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Kuuluisia Muslimeita (Islamiin palanneita/kääntyneitä henkilöitä)
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Uskonnollisia henkilöitä (pappeja, saarnaajia..)
Poliitikkoja
- Khaled Edward Blair - English barrister, married to Princess Badiya of Jordan
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African, from Catholicism, President and Emperor of the Central African Republic (later reconverted to Catholicism)
- Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon
- Torquato Cardilli - Italian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
- Keith Ellison - American, from Catholicism, Minnesota state legislator
- Thomas Haidon - New Zealander, from Catholicism, lawyer & government advisor
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholic Christianity, NATO official
- Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist
- Iyasu V - Ethiopian, former Emperor of Ethiopia
- Mathieu Kérékou - Beninese, from Christianity, President of Benin (later reconverted to Christianity)
- Yousef al-Khattab (Yosef Cohen) - from Orthodox Judaism, converted with his wife & children.
- Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.
- David Myatt - from Paganism, Neo-Nazi-activist
- Karl Nickner - Executive Director of CAIR-CAN
- David Musa Pidcock - British, from Catholicism, leader of the Islamic Party of Britain
- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X, Malcolm Little) - American, from Christianity to NOI to mainstream Islam, African-American civil rights leader.
- Apisai Tora - Fijian politician
- Sabrina Varroni - Italian fined € 80 for wearing a burqa in Drezzo, Italy sparking a controversy in Italian politics
Urheilijoita
- Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - American, from Christianity, former NFL football player
- Ahmed Santos - American publicist & former boxer
- Anthony Mundine - Australian, from Christianity, boxer and former rugby player
- Bernard Hopkins - boxer
- Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
- Chris Eubank - boxer
- Danny Williams - British boxer
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi - boxer
- Franck Ribery - French football player, currently plays for Marseille
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player
- Matthew Saad Muhammad - from Catholicism, former boxer
- Mike Tyson American, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world
Scholars
- Hamid Algar - British professor at the University of California, Berkeley, expert in the Ja'fari school of thought & Iranian civilization
- Aminah Assilmi - from Southern Baptist Christianity, scholar & director of the International Union of Muslim Women
- Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of theTékumel fantasy world.
- Kevin Barrett - lecturer, conspiracy theorist
- Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar
- Sherman Jackson - Islamic scholar & Academic, Near East Studies & Law School at the University of Michigan
- Martin Lings - from Protestantism to Sufism* Maimonides - Jewish philosopher, theologian, and physician forced to convert to Islam under pain of death during the Cordoba massacre of 1148.
- Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar
- Thomas McElwain - (disputed) from Baptist Christianity, former minister, a Professor of History & Comparative religion* Bilal Philips - from Christianity, Islamic scholar & author
- Muhammad Pickthall (Marmaduke Pickthall) - from Christianity, a translator of the Qur'an
- Zaid Shakir - Islamic scholar
- Haschem Wilde - British professor
- Timothy J. Winter - lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
- Khalid Yasin - American, from Christianity, Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI)
- Hamza Yusuf - from Orthodox Christianity - Islamic scholar
Filosofeja
Media, taide ja viihde
- Ali Bey al-Abbasi - writer, explorer (disputed)
- Muhammed al-Ahari - American, from Christianity, essayist
- Muhammad Asad - from Judaism, writer
- Amir Butler - Australian, a Salafi author
- Steve Centanni - American journalist, forced to convert to Islam by Islamist kidnappers in the Gaza Strip as a condition for his release.
- Dave Chappelle - comedian & television star
- Ian Dallas - writer
- Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer
- Everlast - American, singer/songwriter
- Knud Holmboe - 20th century Danish journalist & explorer
- Abdullah Ibrahim (A. J. Brand) - South African pianist & composer
- Ice Cube - Rapper & Actor
- Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) - British, from Greek Orthodox Christianity, musician & singer
- Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson
- Maryam Jameelah - from Reform Judaism, essayist, poet, journalist & author
- Ruqayyah Waris Maqsood - British, from Protestant Christianity, author
- Daniel Moore - from Christianity, poet
- Mos Def - American rapper & actor
- Lev Nussimbaum - from Judaism, writer
- Harry St. John Philby - from Anglicanism, Arabist, explorer, writer & British colonial office intelligence operative
- William Abdullah Quilliam - from Christianity, poet, solicitor, ambassador & journalist
- A. R. Rahman ( A.S. Dileep Kumar) - Indian, from Hinduism, music film composer and director
- Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, converted from Anglicanism after being kidnapped by the Taliban.
- Stephen Schwartz - Jewish born, Protestant mother, Sufi neoconservative journalist
- Kamala Suraiya - Indian, from Hinduism, writer
- Pamela Taylor - writer and board member of the Progressive Muslim Union
- Alexander Russell Webb - American, from Presbyterian Christianity, 19th Century U.S. journalist
- Olaf Wiig - New Zealand cameraman, forced to convert to Islam by Islamist kidnappers in the Gaza Strip as a condition for his release.
- Michael Wolfe - writer & documentarist
- Michael Jackson - singer/songwriter
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian Singer/poet, from christianity
- scarface-rapper,producer from christianity
Mystikot
Society
Tiede
- Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas
- Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist & former hostage in Iraq
Armeija
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