List of American Muslims
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This page is an incomplete list of notable people from North America who are Muslims.
Government/politics
- Zalmay Khalilzad - Current US Ambassador to the United Nations. Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and to Iraq[1]
- Malcolm X - Human rights leader, Black nationalist[2]
- Keith Ellison - U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
- Elias Zerhouni - Director, National Institutes of Health
- Mohamed Khairullah - current Mayor of Prospect Park, NJ
- Ibrahim Hooper - National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- James Yee - former US Army chaplain with the rank of Captain[3]
- Dr. Robert D. Crane - former foreign policy advisor, author[4]
- Nihad Awad - National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
Religious Leaders
- Jamal Badawi - Muslim scholar[5]
- Louay M. Safi - Muslim scholar[6]
- Yusuf Estes - Muslim scholar[7]
- Sherman Jackson - Muslim scholar[8]
- Ingrid Mattson - Muslim scholar[9]
- Warith Deen Muhammad - Muslim scholar[10]
- Zaid Shakir - Muslim scholar[11]
- Sadullah Khan - Muslim scholar[12]
- Siraj Wahaj - Muslim scholar[13]
- Hamza Yusuf - Muslim scholar[14]
- Rashad Khalifa - Muslim scholar who founded United Submitters International[15]
- H. Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah al-Amin)
- Omar Ibn Said - scholar
- Alexander Russell Webb - scholar, journalist, da'ee
- Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) - scholar
- Dr. Jerald F. Dirks - scholar, author, former minister[16]
- Mohammed Mroueh - scholar, author, Michigan Affairs [32]
- Imam Hasan Qazwini - Religious leader of biggest Mosque, Islamic Center of America
Journalists/Authors
- Yahiya Emerick - author[17]
- Jeffrey Lang - author, professor[18]
- Umar Lee - author
- Stephen Schwartz - journalist[19]
- Michael Wolfe - journalist[20]
- Fareed Zakaria - head of Newsweek International
- Haroon Siddiqui - Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor of the Toronto Star
- Maryam Jameelah (born Margaret Marcus) - essayist, poet, journalist and author
- Erik Winkel - author, scholar[21]
- L. Ali Khan - author, legal scholar, professor of law
- Hassan Naveed - KCSB 91.9 FM Associate News and Public Affairs Director and columnist on homosexual scandals in the Islamic World.
- Anab Whitehouse Author, educator, counselor, and founder of Bilquees Press
Business
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- Kenan Sahin - software engineer, wealthiest American Muslim
- Haitham Alfuqahaa - CEO LUNA Industries
- Mansoor Ijaz - Investment management
- Safi Qureshey - Cofounder and former CEO of AST Research
- Farooq Kathwari - CEO and President of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.
- Abdul Malik Mujahid - President of Sound Vision and community activist[22]
Alleged & Convicted Terrorists
- John Walker Lindh - White American Taliban[23]
- Hasan Akbar - convicted of premeditated murder in grenade attack on fellow soldiers.[24]
- Hesham Mohamed Hadayet - Egyptian-American who killed 2 people at the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport[25]
- Mir Aimal Kansi - Pakistani-American convicted and executed for the shootings at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters.[26]
- José Padilla - convicted of aiding terrorists and litigant before the United States Supreme Court in Rumsfeld v. Padilla
Science
- Fazlur Khan - structural engineer (designed the Sears Tower, John Hancock Center)[27]
- Ahmed H. Zewail - chemist and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Dr. Mehmet Oz
Entertainment
- Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952 - ) Academy Award-nominated Iranian-born actress[28]
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian singer-songwriter, poet[29]
- Lewis Arquette - film actor, writer and producer
- Art Blakey - American jazz drummer and bandleader
- Dave Chappelle - comedian[30]
- Ice Cube - actor/rapper[31][32]
- MC Ren - rapper
- Gentleman Jack - aka Steve Dunseith, Atlanta's most famous Man About Town
- Mustafa Akkad - film director, producer
- Everlast - singer-songwriter
- Lupe Fiasco - Rapper[33]
- Freeway - Rapper
- Yasmeen Ghauri - supermodel[citation needed]
- Jermaine Jackson - singer, bass guitarist
- DJ Khaled - rap DJ
- Akon - rapper
- T-Pain - rapper/ R&B singer
- Rakim - rapper
- E.D.I. Mean - rapper Outlawz
- Wesley Snipes - actor; became Muslim in college then abandoned the faith three years after graduation
- Jawad Jafry - director and creator of Adam's World[34]
- Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist
- Talib Kweli - rapper
- Mos Def - rapper, actor
- Bizzy Bone - rapper
- Flesh-N-Bone - rapper
- Q-Tip - rapper
- The RZA - rapper, hip-hop producer
- Idris Muhammad - Jazz drummer
- Mutah Wassin Shabazz Beale (Napoleon) - rapper
- Azhar Usman - standup comedian
- Beanie Sigel - rapper [35]
- Khalil Kain - actor
- Yafeu Fula (Yaki Kadafi) - rapper
- Iman - supermodel
- Brother Ali - rapper
- Jaleel White - actor
Sports
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player[36]
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad - basketball player
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim - basketball player [37]
- Muhammad Ali - boxer[38]
- Laila Ali - boxer, daughter of Muhammad Ali
- Ahmad Bradshaw - football player
- Hakeem Olajuwon - basketball player[39]
- Hasim Rahman - boxer
- Ahmad Rashad - football player, sports broadcaster
- Hedo Turkoglu - basketball
- Az-Zahir Hakim - football player
- Abdul Hodge - football player
- Bernard Hopkins - boxer
- Larry Johnson - basketball player
- Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik) - wrestler
- Farooq Asad - wrestler
- Mehmet Okur - basketball
- Khosrow Daivari - wrestler
- Rasheed Wallace - basketball (disputed)
- Freddie Kanoute - soccer
- Mike Tyson - boxer
- Nazr Mohammed - basketball player (disputed)
- Marat Safin- professional tennis player.
Footnotes
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- ^ http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-16-yee-cover_x.htm
- ^ http://www.islamonline.net/livedialogue/english/Guestcv.asp?hGuestID=gTlc0C
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- ^ http://welcome-back.org/profile/dirks1.shtml
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- ^ http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/biographies/winkel_eric_abu_munir/
- ^ http://www.ciogc.org/shuraDetailP1.html?profileId=21
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- ^ http://www.fazlurrkhan.com/
- ^ Stanley, John (2006-11-26). "'Nativity' Revisited". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2006-11-25.
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- ^ http://www.soundvision.com/Info/adam/jawad.asp
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