!!! People who have converted to Islam !!!

Abbad ibn Bishr - known for his devotion to worship, knowledge and courage in battle
Abbas ibn 'Abdul Muttalib - was a paternal uncle of Muhammad
Abd-Allah ibn Abbas - from paganism, cousin of Muhammad
Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Asad - from paganism, among the first who converted to Islam
Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh - from paganism, cousin of Muhammad
Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud - from paganism, was the 6th man who converted to Islam after Muhammad started preaching in Mecca
Abd-Allah ibn Sailam - from paganism
Abd-Allah ibn Umar - from paganism, son of the second Caliph Umar ibn Khattab
Abd-al-Rahman ibn Awf - from paganism, one of the first eight persons to accept Islam
Abdullah ibn Sailam - from Judaism, was a rabbi
Abdullah ibn Hudhafah as-Sahmi
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari - was one among the Ansar
Abu Bakr - father of Aisha, first of the Four Caliphs and rightful successor to Muhammad (according to Sunni Muslims)
Abu Dharr - from paganism, noted for his piety
Abu Hurayrah - from Judaism, narrator of Hadith most quoted in the isnad
Abu Musa al-Asha'ari - governor of Basra and Kufa
Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith - son of Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah - member of the Quraysh clan al-Harith ibn Fihr
Adiyy ibn Hatim - from paganism, was an Arab king
Aisha - from pre-Islamic Arab paganism, scholar, the youngest wife of Muhammad, see Wives of Muhammad
Al-Baraa ibn Malik al-Ansari - from paganism, personal aide of Muhammad.
Ali ibn Abi Talib - first Imam, last of the Four Caliphs and rightful successor to Muhammad (according to Shi'a Muslims)
An-Numan ibn Muqarrin - was the leader of the tribe of Banu Muzaynah
At-Tufayl ibn Amr ad-Dawsi - was chief of the Daws tribe from Tihama
Bilal ibn Ribah - freed from slavery by Muhammad.
Habib ibn Zayd al-Ansari - martyr of Islam
Hakim ibn Hazm - from paganism, was principal narrator of hadith
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib - from paganism, uncle of Muhammad
Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman - one of the earliest converts to Islam
Jafar ibn Abi Talib - known as "the possessor of two wings"
Julaybib - from paganism, was a martyr
Khabbab ibn al-Aratt - from the Banu Tamim clan in Najd
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid - from pre-Islamic Arab paganism, businesswoman, the first wife of Muhammad, the first female convert to Islam, see Wives of Muhammad
Khalid bin Al-Walid - from paganism, the invincible general
Muadh ibn Jabal - noted for his intelligence, quick wit, potency in speech
Muhammad Ibn Maslamah - was among the first in Yathrib to become a Muslim
Musab ibn Umayr - from paganism
Nuaym ibn Masud - from paganism
Rabiah ibn Kab - from paganism
Rumaysa bint Milhan - from paganism, one of the earliest women converts to Islam
Sa'd ibn Abi-Waqqas - from the Banu Zuhrah clan
Sa'd ibn Muadh - from Paganism
Salman the Persian - from Zoroastrism
Umar ibn al-Khattab - second of the Four Caliphs
Uthman ibn Affan - third of the Four Caliphs

Yousef al-Khattab (Yosef Cohen) - from Orthodox Judaism, converted to Islam with his wife and 4 children, his political goal is to implement Islamic Sharia worldwide [1]
Haji Idi Amin - from Catholicism, former dictator of Uganda
Khaled Edward Blair - English barrister, works for an investment bank, married to Princess Badiya of Jordan
Jean-Bédel Bokassa - from Catholicism (later reconverted), Central African Emperor
Omar Bongo - President of Gabon
Torquato Cardilli - Italian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Thomas Haidon - from Catholicism, lawyer, government advisor of New Zealand [2]
Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist
Iyasu V - former Emperor of Ethiopia
Mathieu Kérékou - from Christianity (later reconverted to Christianity), President of Benin
Johann von Leers - Adviser to Muhammad Naguib.
David Myatt - from Paganism, Neo-Nazi-activist [3]
Karl Nickner - Executive Director of CAIR-CAN [4]
David Musa Pidcock - from Catholic Christianity, leader of the Islamic Party of Britain
Apisai Tora - Fijian politician
Sabrina Varroni - of Italy, fined € 80 for wearing a burqa in Drezzo, Italy sparking a controversy in Italian politics [5]
Malcolm X / Malik Shabazz (Malcolm Little) - from Christianity to NOI to mainstream Islam, African-American human rights and civil rights leader

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player, NBA's all-time leading scorer
Karim Abdul-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former football player
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player
Tariq Abdul-Wahad - basketball player
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) - from Christianity to NOI to mainstream Islam, American retired boxer
Nicolas Anelka - French football player
Chris Eubank - boxer
Mustafa Hamsho - boxer
Bernard Hopkins - boxer
Hussein Jaafar - football player
Mohammed Jaafar - Australian professional wrestler
Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
Abdulkerim Mirkovic - former Bosnian basketball player
Muhsin Muhammad - football player
Matthew Saad Muhammad - from Catholic Christianity, former boxer
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - boxer
Franck Ribery - French football player
Ahmed Santos - American publicist, former boxer
Philippe Troussier - former French football player, trainer of a Japanese football team
Mike Tyson - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world
Rasheed Wallace - basketball player
Danny Williams - British boxer
Mohammad Yousuf - (formerly Yousuf Youhana) from Christianity, Pakistani cricket player

Hamid Algar - a tenured British professor at the University of Berkeley, has particular expertise in the Ja'fari school of thought and Iranian civilization
Aminah Assilmi - from Southern Baptist Christianity, scholar, director of the International Union of Muslim Women
Kevin Barrett - is an academic who supports "conspiracy theories" about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Sherman Jackson - Islamic Scholar and Academic, University of Michigan Near East Studies and Law School
Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholic Christianity to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar
Martin Lings - from Protestantism to Sufism
Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar
Jeremiah McAuliffe - from Catholicism, American convert to Islam who holds a doctorate in formative spirituality from Duquesne University [6]
Akbar Muhammad - scholar of history and African studies
Muhammad Pickthall (Marmaduke Pickthall) - from Christianity, a translator of the Qur'an
Zaid Shakir - Islamic scholar
Haschem Wilde - British Muslim professor
Timothy J. Winter - Islamic scholar, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge
Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya (René Guénon) - from Catholic Christianity to Sufism, philosopher
Khalid Yasin - former American Christian, the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI)
Hamza Yusuf - Islamic scholar

Ali Bey al-Abbasi - writer, explorer (disputed)
Muhammed al-Ahari - from Christianity, American essayist
Muhammad Asad - from Judaism, writer
Amir Butler - Salafi Australian author
Ian Dallas - writer
Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer and writer
Knud Holmboe - 19th century Danish journalist, explorer
Maryam Jameelah - from Reform Judaism, essayist, poet, journalist and author
Ruqayyah Waris Maqsood - from Protestant Christianity, British author
Daniel Moore - from Christianity, poet
Lev Nussimbaum - from Judaism, writer
Harry St. John Philby - from Anglicanism, Arabist, explorer, writer, British colonial office intelligence operative
William Abdullah Quilliam - from Christianity, poet, solicitor, ambassador, journalist
Bilal Racheha - Australian social commentator
Yvonne Ridley - from Anglicanism, journalist
Stephen Schwartz - Jewish born, Sufi neoconservative journalist
Kamala Suraiya - Indian writer
Pamela Taylor - writer and board member of the Progressive Muslim Union [7] [8]
Brandon Toropov - from Christianity
Alexander Russell Webb - from Presbyterian Christianity, 19th Century U.S. journalist
Michael Wolfe - writer, documentarist
Michael Young - of Britain [9]

Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda
Aukai Collins - Hawaiian American, fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical
Bob Denard - French mercenary
David Hicks - presumably from Christianity, held by the U.S. as an illegal enemy combatant
John Walker Lindh - from Catholic Christianity, the "American Taliban"
José Padilla - detained by the U.S. as an illegal enemy combatant
The Portland Seven - Jeffrey Leon Battle, Patrice Lumumba Ford and October Lewis
Hiram Torres and Thomas Fischer - converts who died while participating in armed jihad, American Torres died in Afghanistan [13] and German Fischer died in Chechnya