paid in Full.^[125]
• René Guénon – French metaphysician and scholar of religions.
• Robert "Kool" Bell – musician.^[126]
• Robert D. Crane – former Presidential advisor and ambassador.
• Rodrigo de Triana – sailor and the first European since the Vikings known to have seen America who converted to Islam from Judaism^[127] or Christianity.^[128]
• Roger Stockham – responsible for the 2011 Dearborn mosque bombing plot.^[129]
• Ronald Bell – musician; now known as Khalis Bayyan.

S

• Sahib Shihab – American jazz saxophonist and flautist.^[130]
• Saida Miller Khalifa – British author who was originally called Sonya Miller.^[131][132]
• Shaheed Akbar – rapper who converted to Islam.^[133]
• Sharmila Tagore – famous Indian film actress who married cricket player and then captain of Indian cricket team Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and converted to Islam; now known as Begum Ayesha Sultana.
• Sonny Bill Williams – New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer.^[134]
• Stephen Schwartz – American journalist, columnist, and author.^[135]
• Susanne Osthoff – German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.^[136]
• Sultaana Freeman – attempted to sue the state of Florida in order to wear a face veil for her driver's license picture.^[137]

T

• Thomas J. Abercrombie – photographer and writer for National Geographic ^[138]
• Tiara Jacquelina – Malaysian actress.^[139]
• Titus Burckhardt – Swiss writer and scholar.^[140]
• Tony Hussein Hinde – Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam.^[141]

U

• Uluç Ali Reis – corsair (privateer) who later became an Ottoman admiral (Reis), Bey of the Regency of Algiers, and finally Grand Admiral (Kapudan Pasha) of the Ottoman Fleet in the 16th century.
• Umar Islam – one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom^[60]
• Uri Davis – Middle East academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East^[142]

V

• Vladimir Khodov – leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis; converted in prison^[143]
• Valentine de Saint-Point – French writer, poet, painter, playwright, art critic, choreographer, lecturer and journalist.

W

• Walt Hazzard – former NBA player.^[144]
• William Thorson – former Swedish poker player^[145]
• Wojciech Bobowski – Polish musician; Bible translator^[146]
• Wayne Parnell – South African cricketer.^[147][148]

Y

• Yasin Abu Bakr – leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago.^[149]
• Yusuf Hazziez – American musician, born Joseph Arrington, Jr.; formerly known professionally as Joe Tex.^[150]
• Yusuf Islam – English singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and activist. Born Steven Demetre Georgiou, he was known professionally as Cat Stevens.^[151]
• Yusef Lateef – American jazz musician.^[152]
• Yuvan Shankar Raja – Indian musician; music director from Tamil Nadu.^[153]

Z

• Zachary Adam Chesser – American Muslim convert to Sunni Islam. Sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison on February 24, 2011.^[154]

See also

• List of converts to Buddhism
• List of converts to Christianity
• List of converts to Hinduism
• List of converts to Judaism
• List of converts to Sikhism
• List of former Muslims
• Lists of Muslims
• List of people by belief
• Religious conversion

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