List of American Muslims
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This page is an incomplete list of notable people from North America who are Muslims.
Government/politics
- Omar Alghabra - A Canadian Member of Parliament and former president of the Canadian Arab Federation
- Rahim Jaffer - Canadian MP
- Wajid Khan - Canadian MP
- Nihad Awad - National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Dr. Robert D. Crane - former foreign policy advisor, author[1]
- Keith Ellison - U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
- André Carson - U.S. Congressman from Indiana
- Ibrahim Hooper - National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- Zalmay Khalilzad - Current US Ambassador to the United Nations. Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and to Iraq[2]
- Malcolm X - Human rights leader, Black nationalist[3]
- James Yee - former US Army chaplain with the rank of Captain[4]
- Elias Zerhouni - Director, National Institutes of Health
- C. Jack Ellis - Former mayor of Macon, GA.
- Muhammad Ra'oof - Sheriff Candidate, Academic. Portland, OR.
Religious Leaders
- Hassan Al-Qazwini - Muslim scholar[5]
- Mostafa Al-Qazwini - Muslim scholar[6]
- Jamal Badawi - Muslim scholar[7]
- Louay M. Safi - Muslim scholar[8]
- Yusuf Estes - Muslim scholar[9]
- Sherman Jackson - Muslim scholar[10]
- Ingrid Mattson - Muslim scholar[11]
- Zaid Shakir - Muslim scholar[12]
- Sadullah Khan - Muslim scholar[13]
- Siraj Wahaj - Muslim scholar[14]
- Hamza Yusuf - Muslim scholar[15]
- H. Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah al-Amin)
- Omar Ibn Said - scholar
- Alexander Russell Webb - scholar, journalist, da'ee
- Suhaib Webb - activist, speaker, scholar
- Shekikh Ehsan Tariq Ansari
Journalists/Authors
- Mohamed Boudjenane - Journalist
- Yahiya Emerick - Author[16]
- Jeffrey Lang - author, professor
- Stephen Schwartz - journalist[17]
- Michael Wolfe - journalist[18]
- Fareed Zakaria - head of Newsweek International
- Haroon Siddiqui - Canadian newspaper journalist, columnist and a former editor of the Toronto Star
- Erik Winkel - author, scholar[19]
- L. Ali Khan - author, legal scholar, professor of law
Business
- Haitham Alfuqahaa - CEO LUNA Industries
- Mansoor Ijaz - Investment management
- Safi Qureshey - Cofounder and former CEO of AST Research
- Farooq Kathwari - CEO and President of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.
- Abdul Malik Mujahid - President of Sound Vision and community activist[20]
- Anousheh Ansari - Telecommunications entrepreneur, spaceflight participant
Science
- Fazlur Khan - structural engineer (designed the Sears Tower, John Hancock Center)[21]
- Ahmed H. Zewail - chemist and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Entertainment
- B.G. Knocc Out rapper from Compton, CA, (converted as sunni muslim in 1999)
- Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952 - ) Academy Award-nominated Iranian-born actress[22]
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian singer-songwriter, poet[23]
- Busta Rhymes - Rap Artist
- The Caravan - Rap Group from the late 90's
- Jurassic 5 - Rap Artist
- Outlandish - Rap Artist
- Massari - RnB Artist
- Lewis Arquette - film actor, writer and producer
- Art Blakey - American jazz drummer and bandleader
- Nabil Abou-Harb - filmmaker, Writer/Director of "Arab in America". [24].
- Dave Chappelle - comedian[25], has been a Muslim since 1998.
- MC Ren - rapper
- Yusef Lateef - Jazz musician and Grammy Award winner
- Native Deen - Artist rap group
- Ellemaj - Rapper
- Mustafa Akkad - film director, producer
- Everlast - singer-songwriter
- Iman - Somali supermodel
- Lupe Fiasco - Rapper[26]
- Freeway - Rapper
- Yasmeen Ghauri - supermodel[citation needed]
- Jermaine Jackson - singer, bass guitarist, has been a member of the Nation Of Islam since at least the early 1990s.
- Maz Jobrani - comedian, actor
- DJ Khaled - rap DJ
- Akon - Senegalese-descended rapper
- Ghostface Killah - rapper
- Rakim - rapper
- Yasmin Warsame - Somali supermodel
- E.D.I. Mean - rapper Outlawz
- Nuruddin Farah - novelist from Somalia
- Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist
- Mos Def - rapper, actor
- Flesh-N-Bone - rapper
- Zahra Bani- Italian javelin thrower of Somali descent
- Napoleon (rapper)- rapper
- Q-Tip - rapper
- Fabio Liverani- Italian - Somali footballer for ACF Fiorentina of Serie A
- The RZA - rapper, hip-hop producer
- Idris Muhammad - Jazz drummer
- Azhar Usman - standup comedian
- Beanie Sigel - rapper [27]
- Khalil Kain - actor
- Waris Dirie - fashion model and a UN advocate for the abolition of female genital mutilation
- Yafeu Fula (Yaki Kadafi) - rapper
- Brother Ali - rapper
- Kool & the Gang - the brothers Ronald and Robert "Kool" Bell
- Hasan Salaam - MC (rapper)
- Papoose (rapper) - rapper
- T-Pain - singer, rapper
- K'naan - poet and hip hop artist from Somalia
- Zain Bhikha - Pop Artist
- Seven eighty six boys - Pop Artist/ Rap Artist
- Sound of Reason- R&B/Hip-hop Artist (Canadian)
Sports
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - NBA Player[28]
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad - NBA Player
- Mahmoud abdul rauf - NBA player
- Hamza Abdullah - NFL Player
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim - NBA Player [29]
- Ramzi Abid - NHL Player
- Muhammad Ali - Boxer[30]
- Laila Ali - Boxer, Daughter of Muhammad Ali
- Ahmad Brooks - NFL Player
- Kareem Brown - NFL Player
- Khosrow Daivari - Wrestler
- Baron Davis - NBA Player
- Az-Zahir Hakim - NFL Player
- Ahmard Hall - NFL Player
- Abdul Hodge - NFL Player
- Bernard Hopkins - Boxer
- Larry Johnson - NBA Player
- Nazr Mohammed - NBA Player
- Mehmet Okur - NBA Player
- Shaquille O'Neal- NBA Player
- Hakeem Olajuwon - NBA Player[31]
- Hasim Rahman - Boxer
- Ahmad Rashad - NFL Player, Sports Broadcaster
- Ramzee Robinson - NFL Player
- Marat Safin- Professional Tennis Player
- Ephraim Salaam - NFL Player
- Hedo Turkoglu - NBA Player
- Mike Tyson - Boxer
- Rasheed Wallace - NBA Player
- Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik) - Wrestler
- Adnan Virk - Anchor for The Score
- Usama Young - NFL Player
- Hassan Adams - NBA Player
Footnotes
- ^ IslamonLine.net
- ^ BBC NEWS | Middle East | Zalmay Khalilzad: US power broker
- ^ El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
- ^ USATODAY.com - The ordeal of Chaplain Yee
- ^ Official Website
- ^ Official Website
- ^ The Dr. Jamal Badawi Rebuttal Page
- ^ The page cannot be found
- ^ Yusuf Estes, Former Christian Minister
- ^ Oxford University Press: Islam and the Blackamerican: Sherman A. Jackson
- ^ AlimProgram.com
- ^ Zaytuna Institute & Academy :: Teachers
- ^ Wise Living
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ 'If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country' | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
- ^ Yahiya Emerick - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
- ^ Stephen Schwartz on Wahhabism & Islam in the U.S. on National Review Online
- ^ Amazon.com: Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith: Books: Producers of Beliefnet,Michael Wolfe
- ^ The American Muslim (TAM)
- ^ Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC)
- ^ Fazlur Rahman Khan
- ^ Stanley, John (2006-11-26). "'Nativity' Revisited". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2006-11-25.
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- ^ The South Magazine:Arab in America, 2007-03-18
- ^ [2], [3]
- ^ Lupe Fiasco Announces Album Release Date
- ^ Off On A Tangent W/Beanie Sigel | Featurette | SOHH.com /
- ^ Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 02/25/99
- ^ ABCBookWorld
- ^ Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Muhammad Ali
- ^ NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon talks about the gift of Ramadan and finding peace in Islam - Beliefnet.com