List of converts to Islam from Christianity
A
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) – retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer.[1] He converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam and then to mainstream Sunni Islam.
- Jamaal Abdul-Lateef - American basketball player previously known as Jackson Keith Wilkes.[2]
- Johari Abdul-Malik - a convert from New York.[3]
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) – retired basketball player who used to play in the NBA.[4][5]
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) – originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings. Abdul-Wahad was the first person to be raised in France who played for the NBA.[6]
- Thomas J. Abercrombie – photographer. Abercrombie was a senior staff writer for the National Geographic.[7]
- Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) – French football player, converted to Islam after marriage.[8]
- Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) – Swedish painter.[9][10]
- Akhenaton – French rapper and producer of French hip hop. Born with the name Philippe Fragiane, he eventually would convert from Catholicism to Islam.[11]
- Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) – former NFL player. Al-Jabbar played for the Miami Dolphins from 1996-2000.[12]
- Al-Najashi - an African emperor.[13]
- Nicolas Anelka - Football player.[14]
- Sana al-Sayegh, Dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007.[15]
- Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; 17 January 1942), from Baptist[16][17] to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam.[18] Famous American professional boxer (3 time world heavyweight champion), philanthropist and social activist.
- Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley – British soldier and peer.[19][20]
- Ryan G. Anderson – former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[21][22]
- Vladimir Arutyunian - - failed assassin of George W Bush, converted to Islam in prison after the failed assassination.[23]
- Farqad as-Sabakhi – Armenian Islamic preacher who was formerly a Christian[24] known for his knowledge of Judeo-Christian scriptures.[25]
- Aminah Assilmi - an American broadcast journalist formerly known as Janice Huff.[26]
B
- Kristiane Backer – a German television presenter, television journalist and author residing in London.[27]
- Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) – of Trinidad and Tobago. Yasin Abu Bakr was a former policeman who converted while in Canada.[28][29]
- Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (Philip Barker) – professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.[30]
- Lauren Booth - Sister-in-law of Tony Blair and English broadcaster who converted to Islam in 2010.[31][32]
- Abdullah Beg of Kartli – Georgian convert to Islam. Beg served as a viceroy of Kartli for the Iranian Shah, Nadir in 1737.[33] who was a claimant to the kingship of Kartli.
- David Belfield – American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[34]
French nobleman Claude Alexandre de Bonneval as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa - Józef Bem – Polish and Hungarian general. Bem has been historically defined as a national hero within Poland and Hungary. He escaped to the Ottoman Empire where he converted to Islam and took up the name, Murad Pasha.[35]
- Maurice Béjart -French convert.[36]
- Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983) who converted to Islam in 1986.[37]
- Bowe Bergdahl - a soldier of the United States army.[38]
- Ibrahim Bey – an Egyptian Mamluk of Georgian Christian origins.[39]
- Ezell Blair Jr. - a civil-rights activist and a member of the Greensboro Four. He challenged policies aimed at denying service to non-whites. He converted to Islam and is known as Jibreel Khazan.[40]
- Art Blakey – American Jazz musician[41]
- Danny Blum - a German footballer.[42]
- Wojciech Bobowski – raised Protestant, he was a Polish musician and translator of the Bible into Ottoman Turkish.[43]
- Omar Bongo – Gabonese, President of Gabon.[44]
- Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa was an 18th-century French nobleman.[45]
- Tawana Brawley (Maryam Muhammad) – African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined by a grand jury to be a fabrication. Later in life she converted to Islam.[46][47][48]
- Willie Brigitte – French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.[49]
- Mahdi Bray - a civil rights and human rights activist.[50]
- Lauder Brunton - a Scottish physician and baronet.[51][52]
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.[53]
- Titus Burckhardt - Also known as Ibrahim Izz al-Din, was a Swiss convert to Islam.[54]
C
- Torquato Cardilli – Italian ambassador, converted from Catholicism. Cardilli served as ambassador to Italy in Albania (1991), Tanzania (1993), Saudi Arabia (2000) and Angola (2005).[55]
- André Carson – former Baptist,[56] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[57]
- Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[58]
- Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, education philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.[59]
- Marion Caunter - Disk jockey born in Malaysia.[60]
- Dave Chappelle – comedian and television star[61]
- Benjamin Chavis – former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
- Ashley Chin - English actor, screenwriter, spoken word performance poet and former rapper.[62]
- Chrisye – Indonesian singer. He changed his birth name to Chrismansyah Rahadi from Christian Rahadi.[63]
- Hedley Churchward – English painter[64]
- Zainab Cobbold - formerly known as Evelyn Cobbold, she changed her name to Zainab Cobbold. Zainab was a Scottish noblewoman who performed the Hajj in 1933.[65]
- Aukai Collins – fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[66]
- Emilia Contessa – Indonesian actress, singer and politician (from Islam to Christianity back to Islam).[67]
- Jerôme Courtailler – one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[68][69][70]
- Robert D. Crane – former adviser to President Richard Nixon and former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council.[71]
D
- Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi[1] on 12 January 1941) – American cornetist, guitarist and singer.[72]
- Damian of Tarsus - Emir of Tarsus.[73]
- Arnoud van Doorn - Dutch Politician and anti-Islam movie maker.[74]
- Ian Dallas – Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[75]
- Daniel Streich- Swiss military instructor, community council member and a former member of Swiss People's Party.[76]
- Mujahid Dokubo-Asari - founder and leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force.[77]
- Dragut - seaman of Greek origin.[78]
E
- Isabelle Eberhardt – from Lutheran Christianity, 19th-century explorer and writer[79]
- Abdullah el-Faisal – a Muslim cleric who preached in the United Kingdom until he was convicted of stirring up racial hatred and urging his followers to murder Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Americans.[80][81]
- Wadih el-Hage, former Al-Qaeda member who was convicted for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[82]
- Nathan Ellington – English football player[83]
- C. Jack Ellis – Mayor of Macon, Georgia[84]
- Keith Ellison – American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted from Catholicism[85]
- Elpidius (rebel) - Byzantine aristocrat and governor of Sicily.[86]
- Yahiya Emerick – American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[87]
- Erekle I of Kakheti – Georgian convert to Islam[88] who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli.
- Yusuf Estes – Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[89]
- Chris Eubank – British boxer[90]
- Everlast - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain, converted from Catholicism.[91]
- Gazi Evrenos - a Byzantine convert to Islam.[92]
- Emeka Ezeugo – is a former Nigerian football defender and midfielder played in 1994 World Cup.[93]
F
- José Faria - A football coach of Brazilian ancestry, he converted to Islam while being a coach in Morocco.[94]
- Shah Shahidullah Faridi – Writer of German descent born to a Christian family.[95]
- Danilo Fernando – Brazilian Footballer. He changed his name become Muhammad Danilo Fernando.[96]
- Firouz – an Armenian Christian convert to Islam[97] who served as a spy for Bohemund during the Siege of Antioch.[98]
- Myriam Francois-Cerrah - Journalist who converted from Roman Catholicism in 2003[99]
- Radu cel Frumos – was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, who converted from Catholicism.[100]
G
- Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) – al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Home-schooled Christian.[101]
- Roger Garaudy-was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a prominent communist author and converted to Islam in 1982.[102]
- Mélanie Georgiades or Diam's - a French rapper of Greek ancestry.[103]
- Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate division of the Mongol Empire.[104]
- Khalid Gonçalves – Portuguese American actor and musician (born Paul Pires Gonçalves), convert to Islam from Catholicism.[105]
- Cristian Gonzáles - Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer.[106]
- Charles Greenlee - an American jazz trombonist.[107]
- Philippe Grenier - The first Muslim MP of France. He was a doctor and a Muslim convert.[108]
H
- Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet – a distinguished British convert to Islam.[68][109][110]
- Omar Hammami – American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.[111]
- Hatice Refia Hanım - Mother of Tevfik Fikret.[112]
- Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos[113]
- Joel Hayward, British scholar, author and poet.[114]
- Muhammad Robert Heft - a Canadian activist and writer.[115]
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann – NATO official, converted from Catholicism[116]
- Knud Holmboe – Danish journalist and explorer who converted from Catholicism.[117]
- Bernard Hopkins – American boxer[118]
- Markus Horison - Indonesian footballer who changed his name to Muhammad Haris Maulana.[119]
I
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha was Ottoman Empire's mightiest Grand Vizier
- Silma Ihram – formerly a born again Baptist who is an Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial tolerance, and Author.[120]
- Ahmed el Inglizi – English architect and engineer who worked for the Sultan of Morocco Mohammed ben Abdallah in the 18th century.[121]
- Rex Ingram (director) - Irish film director.[122]
- T. B. Irving - An American scholar, author and translator[123]
- Iyasu V – Ethiopian emperor.[124]
J
- Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.[125] Previously, Angelina Yeoward and of Armenian descent, Jaan converted to Islam.[125]
- Ibn Jazla – an 11th-century physician and Christian convert to Islam who later wrote to refute doctrines of Christianity.[126]
- Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) – Michael Jackson's elder brother & one of the original former members of The Jackson 5.[127]
- O'Shea Jackson - known as Ice Cube.[128]
- Sarah Joseph – commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted from Catholicism.[129]
K
- Abdul Kadir, former Guyanese politician, convicted of the 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot.[130]
- David Benjamin Keldani - A former Catholic priest who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd.[131]
- Nuh Ha Mim Keller – Islamic scholar who converted from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam.[132]
- Saida Miller Khalifa - an author and convert to Islam, Saida was previously known as Sonya Miller and is from Britain. She converted in 1959 and married an Egyptian professor named Yusry Khalifa whom she went to Hajj with.[133]
- Allahverdi Khan – general and statesman of Georgian origin who was Christian and converted to Islam.[134]
- Mirza Malkam Khan – an Iranian Armenian proponent of Freemasonry who was active during the period leading up to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.[135]
- John Kingerlee - an Irish painter who converted to Islam in Morocco.[136]
- Michael Muhammad Knight – American novelist, writer, and journalist.[137]
- Jamilah Kolocotronis - an American Muslim writer of Greek ancestry.[138]
- John Tzelepes Komnenos - allied himself with the Seljuks against his uncle. Greek convert to Islam.[139][140]
L
- Colleen LaRose – Identifying herself as "Jihad Jane",[141] is an American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes.[142]
- Johann von Leers - a German convert to Islam. He changed his name to Omar Amin.[143]
- Leo of Tripoli – a Byzantine Greek renegade who freed 4000 Muslim prisoners while attacking the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.[144]
- Samantha Lewthwaite also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is one of the United Kingdom's most wanted terrorism suspects.[145]
- Tage Lindbom (1909–2001), Swedish historian, PhD in Political science. He was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon.[146]
- Germaine Lindsay – one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[68][147][148] in which 52 people were murdered.
- John Walker Lindh – an American insurgent, known as the "American Taliban", who converted from Catholicism[149][150]
- Alexander Litvinenko – former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.[151][152]
- Loon – American hip hop and rap artist[153]
- Fernão Lopes - a 16th-century Portuguese soldier. Tortured and disfigured by Christians for siding with Muslims.[154]
- Badr al-Din Lu'lu', an Armenian convert to Islam[155] and successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul.
- Vincenzo Luvineri – American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted from Catholicism.[156]
M
- Daniel Maldonado – American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.[157]
- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood – British author, converted from Protestantism.[158]
- Ingrid Mattson – Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) who converted from Catholicism.[159]
- Lynn Massyn: Former Miss South Africa. Won the contest in 1976.[160]
- Jacques-Francois Menou – French general under Napoleon I of France.[161]
- Bruno Metsu – French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[162]
- Köse Mihal – a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.[163][164]
- Mleh, Prince of Armenia – an Armenian convert to Islam from Catholicism,[165] he was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia.
- Leo Morris - New Orleans drummer. He changed his name to Idris Muhammad.[166]
- Preacher Moss – American comedian who converted from Baptist Christianity[167] American comedian and comedy writer.[168]
- Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) – former boxer, converted from Catholicism.[169]
- John Allen Muhammad - convicted of perpetrating the Beltway sniper attacks with his partner, Lee Boyd Malvo in which 17 people were murdered.[170]
- Peter Murphy – vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus who converted from Catholicism.[171]
- Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) – From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[172]
N
- Jamilah Nasheed - an American politician from Missouri who currently represents the fifth district of the Missouri Senate. She visited a mosque in Grand Boulevard and eventually converted to Islam after studying.[173]
- John Nelson – Englishman sailor who converted to Islam in Morocco before 1583.[174]
- Adam Neuser – a German Lutheran pastor who criticized the doctrine of the trinity and was consequently imprisoned.[175]
- Tech N9ne – an American rapper born to a Christian mother who converted to Islam during adulthood.[176]
O
P
- Jose Padilla – also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir (Listeni/ɑːbˈdʌlə ælmuːˈhɑːdʒɪər/ ahb-DUL-ə al-moo-HAH-jeer) or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen from Brooklyn, New York, who was convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists. Also known as "the dirty bomber".[179]
- Robin Padilla – Filipino actor.[180]
- Naledi Pandor - the Minister of Science and Technology for South Africa, Pandor converted to Islam and is married to a Muslim man.[181]
- Wayne Parnell – South African cricketer converted to Islam in January 2011.[182]
- Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha – born to a Christian Croatian[183]
- Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha - An Ottoman Grand Vizier.[184]
- Koca Yusuf Pasha – a Georgian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who also served as the governor of Peloponnese.[185]
- Damat Hasan Pasha - an Ottoman Grand Vizier.[186]
- Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal) - German-born Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army.[187]
- Moralı Enişte Hasan Pasha – Greek Ottoman Grand Vizier.[188]
- Judar Pasha – conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[189]
- Omar Pasha – Ottoman general who converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[190]
- Raghib Pasha – was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt[191] and who converted to Islam from Christianity.[192]
- Suleiman Pasha – French-born Egyptian commander.[193]
- Zağanos Pasha – one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councillor, protector, for the sultan.[194]
- St. John Philby – Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[195]
- Bilal Philips – Islamic scholar and author[196]
- Marmaduke Pickthall – famous translator of the Quran.[197]
- Mauro Poggia - a Swiss-Italian convert. He is a politician and a lawyer and a member of the Geneva Citizens' Movement.[198]
- Vyacheslav Polosin - Russian academic and former priest of the Russian Orthodox Church.[199]
- Sean Price - an American rapper who converted in 2009.[200]
- Poncke Princen – Dutch soldier and human rights activist who converted from Catholicism.[201]
Q
- William Abdullah Quilliam – 19th-century British poet, ambassador and journalist.[202]
R
- Ilie II Rareş – prince of Moldavia.[203]
- Ahmad Rashād – Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[204][205]
- Richard Colvin Reid – shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)[206]
- Murat Reis or Jan Janszoon - a Dutch Barbary corsair who was an admiral for the Republic of Salé. He converted to Islam from Christianity. Janszoon became a very active Muslim missionary who tried to convert his fellow Europeans who were Christian to Islam.[207]
- Franck Ribéry – a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.[208]
- Yvonne Ridley – British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[209][210]
- Robert of St. Albans – an English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem.[211]
- Hamza Robertson - English singer.[212]
- Roger Garaudy France philosoph
- Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - baptised as Rolf Werner Leopold von Ehrenfels, he would convert to Islam and change his name to, Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels. A prominent Austrian personality, Ehrenfels decided to convert to Islam, sometime around 1926.[213]
S
- Salman the Persian - convert from Christianity[214] who was previously Zoroastrian.
- Ahmed Santos – Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement converted from Catholicism[215][216][217]
- Ratna Sarumpaet, Indonesian stagewright, director, and actress[218]
- Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface") – American rapper.[219][220]
- Mario Scialoja – Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[221]
- Betty Shabazz – wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[222]
- Zaid Shakir – American Muslim convert former Baptist to Sunni Islam, speaker, intellectual, author, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in the United States.[223][224]
- Omar Sharif – Egyptian actor who converted from Catholicism.[225][226]
- Ahmad Faris Shidyaq – Lebanese scholar, writer and journalist who was a Maronite convert to Islam.[227]
- Mimar Sinan - A famous Ottoman architect who converted to Islam and trained as an officer of the Janissary corps.[228]
- Anthony Small – professional boxer[229]
- Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley - British convert.[230]
- Sean Stone – Son of Oliver Stone and documentary producer.[231]
- Daniel Streich – Swiss military instructor, community council member and a former member of Swiss People's Party who led the campaign for the national ban on the construction of new minarets.[232]
- Kösem Sultan - powerful and influential woman in the Ottoman Empire.[233][234]
- Handan Sultan - mother of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I.[235]
T
- Abu Tammam – 9th-century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[236]
- Tekuder – Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[237]
- Joe Tex – soul singer and recording artist.[238]
- Ahmad Thomson – British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[239]
- Danny Thompson – English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[240]
- Joseph Thomas – Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[241][242]
- Richard Thompson – British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[243]
- Gabriele Torsello – Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[244]
- Mihnea Turcitul – was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[245]
- Anselm Turmeda – Majorcan writer and a Franciscan friar who converted to Islam[246]
- Mike Tyson – American boxer and Sunni Muslim[247]
- Salman Khan – Indian Actor and television Personality[247]
- Usman Ghani – Indian Actor and television Personality[247]
U
- Ismael Urbain – French journalist and interpreter.[248]
- Abu Usamah – American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK.Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.[249]
V
- Gustavo Victoria - Colombian football player who converted to Islam.[250]
- Bryant Neal Vinas – participated in and supported al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S., and helped al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR[251]
- Rudolf Carl von Slatin – Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.[252]
W
- Siraj Wahaj – Former Baptist.[253] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[254]
- Jack Ward - English pirate and inspiration for captain Jack Sparrow from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.[255]
- Alexander Russell Webb – Former Presbyterian.[256] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[257][258]
- Suhaib Webb – American Islamic activist and speaker.[259]
- Dawud Wharnsby (David Wharnsby) – Canadian singer/poet.[260][261]
- John Whitehead – American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[262]
- Danny Williams – British boxer[263]
- Sonny Bill Williams – New Zealand Rugby Union Rep player (All Blacks) and NZ representative Rugby League player (Kiwis),[264]
- G. Willow Wilson - An American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist.[265]
- Timothy Winter – British Islamic scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[266]
X
- Malcolm X – American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist who converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam and later to mainstream Sunni Islam.[267]
- Abel Xavier – former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[268]
Y
- Khalid Yasin – Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[269]
- Felixia Yeap - former model and Catholic of Chinese heritage who converted to Islam in 2013.[270]
- James Yee – previously Lutheran[271] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[272]
- Mohammad Yousuf – Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted from Catholicism.[273]
- Hamza Yusuf – American convert from Greek Orthodox to Sunni Islam; co-founder of the Zaytuna College.[274]
Z
- Mohammed Zakariya – an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[275]
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