NTL Conservative Blog: List of American Muslims

There are 4 million Muslims living in the US. It will take time to see if they assimilate. Activists appear to be organizing to become a “protected class”.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -This is an incomplete list of notable Muslims who live or lived in the United States.

Academia – 20 professors

Asad Abidi – Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles; member of the National Academy of Engineering

Gul Agha – Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor Akbar S. Ahmed – US resident Pakistani anthropologist; the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University; 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

Talal Asad – Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at CUNY

Farooq Azam – Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; researcher in the field of marine microbiology

Ayesha Jalal – MacArthur Fellow and Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University

Ahsan Kareem – Robert M. Moran Professor of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame; member of the National Academy of Engineering

Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil – Professor of Physics at Portland State University; a highly cited researcher in the field of atmospheric physics

Dr. Hafeez Malik – Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, in Pennsylvania

Dr. 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

Adil Najam – Professor of Geography and International Relations and Director of the Pardee Center at Boston University;[14] founding editor of popular blog Pakistaniat

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

Dr. Agha Saeed – founder and Chairman of American Muslim Alliance; lecturer at California State University, East Bay[

Anwar Shaikh – Professor of Economics at the graduate faculty of The New School in New York City

Sara Suleri – Professor of English at Yale University

Dr. Bashir Syed – physicist, NASA scientist; authority on renewable energy such as solar and wind energy; distinguished member of NY Academy of Sciences

Abdul Jamil Tajik – researcher in clinical medicine

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.

Activism and politics – 32

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

Saqib Ali – served as delegate to the Maryland House of Delegates, elected in 2006, represented the 39th District

Tahir Ali – first Pakistani American elected as a National delegate-at-large (R) from Massachusetts, 1992

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

Shamila N. Chaudhary – US government policy adviser

Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author

Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference

C. Jack Ellis – former mayor of Macon, Georgia

Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota[28]

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 – American human rights lawyer, global media commentator, and author of the book Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms

Zalmay Khalilzad – former US Ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan

Yuri Kochiyama - Japanese American activist who converted to Sunni Islam from Protestantism in 1971

Umar Lee - Activist and Writer

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.

Dr. 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.

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

Haroon Saleem – former Mayor of Granite Falls, Washington

Betty Shabazz – civil rights activist and educator; widow of Malcolm X

Azadeh Shahshahani – human rights attorney and past president of the National Lawyers Guild

Saghir "Saggy" Tahir – New Hampshire State Representative; the only elected Pakistani American in the Republican Party;[39] re-elected in 2006 for a fourth term to represent Ward 2, District 9 in his home town of Manchester

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.

James Yee – former U.S. Army chaplain with the rank of Captain

Elias Zerhouni – Director, National Institutes of Health

Armed forces - 4

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan – United States Army Soldier killed in Iraq

Humayun Khan (soldier) – United States Army Soldier killed in Iraq

Foreign military service

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.

Art - 4

Kameelah Janan Rasheed — Artist based in New York City

Deana Haggag – Egyptian-American art museum curator, President and CEO of United States Artists in Chicago

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

Business - 16

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

Javed Ahmed – currently lives in London, where his headquarters are located; chief executive officer of Tate & Lyle, a FTSE 250 company which is one of Britain's oldest brands

Farooq Kathwari – Chairman, President and Chief Executive officer of Ethan Allen

Syed Moiz Balkhi – Florida-based entrepreneur; founder of WPBeginner

Michael Chowdry (1955–2001) – Forbes 400 businessman; founder of air cargo company Atlas Air, which in 2001 was worth over $1.39 billion

Tariq Farid – entrepreneur; owner and CEO of Edible Arrangements

Nabeel Gareeb – appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of MEMC in 2002; according to CNN he was the 24th highest paid CEO in 2006;] according to Forbes he was the 6th highest earning CEO in 2008 in the US

Fred Hassan – Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough from 2003-2009, when the company completed its merger with Merck & Co

Mansoor Ijaz – businessman; founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management LLC, a New York investment partnership; commentator on Fox News

Atif Sheikh – finalist for the new World Trade Center design contest hosted by CNN; founded Atex Capital Partners, a combined venture capital firm based in London

Hammad Siddiqi – economist and social commentator; received numerous awards in journalism including the Edward F. Tancready Award.

Comedy - 25

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, Daily Show correspondent

Preacher Moss – standup comedian, comedy writer

Zahra Noorbakhsh – comedian, writer, actor, co-host of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast

Kumail Nanjiani – standup comedian, actor

Dean Obeidallah – standup comedian

Azhar Usman – standup comedian

Maysoon Zayid – standup comedian, actress.

Crime

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 Agencyheadquarters

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.

Film - 8

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

Faran Tahir – actor

Modeling - 3

Halima Aden – Somali-American fashion model

Iman – supermodel and wife of David Bowie

Bella Hadid - fashion model and daughter of real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid and former model Yolanda Hadid.

Music – 37 mostly rappers

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

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

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.

Religion – 17 Muslim scholars

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.

Science – 3

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.

Sports

Boxing

Boxer Muhammad Aliin 1978

Muhammad Ali – became a member of the Nation of Islam in 1964,[173] 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)

Basketball

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 – former player for the Los Angeles Lakers; rapper and actor

Hakeem Olajuwon – former player for the Houston Rockets

Rasheed Wallace – former player for the Detroit Pistons

NFL

Ameer Abdullah – running back, drafted by the Detroit Lions in 2015, currently with the Minnesota Vikings

Oday Aboushi – guard, drafted by the New York Jets in 2013, currently with the Arizona Cardinals.