List of converts to Islam
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This is a list of people, mainly from the United States or Europe who have converted to Islam sometime during their lives. Note that the Nation of Islam is seen as a cult by mainstream Islam.
Converts to Mainstream Islam
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- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player
- Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - from Greek Orthodox and Catholic Christianity
- Karim Abdul-Jabbar - football player
- Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) Former Christian Priest and Missionary who have Embraced Islam
- Yusuf Estes
- Hamza Yusuf
- Zaid Shakir
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
- Muhammad Ali
- Malcolm X - African-American civil rights leader. From Christianity to NOI to Islam
- Margaret Marcus - from Reform Judaism
- James Yee
- Knud Holmboe
- Abdullah Hakim Quick
- Steve Rockwell
- Daniel Moore
- Jemima Goldsmith - from Judaism
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad
- Alexander Russell Webb - from Presbyterian Christianity
- Amir Butler
- Dave Chappelle - from Unitarianism, which may also fit as Christianity
- Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity
- Chris Eubank
- Pamela Taylor
- Everlast (singer) - presumably from Christianity
- Adam Yahiye Gadahn - from Christianity
- David Hicks - presumably from Christianity
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholic Christianity
- Bernard Hopkins
- Jermaine Jackson
- Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from agnosticism, which he came to from Catholic Christianity
- Khadijah bint Khuwaylid - from a sort of paganism prevalent in Arabia before Islam; was first female convert to Islam
- Jeffrey Lang
- John Walker Lindh - from Catholic Christianity
- Ruqayyah Waris Maqsood - from Protestant Christianity
- Ingrid Mattson
- José Padilla
- Marmaduke Pickthall - from Christianity
- David Musa Pidcock - from Catholic Christianity
- Harry St. John Philby
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi
- William Abdullah Quilliam - from Christianity
- Yvonne Ridley
- Jack Roche
- Stephen Schwartz (journalist) - from Judaism, to Sufism
- Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya(Sufi name for philosopher better known as Réné Guénon) - from Catholic Christianity; also supported Buddhism and other religions
- Brandon Toropov - from Christianity
- Shabbetai Tzvi - from Judaism
- Umar Faruq Abd-Allah - from Protestant Christianity
- Robin van Persie
- Danny Williams (boxer)
- Timothy Winter
- Michael Wolfe
- Napoleon (rapper) - from a Christian/Muslim household
- Matthew Saad Muhammad - from Catholic Christianity
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi
- Eddie Mustapha Muhammad
- Mustafa Hamsho
- Akbar Muhammad
- Hamdan Chris Eubank
- John Coltrane - from Christianity
- Art Blakey
- Ibrahim Hooper
- Mohammad Yousuf - from Christianity; cricket player
- Haschem Wilde
- Kamala Suraiya - Indian writer
- A. R. Rahman - Indian music composer
- Muhammed al-Ahari American essayist - from Christianity
Converts to Nation of Islam
- Ice Cube
- Muhammad Ali - from Christianity; later joined mainstream Islam
- Malcolm X - from Christianity; later joined mainstream Islam
- Michael Jackson - left Jehovah's Witness Christianity in 1987; formally joined NOI in December 2003; moved onto mainstream Islam in 2005.[citation needed]
- Mike Tyson
Trivia
According to Richard Hakluyt's The voyage made to Tripolis, John Nelson was the first English convert to Islam.