This is an incomplete list of notable Muslims who live or lived in the United States.
Activism and politics
Nihad Awad – National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
André Carson – Congressman from Indiana
Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author
C. Jack Ellis – former mayor of Macon, Georgia
Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota
Ilhan Omar - Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 60B district
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
Zalmay Khalilzad – former US Ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan
Edina Lekovic – Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
Malcolm X (also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) – civil rights activist, public speaker and Black Muslim minister Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952, before converting to Sunni Islam in 1964.
Farah Pandith – Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the US Department of State; official advisor to President Obama on Muslim matters
Zainab Salbi – co-founder and president for Women for Women International
Betty Shabazz – civil rights activist and educator; widow of Malcolm X
James Yee – former U.S. Army chaplain with the rank of Captain
Elias Zerhouni – Director, National Institutes of Health
Arsalan Iftikhar – American human rights lawyer, global media commentator, and author of the book Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms
Umar Lee - Activist and Writer
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan – United States Army Soldier killed in Iraq
Humayun Khan (soldier) – United States Army Soldier killed in Iraq
Ma Dunjing – Chinese Muslim General of the National Revolutionary Army, immigrated to Los Angeles in the United States after retirement in 1950
Ma Hongkui – Chinese Muslim General of the National Revolutionary Army, immigrated to Los Angeles in the United States after retirement in 1950
Shirin Neshat – Iranian-American visual artist and film director. Awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2006, and the Silver Lion in 2009
Shahzia Sikander – Pakistani-American artist and MacArthur Fellow
Mohamed A. El-Erian – CEO of PIMCO, manager of over $1 trillion in global assets
Fuad El-Hibri – CEO of Emergent BioSolutions
Shahid Khan – owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL), the English Premier League team Fulham F.C., and automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate in Urbana, Illinois
Farooq Kathwari – CEO of Ethan Allen Global, Inc.
Abdul Malik Mujahid – President of Sound Vision and community activist
Safi Qureshey – Pakistani-American entrepreneur and philanthropist; co-founder and former CEO of AST Research
Naser Jason Abdo – former soldier convicted of planning an attack near Fort Hood
Sami Al-Arian – professor guilty of conspiracy to contribute services to or for the benefit of a Specially Designated Terrorist organization
Anwar al-Awlaki – believed by US officials to be a recruiter involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda
Daniel Patrick Boyd – convicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiracy to commit murder, maiming and kidnapping overseas
Hasan Akbar – convicted of premeditated murder in a grenade attack on fellow soldiers
Hesham Mohamed Hadayet – Egyptian-American who killed 2 people at the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport
Wadih el-Hage – al-Qaeda member serving life imprisonment in the US for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings
Nidal Malik Hasan – former soldier convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
Muzzammil Hassan – founder of Bridges TV, a Muslim television network; received sentence of 25 to life for beheading his wife
Mir Aimal Kansi – Pakistani-American convicted and executed for the shootings at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters
John Walker Lindh – American Taliban
John Allen Muhammad – executed beltway sniper
José Padilla – convicted of aiding terrorists and litigant before the United States Supreme Court in Rumsfeld v. Padilla
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.
Ahmed Ahmed – standup comedian, actor
Mohammed Amer – standup comedian
Dave Chappelle – standup comedian (converted in 1998)
Negin Farsad - comedian, actress, writer, filmmaker
Maz Jobrani – standup comedian, actor
Aasif Mandvi – comedian, actor
Hasan Minhaj – comedian
Preacher Moss – standup comedian, comedy writer
Zahra Noorbakhsh – comedian, writer, actor, co-host of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast
Dean Obeidallah – standup comedian
Azhar Usman – standup comedian
Maysoon Zayid – standup comedian, actress
Nabil Abou-Harb – filmmaker; writer and director of Arab in America
Shohreh Aghdashloo – Academy Award-nominated Iranian-born actress
Moustapha Akkad – film director, producer
Mahershala Ali – Oscar-winning actor.
Lewis Arquette – film actor, writer, and producer
Sayed Badreya – actor, filmmaker
Saïd Taghmaoui – actor
Ahmad Jamal – jazz pianist
Akil – rapper, formerly of the alternative hip-hop group Jurassic 5
Ahmet Ertegün – Songwriter and founder of Atlantic Records
Akon – R&B and hip-hop artist
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – producer, DJ and rapper, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; Sunni Muslim
Art Blakey – jazz drummer and bandleader
B.G. Knocc Out – rapper from Compton, California, (converted to Islam in 1999)
Beanie Sigel – rapper
Big Daddy Kane – rapper; 5 percenter
Brother Ali – rapper; converted to Islam
Busta Rhymes – hip-hop artist and rapper; 5 percenter
Casey Kasem – Druze radio personality known for his top forty DJ format
Chali 2na – rapper, formerly of the alternative hip-hop group Jurassic 5, and of Ozomatli
DJ Khaled – rap artist and DJ
Everlast – rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group House of Pain; converted to Islam
Freeway – rapper; Sunni Muslim
Ghostface Killah – rapper, member of the hip-hip group the Wu-Tang Clan
Ice Cube – rapper and producer
Immortal Technique – rapper and social activist
Jermaine Jackson – singer, bass guitarist
Kevin Gates – rapper
Lupe Fiasco – rapper; Sunni Muslim
Mark 7even – rapper, formerly of the alternative hip-hop group Jurassic 5
MC Ren – rapper
Mos Def – rapper; initially joined the Nation of Islam before converting to Islam
Napoleon – former member of Tupac Shakur's rap group the Outlawz, now a motivational Muslim speaker
Nas – rapper and 5 percenter
Native Deen – rap group
Professor A.L.I. – rapper
Q-Tip – rapper, formerly of A Tribe Called Quest; Sunni Muslim
Rakim – 5 percenter, rapper and former member of the hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim
Scarface – rapper
Raekwon – rapper, member of the hip-hip group the Wu-Tang Clan
Rhymefest – Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist; co-writer of the single "Jesus Walks"
Snoop Dogg – rapper; ex member of the Nation Of Islam
T-Pain – singer, rapper
Vinnie Paz – rapper in the hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks
Yusef Lateef – jazz musician and Grammy Award winner
Zeeshan Zaidi – lead singer and guitarist for The Commuters
Mara Brock Akil – screenwriter, producer
Rizwan Manji – actor
Isaiah Mustafa – actor
Mehmet Oz – medical doctor, talk show host
Kamran Pasha – screenwriter, producer
Iqbal Theba – actor
Modeling and pageants
Iman – supermodel and wife of David Bowie
Suhaib Webb – Muslim lecturer and activist; Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in the New England area
Hamza Yusuf – Muslim scholar
Hassan Hathout – Muslim scholar
Hassan Al-Qazwini – Muslim scholar
Hisham Kabbani – Muslim sufi scholar and shaykh
Yusuf Estes – Muslim preacher
Souleiman Ghali – Founder of the Islamic Society of San Francisco
Sherman Jackson – Muslim scholar
Nouman Ali Khan – Muslim speaker and founder, CEO and lead instructor at Bayyinah, the Institute for Arabic and Qur'anic Studies.
Sadullah Khan – Muslim scholar
Ingrid Mattson – Muslim scholar
Warith Deen Mohammed – former leader of the largest Muslim organization, the American Society of Muslims (son of Nation of Islam leader)
Louay M. Safi – Muslim scholar
Zaid Shakir – Muslim scholar
Siraj Wahhaj – Muslim scholar
Omar Khalidi – Muslim scholar
Amir Hussain – Muslim scholar, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Fazlur Khan – structural engineer (designed the Sears Tower, John Hancock Center)
Ayub K. Ommaya – neurosurgeon, inventor of the Ommaya reservoir
Ahmed Zewail – Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1999 for his work on femtochemistry
Muhammad Ali – became a member of the Nation of Islam in 1964, converted to Sunni Islam in 1975
Bernard Hopkins – former Middleweight and Light Heavyweight world champion
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad – former Light Heavyweight Champion
Matthew Saad Muhammad – former Light Heavyweight Champion
Dwight Muhammad Qawi – former Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Champion
Hasim Rahman – former Heavyweight champion
Mike Tyson – Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in 1987; converted in 1994 (influenced by preacher in prison)
DeSagana Diop – Senegalese basketball player for the Charlotte Bobcats
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – converted to Islam from Catholicism in 1968, initially joining the Nation of Islam before retaking the Shahada and converting to Sunni Islam that very summer
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – former player for Denver Nuggets (converted in 1991, formerly Chris Jackson)
Shareef Abdur-Rahim – retired player, named NBA All-Star in 2001–02 season
Hassan Adams – drafted by and played for the New Jersey Nets, later the Cleveland Cavaliers, then KK Vojvodina (in Serbia).
Larry Johnson – retired player, played for the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks
Nazr Mohammed – player for the Charlotte Bobcats
Mehmet Okur – Turkish player of the Utah Jazz
Shaquille O'Neal – player for the Boston Celtics; rapper and actor
Hakeem Olajuwon
Rasheed Wallace – player for the Boston Celtics
Hamza Abdullah – safety for the Cleveland Browns
Husain Abdullah – safety for the Minnesota Vikings
Oday Aboushi – guard, drafted by the New York Jets in 2013, currently with the Houston Texans.
Az-Zahir Hakim – wide receiver formerly for the St. Louis Rams
Ryan Harris – offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Abdul Hodge – linebacker for the Carolina Panthers
Ahmad Rashād – former wide receiver for Minnesota Vikings, award-winning sportscaster (converted in 1972)
Ephraim Salaam – offensive tackle for the Detroit Lions
Muhammad Wilkerson – defensive end for the New York Jets
Usama Young – free safety for the New Orleans Saints
Track and field
Khalid Khannouchi – marathon runner
Dara Daivari – Iranian American, former wrestler at the WWE
Muhammed Lawal – former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight World Champion
Reza Aslan – author, religious scholar
Mona Eltahawy – columnist
Yahiya Emerick – author
Pai Hsien-yung – Chinese Muslim author and writer; born in China, immigrated to Taiwan then the United States; son of General Bai Chongxi
Saladin Ahmed – author
Ayman Mohyeldin – Al-Jazeera English journalist
Stephen Schwartz – journalist
Michael Wolfe – journalist
Fareed Zakaria – author, commentator, and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS
Khaled Hosseini – Novelist, physician
Melody Moezzi – author and activist
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