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Aziz Sancar
Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian chemist
Dave Chappelle
David Khari Webber Chappelle is an American stand-up comedian, actor and former sketch comedian. He debuted his half-hour TV special in 1998 and his hour-long TV special in 2000. He co-created and starred in the sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show (2003–2006) on Comedy Central before quitting in the middle of production of the third season. After a hiatus, Chappelle returned to performing stand-up comedy across the United States. By 2006, Chappelle was called the "comic genius of America" by Esquire magazine and, in 2013, "the best" by a Billboard writer. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 9 in their "50 Best Stand Up Comics of All Time".
Jiah Khan
British−American Bollywood actress (1988–2013)
Saïd Taghmaoui
French-American actor
Jaylen Brown
American basketball player
Laila Lalami
American writer
Huda Kattan
CEO of Huda Beauty
Rashid Khalidi
Palestinian-American historian
Ayşe Seitmuratova
Crimean Tatar civil rights activist
Rashad Khalifa
Egyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)
Asra Nomani
American journalist (born 1965)
Zeeko Zaki
Egyptian-American actor
Larry Kenon
American basketball player
Moncef Slaoui
Moroccan American doctor and researcher
David Headley
Pakistani American convicted terrorist
Mostafa El-Sayed
Egyptian chemist
Ildar Hafizov
Olympic wrestler
Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
American writer, lecturer, translator of Quran from Arabic to modern English
Jackie Y. Ying
Taiwan-born American nanotechnology researcher based in Singapore
Baba Ali
Iranian-born American film developer
Mohamed Hadih
Palestinian-American real estate developer
Aminah Assilmi
American journalist (1945–2010)
Aboubacar Keita
American soccer player
Ali Soufan
former FBI Agent, founder of the Soufan Center in 2017
El Sayyid Nosair
Egyptian-born American assassin (born 1955)
Nezam Hafiz
West Indian cricketer (1969-2001)
Omar Khalidi
Indian-American Muslim scholar (1953–2010)
Peter Edward Kassig
American paramedic and fifth Western hostage killed by Islamic State (IS)
Dua Saleh
singer
Amber Leibrock
American mixed martial arts fighter
Amir Mansour
American boxer
Latin American Muslims
Muslims from countries in Latin America
Iqbal Quadir
American businessman; founder and director emeritus of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rania Awaad
Egyptian-American Islamic scholar
Afdhere Jama
American journalist
M. A. Muqtedar Khan
Indian academic
Ebrahim Moosa
American academic
list of Muslim members of the United States Congress
Wikimedia list article
Jen Shah
American television personality
Joe Manley
American boxer (1959–2023)
Saïd Amir Arjomand
Iranian-American sociologist (born 1946)
Ayqa Khan
Pakistani-American artist
Haifa Beseisso
Palestinian-American YouTuber
Caner Dagli
American Islamic scholar
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Pakistani performance artist
Muzammil H. Siddiqi
American Islamic scholar
Zehra Fazal
Pakistani–American voice actress
Monica Witt
American military personnel defecting to Iran
Marcia K. Hermansen
American scholar of Islam
Noor Tagouri
American journalist, activist, motivational speaker and producer