Some famous personalities who reverted to Islam:
Keith Ellison - 1st Muslim in US Congress
Muhammad Ali - famous boxer
Malcolm X – US civil rights leader
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - basketball player & NBA's all-time leading scorer
Robert Crane - adviser to US Pres Nixon
Omar Bongo - Pres of Gabon
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela, Spain and Morocco
Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Holds record for most Test runs in a year
Mihnea Turcitul - Prince of Walachia
Jonathan Birt - son of Lord Birt, former director-general of BBC
Emma Clark - granddaughter of former UK PM Herbert Asquith
Johan Agelii - famous Swedish painter
Isabelle Eberhardt - d. 1904, 19th century Swiss explorer & writer
Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia
Franck Ribéry- French footballer
Cat Stevens - English singer
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval - 18th century French nobleman
Alexander Russell Webb - US Consul-General in the Philippines
Iyasu V - d. 1936, Ethiopian emperor
Helen Richardson - Bollywood actress
Jermaine Jackson - brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson
Éric Abidal - French footballer
Danny Williams - British boxer
Sarah Joseph - founder of emel magazine
Yvonne Ridley - British journalist
Berke - grandson of Genghis Khan and leader of the Golden Horde, first Mongol ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state
Famous Muslim Reverts
