Notable people who have embraced ISLAM
* Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar Sharmon Shah - former NFLFootball player
* Abu Tammam - 9th century Arab poet born to Christian parents.
* Abu Usamah - controversial American-born Imam of Green Lane
Masjid in Birmingham, UK. Accused of preaching messages of hate
towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.
* Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster
and former American football wide receiver.
* Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman
Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda
operative converted From Catholicism
* Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member
of the Murabitun movement.
* Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.
* Alexander Litvinenko - former Russian spy converted to
Islam on his deathbed.
* Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian. American
journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General
of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.
* André Carson - former Baptist, second Muslim to serve
the United States Congress. * Anthony Green or Abdul
Raheem Green, Converted from Catholicism to Islam,
and is now an Islamic lecturer.
* Art Blakey - American Jazz musician
* Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant,
author of an autobiographical book
* Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP
* Bernard Hopkins - American boxer
* Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.
* Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author
* Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at
the 2002 FIFA World Cup
* Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the
Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.
* Chris Eubank - British boxer
* Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is
18th century French nobleman.
* Celt Islam or Muhammad Abdullah Hamzah, British convert to
Islam and Sufi electronica musician .
* Daniel Moore - poet
* Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted
from Catholicism. * Danny Williams - British boxer
* David Benjamin Keldani, a former Catholic priest.
* Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star
* Dawud Wharnsby Ali David Wharnsby - Canadian singer/poet.
* Elsa Kazi - German writer of one-act plays, short stories,
novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
* Éric Abidal changed his name to Bilal -
French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona,
converted to Islam after marriage.
* Everlast - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group
House of Pain, converted From Catholicism.
* Franck Ribéry- a French football player. His name after
he converted to Islam is Bilal.
* Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist
based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
* George XI of Kartli-Saffavid commander.
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