Famous converts to Islam

Shabbetai Tzevi - seventeenth-century Turkish Jew who had

claimed to be Messiah and attracted a large following. His
conversion to Islam largely dissolved this mass messianic
Jewish movement, but also resulted in the development of the
ongoing Donmeh religious movement.

Cat Stevens - British rock musician; changed name to Yusuf

Islam

John Coltrane - prominent jazz saxophonist and composer

Art Blakey - American Jazz musician

Muhammad Ali - boxer

Matthew Saad Muhammad - world champion boxer (formerly
Matt Franklin)

Dwight Muhammad Qawi - world champion boxer (formerly

Dwight Braxton)

Eddie Mustapha Muhammad - world champion lightweight

boxer (formerly Eddie Gregory)

Mustafa Hamsho - boxer

Akbar Muhammad - boxer

Mike Tyson - boxer

Hamdan Chris Eubank - boxer (super middleweight boxing

champion)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player

Queen Noor - American-born queen of Jordan during reign of

the late King Hussein I
Maryam Jameelah - Jewish American essayist and poet.
Formerly Margaret Marcus.

Daniel Moore - Anglo-American poet

Muhammad Marmaduke (William) Pickthall - author and

Quran translator

Michael Wolfe - author, journalist (The Hadj: An American's

Pilgrimage to Mecca; One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten
Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage;
ABC Nightline documentary "An American in Mecca")

Aminah Assilmi - Denver area broadcast journalist; now

director of the International Union of Muslim Women (former
Baptist)

Pamela Taylor - science fiction author; Publications Officer of

the Islamic Writers Alliance and co-chair of the Progressive
Muslim Union

Jemima Goldsmith - daughter of British billionaire Sir James,

who married Imran Khan. Changed name to Haiqa Khan.

Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political

activist, known for his 1982 conviction and death sentence on
charges of a police officer, and for a nationally popular
counter-culture campaign to free him

John Muhammad and John Malvo - infamous "Beltway

Sniper" serial killers who terrorized Washington, D.C. area
residents