Other Converted (From Undetermined Former Religion)

    * Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese origins.

    * Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.

    * Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.

    * Abdul Waheed (Don Stewart-Whyte) - accused of participating in the 06 transatlantic aircraft plot.

    * Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.

    * Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.

    * Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.

    * Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.

    * Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

    * Amir Butler- author, engineer and Islamic activist.

    * Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer, Former 2 time Super Middleweight Champion.

    * Apisai Tora - Fijian politician.

B

    * B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.

    * Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 19, wife of Aga Khan III.

    * Bob Denard - French mercenary.

    * Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 04 Madrid train bombings.

    * Busta Rhymes - American rapper, songwriter and actor

C

    * Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

    * Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.

    * Celestino Caballero - Boxer, Current Super Bantamweight Champion.

    * Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen)- 8th Earl of Yarborough.

    * Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".

    * Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.

    * Colleen LaRose - alleged intended assassin of Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks.

    * Craig Hodges - former NBA player.

D

    * David Hicks - convicted Australian terrorist.

    * Derrick Shareef- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans  December at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois during the Christmas rush.

    * Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.

    * Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.

E

    * Edoardo Agnelli - eldest son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat.

    * Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.

F

    * Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.

G

    * Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.

    * Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

    * Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.

    * Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.

H

    * Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) - American sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 03 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

    * H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.

I

    * Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

    * Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 06 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.

    * Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.

    * Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.

J

    * Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.

    * Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.

    * Jason Walters - of the Netherlands, member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism.

    * Jeff Fort - former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism.

    * Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.

    * Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to Imran Khan

    * John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.

    * John Ward - (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.

    * Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.

    * José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.

    * Juan Carlos Gomez - Former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.

K

    * Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped.

    * Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan of Jordan.

L

    * Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.

    * Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.

M

    * MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.

    * Malik ul Salih - established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.

    * Maryam Jameelah - formerly Margret Marcus. Author of many books covering several subjects, including Modernism, Sociology, History, Jihad, Theology and Technology.

    * Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.

    * Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.

    * Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.

    * Michael Wolfe - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.

    * Michael X - civil rights activist in the United Kingdom

N

    * Nahshid Sulaiman - alternative hip hop artist.

    * Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi (born Lex Hixon) - syncretist, Sufi convert, and co-founder of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order in the United States.

O

    * Omar Ong Yoke Lin - (1917–10) Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association.

    * Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.

P

    * Philippe Grenier - (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.

Q

    * Q-Tip - North American hip-hop emcee, actor, and hip hop producer who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.

R

    * Rakan Ben Williams - suspected member of Al-Qaeda terrorist.

    * Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.

    * Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.

    * Ronald Bell - musician.

    * Rory McLeod - British snooker player.

S

    * Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.

    * Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.

    * Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.

T

    * Thomas J. Abercrombie -Famous photographer and writer for National Geographic Magazine http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/06/04/06/AR060406087.html

    * Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysian actress.

    * Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.

U

    * Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 06 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.

V

    * Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.

W

    * Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.

Y

    * Yusuf Chambers - U.K. based Da'ee of international fame. Yusuf Chambers is a young preacher from London, has greatly involved himself in many organizations in U.K. and outside like Peace TV, Islam Channel, Al-Jumuah magazine, Unity TV etc.

    * Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.