List of converts to Sikhism

This is a list of converts to Sikhism. Sikhism does not favour proselytizing or vigorous conversion campaigns, but allows people to follow the religion according to their own will. Anyone interested in adopting Sikhism as his or her religion is free to do so irrespective of one's gender, race or ethnicity.

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Alia Kaur is the sister of 7/7 London suicide bomber Hasib Hussain. Kaur embraced the Sikh way of life in the late 1990s. Her strict Muslim family disowned her after discovering about her conversion after she ran away from home.

Shaheed Lachhman Singh Babbar, formerly Bashir Mohammad – Babbar was a former Punjab police officer who embraced Sikhism when, ironically, in the company of Sikh separatists whose organisation he was attempting to infiltrate.

Shaheed Sakeena Begum, was the wife of Shaheed Lachman Singh, she became Rani Kaur when she converted. She was martyred alongside her husband in Calcutta.

Kuldeep Manak the famous Punjabi folk singer was born Latif Mohammed in the village Jalal on the 15th of November 1951. Coming from a family of Hazoori Raggi's he converted to Sikhism in the late 1960s.

Sant Lakhbir Singh was born Karim Baksh to Muslim parents in the village of Bakapur about 3 km from Phillaur, in Punjab, he was "officially" converted to Sikhism at the age of 43 but had been a practising Sikh since the age of 15 when he met Bhai Kahla Singh of Banga in the district of Jalandhar (Punjab) where spent two years emerging himself in the Guru Granth Sahib till he could recite it from memory.

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