List of Muslims
This page is a very incomplete list of prominent and famous (or infamous) people who are Muslims - followers of Islam. It includes many historical and modern personalities, and is very much under construction. Until it is more complete, it will be very far from neutral. Please help.
People associated with Islam
Traditional Theologians and Philosophers
- Prophet Muhammad
- Abu Muslim
- Al-Bukhari
- Al-Dinawari
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Kindi
- Al-Tirmidhi
- Ibn Taymiya
- Imam Abu Hanifa
- Imam Hambal
- Imam Shafi
- Jafar as-Sadiq
- Malik Ibn Anas
- Razi
Modern Theologians and Philosophers
- Khaled Abou Al-Fadl
- Munawar Ahmad Anees
- Leila Ahmed
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Nasim Butt
- M. Umar Chapra
- Merryl Wyn Davies
- Hamid Enyat
- Ismail Al-Faruqi
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
- Sayyid Mawdudi
- Fatima Mernissi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Syed Nawad Haider Naqwi
- Ziauddin Sardar
- Idries Shah
- Ali Shariati
- Hamza Yusuf
Historiographers and sociologists
- Hammudah Abdalati
- Al-Mas'udi
- Al-Tabari
- Ibn Kathir
- Ibn Khaldoun
- Ibn Khallikan
- Amin Maalouf
Historical Figures
Early historic personalities
- Prophet Muhammad
- Abd-ar-rahman I
- Ali Ben Abu Talib - caliph (or the first Imám for Shia Muslims)
- Abu Bakr - caliph
- Fatima Zahra
- Hasan bin Ali grandson of Muhammad
- Husayn bin Ali grandson of Muhammad
- Muawiyah I
- Saladin
- Umar ibn al-Khattab - caliph
- Uthman ibn Affan - caliph
Ottoman Empire Rulers
See: List of Ottoman SultansShia Imams
See: List of Shia ImamsMilitary Leaders and Figures
- Abdel Kadir
- Shamil Basayev
- Imam Shamil
- Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef
- Hyder Ali
- Khalid bin Walid
- Muhammad Ahmad
- Muhammad bin Qasim
- Musa bin Nusair
- Qutaibah bin Muslim
- Saladin
- Sher Shah
- Nadir Shah
- Tahir ibn Husayn
- Tariq ibn-Ziyad
- Timur
- Tipu Sultan
Muslim dynasties
- Abbadid
- Abbasid
- Ayyubid
- Hashemite
- Osmanli (rulers of the Ottoman Empire)
- Mameluk
- Mughal
- Safavid
- Saudi
- Tahirid
- Umayyad
Politicians
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
- Abdullah I of Jordan
- Abdullah II of Jordan
- Mohammed Bahr Al-Uloum
- Omar Hasan Ahmad Al-Bashir
- Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim
- Abd ar-Rahman Al-Haydari Al-Kaylani
- Zayed ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan
- Iajuddin Ahmed
- Yasser Arafat
- Qari Ahmadullah
- Badar
- Benazir Bhutto
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- Fahd of Saudi Arabia
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Moammar Ghadafi
- Hussein of Jordan
- Qusay Hussein
- Saddam Hussein
- Uday Hussein
- Moulvi Ibrahim
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Zafarullah Khan Jamali
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Abdul Kalam
- Islam Karimov
- Hamid Karzai
- Hamad bin Khalifa
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Ali Khamenei
- Ayub Khan
- Yahya Khan
- Juma Khan
- Mohammad Khatemi
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Megawati Sukarnoputri
- Mahatir Mohammad
- Mohammed VI of Morocco
- Hosni Mubarak
- Pervez Musharraf
- Mohammed Omar
- Qaboos of Oman
- Mohammed Qalamuddin
- Abdul Karim Qassim
- Ahmed Qurei
- Mohammad Rabbani
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (Hamas)
- Anwar Sadat
- Ibn Saud
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer
- Abdurrahman Wahid
- Khaleda Zia
- Muhammad Zia ul-Haq
Artists
Writers and Poets
- Akbar S. Ahmed
- Rashid Ahmed
- Mohammed Asad
- Tariq Ali
- Hakim Bey
- Kabir
- Omar Khayyam
- Naim Frashëri
- Ibn Arabi
- Allama Iqbal
- Marmaduke Pickthall
- Rumi
- Michael Wolfe
Entertainers
- Adewale Ayuba
- Art Blakey
- Everlast
- Freeway
- Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
- Islamic Force
- Mos Def
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
- Q-Tip
- Richard Thompson
Scientists and Mathematicians
- Abu Al-Qasim, medicine
- Abu Nasr Mansur, mathematics
- Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari, engineering
- Al-Khwarizmi, mathematics
- Avicenna, medicine
- Averroes, medicine
- Biruni, mathematics
- Ahmed H. Zewail, chemistry
- Avicenna, medicine
- Mahmoud Hessaby, engineering
- Rhazes (Razi) Biruni, medicine
Athletes
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim
- Mahmoud Abdur-Rauf
- Muhammad Ali
- Laila Ali
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Mohammed Azharuddin
- Ali Daei
- Hicham El-Guerrouj
- Chris Eubank
- Naseem Hamed
- Mustafa Hamsho
- Ali Karimi
- Imran Khan
- Khalid Khannouchi
- Mehdi Mahdavikia
- Matthew Saad Muhammad
- Eddie Mustapha Muhammad
- Hakeem Olajuwon
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi
- Hasim Rahman
- Saleem Rashid
- Zinedine Zidane
Other
- Ibn Battuta
- Rashad Khalifa
- John Walker Lindh
- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
- Ali Shariati
- Ahmed Urabi
- Abdul Haq
- Maher Arar
- Muhammad Abd al Wahhab
