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List of American Muslims

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

Academia

Adil Najam during a talk at Deutsche Welle Building in Bonn, Germany on January 21, 2010
  • Asad Abidi – Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles; member of the National Academy of Engineering[1]
  • 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;[2] 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[3]
  • Talal Asad – Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at CUNY[4]
  • Farooq Azam – Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; researcher in the field of marine microbiology[5]
  • Ayesha Jalal – MacArthur Fellow and Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University[6]
  • Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil – Professor of Physics at Portland State University;[7] 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.[8]
  • Hafeez Malik – Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, in Pennsylvania[9]
  • Nergis Mavalvala, Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 2010 MacArthur Fellow; part of the team that made the first direct gravitational wave observation
  • Zia Mian – physicist[10][11][12]
  • Adil Najam – Professor of Geography and International Relations and Director of the Pardee Center at Boston University;[13] founding editor of popular blog Pakistaniat[14]
  • 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[15]
  • Sara Suleri – Professor of English at Yale University
  • Abdul Jamil Tajik – researcher in clinical medicine[16]
  • 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[17]

Activism and politics

Former UN ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad with President George W. Bush at the White House
  • 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[18]
  • Saqib Ali – served as delegate to the Maryland House of Delegates, elected in 2006, represented the 39th District[19]
  • Tahir Ali – first Pakistani American elected as a National delegate-at-large (R) from Massachusetts, 1992[20]
  • 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[21]
  • Shamila N. Chaudhary – US government policy adviser[22]
  • Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author[23]
  • Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference[24]
  • Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota[25]
  • 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[26]
  • 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.
  • Zalmay Khalilzad – former US Ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan[27]
  • Yuri Kochiyama – Japanese American activist who converted to Sunni Islam from Protestantism in 1971[28]
  • Umar Lee – Activist and Writer
  • Edina Lekovic – Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council[29]
  • 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.[30]
  • Farah Pandith – Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the US Department of State; official advisor to President Obama on Muslim matters
  • Zahid Quraishi – First United States federal district court judge in the United States[31]
  • 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[32]
  • 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;[33] 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[34]
  • Saghir "Saggy" Tahir – New Hampshire State Representative; the only elected Pakistani American in the Republican Party;[35] re-elected in 2006 for a fourth term to represent Ward 2, District 9 in his home town of Manchester[36]
  • 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.[30]
  • James Yee – former U.S. Army chaplain with the rank of Captain[37]
  • Elias Zerhouni – Director, National Institutes of Health[38]

Armed forces

Foreign military service

Art

Artist Shirin Neshat at the Viennale 2009

Business

Billionaire Chobani CEO, philanthropist and activist Hamdi Ulukaya

Comedy

Comedian Negin Farsad

Crime

  • Hasan Akbar – convicted of premeditated murder in a grenade attack on fellow soldiers[71]
  • Hesham Mohamed Hadayet – Egyptian-American who killed 2 people at the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport[72]
  • Wadih el-Hage – al-Qaeda member serving life imprisonment in the US for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings[73]
  • 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[74]
  • Muzzammil Hassan – founder of Bridges TV, a Muslim television network; received sentence of 25 to life for killing his wife[75]
  • Mir Aimal Kansi – Pakistani-American convicted and executed for the shootings at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters[76]
  • John Walker Lindh – member of the Taliban[77]
  • John Allen Muhammad – executed beltway sniper[78]
  • José Padilla – convicted of aiding terrorists and litigant before the United States Supreme Court in Rumsfeld v. Padilla[79][80]
  • 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.[81]

Film

Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo

Modeling

Supermodel Iman

Music

Rapper Ice Cube performing in 2006
  • Ahmad Jamal – jazz pianist[95]
  • Ahmet Ertegün – Songwriter and founder of Atlantic Records[96]
  • Akon – R&B and hip-hop artist[97][98]
  • Ali Shaheed Muhammad – producer, DJ and rapper, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; Sunni Muslim[57]
  • Art Blakey – jazz drummer and bandleader[99]
  • Beanie Sigel – rapper[100][101][102]
  • Brother Ali – rapper; converted to Islam[57][103]
  • Chali 2na – rapper, formerly of the alternative hip-hop group Jurassic 5, and of Ozomatli[104]
  • DJ Khaled – rap artist and DJ[105][106]
  • Everlast – rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain; converted to Islam[57][107][108]
  • Freeway – rapper; Sunni Muslim[57][102][109][110]
  • Ghostface Killah – rapper, member of the hip-hip group the Wu-Tang Clan[100][111]
  • Ice Cube – rapper and producer[112]
  • Jermaine Jackson – singer, bass guitarist[113][114]
  • Kevin Gates – rapper[115][116]
  • Lupe Fiasco – rapper; Sunni Muslim[57][100][117]
  • MC Ren – rapper[118]
  • Mona Haydar rapper; Sunni Muslim[119]
  • Mos Def – rapper; initially joined the Nation of Islam before converting to Islam[57][100][120]
  • Napoleon – former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group the Outlawz, now a motivational Muslim speaker[121]
  • Native Deen – rap group[122]
  • Q-Tip – rapper, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; Sunni Muslim[57][123]
  • Scarface – rapper[100][124]
  • Raekwon – rapper, member of the hip-hip group the Wu-Tang Clan[125][126][127][128]
  • Rhymefest – Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist; co-writer of the single "Jesus Walks"[129]
  • Vinnie Paz – rapper in the hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks[130]
  • Yusef Lateef – jazz musician and Grammy Award winner[57][131]

Religion

Muslim scholar Suhaib Webb
  • Abu Ammar Yasir Qadhi – Muslim Scholar.
  • Omar Suleiman – Muslim activist and Imam.
  • Dalia Mogahed – Muslim speaker and activist.
  • Yasmin Mogahed – Muslim speaker and activist.
  • Jonathan A C Brown – Muslim lecturer and scholar.

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)[154]
  • Ayub K. Ommaya – neurosurgeon, inventor of the Ommaya reservoir[155]
  • Ahmed Zewail – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1999 for his work on femtochemistry[156]
  • Aziz Sancar – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 2015 along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair[157]

Sports

Boxing

Boxer Muhammad Ali in 1978

Basketball

NBA player Shaquille O'Neal

NFL

NFL player turned sportscaster Ahmad Rashād
NFL player Mohamed Sanu

Track and field

  • Khalid Khannouchi – marathon runner

Wrestling

Mixed martial arts

Television

Mehmet Oz at the 2010 Time 100 Gala

Writing

Fareed Zakaria, head of Newsweek International

See also

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