List of converts to Islam

Based on alphabetical order: A-Z

A

• Johari Abdul-Malik – He served as the first officially recognized Muslim chaplain in higher education in the United States.
• Ruslan Maratovich Asainov – is a naturalized U.S. citizen who left his family and joined the Islamic State in Syria.
• Fakhr al-Din al-Qibti – was the Egyptian Supervisor of the armies in the Mamluk Sultanate.
• Tariq Abdul-Wahad – is a French basketball coach and former player.
• Zaid Abdul-Aziz – is an American former professional basketball player.
• Herman Abanda – Cameroonian former footballer who played as a defender
• Aminah Assilmi – former Southern Baptist preacher who converted to Islam while attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.
• Amber Leibrock – American female mixed martial artist, converted to Islam in September 2023.
• Armando Bukele Kattán – El Salvadoran industrialist and religious leader, converted to Islam from Christianity.
• Hamza Ali Abbasi – former Pakistani actor, converted to Islam from atheism.
• Abd Al Malik – French rapper and poet.
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer.
• Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – – American former professional basketball player.
• Ahmed Abdullah – American jazz trumpeter.
• Thomas J. Abercrombie – photographer and writer for National Geographic
• Edoardo Agnelli – American scion of business family
• Hasan Akbar – American citizen, and Sergeant, diagnosed with psychiatric problems, later sentenced to death for an attack of resentment.
• Shaheed Akbar – American rapper.
• Akhenaton – French rapper and producer; born Philippe Fragione.
• Aisha al-Adawiya – American interfaith activist and founder of Women in Islam
• Baba Ali – Iranian-born American film developer, games developer, and businessman.
• Muhammad Ali – professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.
• Sadeq Ali – Bengali author.
• Nicolas Anelka – French football manager and former player.
• Lewis Arquette – American actor; father of actors David, Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis, and Richmond Arquette; son of Cliff Arquette.
• Muhammad Asad – Austro-Hungarian born Deputy Secretary in the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan, known for an English translation of the Quran.
• Ziaur Rahman Azmi – author, scholar, professor and former Dean of the Department of Hadith at Islamic University of Madinah.
• Ivan Aguéli – Swedish wandering Sufi, painter and author.
• Malik Ambar – Siddi military leader, who served as the Peshwa of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate.
• Campbell Mustafa Ağa – Scottish convert to Islam who from 1775 was the chief instructor in the new Ottoman naval mathematical academy.
• Claude Alexandre, Count of Bonneval – French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.
• Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi – born Joseph Anthelme Sève, was a French-born Egyptian commander.
• Edoardo Agnelli – eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat S.p.A., he converted to Shia Islam when he was living in New York City
• Hamid Algar — is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
• Mercy Aigbe — Nigerian actress
• Amina Titi Atiku-Abubakar — Second lady of Nigeria and women and child rights advocate

  B

• Caitlyn Bobb – is a Bermudan sprinter who primarily competes over 400 metres, in which she is the national record holder.
• James Phillip Barnes – was an American murderer and self-identified serial killer who was executed by the state of Florida for the 1988 rape and murder of Patricia Miller.
• Ali Bitchin – was a "renegade" who made his fortune in Algiers through privateering.
• Eugénie Le Brun – was a French-born early Egyptian feminist intellectual, influential salon host, and close friend of Huda Sha'arawi.
• Yahya al-Bahrumi – Greek American jihadist and spokesperson for the Islamic State
• David Benjamin – Chaldean Catholic priest known for his book Muhammad in Bible.
• B.G. Knocc Out – American rapper
• Kristiane Backer – German television presenter.
• A. George Baker – American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam.
• Yasin Abu Bakr – leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago.
• Mutah Beale – better known as Napoleon, former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz.
• Lutfunnisa Begum – consort of the Nawab of Bengal.
• Maurice Béjart – French choreographer.
• Robert "Kool" Bell – American musician.
• Mohammed Knut Bernström – Swedish ambassador.
• Wojciech Bobowski – Polish musician; Bible translator.
• Lauren Booth – British broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.
• Charles Brooks, Jr. – first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection, converted to Islam in prison, shortly before death.
• H. Rap Brown – American civil rights activist.
• Jonathan A. C. Brown – American Islamic scholar, professor and department chair at Georgetown University.
• Maurice Bucaille – French family physician of King Faisal. It is disputed whether he ever converted, and if he did, whether he publicly declared his conversion. He is reported in a 2013 Arab News newspaper article, "In his excitement, he stood before the attendants and loudly said, 'I have converted to Islam and believed in this Qur'an; however, no references are given. In other articles and videos he was normally very careful not to claim allegiance to any one faith.
• Abdullah ibn Buhaina – American musician, also known as Arthur "Art" Blakey, American jazz drummer and bandleader; stopped being a practicing Muslim in the 1950s and continued to perform under the name "Art Blakey" throughout his career.
• Titus Burckhardt – Swiss writer and scholar.
• Berke – grandson of Genghis Khan, a Mongol military commander and ruler of the Golden Horde, who was responsible for the first official establishment of Islam in a khanate of the Mongol Empire.
• Khalid Yahya Blankinship – American historian who specializes in Islamic and middle eastern studies.
• Harun el-Raschid Bey – During the First World War, he converted to Islam while serving with the general staff of the Ottoman Empire.
• Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley – convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam.
• Carla Amina Baghajati — She has been described as one of the best-known faces of Islam in Austria.
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey — Born Yale Jean Singer to an Orthodox Jewish family, he converted to Islam and took on the name Rafi Sharif in the late 1950s.
• Arief Budiman — Chinese Indonesian social activist and brother of Soe Hok Gie. Converted from Catholicism.
• Robert Bauer – German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Thai League 1 club Buriram United

  C

• Catherine of Bosnia – was a member of the House of Kotromanić and the last Bosnian princess.
• Celestino Caballero – Panamanian boxer and former Super Bantamweight Champion.
• Dave Chappelle – American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, actor, and artist.
• Kérim Chatty – Swedish bodybuilding stuntman
• Ashley Chin – British actor and rapper.
• Zainab Cobbold – Scottish noblewoman.
• Louis du Couret – French explorer, writer and military officer.
• Mustafa Celalettin Pasha – Polish noble who served in the Ottoman army for nearly 25 years.
• Robert Dickson Crane – American activist. He was an adviser to President Richard Nixon and was the deputy director for planning of the United States National Security Council.
• Simon Collis – former British ambassador to several Middle Eastern countries before retiring from diplomatic service in February 2020
• Richard Chin – professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or full-back for Scottish Championship club Raith Rovers

  D

• Budi Djiwandono – is an Indonesian politician currently serving as the Chairman of the Gerindra Party Faction in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia since 2024.
• Aliya Danzeisen – is an American–New Zealand lawyer, teacher and the national coordinator of the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand.
• Aine Davis – is a British convert to Islam who was convicted in a Turkish court of being a member of ISIL.
• Michael D'Andrea – Former Central Intelligence Agency officer and former director of the CIA counterterrorism center.
• Uri Davis – Middle East academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East
• Bob Denard – French mercenary. Born a Catholic, converted to Judaism, then to Islam, and finally back to Catholicism.
• Jeffrey Mark Deskovic – served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.
• Diam's – French rapper, born Mélanie Georgiades, converted in 2010.
• Nasreddine Dinet – French orientalist painter, converted to Islam in 1908.
• Deso Dogg – former German rapper who became a member of the Islamic State.
• Arnoud van Doorn – Dutch politician.
• Vivian Dsena – Indian television actor
• Dutchavelli – British rapper.
• Nooruddeen Durkee – Muslim scholar, thinker, author, translator, and the Khalifah for North America of the Shadhdhuli School for Tranquility of Being and the Illumination of Hearts, Green Mountain Branch.
• Maria Massi Dakake – American scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.
• Merryl Wyn Davies – Welsh Muslim scholar, writer and broadcaster who specialised in Islam.
• Yaroslav Dyblenko – Russian professional ice hockey defenceman.
• Gervonta Davis – American professional boxer