Muslim professions
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
- Avicenna
- Averroes
- Biruni
- Ibn Taymiya
- Imam Abu Hanifa
- Imam Hambal
- Imam Shafi
- Jafar as-Sadiq
- Malik Ibn Anas
- Razi
See also early Muslim philosophy, Islamic philosophy
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
- Sayyid Mawdudi
- Fatima Mernissi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Syed Nawad Haider Naqwi
- Ziauddin Sardar
- Idries Shah
- Ali Shariati
- Hamza Yusuf
See also modern Islamic philosophy, Islamization of knowledge
Historiographers and sociologists
See also Islamic economics, The Muqadimmah, and isnad
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 Shia Imams
Military Leaders and Figures
Muslim dynasties
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
- 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
- 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
Artists
Writers and Poets
Entertainers
- Adewale Ayuba
- Art Blakey
- Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
- Serj Tankian
- Richard Thompson
Scientists and Mathematicians
- Abu Al-Qasim, medicine
- Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari, engineering
- Al-Khwarizmi, mathematics
- Ahmed H. Zewail, chemistry
- Avicenna, medicine
- Mahmoud Hessaby, engineering
- Rhazes (Razi) Biruni, medicine
See also list of inventions by Muslims, Islamic science
Athletes
- Muhammad Ali
- Hakeem Olajuwon
- Laila Ali
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Ali Daei
- Matthew Saad Muhammad
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi
- Eddie Mustapha Muhammad
- Mustafa Hamsho
- Hasim Rahman
- Khalid Khannouchi
- Hicham El-Guerrouj
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim
- Saleem Rashid
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad
- Mahmoud Abdur-Rauf
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
See also: List of people by belief, list of Islamic terms in Arabic