List of Muslims
This page is an incomplete list of prominent and famous (or infamous) people who are Muslims - followers of Islam.
People associated with Islam
Traditional Theologians and Philosophers The Prophet Muhammad Abu Muslim Al-Dinawari Al-Farabi Al-Ghazali Al-Kindi Al-Tirmidhi Ibn Sina Ibn Taymiya Razi Wasil ibn Ata
See also early Muslim philosophy, Islamic philosophy
Shia Imams (main shia Theologians and Philosophers after the Prophet)
See: List of Shia Imams
See also modern Islamic philosophy, Islamization of knowledge
Historiographers and sociologists Al-Masudi Amin Maalouf Hammudah Abdalati Ibn Hisham Ibn Ishaq Ibn Kathir Ibn Khaldoun Ibn Khallikan Rashid al-Din Tabari Usamah ibn Munqidh See also Islamic economics, The Muqadimmah, and isnad
Historic Figures
Early historic personalities Prophet Muhammad Abu Bakr - caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab - caliph Uthman ibn Affan - caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib - caliph (or the first Imám for Shia Muslims) Fatima Zahra Hasan bin Ali grandson of Muhammad Husayn bin Ali grandson of Muhammad Maaz bin jabal Muawiyah I
Military Leaders and Figures See also: Islam by country
Politicians - Abd ar-Rahman Al-Haydari Al-Kaylani
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim
- Abdul Kalam
- Abdul Karim Qassim
- Abdullah I of Jordan
- Abdullah II of Jordan
- Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
- Abdurrahman Wahid
- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
- Ahmadou Ahidjo
- Ahmed Qurei
- Ahmed Sékou Touré
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer
- Ali Hassan Mwinyi
- Ali Khamenei
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Anwar Sadat
- Ayub Khan
- Badar
- Badshah Khan
- Benazir Bhutto
- Fahd of Saudi Arabia
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- Habib Bourguiba
- Hamad bin Khalifa
- Hamid Karzai
- Hassan al Banna
- Hosni Mubarak
- Hussein of Jordan
- Iajuddin Ahmed
- Ibn Saud
- Idi Amin
- Islam Karimov
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Juma Khan
- Khaleda Zia
- Mahatir Mohammad
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
- Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
- Megawati
- Moammar Ghadafi
- Mohammad Khatami
- Mohammad Rabbani
- Mohammed Bahr Al-Uloum
- Mohammed Omar
- Mohammed Qalamuddin
- Mohammed VI of Morocco
- Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola
- Moulvi Ibrahim
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
- Omar Bongo
- Omar Hasan Ahmad Al-Bashir
- Pervez Musharraf
- Qaboos of Oman
- Qari Ahmadullah
- Qusay Hussein (al-Majid)
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Saddam Hussein (al-Majid)
- Samory Touré
- Sani Abacha
- Sukarno
- Uday Hussein (al-Majid)
- Yahya Jammeh
- Yahya Khan
- Yasser Arafat
- Zafarullah Khan Jamali
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Zayed ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Artists - Ayman Semmo
Writers and Poets - Abas ala'kad
- Abdul Rahman Munif
- Akbar S. Ahmed
- Al-Hallaj
- Allama Iqbal
- Bilal Saqib
- Hafiz
- Hakim Bey
- Hassan al Banna
- Ibn Arabi
- Irshad Manji
- Kabir
- Marmaduke Pickthall
- Michael Wolfe
- Mohammed Asad
- Naim Frashëri
- Nizami
- Omar Khayyam
- Rashid Ahmed
- Rumi
- Sa'adi
- Suleyman Ahmad
Entertainers - Moustapha Akkad
- Adewale Ayuba
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
- Art Blakey
- Brother Ali
- Dave Chappelle
- Dilara
- Everlast
- Freeway
- Gerard Depardieu, but he later re-converted.
- Islamic Force
- Ahmad Jamal (Fritz Jones}
- John Coltrane
- Mos Def
- Napoleon (rapper)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Q-Tip
- Richard Thompson
- Umm Kalthoum
- Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
Scientists and Mathematicians - Abdus Salam, physics
- Abu Al-Qasim, medicine
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn_Hayyan, (Geber) chemistry
- Abu Nasr Mansur, mathematics
- Ahmed H. Zewail, chemistry
- Al Battani, astronomer
- Al-Jazari, engineering
- Al-Khwarizmi, mathematics
- Al-Kindi, mathematics
- Alhazen, mathematician
- Averroes, medicine
- Avicenna, medicine
- Biruni, mathematics
- Farabi, chemist and philosopher
- Mahmoud Hessaby, engineering
- Nasir_al-Din_Tusi, scientist, philosopher
- Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, and astronomer
- Rhazes, medicine, chemist and physicist
- Ulugh Beg, astronomer, mathematician
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Thabit ibn Qurra
- Al-Jawhari
- Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi
See also list of inventions by Muslims, Islamic science
Athletes Ahmad Rashad Ali Daei Ali Karimi Amir Khan Az-Zahir Hakim Chris Eubank Dwight Muhammad Qawi Eddie Mustapha Muhammad Hakeem Olajuwon Hasim Rahman Hassiba Boulmerka Hedo Turkoglu Hicham El Guerrouj Hossein Reza Zadeh Imran Khan Isma'il Muhammad Jahangir Khan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Khalid Khannouchi Laila Ali Larry Johnson (basketball) Nazr Mohammed Mahmoud Abdur-Rauf Matthew Saad Muhammad Mehdi Mahdavikia Mehmet Okur Nicolas Anelka Mohammed Azharuddin Muhammad Ali Muhsin Muhammad Mustafa Hamsho Naseem Hamed Saleem Rashid Shareef Abdur-Rahim Tariq Abdul-Wahad Zinedine Zidane Rasheed Wallace Shaquille O'Neal
Other
See also: List of people by belief, list of Islamic terms in Arabic, list of Islamic and Muslim related topics
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