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Khaled Hosseini
Afghan novelist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American basketball player
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian chemist
Mahershala Ali
American actor
Bella Hadid
American model
Gigi Hadid
Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid is an American fashion model and television personality. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Throughout her career, Hadid has made at least 50 appearances in international Vogue. Models.com ranks her as one of the "New Supers". Since 2017, Hadid has been one of the highest-paid models in the world, earning $20 million.
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
American basketball player
MC Ren
American rapper
Ty Dolla Sign
American singer and rapper (born 1982)
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)
Moustapha Akkad
American film director (1930–2005)
Sabu Dastagir
actor (1924-1963)
Tahereh Mafi
Iranian-American author
Hasan Minhaj
American actor and comedian
Reza Aslan
Iranian-American author, commentator
Isaiah Mustafa
American actor and former NFL practice squad wide receiver
Jamaal Wilkes
American basketball player
Wallace Fard Muhammad
American Islamic minister
Faran Tahir
American actor (born 1963)
Maz Jobrani
American comedian
B.G. Knocc Out
American rapper from Compton, California (not to be confused with B.G.)
Henry Tillman
American boxer
Devin Haney
American boxer
Rizwan Manji
Canadian actor
Hassan Adams
American basketball player
Sarah Idan
Iraqi singer
FouseyTube
Yousef Saleh Erakat ( ; , ; born January 22, 1990), also known as FouseyTube or Fousey ( ), is an American YouTuber, online streamer, actor, and musician. His YouTube channels include FouseyTUBE (later renamed Crashout YSE), and the reality vlog-channel DOSEofFOUSEY. As a YouTuber, he produces prank videos, parodies, vlogs, comedy sketches and interviews. He is the recipient of two Streamy Awards. As an actor, he starred in Tyler Perry's comedy horror film Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and its 2017 sequel. In January 2025, he released his debut album, G7: The Death of Fousey, which earned nega
Baba Ali
Iranian-born American film developer
Ahmed Ahmed
actor and comedian
Lateefah Simon
American activist
Hanna Barakat
Los Angeles-born Palestinian-American runner
Asifa Quraishi
American legal scholar
Da Lench Mob
American hip-hop group
Pej Vahdat
Iranian-American actor
Ma Hongkui
Republic of China general (1892-1970)
Khalil Bendib
Algerian-American cartoonist
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar
American football player (born 1974)
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
American journalist
Amber Leibrock
American mixed martial arts fighter
Mara Brock Akil
American screenwriter and television producer (born 1970)
Saddeka Arebi
Anthropologist, author
Zaid Shakir
American Islamic scholar
Mohamed Zakariya
American calligrapher
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
visual artist (born 1985)
Tengku Amir Shah
Raja Muda of Selangor
Husain Abdullah
American football player
Mujahid Abdul-Karim
American Imam
Az-Zahir Hakim
American football player
Rashaan Salaam
All-American college football player, professional football player, running back, Heisman Trophy winner (1974-2016)
Hassan Al-Qazwini
Leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan
Debra Majeed
US religious historian, activist and womanist