List of North American Muslims

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This page is an incomplete list of notable people from North America who are Muslims.

Contents 1 Government/politics 2 Religious Leaders 3 Journalists/Authors 4 Business 5 Science 6 Entertainment 7 Sports 8 Footnotes 9 See also

[edit] Government/politics

• Omar Alghabra - A Canadian Member of Parliament and former president of the Canadian Arab Federation
• Nihad Awad - National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Dr. Robert D. Crane - former foreign policy advisor, author^[1]
• Keith Ellison - U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
• Ibrahim Hooper - National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• Zalmay Khalilzad - Current US Ambassador to the United Nations. Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and to Iraq^[2]
• Malcolm X - Human rights leader, Black nationalist^[3]
• James Yee - former US Army chaplain with the rank of Captain^[4]
• Elias Zerhouni - Director, National Institutes of Health
• C. Jack Ellis - Former mayor of Macon, GA.

[edit] Religious Leaders

• Hassan Al-Qazwini - Muslim scholar^[5]
• Mostafa Al-Qazwini - Muslim scholar^[6]
• Jamal Badawi - Muslim scholar^[7]
• Louay M. Safi - Muslim scholar^[8]
• Yusuf Estes - Muslim scholar^[9]
• Sherman Jackson - Muslim scholar^[10]
• Ingrid Mattson - Muslim scholar^[11]
• Zaid Shakir - Muslim scholar^[12]
• Sadullah Khan - Muslim scholar^[13]
• Siraj Wahaj - Muslim scholar^[14]
• Hamza Yusuf - Muslim scholar^[15]
• H. Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah al-Amin)
• Omar Ibn Said - scholar
• Alexander Russell Webb - scholar, journalist, da'ee

[edit] Journalists/Authors

• Mohamed Boudjenane - Journalist
• Yahiya Emerick - Author^[16]
• Jeffrey Lang - author, professor^[17]
• Stephen Schwartz - journalist^[18]
• Michael Wolfe - journalist^[19]
• Fareed Zakaria - head of Newsweek International
• Haroon Siddiqui - Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor of the Toronto Star
• Erik Winkel - author, scholar^[20]
• L. Ali Khan - author, legal scholar, professor of law
• Hassan Naveed - Former KCSB 91.9 FM Associate News and Public Affairs Director

[edit] Business

• Kenan Sahin - software engineer, wealthiest American Muslim
• Haitham Alfuqahaa - CEO LUNA Industries
• Mansoor Ijaz - Investment management
• Safi Qureshey - Cofounder and former CEO of AST Research
• Farooq Kathwari - CEO and President of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.
• Abdul Malik Mujahid - President of Sound Vision and community activist^[21]
• Anousheh Ansari - Telecommunications entrepreneur, spaceflight participant

[edit] Science

• Fazlur Khan - structural engineer (designed the Sears Tower, John Hancock Center)^[22]
• Ahmed H. Zewail - chemist and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] Entertainment

• B.G. Knocc Out rapper from Compton, CA, (converted as sunni muslim in 1999)
• Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952 - ) Academy Award-nominated Iranian-born actress^[23]
• Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian singer-songwriter, poet^[24]
• Busta Rhymes - Rap Artist
• The Caravan - Rap Group from the late 90's
• Jurassic 5 - Rap Artist
• Outlandish - Rap Artist
• Lewis Arquette - film actor, writer and producer
• Art Blakey - American jazz drummer and bandleader
• Nabil Abou-Harb - filmmaker, Writer/Director of "Arab in America". ^[25].
• Dave Chappelle - comedian^[26], has been a Muslim since 1998.
• MC Ren - rapper
• Yusef Lateef - Jazz musician and Grammy Award winner
• Ellemaj - Rapper
• Mustafa Akkad - film director, producer
• Everlast - singer-songwriter
• Lupe Fiasco - Rapper^[27]
• Freeway - Rapper
• Yasmeen Ghauri - supermodel^{[citation needed]}
• Jermaine Jackson - singer, bass guitarist, has been a member of the Nation Of Islam since at least the early 1990s.
• Maz Jobrani - comedian, actor
• DJ Khaled - rap DJ
• Akon - Senegalese-descended rapper
• Ghostface Killah - rapper
• Rakim - rapper
• E.D.I. Mean - rapper Outlawz
• Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist
• Mos Def - rapper, actor
• Flesh-N-Bone - rapper
• Napolean (rapper)- rapper
• Q-Tip - rapper
• The RZA - rapper, hip-hop producer
• Idris Muhammad - Jazz drummer
• Azhar Usman - standup comedian
• Beanie Sigel - rapper ^[28]
• Khalil Kain - actor
• Yafeu Fula (Yaki Kadafi) - rapper
• Brother Ali - rapper
• Kool & the Gang - the brothers Ronald and Robert "Kool" Bell
• Hasan Salaam - MC (rapper)
• Papoose (rapper) - rapper
• T-Pain - singer, rapper
• K'naan - poet and hip hop artist from Somalia

[edit] Sports

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - NBA Player^[29]
• Tariq Abdul-Wahad - NBA Player
• Hamza Abdullah - NFL Player
• Shareef Abdur-Rahim - NBA Player ^[30]
• Ramzi Abid - NHL Player
• Muhammad Ali - Boxer^[31]
• Laila Ali - Boxer, Daughter of Muhammad Ali
• Ahmad Brooks - NFL Player
• Kareem Brown - NFL Player
• Khosrow Daivari - Wrestler
• Baron Davis - NBA Player
• Az-Zahir Hakim - NFL Player
• Ahmard Hall - NFL Player
• Abdul Hodge - NFL Player
• Bernard Hopkins - Boxer
• Larry Johnson - NBA Player
• Nazr Mohammed - NBA Player
• Mehmet Okur - NBA Player
• Shaquille O'Neal- NBA Player
• Hakeem Olajuwon - NBA Player^[32]
• Hasim Rahman - Boxer
• Ahmad Rashad - NFL Player, Sports Broadcaster
• Ramzee Robinson - NFL Player
• Marat Safin- Professional Tennis Player
• Ephraim Salaam - NFL Player
• Hedo Turkoglu - NBA Player
• Mike Tyson - Boxer
• Rasheed Wallace - NBA Player
• Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik) - Wrestler
• Adnan Virk - Anchor for The Score
• Usama Young - NFL Player

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] See also

• List of people by belief
• List of Muslims
• List of Western Muslims
• List of converts to Islam
• List of Islamic and Muslim related topics
• List of Islamic terms in Arabic