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Laila Cunningham
Laila Ahmed Cunningham is a British politician and former Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor. She was elected to Westminster City Council in 2022 for the Conservative Party and defected to Reform UK in June 2025. In January 2026, Cunningham was announced as Reform UK's candidate at the 2028 London mayoral election.
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)

Alexander Litvinenko
ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel (1962-2006)

Soni Razdan
British actress
Jiah Khan
British−American Bollywood actress (1988–2013)
Amina J. Mohammed
Nigerian-British diplomat and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

Kamila Shamsie
Pakistani and British writer and novelist (born 1973)
Nazanin Boniadi
British-Iranian actress
Sabu Dastagir
actor (1924-1963)
Khalid Abdalla
British actor
Talal Asad
anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center
Shakira Caine
Guyanese-British model and actress
Abdel Bari Atwan
Palestinian journalist

Akmal Shaikh
Taxi driver and criminal executed for drug offences in China
Rushanara Ali
British politician (born 1975)

Jawahir Roble
Somali-born British football referee
Anisa Butt
Indian actress
Dino Shafeek
Bangladeshi comedy actor (1930-1984)
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
Indian cricket player (1910-1952)
Asma Khan
Indian-born British chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author
Amjad Bashir
UK politician (born 1952)
Mahama Cho
Ivorian-British taekwondo practitioner
Easah Suliman
English association football player (born 1998)
Ferena Wazeir
British actress
British Bangladeshi
British people of Bangladeshi descent
Yasmin Qureshi
British politician (born 1963)
Khalid Mahmood
British politician (born 1961)
Mohamed Sheikh
British politician and businessman (1941–2022)
Anwar Choudhury
British diplomat and governor
Waheed Alli
British media entrepreneur and politician (born 1964)
Leesa Gazi
Bangladeshi writer and actress

Alys Faiz
Pakistani writer

Ash Sarkar
British journalist and writer

Simon Collis
British diplomat
Arminka Helic
British politician (born 1968)
Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed
British politician (born 1957)
Nadia Ali
English broadcaster
Yusuf Motala
Indian scholar
Fady Elsayed
British actor
Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Islamic scholar

Rabina Khan
British writer and politician (born 1972)
Manzila Uddin, Baroness Uddin
British politician (born 1959)
Runa Islam
Filmmaker and artist (born 1970)

Faris Glubb
British writer (1939–2004)
Peter Sanders
photographer
Shama Rahman
British singer and musician
Shapla Salique
British singer
Sheikh Abdul Qayum
British Imam
Salim Al-Hassani
Iraqi mechanical engineer
S. F. Said
British children's writer
Emad Mostaque
co-founder of Stability AI
Salwa El-Awa
academic of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Ali Omar Ermes
Libyan artist and author (1945–2021)

Faisal Rashid
British politician (born 1972)
Sadik Ahmed
British film director
Azzam Tamimi
British academic
Alimuddin Zumla
Zambian physician
James Achilles Kirkpatrick
Administrator in British India
Ruzwana Bashir
British businesswoman
Imtiaz Dharker
contemporary British poet