Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) – originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings. Abdul-Wahad was the first person to be raised in France who played for the NBA.[6]
Akhenaton – French rapper and producer of French hip hop. Born with the name Philippe Fragiane, he eventually would convert from Catholicism to Islam.[11]
Józef Bem – Polish and Hungarian general. Bem has been historically defined as a national hero within Poland and Hungary. He escaped to the Ottoman Empire where he converted to Islam and took up the name, Murad Pasha.[35]
Ezell Blair Jr. - a civil-rights activist and a member of the Greensboro Four. He challenged policies aimed at denying service to non-whites. He converted to Islam and is known as Jibreel Khazan.[40]
Tawana Brawley (Maryam Muhammad) – African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined by a grand jury to be a fabrication. Later in life she converted to Islam.[46][47][48]
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.[49]
Mahdi Bray - a civil rights and human rights activist.[50]
Titus Burckhardt - Also known as Ibrahim Izz al-Din, was a Swiss convert to Islam.[54]
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Torquato Cardilli – Italian ambassador, converted from Catholicism. Cardilli served as ambassador to Italy in Albania (1991), Tanzania (1993), Saudi Arabia (2000) and Angola (2005).[55]
Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, education philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.[59]
Zainab Cobbold - formerly known as Evelyn Cobbold, she changed her name to Zainab Cobbold. Zainab was a Scottish noblewoman who performed the Hajj in 1933.[65]
Abdullah el-Faisal – a Muslim cleric who preached in the United Kingdom until he was convicted of stirring up racial hatred and urging his followers to murder Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Americans.[80][81]
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.[120]
Nuh Ha Mim Keller – Islamic scholar who converted from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam.[132]
Saida Miller Khalifa - an author and convert to Islam, Saida was previously known as Sonya Miller and is from Britain. She converted in 1959 and married an Egyptian professor named Yusry Khalifa whom she went to Hajj with.[133]
Jamilah Nasheed - an American politician from Missouri who currently represents the fifth district of the Missouri Senate. She visited a mosque in Grand Boulevard and eventually converted to Islam after studying.[172]
Jose Padilla – also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir (Listeni/ɑːbˈdʌlə ælmuːˈhɑːdʒɪər/ ahb-DUL-ə al-moo-HAH-jeer) or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen from Brooklyn, New York, who was convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists. Also known as "the dirty bomber".[178]
Murat Reis or Jan Janszoon - a Dutch Barbary corsair who was an admiral for the Republic of Salé. He converted to Islam from Christianity. Janszoon became a very active Muslim missionary who tried to convert his fellow Europeans who were Christian to Islam.[206]
Franck Ribéry – a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.[207]
Yvonne Ridley – British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[208][209]
Sean Stone – Son of Oliver Stone and documentary producer.[230]
Daniel Streich – Swiss military instructor, community council member and a former member of Swiss People's Party who led the campaign for the national ban on the construction of new minarets.[231]
Abu Usamah – American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK.Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.[248]
Malcolm X – American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist who converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam and later to mainstream Sunni Islam.[267]
Abel Xavier – former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[268]
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Khalid Yasin – Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[269]
Mohammad Yousuf – Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted from Catholicism.[273]
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