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Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is an American politician who has served as the 112th mayor of New York City since January 2026. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani served from 2021 to 2025 as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 36th district, representing Astoria, Queens.
The Iron Sheik
Iranian-American professional wrestler and actor (1942–2023)

Hossein Nasr
Iranian philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar (born 1933)

Sean Stone
American actor, director
Mehdi Hasan
British-American journalist (born 1979)
Vali Nasr
Iranian-American academic and author (born 1960)
Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen
American philosopher
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor (1894-1935)
Wafaa Bilal
American artist

Hamid Algar
British-American Iranologist
Abdullah Hammoud
American politician from Michigan
Malcolm Shabazz
Grandson of Malcolm X
Serena Shim
American journalist

Amina Inloes
Scholar.
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Islamic scholar (1942-2025)

Abdullah Hashem
Egyptian-American religious leader
Omid Safi
American academic
Hassan Al-Qazwini
Leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan
Baba Rexheb
Albanian Islamic scholar