Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[1] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer[2] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[3] Tariq Abdul-Wahad - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[4] Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player[5] Ivan Aguéli - famous Swedish painter.[6][7] Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian singer/poet.[8][9] Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam to Sufism,[10] SI's Sportsman of the Century Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.[11] Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[12][13] Nicolas Anelka - French football player[14] Yasin Abu Bakr - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of March 9, 2006[15] Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.[16] David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident,[17] is charged with murder[18]
Muhammad Ali- a convert to Islam.Józef Bem - Polish-Hungarian general, considered a national hero of Poland. [19] Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963-1969), Spain (1973-1976) and Morocco (1976-1983)[20]
