ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA
A
* Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NBA player[3]
* Abdullah Beg of Kartli - Georgian convert to Islam[4] who was a claimant to the kingship of Kartli.
* Abel Xavier - former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[5]
* Abu Tammam - 9th century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[6]
* 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.[7]
* Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) - al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Homeschooled Christian.[8]
* Adam Neuser - a German Lutheran pastor who criticized the doctrine of the trinity and was consequently imprisoned.[9]
* Addas - Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time. One of the earliest Christian converts to Islam.
* Adi ibn Hatim - Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time.
* Ahmad Faris Shidyaq - a Lebanese scholar, writer and journalist who was a Maronite convert to Islam.[10]
* Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[11][12]
* Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative converted from Catholicism[13][14][15]
* Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[16]
* Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[17]
* Allahverdi Khan - general and statesman of Georgian origin who was Christian and converted to Islam.[18]
* Alexander Litvinenko - former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.[19][20]
* Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian.[21] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[22][23]
* Aminah Assilmi - Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity.
* André Carson - former Baptist,[24] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[25]
* Anselm Turmeda - a Majorcan writer and a Franciscan friar who converted to Islam[26]
* Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[27]
* Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[28]
* Anthony Mundine - former Australian rugby league player for the St George Illawarra Dragons and now a boxer
* Anthony Small - professional boxer[29]
* Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet - a distinguished British convert to Islam.[30][31][32]
* Atik Sinan - a Greek architect for the Ottomans.
B
* Badr al-Din Lu'lu', an Armenian convert to Islam[33] and successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul.
* Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
* Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[34]
* Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[35]
* Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[36]
* Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[37]
* Bryant Neal Vinas - participated in and supported al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S., and helped al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR[38]
C
* Colleen LaRose - American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes
* Chris Eubank - British boxer[39]
* Christian Gonzalez - Indonesian-Uruguay footballer. He changed his name become Mustafa Habibi Gonzalez
* Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is 18th century French nobleman.[40]
* Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[41]
D
* Daniel Maldonado - American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.[42]
* Danilo Fernando - Brazilian Footballer. He changed his name become Muhammad Danilo Fernando
* Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[43]
* Danny Williams - British boxer[44]
* David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[45]
* David Benjamin Keldani, a former Catholic priest.
* Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star[46]
* Dawud Wharnsby-Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[47][48]
E
* Elsa Kazi - German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
* Erekle I of Kakheti - Georgian convert to Islam[49] who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli.
* Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona, converted to Islam after marriage.[50]
* Everlast - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain, converted From Catholicism.[51]
F
* Farqad as-Sabakhi - an Armenian Islamic preacher who was formerly a Christian[52] known for his knowledge of Judeo-Christian scriptures.[53]
* Franck Ribéry- a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Tarek.[54]
* Firouz - an Armenian Christian convert to Islam[55] who served as a spy for Bohemund during the Siege of Antioch.[56]
G
* Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[57]
* Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.[58]
* George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[59]
* Germaine Lindsay - one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[30][60][61] in which 52 people were murdered.
H
* Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox to Sunni Islam; co-founder of the Zaytuna College.[62]
* Hedley Churchward - English painter[63]
* Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha - born to a Christian Croatian[64] family, he was an Ottoman general and statesman from Hercegovina.
I
* Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[65]
* Ibn Jazla - an 11th century physician and Christian convert to Islam who later wrote to refute doctrines of Christianity.[66]
* Ibrahim Bey - an Egyptian Mamluk of Georgian Christian origins.
* Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[67]
* Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[68]
* Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) converted From Catholicism.[69]
* Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer[70]
* Ismael Urbain - French journalist and interpreter.
* Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[71][72]
* Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[73]
J
* C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[74]
* Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[75]
* James Yee - previously Lutheran[76] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[77]
* Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5.[78]
* Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[30][79][80]
* Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[81]
* Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.[citation needed]
* St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[82]
* John Tzelepes Komnenos - a Greek Byzantine leader.
* John Walker Lindh - the "American Taliban" converted From Catholicism[83][84]
* John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[85]
* John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[86]
* Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[87][88]
* Józef Bem - Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary.
* Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[89]
K
* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[90]
* Keith Ellison - American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted From Catholicism[91]
* Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[92]
* Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.
* Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[93]
* Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer converted From Catholicism.[94]
* Koca Yusuf Pasha - a Georgian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who also served as the governor of Peloponnese.[95]
* Köse Mihal - a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.[96][97]
* Kumba Ialá - a Guinea-Bissau politician who converted in 2008.
L
* Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[98]
* Leo of Tripoli - a Byzantine Greek renegade who freed 4000 Muslim prisoners while attacking the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.[99]
* Loon - American hip hop and rap artist[100]
* Lee Hughes - professional association football player, currently playing for Notts County F.C.[101]
* Lauren Booth - A journalist Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law in 2010.
M
* Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[102]
* Marcio Souza Da Silva - Brazilian Footballer
* Markus Horison - Indonesian Goalkeeper. He changed his name become Muhammad Markus Haris Maulana
* Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[103]
* Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[104]
* Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted From Catholicism.[105]
* Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[106]
* Mike Tyson - Is an American boxer to Sunni[107]
* Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[108]
* Mirza Malkam Khan - an Iranian Armenian proponent of Freemasonry who was active during the period leading up to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.[109]
* Mleh, Prince of Armenia - an Armenian convert to Islam from Catholicism,[110] he was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia.
* Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted From Catholicism.[111]
* Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)[112]
* Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[113]
* Moralı Enişte Hasan Pasha - Greek Ottoman Grand Vizier.[114]
* 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.[115]
* Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist[116][117] to The Nation of Islam to sufism Islam.[118] 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[119]
N
* Nicolas Anelka - French football player[120]
* Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam, Islamic scholar.[121]
O
* 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.[122]
* Omar Hammami - American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.[123]
* Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[124]
* Omar Sharif - Egyptian actor who converted from Catholicism.[125][126]
P
* Pargalı İbrahim Pasha - born to a Christian Greek family, he was the first Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire appointed by Suleiman the Magnificent.
* Peter Murphy - vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus, converted from Catholicism.[127]
* Pierre Vogel - German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
* Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist, converted From Catholicism.[128]
* Preacher Moss - Former Baptist,[129] American comedian and comedy writer.[130]
R
* Raghib Pasha - was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt[131] and who converted to Islam from Christianity.[132]
* Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, converted From Catholicism.[133]
* René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics, converted From Catholicism.[134][135]
* Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)[136]
* Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[137]
* Robert of St. Albans - an English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem.[138]
* 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.[139]
* Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[140]
* Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, converted From protestant.[141]
* 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.[142]
* Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.[143]
* Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author, converted from Protestantism.[144]
* Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[145][146]
* Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos[147]
S
* Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity[148] who was previously Zoroastrian.
* 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.[149]
* Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted From Catholicism.[150]
* Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface") - American rapper[151]
* Shah Shahidullah Faridi - Writer of German descent born to a Christian family.[152]
* Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[153]
* 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.[154]
* Siraj Wahaj - Former Baptist.[155] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[156]
* Snoop Dogg - Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.[157]
* Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[158]
* Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[159]
T
* T. B. Irving - An American scholar, author and translator
* Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[160]
* 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.[161][162][163]
* Tekuder - Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[164]
* Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[165]
* Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[166]
* Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador, converted From Catholicism.[167]
V
* Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted From Catholicism.[168]
W
* 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.[169]
* 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.[170]
* Wojciech Bobowski - raised Protestant, he was a Polish musician and translator of the Bible into Ottoman Turkish.[171]
Y
* Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[172]
* Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006[173]
* Yusuf Estes - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[174]
* Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[175][176]
Z
* Zaid Shakir - American Muslim convert former Baptist to Sunni Islam, speaker, intellectual, author, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in the United States.[177][178]
* 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.[179]
A
* Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NBA player[3]
* Abdullah Beg of Kartli - Georgian convert to Islam[4] who was a claimant to the kingship of Kartli.
* Abel Xavier - former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[5]
* Abu Tammam - 9th century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[6]
* 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.[7]
* Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) - al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Homeschooled Christian.[8]
* Adam Neuser - a German Lutheran pastor who criticized the doctrine of the trinity and was consequently imprisoned.[9]
* Addas - Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time. One of the earliest Christian converts to Islam.
* Adi ibn Hatim - Companion of the prophet Muhammad during his time.
* Ahmad Faris Shidyaq - a Lebanese scholar, writer and journalist who was a Maronite convert to Islam.[10]
* Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[11][12]
* Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative converted from Catholicism[13][14][15]
* Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[16]
* Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[17]
* Allahverdi Khan - general and statesman of Georgian origin who was Christian and converted to Islam.[18]
* Alexander Litvinenko - former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.[19][20]
* Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian.[21] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[22][23]
* Aminah Assilmi - Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity.
* André Carson - former Baptist,[24] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[25]
* Anselm Turmeda - a Majorcan writer and a Franciscan friar who converted to Islam[26]
* Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[27]
* Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[28]
* Anthony Mundine - former Australian rugby league player for the St George Illawarra Dragons and now a boxer
* Anthony Small - professional boxer[29]
* Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet - a distinguished British convert to Islam.[30][31][32]
* Atik Sinan - a Greek architect for the Ottomans.
B
* Badr al-Din Lu'lu', an Armenian convert to Islam[33] and successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul.
* Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
* Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[34]
* Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[35]
* Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[36]
* Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[37]
* Bryant Neal Vinas - participated in and supported al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S., and helped al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR[38]
C
* Colleen LaRose - American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes
* Chris Eubank - British boxer[39]
* Christian Gonzalez - Indonesian-Uruguay footballer. He changed his name become Mustafa Habibi Gonzalez
* Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is 18th century French nobleman.[40]
* Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[41]
D
* Daniel Maldonado - American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.[42]
* Danilo Fernando - Brazilian Footballer. He changed his name become Muhammad Danilo Fernando
* Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[43]
* Danny Williams - British boxer[44]
* David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[45]
* David Benjamin Keldani, a former Catholic priest.
* Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star[46]
* Dawud Wharnsby-Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[47][48]
E
* Elsa Kazi - German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
* Erekle I of Kakheti - Georgian convert to Islam[49] who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli.
* Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona, converted to Islam after marriage.[50]
* Everlast - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain, converted From Catholicism.[51]
F
* Farqad as-Sabakhi - an Armenian Islamic preacher who was formerly a Christian[52] known for his knowledge of Judeo-Christian scriptures.[53]
* Franck Ribéry- a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Tarek.[54]
* Firouz - an Armenian Christian convert to Islam[55] who served as a spy for Bohemund during the Siege of Antioch.[56]
G
* Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[57]
* Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.[58]
* George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[59]
* Germaine Lindsay - one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[30][60][61] in which 52 people were murdered.
H
* Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox to Sunni Islam; co-founder of the Zaytuna College.[62]
* Hedley Churchward - English painter[63]
* Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha - born to a Christian Croatian[64] family, he was an Ottoman general and statesman from Hercegovina.
I
* Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[65]
* Ibn Jazla - an 11th century physician and Christian convert to Islam who later wrote to refute doctrines of Christianity.[66]
* Ibrahim Bey - an Egyptian Mamluk of Georgian Christian origins.
* Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[67]
* Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[68]
* Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) converted From Catholicism.[69]
* Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer[70]
* Ismael Urbain - French journalist and interpreter.
* Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[71][72]
* Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[73]
J
* C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[74]
* Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[75]
* James Yee - previously Lutheran[76] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[77]
* Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5.[78]
* Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[30][79][80]
* Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[81]
* Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.[citation needed]
* St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[82]
* John Tzelepes Komnenos - a Greek Byzantine leader.
* John Walker Lindh - the "American Taliban" converted From Catholicism[83][84]
* John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[85]
* John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[86]
* Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[87][88]
* Józef Bem - Polish general, an Ottoman Pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary.
* Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[89]
K
* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[90]
* Keith Ellison - American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted From Catholicism[91]
* Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[92]
* Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.
* Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[93]
* Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer converted From Catholicism.[94]
* Koca Yusuf Pasha - a Georgian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who also served as the governor of Peloponnese.[95]
* Köse Mihal - a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.[96][97]
* Kumba Ialá - a Guinea-Bissau politician who converted in 2008.
L
* Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[98]
* Leo of Tripoli - a Byzantine Greek renegade who freed 4000 Muslim prisoners while attacking the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.[99]
* Loon - American hip hop and rap artist[100]
* Lee Hughes - professional association football player, currently playing for Notts County F.C.[101]
* Lauren Booth - A journalist Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law in 2010.
M
* Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[102]
* Marcio Souza Da Silva - Brazilian Footballer
* Markus Horison - Indonesian Goalkeeper. He changed his name become Muhammad Markus Haris Maulana
* Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[103]
* Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[104]
* Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted From Catholicism.[105]
* Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[106]
* Mike Tyson - Is an American boxer to Sunni[107]
* Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[108]
* Mirza Malkam Khan - an Iranian Armenian proponent of Freemasonry who was active during the period leading up to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.[109]
* Mleh, Prince of Armenia - an Armenian convert to Islam from Catholicism,[110] he was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia.
* Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted From Catholicism.[111]
* Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)[112]
* Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[113]
* Moralı Enişte Hasan Pasha - Greek Ottoman Grand Vizier.[114]
* 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.[115]
* Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist[116][117] to The Nation of Islam to sufism Islam.[118] 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[119]
N
* Nicolas Anelka - French football player[120]
* Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam, Islamic scholar.[121]
O
* 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.[122]
* Omar Hammami - American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.[123]
* Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[124]
* Omar Sharif - Egyptian actor who converted from Catholicism.[125][126]
P
* Pargalı İbrahim Pasha - born to a Christian Greek family, he was the first Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire appointed by Suleiman the Magnificent.
* Peter Murphy - vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus, converted from Catholicism.[127]
* Pierre Vogel - German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
* Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist, converted From Catholicism.[128]
* Preacher Moss - Former Baptist,[129] American comedian and comedy writer.[130]
R
* Raghib Pasha - was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt[131] and who converted to Islam from Christianity.[132]
* Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, converted From Catholicism.[133]
* René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics, converted From Catholicism.[134][135]
* Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)[136]
* Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[137]
* Robert of St. Albans - an English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem.[138]
* 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.[139]
* Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[140]
* Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, converted From protestant.[141]
* 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.[142]
* Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.[143]
* Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author, converted from Protestantism.[144]
* Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[145][146]
* Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos[147]
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* Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity[148] who was previously Zoroastrian.
* 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.[149]
* Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted From Catholicism.[150]
* Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface") - American rapper[151]
* Shah Shahidullah Faridi - Writer of German descent born to a Christian family.[152]
* Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[153]
* 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.[154]
* Siraj Wahaj - Former Baptist.[155] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[156]
* Snoop Dogg - Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.[157]
* Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[158]
* Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[159]
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* T. B. Irving - An American scholar, author and translator
* Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[160]
* 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.[161][162][163]
* Tekuder - Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[164]
* Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[165]
* Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[166]
* Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador, converted From Catholicism.[167]
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* Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted From Catholicism.[168]
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* 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.[169]
* 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.[170]
* Wojciech Bobowski - raised Protestant, he was a Polish musician and translator of the Bible into Ottoman Turkish.[171]
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* Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[172]
* Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006[173]
* Yusuf Estes - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[174]
* Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[175][176]
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* Zaid Shakir - American Muslim convert former Baptist to Sunni Islam, speaker, intellectual, author, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in the United States.[177][178]
* 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.[179]
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