List of converts to Islam from nontheism


This is a list of notable people who have converted to Islam after a period where they claimed to be atheistic or non-theistic.
NameNotesRefs
Gai EatonBritish diplomat and writer.
Silma IhramNée Anne Frances Beaumont; Australian educator, author, and racial tolerance campaigner. After an agnostic upbringing she became "born again Christian" and then Muslim.
Martin LingsWidely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.
Ingrid MattsonCanadian scholar and former president of the Islamic Society of North America; was raised in Catholicism but left it years before conversion.
Nursultan NazarbayevFormer President of Kazakhstan.
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez"Carlos the Jackal" - Marxist who was convicted of terrorism and converted to Islam.
G. (Gwendolyn) Willow WilsonAmerican comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist; relaunched the Ms. Marvel title for Marvel Comics starring a 16-year-old Muslim superhero named Kamala Khan. She was an atheist and grew up as such.
Dr. Abdullah (Periyar Dasan)Professor, scholar, eminent speaker, psychologist, activist, national award winning film's actor from Tamil Nadu. He propagated atheism and rationalist ideologies for most part of his life, and later converted to Islam.
Mahmudul Hasan SohagFounder of Rokomari.com