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This page is an incomplete list of prominent and famous (or infamous) people who are Muslims - followers of Islam. This page is a list of people identified as Muslims, particularly by themselves. This page does not differentiate between Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, or any other subcategory. It also does not take into account whether those listed acknowledge their Muslim identity or origins. This list takes a wide definition of a Muslim by including most individuals who might be in some way identified as Muslim, but acknowledges that more restrictive definitions may be applied by the reader. For information on Islam and Muslims in various parts of the world, please see Islam by country.
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People associated with Islam
Traditional Theologians and Philosophers
- The Prophet Muhammad
- Abu Muslim
- Al-Dinawari
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Kindi
- Al-Tirmidhi
- Ibn Sina
- Ibn Taymiya
- Razi
- Wasil ibn Ata
See also early Muslim philosophy, Islamic philosophy
Shia Imams (main shia Theologians and Philosophers after the Prophet)
See: List of Shia Imams
- Ali ibn Abu Talib Al-Mortaza
- Ali ibn Husayn Zainol Abidin
- Ali ibn Mohammad Al-Hadi
- Ali ibn Musa Al-Reza
- Hasan ibn Ali Al-Mojtaba
- Hasan ibn Ali Al-Askari
- Hussein ibn Ali Sayyed-Al-Shohada
- Jafar ibn Mohammad Al-Sadiq
- Mohammad ibn Ali Bagher
- Mohammad ibn Ali Al-Taghi
- Mohammad ibn Hasan Al-Mahdi
- Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kazem
Main Sunni Theologians and Philosophers after the Prophet
Other Theologians and Philosophers
- Ahmed Deedat
- Al-Baitar
- Al-Battani
- Al-Biruni
- Al-Buzjani
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Farghani
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Idrisi
- Al-Khayyam
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Al-Kindi
- Al-Masu'di
- Al-Mawardi
- Al-Nafis
- Ali Bin Rabban
- Ali Shariati
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
- Bilal Philips
- Dr.Zakir Naik
- Fatima Mernissi
- Fazlur Rahman
- Hamid Enyat
- Hamza Yusuf
- Harun Yahya
- Hassan al Banna
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Ibn al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
- Ibn Khaldun
- Ibn Hazm
- Ibn Qurra
- Ibn Rushd
- Idries Shah
- Imran Nazar Hosein
- Ismail Al-Faruqi
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Khaled Abou Al-Fadl
- Leila Ahmed
- M. Umar Chapra
- Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas
- Merryl Wyn Davies
- Muhammad AlShareef
- Munawar Ahmad Anees
- Nasim Butt
- Nasiruddin Albani
- Nasreddin
- Nuh Ha Mim Keller
- Reza Aslan
- Rene Guenon
- Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
- Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
- Sherman Jackson
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Siraj Wahaj
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
- Syed Nawad Haider Naqwi
- Yusuf Estes
- Ziauddin Sardar
See also modern Islamic philosophy, Islamization of knowledge
Historiographers, political scientists, and sociologists
- Al-Masudi
- Amin Maalouf
- Hammudah Abdalati
- Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
- Ibn Hisham
- Ibn Ishaq
- Ibn Kathir
- Ibn Khaldoun
- Ibn Khallikan
- Rashid al-Din
- Sayyid Qutb
- Tabari
- Usamah ibn Munqidh
See also Islamic economics, The Muqadimmah, and isnad
Historical Figures
Early historic personalities
- Prophet Muhammad
- Abu Bakr - caliph
- Umar ibn al-Khattab - caliph
- Uthman ibn Affan - caliph
- Ali ibn Abi Talib - caliph (or the first Imám for Shia Muslims)
- Fatima Zahra
- Hasan bin Ali grandson of Muhammad
- Husayn bin Ali grandson of Muhammad
- Maaz bin jabal
- Muawiyah I
- Bilal ibn Rabah
See also Sahaba, List of companions of the prophet Muhammad
Military Leaders and Figures
- Abdel Kadir
- Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef
- Bai Chongxi
- Imam Shamil
- Khalid bin Walid
- Khair ad Din (Barbarossa)
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Muhammad bin Qasim
- Musa bin Nusair
- Nadir Shah
- Nur ad-Din
- Piri Reis
- Qutaibah bin Muslim
- Saladin
- Sher Shah
- Suharto
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
- Tahir ibn Husayn
- Tariq ibn-Ziyad
- Mahmood Ghaznvi
- Mosa Bin Naseer
- Zahir-ud-Babar
- Tamerlane
- Amir Timur ibn Tarag'ay
- Tipu Sultan
- Wiranto
- Zengi
- Radu cel Frumos
Muslim dynasties
- Abbadid
- Abbasid
- Aceh
- Aghlabid
- Almohad
- Almoravides
- Ayyubid dynasty
- Banu Isam
- Banu Salih
- Brunei
- Buwayhid
- Fatimid
- Ghaznavid Empire
- Hashemite
- House of Saud (Saudis)
- Khwarezmid Empire
- Majapahit
- Mameluk dynasty
- Mughal Empire
- Sultanate of Mataram
- Ottoman Empire
- Pahlavi dynasty
- Pasai
- Pattani kingdom
- Rustamid
- Safavids
- Saffarid dynasty
- Samanid
- Seljuk Turks
- Sultanate of Johor
- Sultanate of Malacca
- Sultanate of Rüm
- Sultanate of Sulu
- Tahirid dynasty
- Timurid dynasty
- Umayyad
Politicians
- Abd ar-Rahman Al-Haydari Al-Kaylani
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim
- Abdul Kalam (also a scientist)
- Abdul Karim Qassim
- Abdullah I of Jordan
- Abdullah II of Jordan
- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
- Abdurrahman Wahid
- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
- Ahmadou Ahidjo
- Ahmed Qurei
- Ahmed Sékou Touré
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer
- Ali Hassan Mwinyi
- Ali Khamenei
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Anwar Sadat
- Ayub Khan
- Badar
- Badshah Khan
- Benazir Bhutto
- Cheikh Amadou Bamba [1]
- Fahd of Saudi Arabia
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- Habib Bourguiba
- Hamad bin Khalifa
- Hamid Karzai
- Hassan al Banna
- Hidayat Nur Wahid
- Hosni Mubarak
- Hussein of Jordan
- Iajuddin Ahmed
- Ibn Saud
- Idi Amin
- Islam Karimov
- Ismet Inönü
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Juma Khan
- Khaleda Zia
- Mahatir Mohammad
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
- Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
- Megawati
- Moammar Ghadafi
- Mohammad Khatami
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-e-Azam)
- Muhammad Iqbal (Ilama Iqbal, The Poet of East)
- Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
- Mohammad Rabbani
- Mohammed Bahr Al-Uloum
- Mohammed Omar
- Mohammed Qalamuddin
- Mohammed VI of Morocco
- Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
- Moulvi Ibrahim
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Omar Bongo
- Omar Hasan Ahmad Al-Bashir
- Qaboos of Oman
- Qari Ahmadullah
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Saddam Hussein (al-Majid)
- Samory Touré
- Sani Abacha
- Sukarno
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Yahya Jammeh
- Yasser Arafat
- Zafarullah Khan Jamali
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Zayed ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Quaid-e-Awam)
The Various Arts
Writers and Poets
- Abas ala'kad
- Abdul Rahman Munif
- Abdulah Sidran
- Abu Nuwas
- Abu Tammam
- Akbar S. Ahmed
- Al-Hallaj
- Allama Iqbal
- Asma Gull Hasan
- Daniel Moore
- Fareed Zakaria
- Hafiz
- Hakim Bey
- Hassan al Banna
- Ibn Arabi
- Ilona Yusuf
- Irshad Manji
- Jeffrey Lang
- Kabir
- Maher Hathout
- Marmaduke Pickthall
- Martin Lings
- Maryam Jameelah (Margaret Marcus)
- Meša Selimović
- Michael Wolfe
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann
- Naim Frashëri
- Nizami
- Omar Khayyám
- Rashid Ahmed
- Ruqayyah Waris Maqsood
- Rumi
- Sa'adi
- Suleyman Ahmad
- Yahiya Emerick
- Yusuf al-Khal
- Yusuf Balasagun
- Zuko Džumhur
Entertainers
- Moustapha Akkad
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Adewale Ayuba
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
- Art Blakey
- Ashok Masti, Pakistani singer
- Azhar Usman
- Brother Ali
- Danis Tanović
- Danny Thompson
- Dave Chappelle
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali
- Dilara
- Dino Merlin
- Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - Wife of Leo Morris
- Edo Maajka
- El-Hadji
- Erdogan Atalay
- Everlast
- Freeway
- Halid Bešlić
- Islamic Force
- Ismail Merchant
- Idris Muhammad (Leo Morris)
- Ahmad Jamal (Fritz Jones}
- Jermaine Jackson
- John Coltrane
- Khaled
- Mos Def
- Mousse T
- M-Team
- Napoleon, rapper
- Native Deen
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Omar Sharif
- Q-Tip
- Richard Thompson
- Salif Keita
- Soldiers of Allah
- Umm Kalthoum
- Walid Taoufic
- Youssou N'dour
- Yusuf Islam - Formerly known as Cat Stevens
- Kemal Malovcic
Artists
See also Islamic art history, Islamic architecture, Islamic pottery, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic music, Arabic poetry
Scientists, Philosophers, and Mathematicians
- Adnan Oktar
- Abdus Salam, physics
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Abu Al-Qasim, medicine
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn_Hayyan, (Geber) chemistry
- Abu Nasr Mansur, mathematics
- Ahmed H. Zewail, chemistry
- Ahmad ibn Yusuf, mathematics
- Al Battani, astronomer
- Al-Jazari, engineering
- Al-Jawhari, mathematics
- Al-Khwarizmi, mathematics
- Al-Kindi, mathematics
- Alhazen, mathematics
- Averroes, medicine
- Avicenna, medicine
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
- Biruni, mathematics
- Farabi, chemist and philosopher
- Lotfi Askar Zadeh, father of fuzzy logic
- Rashad Khalifa, biochemist
- Mahmoud Hessaby, engineering
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, geography and cartography.
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, scientist, philosopher
- Omar Khayyám, poet, mathematician, and astronomer
- Rhazes, medicine, chemist and physicist
- Thabit ibn Qurra, Astronomy, mathematics and Medicine
- Ulugh Beg, astronomer, mathematician
See also list of inventions by Muslims, Islamic science
Business Figures
- Alwaleed bin Talal
- Ayhan Hakimoglu, armaments
- Azim Premji, software
- Bijan, high-end men's clothing
- Farooq Kathwari, furniture
- Kenan Sahin, software engineer, wealthiest American Muslim
- Nemir Kirdar, venture capital
- Mansoor Ijaz, investment management
- Rashid A. Chaudhry, personal care products
- Safi Qureshey, computers
- Yusef Haroon, consulting and managerial services
Sport Figures
- Abbas Suan
- Ahmad Rashad
- Ahmed Hossam (also known as Mido)
- Ali Daei
- Ali Karimi
- Amir Khan
- Anthony Mundine
- Asim Ferhatović
- Az-Zahir Hakim
- Bernard Hopkins
- Chris Eubank
- Craig Hodges
- Danny Williams
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi
- Eddie Mustapha Muhammad
- Emre Belozoglu
- Hakan Sükür
- Hakeem Olajuwon
- Hasan Salihamidzic
- Hasim Rahman
- Hassiba Boulmerka
- Hedo Turkoglu
- Hicham El Guerrouj
- Hossein Reza Zadeh
- Imran Khan
- Irfan Pathan
- Isma'il Muhammad
- Ismail Essam
- Jahangir Khan
- Javed Miandad
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Karim Garcia
- Khalid Boulahrouz
- Khalid Khannouchi
- Kolo Touré
- Laila Ali
- Larry Johnson
- Nazr Mohammed
- Mahmoud Abdur-Rauf
- Marat Safin
- Matthew Saad Muhammad
- Mehdi Mahdavikia
- Mehmet Okur
- Mehmet Scholl
- Mike Tyson
- Mirza Delibašić
- Mohammed Azharuddin
- Muhammad Ali
- Mohammed Kaif
- Muhsin Muhammad
- Mustafa Hamsho
- Muzzy Izzet
- Naseem Hamed
- Naim Suleymanoglu
- Nicolas Anelka
- Nwankwo Kanu
- Rasheed Wallace
- Rezazadeh Hossein
- Robin Van Persie
- Ronnie O'Sullivan
- Safet Sušić
- Saleem Rashid
- Saeed Anwar
- Samir Trabelsi
- Sania Mirza
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim
- Spencer Haywood
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad
- Taufik Hidayat
- Vahid Halilhodžić
- Vahid Hashemian
- Walid Badir
- Walt Hazzard
- Wasim Akram
- Waqar Younis
- Youssef Rossi
- Zaheer Khan
- Zinedine Zidane
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Other
- Adel Smith
- Abdul Haq
- Abdul Sattar Edhi Pakistani philanthropist
- Ahmed Urabi
- Alexander Russell Webb
- Ali Shariati
- Aminah Assilmi
- Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Hamza Piccardo
- Hazem El-Masri
- Ibn Battuta
- John Walker Lindh aka Suleyman al-Faris
- Jose Padilla aka Abdullah al-Muhajir
- Maher Arar
- Muhammad Mahmood Sarfraz
- Malcolm X
- Mikhail AliYoungest current member of Mensa
- Muhammad Abd al Wahhab
- Osama bin Laden
- Queen Noor
- Rashad Khalifa
- Shirin Ebadi first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Torquato Cardilli (Italian ambassador)
- Zahra Kazemi
- Zheng He explorer