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      This is an incomplete list of notable Muslims who live or lived in the United States.


      Academia



      Asad Abidi – Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles; member of the National Academy of Engineering
      Gul Agha – Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Akbar S. Ahmed – US resident Pakistani anthropologist; the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University; producer of the film Journey Into Europe, on Islam in Europe
      Saleem H. Ali – environmental researcher and Associate Dean for Graduate studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; writer and contributor to publications such as the International Herald Tribune; has dual American and Pakistani citizenship
      Talal Asad – Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at CUNY
      Farooq Azam – Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; researcher in the field of marine microbiology
      Ayesha Jalal – MacArthur Fellow and Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University
      Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil – Professor of Physics at Portland State University; a highly cited researcher in the field of atmospheric physics
      Sadaf Jaffer – the first female Muslim American mayor, first female South Asian mayor, and first female Pakistani-American mayor in the United States, of Montgomery in Somerset County, New Jersey.
      Hafeez Malik – Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, in Pennsylvania
      Zia Mian – physicist
      Adil Najam – Professor of Geography and International Relations and Director of the Pardee Center at Boston University; founding editor of popular blog Pakistaniat
      S. Hamid Nawab, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University; co-author of widely used textbook Signals and Systems (1997), published by Prentice Hall (Pearson); researcher in signal processing and machine perception with application to auditory, speech, and neuromuscular systems
      Anwar Shaikh – Professor of Economics at the graduate faculty of The New School in New York City
      Sara Suleri – Professor of English at Yale University
      Abdul Jamil Tajik – researcher in clinical medicine
      Muhammad Suhail Zubairy – Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics at the Texas A&M University


      Activism and government



      Huma Abedin – aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; served as traveling chief of staff during Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election
      Saqib Ali – served as delegate to the Maryland House of Delegates, elected in 2006, represented the 39th District
      Tahir Ali – first Pakistani American elected as a National delegate-at-large (R) from Massachusetts, 1992
      Aisha al-Adawiya – American interfaith activist and founder of Women in Islam
      Arif Alikhan – former appointee to the Obama Administration where he served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the United States Department of Homeland Security; former Deputy Mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles; visiting Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University's (NDU) College of International Security Affairs in Washington, DC
      Nihad Awad – National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
      André Carson – Congressman from Indiana
      Shamila N. Chaudhary – US government policy adviser
      Nusrat Jahan Choudhury - civil rights lawyer and District Court judge for the Eastern District of New York. First Muslim woman to serve as a United States federal judge.
      Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author
      Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
      Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives
      Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota
      Louis Farrakhan – leader of the Nation of Islam
      George Bethune English (1787–1828) – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.
      Ibrahim Hooper – National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
      Mansoor Ijaz – hedge fund manager and venture capitalist involved in Pakistan–United States relations and peace efforts surrounding the Kashmir conflict
      Arsalan Iftikhar – human rights lawyer, global media commentator, and author of the book Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms
      Noor Al-Hussein – anti-nuclear weapons proliferation advocate and former Queen consort of Jordan
      Hakim Jamal – civil rights activist; Member of the Nation of Islam but converted to traditional Islam after the assassination of his cousin Malcolm X.
      Mustafa T. Kasubhai - first Muslim federal judge in the United States
      Zalmay Khalilzad – former US Ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan
      Yuri Kochiyama – Japanese American activist who converted to Sunni Islam from Protestantism in 1971
      Umar Lee – Activist and Writer
      Edina Lekovic – Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
      Gholam Mujtaba – chair of the Pakistan Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to improve the US-Pakistan relationship
      Ilhan Omar – One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
      Farah Pandith – Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the US Department of State; official advisor to President Obama on Muslim matters
      Zahid Quraishi – first Muslim Article III district court judge in the United States
      Zainab Salbi – co-founder and president for Women for Women International
      Betty Shabazz (also known as Betty X) – civil rights activist and educator; widow of Malcolm X
      Ilyasah Shabazz – social activist and daughter of Malcolm X
      Malcolm Shabazz – activist and grandson of Malcolm X; Murdered during a labor rights tour in Mexico
      el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (also known as Malcolm X) – human rights activist, civil rights activist, public speaker and Black Muslim minister; Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952, before converting to Sunni Islam in 1964.
      Azadeh Shahshahani – human rights attorney and past president of the National Lawyers Guild
      Saghir "Saggy" Tahir – New Hampshire State Representative; the only elected Pakistani American in the Republican Party; re-elected in 2006 for a fourth term to represent Ward 2, District 9 in his home town of Manchester
      Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli – White House appointee at various senior posts in the executive branch and the State department during five Republican administrations.
      Rashida Tlaib – One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
      James Yee – former U.S. Army chaplain with the rank of Captain
      Elias Zerhouni – Director, National Institutes of Health


      Armed forces


      Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan – United States Army Soldier killed in Iraq
      Humayun Khan – United States Army Soldier killed in Iraq


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      Ma Dunjing – Chinese Muslim General of the National Revolutionary Army, immigrated to Los Angeles in the United States after retirement in 1950
      Ma Hongkui – Chinese Muslim General of the National Revolutionary Army, immigrated to Los Angeles in the United States after retirement in 1950


      Art



      Kameelah Janan Rasheed — Artist based in New York City
      Deana Haggag – Egyptian-American art museum curator, President and CEO of United States Artists in Chicago
      Shirin Neshat – Iranian-American visual artist and film director. Awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2006, and the Silver Lion in 2009
      Shahzia Sikander – Pakistani-American artist and MacArthur Fellow
      Minoosh Zomorodinia – Iranian-born American visual artist and curator


      Business



      Javed Ahmed – former chief executive of Tate & Lyle, a FTSE 250 company and one of Britain's oldest brands
      Michael Chowdry (1955–2001) – Forbes 400 businessman; founder of air cargo company Atlas Air, which in 2001 was worth over $1.39 billion
      Mohamed El-Erian – chief economic adviser of Allianz, the parent company of PIMCO, where El-Erian was CEO and manager of over $1 trillion in global assets; president of Queens' College, Cambridge
      Tariq Farid – founder and chief executive of Edible Arrangements
      Nabeel Gareeb – president and chief executive of renewable energy company MEMC (now SunEdison) from 2002 to 2008; ranked 6th highest-earning U.S. CEO in 2008
      Fred Hassan – chairman of investment company Caret Group, director of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, former chief executive of pharmaceutical companies including Schering-Plough from 2003 to 2009, when the company completed its merger with Merck & Co.
      Mansoor Ijaz – founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management, television commentator
      Jawed Karim – co-founder of YouTube
      Farooq Kathwari – chairman, president and chief executive of Ethan Allen
      Shahid Khan – owner of sports teams the Jacksonville Jaguars and Fulham F.C., and autoparts maker Flex-N-Gate, lead investor in All Elite Wrestling
      Safi Qureshey – co-founder and former CEO of AST Research, philanthropist
      Hamdi Ulukaya – billionaire founder and chief executive of foods maker Chobani; activist and philanthropist, signed the Giving Pledge to donate the majority of his wealth, founded the Tent Foundation, received the UN Global Leadership Award and the Global Citizen Prize


      Comedy



      Ahmed Ahmed – standup comedian, actor
      Mohammed Amer – standup comedian
      Dave Chappelle – standup comedian (converted in 1998)
      Negin Farsad – comedian, actress, writer, filmmaker
      Maz Jobrani – standup comedian, actor
      Aasif Mandvi – comedian, actor
      Hasan Minhaj – comedian, Daily Show correspondent
      Preacher Moss – standup comedian, comedy writer
      Zahra Noorbakhsh – comedian, writer, actor, co-host of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast
      Dean Obeidallah – standup comedian
      Azhar Usman – standup comedian
      Maysoon Zayid – standup comedian, actress


      Crime



      Hasan Akbar – convicted of premeditated murder in a grenade attack on fellow soldiers
      Hesham Mohamed Hadayet – Egyptian-American who killed 2 people at the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport
      Wadih el-Hage – al-Qaeda member serving life imprisonment in the US for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings
      Mujahid Abdul Halim – Served 45 years in prison for taking part in the assassination of Malcolm X; Long-time member of the Nation of Islam but converted to traditional Islam while in prison.
      Nidal Hasan – former soldier convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
      Muzzammil Hassan – founder of Bridges TV, a Muslim television network; received sentence of 25 to life for killing his wife
      Mir Aimal Kansi – Pakistani-American convicted and executed for the shootings at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters
      John Walker Lindh – member of the Taliban
      John Allen Muhammad – executed beltway sniper
      José Padilla – convicted of aiding terrorists and litigant before the United States Supreme Court in Rumsfeld v. Padilla
      Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – Kyrgyzstani-American citizen who was convicted of planting bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, together with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
      Bryant Neal Vinas – convicted of participating in and supporting al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S.


      Film



      Nabil Abou-Harb – filmmaker; writer and director of Arab in America
      Shohreh Aghdashloo – Academy Award-nominated Iranian-born actress
      Moustapha Akkad – film director, producer
      Mahershala Ali – Oscar-winning actor.
      Lewis Arquette – film actor, writer, and producer
      Sayed Badreya – actor, filmmaker
      Saïd Taghmaoui – actor
      Faran Tahir – actor


      Modeling



      Halima Aden – Somali-American fashion model
      Iman – supermodel and widow of David Bowie
      Bella Hadid – fashion model and daughter of real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid and former model Yolanda Hadid


      Music



      Ahmad Jamal – jazz pianist
      Ahmet Ertegün – Songwriter and founder of Atlantic Records
      Akon – R&B and hip-hop artist
      Ali Shaheed Muhammad – producer, DJ and rapper, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; Sunni Muslim
      Art Blakey – jazz drummer and bandleader
      Beanie Sigel – rapper
      Brother Ali – rapper; converted to Islam
      Chali 2na – rapper, formerly of the alternative hip-hop group Jurassic 5, and of Ozomatli
      DJ Khaled – rap artist and DJ
      Everlast – rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain; converted to Islam
      Freeway – rapper; Sunni Muslim
      Ghostface Killah – rapper, member of the hip-hip group the Wu-Tang Clan
      Ice Cube – rapper and producer
      Jermaine Jackson – singer, bass guitarist
      Kevin Gates – rapper
      Lupe Fiasco – rapper; Sunni Muslim
      MC Ren – rapper
      Mona Haydar rapper; Sunni Muslim
      Mos Def – rapper; initially joined the Nation of Islam before converting to Islam
      Napoleon – former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group the Outlawz, now a motivational Muslim speaker
      Native Deen – rap group
      Q-Tip – rapper, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; Sunni Muslim
      Raekwon – rapper, member of the hip-hip group the Wu-Tang Clan
      Rhymefest – Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist; co-writer of the single "Jesus Walks"
      Richard Thompson – British folk rock singer, Sufi Muslim since 1974
      Scarface – rapper
      Vinnie Paz – rapper in the hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks
      Yusef Lateef – jazz musician and Grammy Award winner


      Religion



      Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi – Muslim Scholar.
      Omar Suleiman – Muslim activist and Imam.
      Dalia Mogahed – Muslim speaker and activist.
      Yasmin Mogahed – Muslim speaker and activist.
      Ismail al-Faruqi – Muslim philosopher and scholar
      Jonathan A C Brown – Muslim lecturer and scholar.
      Amina Wadud - Islamic scholar and activist
      Suhaib Webb – Muslim lecturer and activist; Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in the New England area
      Hamza Yusuf – Muslim scholar
      Hassan Hathout – Muslim scholar
      Hassan Al-Qazwini – Muslim scholar
      Hisham Kabbani – Muslim sufi scholar and shaykh
      Yusuf Estes – Muslim preacher
      Souleiman Ghali – Founder of the Islamic Society of San Francisco
      Sherman Jackson – Muslim scholar
      Nouman Ali Khan – Muslim speaker and founder, CEO and lead instructor at Bayyinah, the Institute for Arabic and Qur'anic Studies.
      Sadullah Khan – Muslim scholar
      Ingrid Mattson – Muslim scholar
      Warith Deen Mohammed – former leader of the largest Muslim organization, the American Society of Muslims (son of Nation of Islam leader)
      Abdul Malik Mujahid – Imam, community activist supporting interfaith and progressive causes, president of Sound Vision
      Daniel Haqiqatjou - Muslim polemcist, debator, and Da'ee
      Louay M. Safi – Muslim scholar
      Zaid Shakir – Muslim scholar
      Siraj Wahhaj – Muslim scholar
      Omar Khalidi – Muslim scholar
      Amir Hussain – Muslim scholar, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion
      Asifa Quraishi - Muslim legal scholar
      Azizah al-Hibri - Muslim legal scholar
      Laleh Bakhtiar - translator of the Quran


      Science


      Shereef Elnahal – commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health, transitioning to CEO of University Hospital, Newark in July 2019
      Fazlur Khan – structural engineer (designed the Sears Tower, John Hancock Center)
      Ayub K. Ommaya – neurosurgeon, inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
      Ahmed Zewail – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1999 for his work on femtochemistry
      Aziz Sancar – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 2015 along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair
      Anousheh Ansari - engineer and first person of Iranian descent in space


      Sports




      = Boxing

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      Muhammad Ali – became a member of the Nation of Islam in 1964, converted to Sunni Islam in 1975
      Bernard Hopkins – former Middleweight and Light Heavyweight world champion
      Eddie Mustafa Muhammad – former Light Heavyweight Champion
      Matthew Saad Muhammad – former Light Heavyweight Champion
      Dwight Muhammad Qawi – former Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Champion
      Hasim Rahman – former Heavyweight champion
      Mike Tyson – Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in 1987; converted in 1994 (influenced by preacher in prison)
      Gervonta Davis – former Super Featherweight and Light Welterweight champion, Lightweight world champion as of January 2024, converted to Islam in 2023


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      DeSagana Diop – Senegalese basketball player for the Charlotte Bobcats
      Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – converted to Islam from Catholicism in 1968, initially joining the Nation of Islam before retaking the Shahada and converting to Sunni Islam that very summer
      Enes Kanter – Turkish basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers
      Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – former player for Denver Nuggets (converted in 1991, formerly Chris Jackson)
      Shareef Abdur-Rahim – retired player, named NBA All-Star in 2001–02 season
      Hassan Adams – drafted by and played for the New Jersey Nets, later the Cleveland Cavaliers, then KK Vojvodina (in Serbia).
      Larry Johnson – retired player, played for the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks
      Nazr Mohammed – player for the Charlotte Bobcats
      Mehmet Okur – Turkish player of the Utah Jazz
      Shaquille O'Neal – former player for the Los Angeles Lakers; rapper and actor
      Hakeem Olajuwon – former player for the Houston Rockets
      Rasheed Wallace – former player for the Detroit Pistons
      Kyrie Irving - player for Brooklyn Nets


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      Ameer Abdullah – running back, drafted by the Detroit Lions in 2015, currently with the Minnesota Vikings
      Oday Aboushi – guard, drafted by the New York Jets in 2013, currently with the Detroit Lions.
      Dominique Easley – linebacker, drafted by the New England Patriots in 2014, currently a free agent.
      Mohamed Sanu – wide receiver, drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2012, currently with the San Francisco 49ers
      Muhammad Wilkerson – defensive end, drafted by the New York Jets in 2011, currently a free agent.
      Hamza Abdullah – former safety for the Cleveland Browns
      Husain Abdullah – former safety for the Minnesota Vikings
      Az-Zahir Hakim – former wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams
      Ryan Harris – former offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
      Abdul Hodge – former linebacker for the Carolina Panthers
      Josh Palmer – Wide receiver for the Los Angeles Chargers
      Ahmad Rashad – former wide receiver for Minnesota Vikings, award-winning sportscaster (converted in 1972)
      Ephraim Salaam – former offensive tackle for the Detroit Lions
      Robert Saleh – Defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers former Head Coach for the New York Jets.


      = Track and field

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      Khalid Khannouchi – marathon runner
      Dalilah Muhammad - Olympic gold and silver medalist


      = Wrestling

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      Adeel Alam – Pakistani American, wrestler in WWE
      Khosrow Vaziri – Retired Iranian American wrestler, former WWE Champion


      = Mixed martial arts

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      Muhammed Lawal – former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight World Champion
      Kamaru Usman – current UFC Welterweight Champion


      Television



      Mara Brock Akil – screenwriter, producer
      Usman Ally – actor
      Ahmed Shihab-Eldin – reporter for national news channels
      Zehra Fazal - actress and comedienne
      Rizwan Manji – actor
      Ayman Mohyeldin – reporter for national news channels
      Isaiah Mustafa – actor
      Mehmet Oz – medical doctor, talk show host
      Kamran Pasha – screenwriter, producer
      Tahera Rahman – Newscaster for WHBF-TV and KLJB. Widely covered by the media for being the first American hijabi Muslim newscaster.
      Iqbal Theba – actor
      Ali Velshi – Reporter and anchor for national U.S. news channels, from Canada
      Ramy Youssef - Actor and comedian


      Writing



      Wael Abdelgawad – author
      Saladin Ahmed – author
      Reza Aslan – author, religious scholar
      Mona Eltahawy – columnist
      Yahiya Emerick – author
      Hafsah Faizal – Author of youth literature, of Sri Lankan and Arab descent.
      Khaled Hosseini – Novelist, physician
      Laila Lalami – author and essayist
      Melody Moezzi – author and activist
      Ayman Mohyeldin – Al-Jazeera English journalist
      Etaf Rum - Novelist
      Lulu Schwartz – journalist
      Ambreen Tariq – American author, activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping
      G. Willow Wilson - comics writer and author
      Michael Wolfe – journalist
      Fareed Zakaria – author, commentator, and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS


      See also


      Glossary of Islamic terms in Arabic
      List of converts to Islam
      List of Islamic and Muslim related topics
      Lists of Muslims
      Lists of people by belief
      Taqwacore


      References



      Bibliography
      Fujino, Diane Carol (2005). Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4593-0.

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