List of Ahmadis

Founder

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - founder of Ahmadiyya movement in Islam.

Caliphs

Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din - First Caliph

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad - Second Caliph

Mirza Nasir Ahmad - Third Caliph

Mirza Tahir Ahmad - Fourth Caliph

Mirza Masroor Ahmad - Fifth Caliph

Companions

Mufti Muhammad Sadiq

A. R. Dard

Maulvi Sher Ali - Companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. One of earliest translator of the Quran in English

Fateh Muhammad Sial

Shams ud Din Khan

Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Malik Ghulam Farid

Mirza Bashir Ahmad

Khwaja Nazir Ahmad

Aziz Kashmiri

Qazi Muhammad Yousaf

Basharat Ahmad

Missionaries

Bashir Ahmad Orchard - first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community of European descent

Abdul Wahab Adam - Ameer (Head) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana; member of National Peace Council; member of National Reconciliation Commission

Lahore Ahmadiyya Emirs

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Saeed Ahmad Khan

Asghar Hameed

Maulana Sadr-ud-Din

Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha

Beninese

Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla - King of the Fon State of Alada; President of the Supreme Council of Kings of Benin

Adetutu Akinmou Akikenju VI - King of the Yoruba State of Sabe, Benin

Akpaki Dagbara II - King of the Bariba State of Paraku, Benin

Egba Kotan II - King of the Yoruba State of Dassa, Benin

Orou Igbo Akambi - King of Toui, Benin

Other nationalities

Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II - King of Lagos, Nigeria

Mumuni Koray - Ruler of Wa, Ghana

Khalil Gamanga - Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone

Kenawa Gamanga - Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone

Actors

Mahershala Ali - American actor; First Muslim actor to win an Oscar

Musicians

Yusef Lateef – American Ahmadi spokesperson; Jazz multiinstrumentalist; Grammy Award winner

Ahmad Jamal - American jazz pianist

Art Blakey - American jazz drummer

Rudy Powell - American jazz reed player

Sahib Shihab - American jazz Saxophonist

Dakota Staton - American jazz vocalist

McCoy Tyner - American jazz pianist

Sadik Hakim - American jazz panist

Abbey Lincoln - American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress

Talib Dawud - Anitguan-born American jazz Trumpeter

Ahmed Abdul-Malik - American jazz double bassist

Idrees Sulieman – American jazz Trumpeter

Aamir Zaki - Pakistani guitarist, songwriter, composer

Writers

Wage Rudolf Supratman- Indonesian National Hero and songwriter; wrote the national anthem of Indonesia - "Indonesian Raya"

Muhammad Fazal Khan Changwi - translator of works by Ibn Arabi

Qalandar Momand - Pakistani poet, writer, journalist, critic, academician, lexicographer. Recipient of Pakistan's Pride of Performance civil award, the National Award for Democracy and Sitara-e-Imtiaz

Obaidullah Aleem - Urdu poet

Babatunde Jose - Nigerian Journalist

Hadayatullah Hübsch - German writer and journalist

Khola Maryam Hübsch - German writer and journalist, daughter of Hadayatullah.

Rehan Qayoom - British Writer.

Qasim Rashid - American writer

Sabir Zafar - Pakistani songwriter, lyricist and poet.

Other artists

Saira Wasim - Pakistani-born American miniature paint artist

Ghanaians

Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu - member of the Council of State and former Minister for Defence

Alhaji Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu - member of Pan-African Parliament and former Minister for Interior

Kobina Tahir Hammond - Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Ashanti Region

Ameen Salifu - Member of Parliament for Wa East, Upper West Region

Alhaji Issifu Ali - former Co-chairman of the National Democratic Congress

Musheibu Mohammed Alfa - Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Innovation

Mahmud Khalid - former Minister of State for Upper West Region

Alhaji Mumuni Abudu Seidu - former Minister of State without portfolio; former Member of Parliament, Wa Central, Upper West Region

Alhaji Mogtari Sahanun - former Ghana ambassador to Burkina Faso; former Minister of State for Upper West Region

Nigerians

Alhaji Abdul Azeez Kolawole Adeyemo - Member of Parliament, front-line member of Action Group political party, Ondo State Parliamentary Co-ordinator

Alhaji Jibril Martin - president of the Nigerian Youth Movement; cofounder and chairman of the Hajj Pilgrims’ Board of Nigeria’s western region

Pakistanis

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan - first Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the UN General Assembly, President of the International Court of Justice

Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum - Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; founder Islamia College University, Pakistan

Other nationalities

Farimang Mamadi Singateh - second and last Governor General of The Gambia

Sahibzada Abdul Latif - Afghan Ahmadi Muslim martyr; king Abdur Rahman Khan's advisor; government representative for the Durand Line

Amir Abedi - first African mayor of Dar es Salam, Tanzania

Barakat Ahmad - Indian diplomat

Muhammad Fiaz - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskachewan, Canada

Tariq Ahmad - Member of the House of Lords, UK

Iftikhar A. Ayaz - Tuvaluan consular official, UK

Military people

Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry - first Chief of Air Staff and a three-star general of the Pakistan Air Force

Lieutenant General Akhtar Hussain Malik - lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army

Major General Iftikhar Janjua Shaheed - major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war

Lieutenant General Abdul Ali Malik - Pakistani war hero of the Chawinda, 1965 Indo-Pakistan war

Major General Abdullah Saeed - Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, Chief Martial Law Administrator for Baluchistan, Pakistan

Scientists

Abdus Salam - first Pakistani and first Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics

Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz - Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes

Mojib Latif - German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent

Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin - Indian astronomer, professor at Osmania University, Hydrabad, India

Clement Lindley Wragge - New Zealander meteorologist

Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian German Orientalist and anthropologist

Sportspersons

Adnan Virk - Canadian sports anchor

Abdul Jeelani - American professional basketball player

Others

M M Ahmad - former executive director and vice president of the World Bank

Aslam Khan - CEO Vodafone Fiji

Nazhat Shameem - Former High Court Judge, Fiji

Justice Saeed Kwaku Gyan - Appeal Court Judge, Ghana

Shaista Shameem - Indo-Fijian lawyer; former director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission

Sitara Brooj Akbar - Youngest O'Levels and IELTS candidate.

Faysal Sohail - American venture capitalist

Atif Mian - Princeton University economist

Asad Shah - British murder victim of a religiously-motivated attack