List of Islamic Converted Peoples

CONVERT TO ISLAM:A list of famous convert

 This is a only list of notable people who have converted to Islam belief systems such.
[In the United Kingdom and France, about 100,000 people converted in the last decade in each country Germany (usually 4000 a year) and many other places around the world.]
FROM ATHEISM-

1. Charles le Gai Eaton - British diplomat and writer.
2. Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer).
3. Martin Lings - A widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.
4. Nursultan Nazarbayev - President of Kazakhstan.
5. World Best Oscar Awarded Musician A. R. Rahman (Initially raised Hindu, but was atheist as a teenager until conversion to Islam) - Indian music composer.

 From Other-

1. Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese origins.
2. Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.
3. 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.
4. Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.
5. Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.
6. Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.
7. Ajdin Muzaka - was the commander in the Battle of Torvioll.
8. Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.
9. Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
10. Amir Butler- author, engineer and Islamic activist.
11. Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer, Former 2 time Super Middleweight Champion.
12. Antoni Aleksander Iliński - a Polish-Ottoman military officer and general.
13. Apisai Tora - Fijian politician. 

B

1. Batool Al-Toma
2. B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.
3. Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.
4. Bob Denard - French mercenary.
5. Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law who was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
6. Busta Rhymes - American rapper, songwriter and actor.C
7. Celestino Caballero - Boxer and former Super Bantamweight Champion.
8. Charles Brooks, Jr. - an American criminal who converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
9. Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen)- 8th Earl of Yarborough.
10. Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".
11. Christopher de Bellaigue - British journalist and author
12. Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.
13. Colleen LaRose - alleged intended assassin of Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
14. Craig Hodges - former NBA player.D
15. Dave Chapelle - American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist.
16. 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.
17. Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.
18. Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.
19. Divya Bharti (Late) Indian Actress married with Sajid Nadiadwala.E
20. Edoardo Agnelli - eldest son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat.
21. Lady Evelyn Cobbold - Scottish noblewoman.
22. Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.F
23. Frithjof Schuon - Swiss-German metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher and leading figure of the perennialist school. 

G

1. Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.
2. Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
3. Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.
4. Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.

H

1. 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.
2. H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.

 I

1. Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
2. Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.
3. Iliaş Colceag - Moldavian military commander in the Ottoman and Russian Empire.
4. Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer. 

J

1. Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
2. Jadel Gregório - a Brazilian athlete.
3. James Achilles Kirkpatrick - was the British Resident in Hyderabad.
4. Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate
5. Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.
6. Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to Imran Khan
7. Jesse of Kakheti - a ruler of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1614 to 1615.
8. John Ward - (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.
9. Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.
10. José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.
11. Juan Carlos Gomez - Former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.
12. Julia Volkova - Russian singer and actress best known as a member of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u., along with Lena Katina.K
13. Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped.
14. Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan of Jordan.
15. Khalid Sheldrake - an English pickle manufacturer who established a branch of the Western Islamic Association in South Shields in 1930.L
16. Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.
17. Lauren Booth - a British broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.
18. Li Nu - a 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.
19. Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.
20. Lewis Arquette - actor and father of actors David Arquette and Rosanna Arquette; father-in-law of actress Courteney Cox.

 M

1. MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.
2. Malcolm X - American to Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam, African-American civil rights leader.
3. Malik ul Salih - established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.
4. Maryam Jameelah - formerly Margret Marcus. Author of many books covering several subjects, including Modernism, Sociology, History, Jihad, Theology and Technology.
5. Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.
6. Great Boxer Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
7. Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.
8. Michael Wolfe - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.
9. Michael X - civil rights activist in the United Kingdom 
10. The world Best Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam Famous boxer.
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11. Nahshid Sulaiman - alternative hip hop artist.
12. 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.O
13. Omar Ong Yoke Lin - (1917–2010) Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association.
14. Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.
15. Omar Epps - American actor, singer, songwriter, and record producer.P
16. Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.
17. Philippe Grenier - (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.Q
18. 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.R
19. Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.
20. Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.
21. Rodrigo de Triana - sailor and the first European since the Vikings known to have seen America who converted to Islam from Judaism or Christianity.
22. Ronald Bell - musician.
23. Rory McLeod - British snooker player.S
24. Sahib Shihab - American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
25. Saida Miller Khalifa - British author who was originally called Sonya Miller.
26. Shaheed Akbar - notable rapper who converted to Islam.
27. Sonny Bill Williams - Former NRL player and current All Black, Professional boxer.
28. Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.
29. Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.
30. Sharmila Tagore - Mother of Actor Nabab Saif-Ali KhanIndian film actress. Converted after marriage to M A Patudi.

T

1. Thomas J. Abercrombie - famous photographer and writer for National Geographic 
2. Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysian actress.
3. Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.
4. Tony Hussein Hinde - Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam.
5. Uri Davis - an academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East.V
6. Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.
7. Vernel Fournier - jazz drummer.W
8. Walt Hazzard - former NBA player. 

Y

1. Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.
2. Yousuf Yohana - Pakistani Cricketer and former cricket team captain (resident of Lahore) became Muslim and changed his name to Muhammad Yousuf. 

Z

1. Zachary Adam Chesser - American Muslim convert to Sunni Islam. Sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison on February 24, 2011.

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