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*[[Enver Hoxha]] – Communist dictator who declared [[Albania]] the first atheist state, and who has been identified as an "arch-atheist."^ref
* [[As'ad Abu Khalil]] – Lebanese professor of [[political science]] at [[California State University]], . He describes himself as an "atheist secularist".^ref^ref
*[[Al-Ma'arri]] – Blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer.^ref
*[[Sarmad]] – 17th century mystical poet and [[sufi]] saint, arrived from [[Persia]] to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor, [[Aurungzebe]]. Sarmad renounced Judaism, briefly converting to Islam and then Hinduism. He later denounced all religions and rejected belief in god.^ref^ref

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The following is a list of notable people who have been [[Muslim]]s part of their lives, but left [[Islam]] for another religion or a non-religious worldview.

==Converted to a different [[Abrahamic religions|Abrahamic religion]]==

===Converted to [[Christianity]]===
[[File:Skenderbeu.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|[[Albania]]n monarch, '''[[Skanderbeg]]''' was forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam but reverted to Christianity later in life upon his return in Albania<ref name = "Skanderbeg"/>]]
* [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] – [[Central African Republic]] Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981532,00.html I Love Jeddah in the Springtime] Time magazine</ref>
* [[Ahmed Barzani]] – Head of Barzani Tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000258376/0000258376_0014.gif |title=. |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Ibrahim Njoya]] – [[Bamum people]] religion; back and forth conversions from Islam to Christianity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v7/v7i1a4.htm |title=African Studies Quarterly |publisher=Africa.ufl.edu |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref> Also created his own religion.<ref>[http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/research_projects/bamun_art_worlds.html W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
*[[Eldridge Cleaver]] – Conversions/Associations to Nation of Islam then Evangelical Christianity then Mormonism.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B10F93B5A0C718CDDAC0894D0494D81 |title=New York Times obituary |work=nytimes.com |date=May 2, 1998 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.africanaonline.com/black_panther_e_cleaver.htm Africana Online]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Aslan Abashidze]] – Former leader of the [[Adjara|Ajarian]] Autonomous Republic in western [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref>George Sanikidze and Edward W. Walker (2004), ''Islam and Islamic Practices in Georgia.'' Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies., p. 12, [[University of California]], Berkeley Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.</ref>
* [[Rotimi Adebari]], first Black mayor in Ireland<ref>{{cite news|author=Grammy awards |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/all-hail-the-chieftain-1065997.html |title="All hail The chieftain", Independent News |publisher=Independent.ie |date=August 25, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Mehmet Ali Agca]] – Turkish ultra-nationalist assassin, who shot and wounded [[Pope John Paul II]] on May 13, 1981. In early 2009, Agca renounced Islam in prison and announced his intention to convert to the Catholic faith upon release.<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7573306 Pope Gunman: I Want to Convert to Christianity] – ABC News, May 13, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Late+pope+would+killer+wants+Vatican+baptism+lawyer/1592443/story.html Late pope's would-be killer wants Vatican baptism  lawyer] – Vancouver Sun, May 2009</ref>
* [[Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad]] – Former Egyptian Muslim sheikh.<ref>[http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead&lang=en&length=long&idelement=4596 Egypt: Christian convert from Islam jailed] – Compass Direct News, October 18, 2006</ref>
* [[Magdi Allam]] – Italy's most famous Islamic affairs journalist.<ref name = "Magdi">{{cite news|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/856567,pope032208.article |title=Pope baptizes one of Italy's most prominent Muslims at Easter vigil service |publisher=suntimes.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Hussain Andaryas]] – [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] Christian activist and tele-evangelist.<ref>[http://www.hesavedme.com/story.htm He saved me – The story of Hussain Andaryas from Afghanistan]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Josephine Bakhita]] – Roman Catholic saint from [[Darfur]], [[Sudan]].<ref name="Hutchison 1999 7">{{Cite book|title=Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei |last=Hutchison |first=Robert A. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1999 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location= |isbn=0312193440 |page=7 }} – Sister Josephine Bakhita had been converted by force to Islam and then, freedom restored, had chosen Christianity.</ref>
* [[Sarah Balabagan]] – Filipina prisoner in the [[United Arab Emirates]] during 1994 – 96.<ref>[http://pinoyyouth.org/blog/christian-music/sarah-balabagan-thanks-god-encourages-ofws-with-new-album/ ]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Fathima Rifqa Bary conversion and custody controversy|Fathima Rifqa Bary]] – American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who drew international attention in 2009 when she ran away from home and claimed that her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to Christianity.<ref name="MHrprt">{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1233680.html |title=Fla. police: No credible threat to runaway convert, AP |publisher=miamiherald.com |date=Nov. 14, 2009 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Abo of Tiflis]] – Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].<ref>Birdsall, Neville. ''Collected Papers in Greek And Georgian Textual Criticism'', pg. 174.[http://books.google.com/books?id=tyV6I-TUlV8C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=les+khazars+dans+la+passion+d+abo+tiflis&source=web&ots=OLU4c0xT6j&sig=N5IKASE1kAteBtYH4QPp5O-vgQQ#PPA174,M1]; [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0108.shtml January 8 Saints].</ref>
* [[Don Juan of Persia]] – Late 16th and early 17th century figure in Iran and Spain.<ref name="Don Juan">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-drTkMAsmWoC |title=Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic 1560–1604 (book review) |publisher=Books.google.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Utameshgaray of Kazan]] – Khan of [[Kazan Khanate]].<ref name=autogenerated1>{{TES|Үтәмешгәрәй}}</ref>
* [[Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan]] – Last khan of [[Kazan Khanate]].<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* [[Sayed Borhan|Sayed Borhan khan]] – Khan of [[Qasim Khanate]] from 1627 to 1679.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* [[Simeon Bekbulatovich]] – Khan of [[Qasim Khanate]].<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* The [[Sibirsky (surname)|Sibirsky family]] – The foremost of many [[Genghisid]] ([[Shaybanid]]) noble families formerly living in Russia.<ref name="Khodarkovsky">Michael Khodarkovsky, ''Russia's Steppe Frontier'', Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-253-21770-9, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ioOA0i2588cC&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=In+1591,+Abul-Khayir,+the+son+of+the+Siberian+&source=web&ots=avh9upuzhg&sig=n8YOdZbz7qV8gzm4WLbbU0xrSTc&hl=en, M1 Google Print, p. 265].</ref>
* [[Maria Temryukovna]] – [[Circassians|Circassian]] princess, and second wife to [[Ivan IV of Russia]] who was born in a Muslim upbringing, and baptised into the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] on August 21, 1561.<ref>Troyat, Henri Ivan le Terrible. Flammarion, Paris, 1982</ref>
* The [[Shihabs|Shihab family]] – Prominent Lebanese noble family. The family originally belonged to Sunni Islam and converted to Christianity at the end of the 18th century.<ref name="Mannheim">Ivan Mannheim, ''Syria & Lebanon handbook'', Footprint Travel Guides, 2001, ISBN 1-900949-90-3, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GOJ80DlXwwMC&pg=PA567&dq=Shihab+family+sunni&sig=17XTYyyXpDOLgwa0vsYzIixL0iY#PPA567,M1 Google Print, p. 567].</ref>
*[[Jacob Frank]] – 18th century [[Jewish]] religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah [[Sabbatai Zevi]], and also of [[King David]]. Frank publicly converted to Islam in 1757 and later to Christianity at Poland in 1759, but actually presented himself as the Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabbatai Zevi's Messianism now referred to as ''Frankism''.<ref name="Scholem">[[Gershom Scholem]], ''[http://www.radicaltorahthought.com/Bio%20Zvi_Frank.htm 'Shabtai Zvi (1626–1676)', 'Frank, Jacob, and the Frankists']'', from [[Encyclopedia Judaica]]</ref>
* [[Walid Shoebat]] – American author and former member of the [[PLO]].<ref name=walid>{{cite web|url=http://www.shoebat.com/bio.php?PHPSESSID=61e4c5139507437e903da869d8a6a4cc |title=Biography of Walid Shoebat |publisher=Shoebat.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Hassan Dehqani-Tafti]] –  Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1961 to 1990.<ref name=tele>{{Cite news|first=|last=|title=The Rt Rev Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, Bishop of Iran who survived an assassination attempt and had to continue his ministry in exile |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1918728/The-Rt-Rev-Hassan-Dehqani-Tafti.html|work= [[The Daily Telegraph]] |publisher= |date=May 5, 2008 |accessdate=May 11, 2008 | location=London}}</ref>
* [[Ibrahim Ben Ali]] – Soldier, physician and one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://haggin.org/JBAH_Biography.html  | title = History | author = J.S. Clarke  | publisher = Linda Haggin Peck | accessdate = September 30, 2008}}</ref>
*[[Bob Denard]] – French soldier and [[mercenary]] leader. Converted from Catholicism to Judaism, then Islam and eventually back to Catholicism.<ref>"Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition", Robert Young Pelton, Collins Reference, 2003, p.270: ''"Denard has seven wives and has at various times converted to Judaism (in Morocco) and Islam (in the Comoros) and then back to Catholicism."''</ref>
* [[Nonie Darwish]] – [[Egyptians|Egyptian]]-American writer and public speaker.<ref name=dailynews>Friedman, Lisa. [http://www.truthandgrace.com/escapeislam.htm "Ex-Muslim calls on her people to reject hatred"], ''[[Los Angeles Daily News]]'', June 5, 2005. (reproduced)</ref>
* [[Mehdi Dibaj]] – Iranian pastor and Christian activist.<ref>[http://www.farsinet.com/dibaj/ The Written Defense of the Rev. Mehdi Dibaj Delivered to the Sari Court of Justice – Sari, Iran December 3, 1993]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ghorban Tourani]] – Former [[Iran]]ian [[Sunni]] [[Islam|Muslim]] who became a Christian minister. Following multiple murder threats, he was abducted and murdered on November 22, 2005.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2005&m=12&d=06&a=10 |title=Diplomats Concerned About Killing of Iranian Pastor |publisher=Iranvajahan.net |date=December 6, 2005 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
[[File:Magdi Cristiano Allam.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|Italian journalist '''[[Magdi Allam]]''' converted to [[Roman Catholicism]] during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by [[Pope Benedict XVI]]<ref name = "Magdi"/>]]
* [[St. George El Mozahem]] – A coptic saint<ref>{{cite web|url=http://st-takla.org/zJ/index.php?option=com_icopts&task=&sm=3-2&c=&dbl=en&tht=1309039200 |title=St-Takla.org |publisher=St-Takla.org |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=IoMati |url=http://www.wiscopts.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153&Itemid=97 |title=St. George El-Mozahem |publisher=Wiscopts.net |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://st-takla.org/Saints/Coptic-Orthodox-Saints-Biography/Coptic-Saints-Story_794.html |title=الشهيد مار جرجس المزاحم |publisher=St-takla.org |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Patrick Sookhdeo]] – British [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] canon<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/15/1097784043403.html?from=storylhs |title=Islam, the West and the need for honesty |publisher=Theage.com.au |date=October 16, 2004 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Mark A. Gabriel]]- [[Egypt]]ian writer<ref>''Against the Tides in the Middle East'', International Academic Centre for Muslim Evangelism in South Africa, 1997 (published under the name "Mustafa").</ref>
* [[Akbar Gbaja-Biamila]] – [[American football]] player.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegoal.com/players/football/biamila_kabeer/biamila.html |title=Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila |publisher=Thegoal.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://blog.chargers.com/2006/07/akbar_gbajabiamila_keeps_the_f.html Akbar Gbaja-Biamila Keeps the Faith] – ("In college, Akbar converted to Christianity, while his father remains a Muslim.")</ref>
* [[Alexander Kazembek (Russian orientalist)|Alexander Kazembek]] – Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of [[Azeri]] origin .<ref>{{ru icon}} [http://www.evrazia.org/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1146 Alexander Kazembek: Light from the East] by Alexei Pylev. April 13, 2003. Retrieved October 9, 2006</ref>
* [[Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila]] – American football player.<ref name=autogenerated2 />
* [[Qadry Ismail]] – Former American football player.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegoal.com/players/football/ismail_qadry/ismail_qadry.html |title=Qadry Ismail's bio on |publisher=Thegoal.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Raghib Ismail]] – Former American football player.<ref>{{cite news|author=Tom Wright |url=http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070415/SPORTOPS/104150136 |title=Article on Raghib Ismail: Rocket shows strong path |publisher=Greeleytrib.com |date=April 15, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Tunch Ilkin]] – Former American football player.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onmission.com/site/c.cnKHIPNuEoG/b.830611/k.9EEC/Faith_In_Sports.htm |title=Faith in Sports |publisher=Onmission.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Lina Joy]] – [[Malaysia]]n convert to Christianity. The desire to have her conversion recognized was the subject of a court case in [[Malaysia]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Beech |first=Hannah |url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1626300,00.html |title=Time Magazine |publisher=Time.com |date=May 30, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Menem]] – Former [[President of Argentina]]. Raised a Muslim but converted to Roman Catholicism, the official religion of [[Argentina]], due to his political aspirations.<ref name="Menem ">{{cite book|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002423/Carlos-Menem |title=Encyclopædia Britannica- Carlos Menem |publisher=Britannica.com |date=July 2, 1930 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Marina Nemat]] – Canadian author of Iranian descent and former political prisoner of the Iranian government. Born into a Christian family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to Christianity.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ottawa |first=The |url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=56af0b50-c6d5-4fbf-a0a4-c95a3c34ad1b&k=94826 |title=Flight from Iran |publisher=Canada.com |date=April 15, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[George Weah]] – [[Liberia]]n soccer player (from [[Christianity]] to [[Islam]] back to [[Christianity]]).<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_talk/forum/1550731.stm You quizzed George Weah] – BBC.com</ref>
* [[Momolu Dukuly]] – Liberian foreign minister.<ref>[http://theperspective.org/articles/0617200501.html Religion And Power in Liberia] – The Perspective, June 17, 2005.</ref>
* [[Nazli Sabri]] – [[Queen consort]] of [[Egypt]].<ref>Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ''Burke's Royal Families of the World: Africa & the Middle East'', Burke's Peerage, 1980, p. 36.</ref>
* [[James Scurry]] – British soldier and statesman.<ref name="Scurry">Prabhu, Alan Machado (1999). Sarasvati's Children: A History of the Mangalorean Christians. p.  196</ref>
[[File:Emir Kusturica Bruxelles05.jpg|160px|thumb|right|On [[St George's Day]], 2005 Serbian film director '''[[Emir Kusturica]]''' left Islam and was baptised into the [[Serb Orthodox Church]]<ref name="pionirovglasnik"/>]]
* [[Begum Samru]] – Powerful lady of north India, ruling a large area from [[Sardhana]], [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>''The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination'' by Gautam Chakravarty · Cambridge, 242 pp ISBN 0-521-83274-8</ref>
* [[Abdul Rahman (convert)|Abdul Rahman]] – Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the [[death penalty]] because of foreign pressure.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=21687 |title=News |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Youcef Nadarkhani]] – Iranian Christian pastor who has been sentenced to death for apostasy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Iranian pastor faces death for rape, not apostasy – report|author=Merica, Dan|date=October 1, 2011 |publisher=CNN |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/30/world/meast/iran-christian-pastor/}}</ref>
* [[Mathieu Kérékou]]- President of [[Benin]] (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).<ref>{{Cite news| last =Okanla | first =Karim  | title =Benin's 'magical' leader  |  publisher = BBC news | date =  August 20, 2003| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3166593.stm }}</ref>
* [[Sake Dean Mahomed|Sheikh Deen Muhammad]] – [[British Indian]] traveller, surgeon and [[entrepreneur]] who introduced [[shampoo]]ing and the [[Indian cuisine|Indian]] [[Take-out|take-away]] [[Curry|curry house]] restaurant in [[Great Britain|Britain]], and was the first [[Indian English literature|Indian to have written a book in the English language]].<ref>[http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6908/6908.abs.php The Travels of Dean Mahomet] – University of California press</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianmuslims.info/book/export/html/183 |title=Deen Mahomed [1759–1851&#93;: soldier, writer, businessman |publisher=Indianmuslims.info |date=February 25, 2006 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Kitty Kirkpatrick]] – Daughter of [[James Achilles Kirkpatrick]], British Resident in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] and Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/dec/09/britishidentity.india White mischief] – The Guardian, December 9, 2002</ref>
* [[Emily Ruete]] – (born Sayyida Salme) Princess of [[Zanzibar]] and [[Oman]].<ref>Emily Ruete, (1888): ''Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar''</ref><ref>Emily Ruete, Ulrich Haarmann (Editor), E. Van Donzel (Editor), Leiden, Netherlands, (1992): ''An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs, Syrian Customs and Usages.'' Presents the reader with a picture of life in Zanzibar between 1850–1865, and with an intelligent observer's reactions to life in Germany in the Bismarck period. Emily Ruete's writings describe her attempts to recover her Zanzibar inheritance and her homesickness. ISBN 90-04-09615-9</ref><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/dp/9987887732 Publisher's review for ''Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar''] – ("Despite strictures confining Islamic women, she trysted with a German who is thought to have impregnated her, fled to Germany where she converted to Christianity")</ref>
* [[Emir Kusturica]] – a [[Serbia]]n and [[Yugoslavia]]n filmmaker and actor.<ref name="pionirovglasnik">{{cite web|url=http://www.pionirovglasnik.com/index.php?category=39&content=315 |title=Article about Kusturica's religion on |publisher=Pionirovglasnik.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hem.passagen.se/hambarine/Vijesti/23072005Kusturica.htm |title=News of Kusturica's baptism on passagen.se |publisher=Hem.passagen.se |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Ali]]- [[Iraq]]i [[Kurdish Christians|Kurdish Christian]] author and speaker; evangelizes in [[Catholic]], [[Protestant]] and [[Messianic Jewish]] circles.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sri |first=Edward |url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0965922855 |title=Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics: Books: Daniel Ali, Robert Spencer |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Washington |first=The |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20031201-091332-2655r.htm |title=Islam for Catholics |publisher=Washingtontimes.com |date=December 1, 2003 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Fernão Lopez]] – Portuguese nobleman, soldier and the first known permanent inhabitant of the remote Island of [[Saint Helena]] in the [[South Atlantic Ocean]].<ref>[http://home.swipnet.se/~w-17282/lopez/Robinson2.htm Fernão Lopes – the first Robinson] – The St Helena Foundation</ref>
* [[Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky]] – Russian officer of [[Circassians|Circassian]] origin who led the first Russian military expedition into [[Central Asia]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Peter the Great  |last=Massie |first=Robert K. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1981 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=Soviet Union |isbn=0345298063 |page=469 }}</ref>
* [[Umar ibn Hafsun]] – Leader of anti-[[Ummayad]] dynasty forces in southern [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberia]]. Hafsun converted to Christianity with his sons and ruled over several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the castle Bobastro as his residence.<ref name="Simonis">Damien Simonis, Sarah Andrews, ''Spain'', Lonely Planet, 2005, ISBN 1-74059-700-1, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Xq-vZyjaqP8C&pg=PA743&dq=Mozarab&lr=&sig=QJOPQkyLSsIB2sBd7jjHsXb0twM#PPA743,M1 Google Print, pp. 743].</ref>
* [[Casilda of Toledo]] – Saint of the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>[http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1898 St. Casilda] – Americancatholic.org</ref>
* [[Saint Alodia and Saint Nunilo]] – Christian martyrs and confessors who were put to death during the reign of [[Abd ar-Rahman II]], [[Caliph]] of [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] for apostasy.<ref>[http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1274 St. Alodia] – Catholic.org</ref>
* [[Aurelius and Natalia]] – Christian martyrs who were put to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.<ref>{{cite web|author=Kenneth Baxter Wolf |url=http://libro.uca.edu/martyrs/cm2.htm |title=Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain |publisher=Libro.uca.edu |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Johannes Avetaranian]] – (born Muhammad Shukri Efendi), Christian missionary and Turkish descendent of [[Prophet Muhammad]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.authorsonline.co.uk/author/John%20Bechard/ |title=Biography of Johannes Aveteranian |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Paul Mulla]] – Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the [[Pontifical Oriental Institute]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Patterns of Christian Acceptance|last=Jarrett-Kerr|first=Martin|authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1972|publisher=Oxford University Press |location=United Kingdom|isbn= |page=196}}</ref>
*[[Hamid Pourmand]] – Former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the [[Jama'at-e Rabbani]], the Iranian branch of the [[Assemblies of God]] church in [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE13/060/2005/en/dom-MDE130602005en.html |title=Hamid Pourmand: Imprisonment due to religious belief |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Donald Fareed]] – Iranian Christian tele-evangelist and minister.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.persianministries.org/about/donaldfareed.php |title=Donald Fareed's testimony on the Persian ministries website |publisher=Persianministries.org |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Daveed Gartenstein-Ross]]- Counter-terrorism expert and attorney (from Judaism to Islam to Christianity).<ref>[http://hsgac.senate.gov/_files/091906GartensteinRoss.pdf Prison Radicalization: Are Terrorist Cells Forming in U.S. Cell Blocks?] Government testimony (PDF)</ref><ref>[http://www.daveedgr.com/about/ Daveed Gartenstein-Ross] biography on his website</ref>
* [[Zachariah Anani]] – Former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200701/20070116.html | title=CBC Radio – The Current – Whole Show Blow-by-Blow}} {{Dead link|date=August 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref>
* [[Malika Oufkir]] – Author, activist and former prisoner of the Moroccan Royal Family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wafin.com/oufkir.phtml |title=Malika Oufkir: the American Making of a Moroccan Star |publisher=Wafin.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
[[File:Carlos menem.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|Argentine president, '''[[Carlos Menem]]''' converted to [[Roman Catholicism]] due to his political aspirations<ref name = "Menem"/>]]
* [[Ruffa Gutierrez]] – [[Filipino people|Filipina]] actress, model and former [[beauty queen]] (from [[Christianity]] to [[Islam]] back to [[Christianity]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Noel Orsal |url=http://pep.ph/news/13286/Ruffa-Gutierrez-reaffirms-her-Christian-faith |title=Ruffa Gutierrez reaffirms her Christian faith |publisher=Pep.ph |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Fadhma Aït Mansour]] – Mother of French writers [[Jean Amrouche]] and [[Taos Amrouche]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary  |last=Majumdar |first=Margaret  |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=United States of America |isbn=0340806966  |page=4}}</ref>
* [[Imad ud-din Lahiz]] – Prolific Islamic writer, preacher and Quranic translator.<ref>''Heirs of the Prophets: An account of the clergy and Priests of Islam'', Samuel Marinus Zwemer, Moody press, 1946, p. 127 – "There are some examples which could easily be multiplied. Dr. Imad-ud-Din was a leading sufi and theologian in the Punjaub. He was appointed to preach against Dr. Pfander in the royal mosque at Agra; he read the Scriptures, believed and was baptised, and with another great theologian and sufi, Safdar Ali, became a missionary to his people. Afterwards he received a doctorate from Oxford University. His baptism took place New Year's Day, 1868, together with his aged father and brother. Other distinguished converts in the Punjab, such as Imam Shah, were also from the clergy."</ref>
* [[Dr. Nur Luke]] – [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]] Bible translator.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bibles Across the World  |last=Cryer |first=Neville Barker |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1979 |publisher=Mowbrays |location=United States of America|isbn=0264664175 |page=94}}</ref>
* [[Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal]] – Two Turkish Christian converts who went on trial in 2006, on charges of "allegedly insulting 'Turkishness' and inciting religious hatred against Islam".<ref>[http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=long&idelement=4927&backpage=archives&critere=Turan%20Topal%20and%20Hakan%20Tastan&countryname=&rowcur=0 TURKEY: CONVERTS SUBJECTED TO OFFICIAL HARASSMENT]</ref>
* [[Mohammed Hegazy]] – First Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian Government.<ref>Threats force Egyptian convert to hide, MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 11, [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/egypt_muslim_convert]</ref>
* [[Francis Bok]] – [[Sudan]]ese-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usaweekend.com/03_issues/031109/031109francis_bok.html |title=Beale, Lewis. "Precious Freedom. ''USA Weekend Magazine''. November 9, 2003. |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
*[[Josef Mässrur]] – (born Ghäsim Khan) missionary to Chinese [[Turkestan]] with the [[Mission Union of Sweden]].<ref>''In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan: Being the Record of Three Years' Exploration'', Henry Hugh Peter Deasy, pg. 284</ref>
* [[Gulshan Esther]] –  Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity.<ref>Gulshan Esther, Alistair Mark Dean, Thelma Sangster, ''The Torn Veil: The Best-selling Story of Gulshan Esther'', [[Zondervan]] (1992), pg.46, ISBN 0-551-01153-X</ref>
* [[Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh]] – Brother of [[Zaynab bint Jahsh]], the wife of [[Prophet Muhammad]] and one of the male [[Sahaba]] (companions of the Prophet).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.al-islam.org/lifeprophet/25.htm |title=Marriages of the Holy Prophet |publisher=Al-islam.org |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Jabalah ibn al-Aiham]] – last ruler of the [[Ghassanid|Ghassanid state]] in [[Syria]] and [[Jordan]] in the seventh century AD. After the Islamic conquest of [[Levant]] he converted to Islam in AD 638. He reverted to Christianity later on and lived in [[Anatolia]] until he died in AD 645.<ref>[http://www.quraan.com/index.aspx?&tabid=32&artid=52 The Human Side In The Hajjah Of The Messenger of Allah]</ref>
* [[Constantine the African]] – [[Baghdad]]-educated Muslim who died in 1087 as a Christian monk at [[Monte Cassino]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2097.htm |title=Constantine the African |publisher=Uh.edu |date=August 1, 2004 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-134005/Constantine-the-African |title=Constantine the African, or Constantinus Africanus (medieval medical scholar) |publisher=Britannica.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Estevanico]] – [[Berber people|Berber]] originally from [[Morocco]] and one of the early explorers of the [[Southwestern United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/estevanico.htm |title=Estevanico (aka Estevan, Esteban, Estebanico, Black Stephen, Stephen the Moor) |publisher=Elizabethan-era.org.uk |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Abraham of Bulgaria]] – Martyr and saint of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].<ref name="Abraham">Michael Walsh, ''A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West'', Liturgical Press, 2007, ISBN 0-8146-3186-X, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8mUJ58SMMhEC&pg=PA3&dq=Abraham+of+Bulgaria+martyr&sig=npcisdsrM9bLEkufTcmGoP1lMbw,M1 Google Print, p. 3].</ref>
[[File:Ramzi Yousef.gif|150px|thumb|upright|[[Al Qaeda]] terrorist '''[[Ramzi Yousef]]''' claims to have embraced Christianity while in [[ADX Florence]] [[Supermax]] prison. However, the prison staff does not believe Yousef's conversion is sincere.<ref name="nydailynews">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2007/10/12/2007-10-12_jailed_93_wtc_bomber_claims_hes_now_a_ch.html |title=Jailed '93 WTC bomber claims he's now a Christian|work=New York Daily News|date=October 12, 2007|author=James Gordon Meek}}</ref><ref name="SuperMaxTrip">{{Cite news| last = | first = | coauthors = | title =My Trip to SuperMax | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = [[CBS News]] | date = October 14, 2007 | url =http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/13/60minutes/main3364113.shtml | accessdate = May 31, 2009}}</ref>]]
* [[St. Adolphus]] – Christian martyr who was put to death along with his brother, John, by [[Abd ar-Rahman II]], [[Caliph]] of [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] for apostasy.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints  |last=Holweck |first=F. G.  |authorlink= Frederick George Holweck|coauthors= |year=1924 |publisher=B. Herder Book Co. |location=St. Louis |isbn=  |page=84}}</ref>
* [[Nasir Siddiki]] – Canadian evangelist, author, and business consultant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.religionlink.org/tip_060227.php |title=Is the 'prosperity gospel' prospering? |publisher=Religionlink.org |date=February 27, 2006 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Matthew Ashimolowo]] – [[Nigeria|Nigerian-born]] British pastor and evangelist.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.rickross.com/reference/general/general772.html |title='Wealth' church leader practised what he preached |accessdate=August 4, 2007 |last=Petre |first=Jonathan  |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=October 8, 2005 |year= |month= |work= |publisher=Telegraph |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=the charismatic Mr Ashimolowo, a Nigerian-born convert from Islam }}</ref>
*[[Michał Czajkowski]] – [[Poles|Polish]]-[[Cossack]] writer and political emigre who worked both for the resurrection of Poland and the reestablishment of a Cossack [[Ukraine]].<ref name="Rudnytsky">Rudnytsky, Peter L.(1987). Essays in modern Ukrainian history. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. p. 186</ref>
* [[Stefan Razvan]] – [[Romani people|Gypsy]] prince who ruled [[Moldavia]] for six months in 1595.<ref>''Istoria şi tradiţiile minorităţii rromani'', p.28, 2005, Sigma, Bucharest, Delia Grigore, Petre Petcuţ and Mariana Sandu – "Born to a Rom Muslim slave father and a free Romanian Christian mother, Razvan converted to Christianity, thereby, attracting the wrath of the Ottomans."</ref>
* [[Skanderbeg]] – [[Albania]]n monarch and military leader. Skanderbeg converted to Islam from Christianity but reverted to Christianity later in life.<ref name = "Skanderbeg">Rendina, Claudio (2000). La grande enciclopedia di Roma. Rome: Newton Compton, 1136. ISBN 88-8289-316-2.</ref>
[[File:Amir Sjarifuddin.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|Born into a Muslim [[Batak (Indonesia)|Batak]] family, Indonesian Prime Minister '''[[Amir Sjarifuddin]]''' converted to Christianity in 1931, upon which his fervently Islamic mother committed suicide.<ref name="VICKERS_86"/>]]
* [[Amir Sjarifuddin]] – [[Indonesia]]n socialist leader who later became the second prime minister of Indonesia during its National Revolution.<ref name="VICKERS_86">Vickers, Adrian (2005). A History of Modern Indonesia. Cambridge University Press. p. 86</ref>
* [[Yayi Boni|Dr.Thomas Yayi Boni]] – President of [[Benin]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4835336.stm/ |title=Benin's new president announced |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Al-Mu'eiyyad]] – [[Abbasid]] prince and third son of Abbasid caliph, [[Al-Mutawakkil]]. He was converted to Christianity along with his three confidants by St. Theodore of Edessa, accepting the name ''"John"'' upon baptism.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/MaximovMuslims.shtml
|title=A History of Orthodox Missions Among the Muslims
|publisher=Yurij Maximov, Russian author and religious studies teacher in the Religious Studies at the Moscow Orthodox Seminary
|accessdate=August 17, 2007
}}</ref><ref name="Patrich">Joseph Patrich, ''The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church'', Peeters Publishers, 2001, ISBN 90-429-0976-5, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=O4pj9YNdgJYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Al-Mutawakkil+converted+to+christianity&lr=#PPA157,M1 Google Print, p. 157].</ref>
* [[Aben Humeya]] – (born Fernando de Valor) [[Morisco]] Chief who was crowned the [[Emir]] of [[Andalusia]] by his followers and led the [[Morisco Revolt]] against [[Philip II of Spain]].<ref name="Valor">L. P. Harvey, ''Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614: 1500 to 1614'', University of Chicago Press, 2005, ISBN 0-226-31963-6, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7QJygx-jbKcC&pg=PA223&dq=Aben+Humeya&sig=XRnq9NGpK2tNlaMU0tnpMYVTNHE M1 Google Print, pp. 223] Various Christian sources including the Christian historian, Marmol claim that with his dying breath Aben Humeya declared himself a Christian and said that what he had done was in the prosecution of a family feud.</ref>
*[[Rudolf Carl von Slatin]] – Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the [[Sudan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wienerzeitung.at/Desktopdefault.aspx?TabID=3946&Alias=wzo&lexikon=Afrika&letter=A&cob=286780 |title= Der Abenteurer aus Ober St. Veit |accessdate=January 19, 2008 |last=Schwaner |first=Birgit |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=June 1, 2007|year= |month= |work= |publisher=Weiner Zeitung|pages= |language=German|archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote="He was absolved by the Pope for his conversion, which he reversed"}}</ref>
* [[Shams Pahlavi]] – Iranian princess and the elder sister of [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]], Shah of [[Iran]].<ref name="Fardust">Hussein Fardust, ''The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty:'', Motilal Banarsidass, 1999, ISBN 81-208-1642-0, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=SJZ_xgqCOMQC&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=shams+pahlavi+converted&source=web&ots=wfvXcqgX4k&sig=6eKn-7Ndmm_E4uq_PV7NBRqWSA0&hl=en#PPA123,M1 Google Print, pp. 122–123].</ref>
* [[Saye Zerbo]] – President of the republic of [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] (now [[Burkina Faso]]).<ref>[http://www.lefaso.net/spip.php?article10020 Saye Zerbo, président of the republic from 1980 to 1982 (article in French)] "At once stopped, Saye Zerbo is thrown in prison. Since his imprisonment, the deposed president contemplates and reads the Qu'ran through whole nights. He also asks so that the Bible be brought to him that the archbishop of Ouagadougou, the cardinal Paul Zoungrana, had offered to him at the time of first Christmas following his takeover. At this point in time it will have the revelation which will change its life. In a mystical dash, Saye Zerbo is brought to his knees, returns thanks to God and converts to Christianity. His entire family will do the same thing thereafter."</ref>
* [[Zaida of Seville]] – Refugee Andalusian Muslim princess who was a mistress and then perhaps queen of [[Alfonso VI of Castile]].<ref>Canal Sánchez-Pagín; Montaner Frutos; Palencia; Salazar y Acha</ref>
* [[Djibril Cissé]] – footballer for club and country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/djibril_cisse/index.shtml |title=Djibril Cisse Biography |publisher=Netglimse.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.pelerin.info/Actu-decryptee/Societe/Mondial-ces-joueurs-de-foot-ont-la-foi Mondial : ces joueurs de foot ont la foi !, Benoît Fidelin, Pèlerin N° 6654, June 10, 2010]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Sedar Dedeoglu]] – a [[Turkish people|Turk]] who claims to be a descendant of [[Islam]]'s prophet [[Muhammad]] has converted to [[Christianity]] while living in Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54124 |title=FAITH UNDER FIRE – Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity – But faces threat to life if forced to return to Turkey |publisher=Wnd.com |date=February 7, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Majeed Rashid Mohammed]] – a [[Kurdish Christians|Kurdish Christian]] convert from [[Islam]]. He established a network with former [[Kurd]]ish [[Muslim]]s with about 2,000 members today.<ref>Norge IDAG – Norwegian language newspaper – Friday May 7, 2010</ref>
* [[Muhsin Muhammad]] – Football player for [[Carolina Panthers]]<ref>Brad Biggs (May 20, 2005 Friday). "Muhammad all about giving as well as receiving". Chicago Sun-Times: p. 148.</ref>
* [[Josephine Bakhita]] – <ref name="Hutchison 1999 7"/>
* [[Taysir Abu Saada]] – a former member of the [[PLO]] and the founder of the christian ministry Hope For Ishmael after he converted to [[christianity]]. He was [[Yasir Arafat]]'s personal driver.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rnw.nl/arabic/article/467965 |title=سائق عرفات السابق : الرب أعطى الأرض لليهود &#124; Radio Netherlands Worldwide |publisher=Rnw.nl |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hdhod.com/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%82-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%B7%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9%81%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A3%D8%B9%D8%B7%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF_a34209.html |title=Ř§Ů"Ů‡Řżů‡Řż: ŘľřŮšů Řš Ř§Ů"ŮšůƒřşřąůˆŮ†Ůšřš Řšřąř¨Ůšřš Ř¨Řłřąř¨Řš Ů"Řşř§Řş Řšř§Ů"Ů…Ůšřš |publisher=Hdhod.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Mosab Hassan Yousef]] – Son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leader.
* Dr Nabeel Qureshi – Former Ahmadi Muslim and now co-director of [http://www.acts17.net/ Acts 17] Apologetics Ministries. He has given lectures at universities and seminaries throughout North America.
* [[Sabatina James]] – A Pakistani-Austrian former Muslim and author.

===Converted to [[Judaism]]===
* [[Reza Jabari]] –  Israeli of Iranian birth who hijacked a flight between [[Tehran]] and the Iranian resort island of [[Kish Island|Kish]] in September, 1995 while working as a flight attendant for Iranian carrier Kish Air flight 707.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/03/03/story_3-3-2007_pg4_15 |title=Iranian Muslim converts to Judaism |publisher=Dailytimes.com.pk |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Avraham Sinai]] – Lebanese former Shi'ite who converted to Judaism. He served as an informant for the Israelis while serving in Hezbollah, until his actions were uncovered. He fled to Israel and subsequently converted.<ref>{{Cite news|title = A righteous man from Hizbullah land|last = Avni|first = Idan|publisher = YNetNews|date = September 14, 2006|accessdate = December 17, 2006|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3303838,00.html}}</ref>

===Converted to the [[Bahá'í Faith]]===
[[File:Mishkinqalam.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|'''[[Mishkín-Qalam]]''' was a prominent Bahá'í and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th century Persia.<ref name = "Baliyuzi"/>]]
These were mostly people who were followers of the Bahá'u'lláh at the time he founded the [[Bahá'í Faith]]. They were formerly Muslims.
*[[Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl]] – Foremost Bahá'í scholar who helped spread the Bahá'í Faith in Egypt, [[Turkmenistan]], and the United States. One of the few [[Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh]] who never actually met [[Bahá'u'lláh]].<ref name="momen">{{cite web| title = Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani, Mirza | first = Moojan | last = Momen | url = http://www.northill.demon.co.uk/relstud/abulfadl.htm | accessdate = February 19, 2007 | date = March 4, 2002}}</ref>
*[[Mishkín-Qalam]]- Prominent [[Bahá'í Faith|Bahá'í]] and one of the nineteen [[Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh]], as well as a famous [[Calligraphy|calligrapher]] of 19th century [[Persian Empire|Persia]].<ref name="Baliyuzi">{{Cite book|author=Balyuzi, H.M. |year=1985 |title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn=0853981523 | pages = 270–271}}</ref>
*[[Táhirih]]- Persian poetess and theologian of the [[Bábí]] faith in Iran.<ref name="memorials">{{Cite book|author = 'Abdu'l-Bahá |authorlink = 'Abdu'l-Bahá |origyear = 1915 |year = 1997 |title = Memorials of the Faithful |edition = Softcover |publisher = Bahá'í Publishing Trust |location = Wilmette, Illinois, USA |isbn = 0877432422 |url = http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/MF/}}</ref>
*[[Nabíl-i-A'zam]]- Bahá'í historian and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh<ref name="Balyuzi">{{Cite book|last = Balyuzi |first = H.M. |authorlink = Hasan M. Balyuzi |year = 1985 |title = Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |pages = 268–270 |publisher = The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn = 0853981523}}</ref>
*[[Hají Ákhúnd]]- Eminent follower of [[Bahá'u'lláh]]. He was appointed a [[Hand of the Cause]], and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.<ref name="Balyuzi">{{Cite book|first=Hasan |last=Balyuzi |year=1985 |title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn=0853981523 | pages = 265–266}}</ref>
* [[Ibn-i-Abhar]] – appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.<ref name="Balyuzi">{{Cite book|first=Hasan |last=Balyuzi |year=1985 |title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn=0853981523 | pages = 245–256}}</ref>
* [[Mírzá Mahmúd]] – Eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.<ref name="Balyuzi">{{Cite book|first=Hasan |last=Balyuzi |year=1985 |title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn=0853981523 | pages = 290–310}}</ref>
* [[Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn]] – two brothers who were beheaded in the city of [[Isfahan]] in 1879.<ref name="Balyuzi">{{Cite book|first=Hasan |last=Balyuzi |year=1985 |title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh |publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton |isbn=0853981523 | pages = 335–350}}</ref>

==Part of an unorganized religion or no religion==

===Became [[Atheism|atheists]]===
[[File:Salman Rushdie.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|'''[[Salman Rushdie]]''', author of [[The Satanic Verses]].<ref name = sr/>]]
[[File:Ehsan Jami.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Former Muslim and Dutch politician '''[[Ehsan Jami]]''' was one of the two founders of the [[Central Committee for Ex-Muslims]]<ref name="Ehsan"/>]]
* [[Abdullah al-Qasemi]] – [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] born [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] philosopher.
* [[Jim Al-Khalili]] an English-Iraqi physicist.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/25/comment-science-secularism-society-dawkins | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Jim | last=Al-Khalili | title=Science,Science (Education subject),Atheism (News) | date=November 25, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Salman Rushdie]] – British-Indian novelist and essayist.<ref name = sr>Interview with Rushdie by Gigi Marzullo; Sottovoce, RAIUNO, March 31, 2006.</ref>
* [[Kareem Amer]] an Egyptian blogger <ref>Kareem Amer.  (2006).  [http://karam903.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post_26.html “تنويه هام جدا بخصوص موقع الأقباط متحدون ومقالى الأخير” (A Very Important Notice Regarding the Copts United Web Site and My Last Article)] ''كريم عامر'' (Kareeem Amer’s Arabic blog). Retrieved January 28, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.aelme.org/egypt-kareem-amer-abdelkarim-nabil-soliman Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman (Kareem Amer), Political prisoner] Submitted on Mon, 2007-01-29</ref>
* [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali]] – [[Somalia|Somali]]-born [[Netherlands|Dutch]] feminist, writer, and politician.<ref name=Ayaan>{{cite news|url=http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/politiek/dossier/asp/portal/0/sctr/0/dossier/290/hoofdstuk/2/sortering/False/artikel/12785/bt//index.html |title=Dutch article link: 'Ik geloof niet meer' |publisher=Elsevier.nl |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ismael Adham]] – Egyptian writer and philosopher.<ref>[http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/493/eg9.htm Re-drawing the line] – Al Ahram Weeky, August 9, 2000</ref>
* [[Loubna Berrada]] – Dutch liberal politician and former member of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2426314.ece|first=David|last=Charter|title=Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith|date=11-09-07|publisher=The Times|accessdate=27-05-09 | location=London}}</ref>
* [[Ali Soilih]] – Comorian socialist revolutionary and president of the [[Comoros]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statraveluk.lonelyplanet.com/africa/comoros_and_mayotte/index.html |title=Comoros & Mayotte |publisher=Statraveluk.lonelyplanet.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Aziz Nesin]] – Popular Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6DB103FF934A35754C0A963958260 |title=Aziz Nesin of Turkey Dies at 80; Writer Escaped Militants' Arson |work=New York Times |date=July 7, 1995 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Aroj Ali Matubbar]] – Self-taught [[Bangladesh]]i philosopher  
* [[Zackie Achmat]] – South African anti-HIV/AIDS activist; founder of the [[Treatment Action Campaign]].<ref>{{Cite news| author = John Carlin | title = Zackie's story: The man who took on Mbeki – and won | url = http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2029292.ece | work = The Independent | date = August 5, 2005 | accessdate = August 27, 2007 | quote = A homosexual, an atheist, and a militant anti-apartheid campaigner whose political ideas were forged on an intense reading of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky... | location=London}}</ref>
* [[Humayun Azad]] – [[Bangladesh]]i writer and scholar.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/ajoy/humayun_azad_laid_rest.htm |title=Dr. Humayun Azad laid to rest |publisher=Mukto-mona.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.uscirf.gov/events/hearings/2004/april/04302004_wTest_Banu.html Bangladesh: Protecting the Human Rights of Thought, Conscience, and Religion: U.A.B. Razia Akter Banu Prepared Testimony] – ("Dr. Azad is a Muslim by birth and by name ... He is an atheist.")</ref>
* [[Turan Dursun]] – Turkish writer. He was once a Turkish [[mufti]] and later authored many books critical of Islam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turandursun.com/ |title=Turan Dursun Website |publisher=Turandursun.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ehsan Jami]] – Dutch politician and founder of the Dutch [[Central Committee for Ex-Muslims]].<ref name="Ehsan">{{cite news|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=3607887&page=1 |title=A New Brand of Nonbelievers |publisher=Abcnews.go.com |date=September 17, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Enver Hoxha]] – Communist dictator who declared [[Albania]] the first atheist state, and who has been identified as an "arch-atheist."<ref>Kamm, Henry (1993, June 10). 'Hallelujah' is heard in the arch-atheist's temple. ''The New York Times'' (Late Edition (East Coast)), p. A4. Retrieved August 27, 2007, from National Newspaper Abstracts</ref>
* [[As'ad Abu Khalil]] – Lebanese professor of [[political science]] at [[California State University]], <<link:0>>. He describes himself as an ''"atheist secularist"''.<ref>[http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ The Angry Arab News Service] comments from her blog</ref><ref>[http://www.campus-watch.org/pf.php?id=2062 Between disparate worlds: On California State University professor As'ad AbuKhalil] (1: "...who is also an atheist..." 2: "My Sunni family of my mother taught me how to pray")</ref>
*[[Al-Ma'arri]] – Blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer.<ref>[http://www.sdsmt.edu/student-orgs/tfs/reading/freethought/islam.html Freethought Traditions in the Islamic World] by Fred Whitehead</ref>
*[[Sarmad]] – 17th century mystical poet and [[sufi]] saint, arrived from [[Persia]] to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor, [[Aurungzebe]]. Sarmad renounced Judaism, briefly converting to Islam and then Hinduism. He later denounced all religions and rejected belief in god.<ref name="Sarmad, the mystic poet">{{cite web|url=http://www.crda-france.org/fr/6histoire/par_pays/inde_sarmad1.htm |title=Sarmad, the mystic poet |publisher=Crda-france.org |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref name="chowk.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.chowk.com/articles/9350 |title=Hazrat Sarmad Shaheed: The Naked Sufi Martyr |publisher=Chowk.com |date=July 23, 2005 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Lounès Matoub]] – [[Algeria]]n [[Berber people|Berber]] [[Kabyle people|Kabyle]] singer.<ref>[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjwnk_matoub-interview interview with Lounès Matoub]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Afshin Ellian]] Iranian professor<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111002046.html|title=For Public Figures in Netherlands, Terror Becomes a Personal Concern|author=Craig Whitlock|date=November 11, 2005|work=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* [[Ramiz Alia]] – Albanian communist leader and former president of [[Albania]].<ref>''Europe since 1945: An encyclopedia'', Bernard A Cook, Taylor & Francis, 2001, ISBN 0-8153-4057-5, p. 31</ref>
* [[Hassan Bahara]] – Moroccan-Dutch writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article452030.ece/Als_dit_niet_werkt%2C_beledig_ik_Wilders_wel|title='Als dit niet werkt, beledig ik Wilders wel'|first=Annieke|last=Kranenberg|publisher=[[De Volkskrant]]|date=August 11, 2007|accessdate=May 9, 2008|language=Dutch}} Quote: (Translation) "In interviews he calls himself an atheist, but until now he has been left alone by ''beardmonkeys'' (referring to Muslims). Perhaps I have to make myself heard just a little bit better, I should be more explicit in my aversion to Islam and religion in general." (Dutch) "In interviews noemt hij zichzelf atheïst, maar tot nog toe 'ben ik ongemoeid gelaten door de baardapen. Misschien moet ik een hardere toon aanslaan en wat explicieter zijn in mijn afkeer van de islam en religies in het algemeen.'"</ref>
* [[Hafid Bouazza]] – Moroccan-Dutch writer.<ref>Humanistische Omroep, [http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/human/vangodlos/bb.bouazzal.asf Link to video interview with Hafid Bouazza] Quote: (Translation) "Believers live behind a fence, and non-believers live in a pasture and they know there are believers out there behind the fence." "It [religion] is a matter of conditioning, of brainwashing." "I know that when I die, it's over with me." (Dutch)  "Gelovigen leven achter een hek, en ongelovigen in een weiland, waarin ze weten dat er gelovigen zijn die achter hekken wonen." "Het [religie] is een kwestie van conditionering, van hersenspoeling" "Ik weet dat het moment dat ik ter aarde word besteld, dat het afgelopen is met mij."</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leonverdonschot.nl/content/view/17/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=39|first=Leon|last=Verdonschot|title="Ik kan niet leven zonder roes." Interview met Hafid Baouzza, gepubliceerd in Dif nr.1|publisher=[[:nl:Leon Verdonschot|Leonverdonschot.nl]]|date=May 8, 2008|language=Dutch|accessdate=May 9, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}} Quote: (Translation) "Look, I'm an atheist. I believe God does not exist, I do not believe in an afterlife. How terrible it may be: Hitler isn't in hell getting pinched in his ass with a trident. I'm fine with the fact there are people who do believe that and get comfort from it, like my mother. I just hope the influence of religion on policy makers will diminish, because my freedom is precious to me." (Dutch) "Kijk, ik ben atheïst. Ik geloof niet dat God bestaat, ik geloof niet dat er een hiernamaals is. Hoe gruwelijk ook: Hitler wordt op dit moment niet in de hel met een drietand in zijn reet geprikt. Dat er mensen zijn dat dat wél geloven en daar troost uit putten, mensen als mijn moeder: prima. Als de invloed van religies op beleidsmakers maar steeds kleiner wordt, want mijn vrijheid is me dierbaar."</ref>
* [[Hossein Derakhshan]] – Iranian-Canadian journalist and weblogger.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rapoport |first=Meron |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/812597.html |title=King of the Iranian bloggers |work=Haaretz |date=May 24, 2011 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ismail Kadare]] – World-renowned Albanian writer.<ref>''Muslim Identity and the Balkan State'',Hugh Poulton, Suha Taji-Farouki, 1997,  ISBN 1-85065-276-7, [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lQqHjwW6XzcC&pg=PA133&dq=Ismail+Kadare+Islam&sig=jYi5xNIQFwbqyZq2fgGHaUN31Zw#PPA133,M1 google print p. 133].</ref>
* [[Maryam Namazie]] – Iranian communist, political activist and leader of the British apostate-organization "Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain"<ref>{{cite news|author=Post |url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3530256.ece |title=It's time to take a stand against Islam and Sharia |publisher=timesonline.co.uk |date=January 27, 2012 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Anwar Shaikh]] – British author of Pakistani descent.<ref name=DPBook>''The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West'' by [[Daniel Pipes]], Pg. 283</ref>
* [[Zohra Sehgal]] – Indian actress who has appeared in several Hindi and English language films.<ref>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/12/19/stories/2002121900450100.htm Ninety and spunky]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Mirza Fatali Akhundov]] – 19th century [[Azerbaijan]]i playwright and philosopher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mirslovarei.com/content_fil/AXUNDOV-MIRZA-FATALI-2072.html |title=Ахундов Мирза-Фатали |publisher=Mirslovarei.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Taslima Nasrin]] – Bangladeshi author, feminist, human rights activist and secular humanist.<ref name = "Nasrin">"I was born in a Muslim family, but I became an atheist." [http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/nasreen_121199.shtml For freedom of expression], Taslima Nasreen, November 12, 1999 – Taslima Nasreen took the floor during Commission V of UNESCO's General Conference, as a delegate of the NGO [[International Humanist and Ethical Union]] (Accessed December 23, 2006).</ref>
* [[Sharif Ahmed]] – Bangladeshi Humanist Book seller, human rights activist and secular humanist.<ref name = "Sooafree">"I was born in a very much conservative Muslim family wherein my parents, kith and kin are very strict followers of Islam., but later I became an atheist." [http://www.freethoughters.com Owner of Society Of Asian Freethinkers], Sharif Ahmed, Listed activist of Amnesty International's megazine.</ref>
* [[Tanjir Sugar]] – Bangladeshi born Human Rights Activist and Secular Humanist in the UK.
* [[Parvin Darabi]]- Iranian born American activist, writer and woman's rights activist.<ref name = "pd">[[Parvin Darabi|Darabi, Parvin]] ''Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident'' ISBN 1-57392-682-5</ref>
* [[Barack Obama, Sr.]] was a [[Kenya]]n senior governmental [[economist]], and the [[father]] of U.S. President [[Barack Obama]]<ref name="spiritual journey">{{Cite news| author=Obama, Barack | title=My Spiritual Journey | url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1546579,00.html | work=TIME | accessdate=September 26, 2008 | quote=My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition. | date=October 16, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Nyamko Sabuni]] politician in Sweden<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/world/europe/12iht-sweden.4187777.html | work=The New York Times | first=Sarah | last=Lyall | date=January 12, 2007 | title=Swedish politician's advice to immigrants? Try to fit in – Europe – International Herald Tribune}}</ref>
* [[Ali Sina (ex-Muslim)|Ali Sina]] owner of the faith freedom website<ref name="WND">{{cite web|url=http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40473|title=Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad – Founder challenges: Prove me wrong and I'll take down page|accessdate=September 18, 2007|publisher=[[WorldNetDaily]]|year=16 Sept 2004}}</ref>
* [[Charles Wardle]] former militant convert to Islam from New Zealand. Worked for the [[NZSIS]].<ref name="Sunday Star Times">{{cite web | url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4869086/SIS-spying-on-mosques-revealed | title= SIS spying on mosques revealed
 | work=[[Sunday Star Times]] | accessdate=April 14, 2011}}
</ref><ref name="The Dominion Post">{{cite web | url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2915220/Ex-militants-home-searched-in-Auckland/ | title= Ex-militant's home searched in Auckland
 | work=[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)|The Dominion Post]] | accessdate=April 14, 2011}}
</ref>
* [[Shahriar]] – Bangladeshi Human Rights Activist and Secular Humanist in the UK.
* [[Kumail Nanjiani]] [[Pakistani American]] [[stand-up comic]] and actor.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wolinsky |first=David |url=http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/kumail-nanjiani,487/ |title=Kumail Nanjiani &#124; Comedy &#124; Interview &#124; The A.V. Club Chicago |publisher=Avclub.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Shawn Mirza]] American author and entrepreneur of Pakistani descent, contributing author to [[Faith Freedom International]] <ref>http://www.dutchdailynews.com/400-year-old-dutch-brand-name/</ref>

===Became [[Agnosticism|Agnostics]]===
[[File:Cenk Uygur at Streamys cropped.jpg|150px|thumb|Turkish-American [[The Young Turks]] talk show host '''[[Cenk Uygur]]''' was raised Muslim, but now identifies as agnostic.]]

* [[Seema Mustafa]] – Indian journalist, [[Political Editor]] and [[Delhi]] [[News bureau|Bureau Chief]] of [[The Asian Age]] newspaper.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/sacw@insaf.net/msg00495.html |title=Pakistan: Appeasing the Mullahs |publisher=Mail-archive.com |date=September 13, 2006 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.contactpakistan.com/kashmir/article3.htm The Communalisation of Kargil]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* [[Javed Akhtar]] – noted Indian writer, lyricist, TV show host and secular and nationalist activist
* [[Cenk Uygur]] – Main host of the [[liberal talk radio]] show [[The Young Turks]]. He is an agnostic.<ref name="Uygur">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/six-degrees-of-barack-oba_b_99110.html |title=Six Degrees of Barack Obama |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Wafa Sultan]] – [[Syrian]]-born American psychiatrist and controversial critic of Islam. She describes herself as a ''"[[Secular Humanist]]"''<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187385,00.html Time Magazine]- Interview with Wafa Sultan</ref><ref>[http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1050 There is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st century] Feb. 2006</ref>
*[[Ibn Warraq]] – [[British Pakistani]] secularist author and founder of the [[Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society]]<ref name = "Warraq">"Warraq, 60, describes himself now as an agnostic..." [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:rtj7aXNI4_8J:www.worldmag.com/articles/13052+Fixing+islam&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us Dissident voices], World Magazine, June 16, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 22.</ref>
* [[Mina Ahadi]] – Iranian-born pacifist, founder of the German apostate-organization "[[Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime]]"<ref>{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title=Founder of ex-Muslim group threatened |url=http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070223-014518-1922r/ |work= |publisher=United Press International |id= |pages= |page= |date=February 23, 2007 |accessdate= |language= |quote= }}</ref>
* Dr. [[Younus Shaikh]] –  Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist, rationalist and [[free-thinker]].<ref>[http://www.rationalistinternational.net/associates/y_shaikh.htm Younus Shaikh]- short biography</ref>
* [[Ibn al-Rawandi]] – early skeptic of Islam.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Islam">On Ibn al-Rawandi, from the [[Encyclopaedia of Islam]], 1971, Volume 3, E J Brill, Leiden, p 905</ref>

===Became Deists===
* [[Ahmad Kasravi]] – was a notable [[Iran]]ian [[linguistics|linguist]], [[historian]], and reformer.<ref>V. Minorsky. ''Mongol Place-Names in Mukri Kurdistan'' (Mongolica, 4), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. '''19''', No. 1, pp. 58–81 (1957), p. 66. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X(1957)19%3A1%3C58%3AMPIMK(%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 JSTOR]</ref>

==Converted to a [[Dharmic religions|Dharmic religion]]==

===Converted to [[Buddhism]]===
* [[Tillakaratne Dilshan]] – [[Sri Lanka]]n cricketer.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/3211416.stm Sri Lanka profiles] BBC News – November 9, 2003</ref>
*[[Kenneth Pai]] – [[Chinese American]] writer of [[Hui people|Hui]] descent.<ref>[http://www.independent.com/news/2006/sep/28/peony-dreams/ Peony Dreams] Retrieved 12-6-2008.</ref>

===Converted to [[Hinduism]]===
[[File:Harilal.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|'''[[Harilal Gandhi]]''' converted to [[Islam]], adopted the name "Abdullah Gandhi", but later reverted to [[Hinduism]].<ref name = hg/> ]]

* [[Aasish Khan]], the son of sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan <ref>{{cite news| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1945418.cms | work=The Times Of India | first1=Priyanka | last1=Dasgupta | title=Ali Akbar's son claims to be Hindu | date=September 1, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Annapurna Devi]] (born Roshanara Khan) – Surbahar (bass sitar) player and music teacher in the North Indian classical tradition<ref>[http://www.hindu.com/br/2005/06/28/stories/2005062800181400.htm Unveiling the mystique of a reclusive artiste] The Hindu – June 28, 2006</ref>
* [[Asha Gawli]] – (born Ayesha) Wife of [[Arun Gawli]], notorious gangster turned politician from [[Mumbai]], India.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990909/ipo09068.html Daddy in jail, Mummy seeks votes for both] – Indian express</ref>
* [[Bukka I]] – King of Vijayanagara empire who converted to Islam, then reconverted. The early life of Bukka as well as his brother Hakka (also known as Harihara I) are relatively unknown and most accounts of their early life are based on theories.<ref name="">{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukka_I |title=Bukka |publisher= |date=January 20, 2012 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref name="vijay">Chopra, P.N. T.K. Ravindran and N. Subrahmaniam.<u>History of South India</u>. S. Chand, 2003. ISBN 81-219-0153-7</ref>
* [[Chander Mohan]] – Former Deputy Chief Minister of [[Haryana|Haryana State]] in India. He was born Chandra Mohan he converted to [[Islam]] after marriage and again reverted back to [[Hinduism]] after his divorce. <ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090729/haryana.htm#1 Chand Mohammed is Chander Mohan again] – Tribune News Service, July 28, 2009</ref><ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/City/Delhi/Chand-Mohammed-converts-back-to-Hinduism/articleshow/4831169.cms Chand Mohammed converts back to Hinduism] – July 28, 2009, The times of India</ref>
* [[Haridas Thakura]] – Prominent Vaishnavite saint born in 1450, instrumental in the early appearance and spread of Hare Krishna movement. His Muslim name remains unknown to this day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stephen-knapp.com/haridasa_thakura.htm |title=Haridasa Thakura |publisher=Stephen-knapp.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Hassan Palakkode]] Muslim scholar <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000407/nation.htm#13 |title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India – Nation |publisher=Tribuneindia.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Harilal Gandhi]] – He was the son of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and converted to Islam. He was a Muslim for only a few months before reverting to Hinduism.<ref name = hg>{{cite news|url=http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE420070727015933&Title=Features+-+People+%26+Lifestyle&rLink=0 |title=Watching 'Gandhi my Father' was painful: Tushar |publisher=Newindpress.com |date=February 9, 2012 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ifa Sudewi]] – Chief judge for the 2002 Bali bombing trials in Indonesia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstext.com.au/docs/STE/2003/get.jsp?docid=STE-20030525-1-002-4074680V1@NSW-METRO-2004-2003 |title=Five bombers were prepared to die in Bali – The Sunday Telegraph – Australia – Newstext |publisher=Newstext.com.au |date=May 25, 2003 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.kabar-irian.com/pipermail/kabar-indonesia/2003-May/006884.html  Five bombers were prepared to die] The Australian – May 25, 2003</ref>
* [[Khushboo Sundar]] (born Khushboo Khan) – Tamil movie actress<ref>[http://www.ndtvmovies.com/newstory.asp?section=Movies&id=ENTEN20080056519 Southern siren Namitha has a temple] NDTV – July 10, 2008</ref>
* [[Netaji Palkar]] – Maratha noble and commander-in-chief of the army of Shivaji, June 19, 1676.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/landmaratha.html |title=Hindu History – National revival under the Marathas |publisher=Hindubooks.org |date=May 5, 1998 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hero-for-modern-india.blogspot.com/ |title=Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, A Hero for Modern India |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.indiatime.com/category/religion/ }}</ref>
* Shanti Devi born Ashgari – Mother of yesteryear Bollywood Actress Tabassum. She was daughter of a Maulvi but converted to Hinduism after marriage and even underwent Hindu religious education.<ref>{{cite web|author=Name (required) |url=http://tiktalk.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/aaj-ke-jodha-akbar/ |title=Aaj Ke Jodha Akbar « Tiktalk Tiktalk |publisher= |date=July 20, 2008 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Zubeida]] – Hindi film actress, on whose life story the film Zubeidaa was based<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70458.cms Zubeidaa’s secret] Times of India – July 11, 2003</ref>

===Converted to [[Sikhism]]===
*[[Kuldeep Manak]] – (born Latif Mohammed) Famous [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] singer who, after his conversion, released a number of Sikh devotional tracks.<ref>[http://www.desihits.com/artist/view/Kuldip%20Manak Kuldip Manak: The Official Artist Page at desihits.com]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* Sant Lakhbir Singh, formerly Karim Baksh – Born to devout Muslim parents, Singh converted to Sikhism in 1903.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sant Baba Lakhbir Singh ji|url=http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/sewadars/lakhbir.html|accessdate=17 April 2013}}</ref>

==Other==

===Converted to Rastafari===
* [[Snoop Lion]] American musician (From Christianity to Islam to Rastafari)

===Religious founders===
[[File:Akbar - Project Gutenberg eText 14134.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|[[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor '''[[Akbar]]''' proclaimed that no single religion possessed the absolute truth. This inspired him to create the [[Din-i-Ilahi|Dīn-i Ilāhī]] in 1581.<ref name = "Akbar"/>]]

* [[Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi]] – founder of the spiritual movements [[Messiah Foundation International]] and Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam.<ref name="GSMFI">{{cite web|url=http://www.goharshahi.com|title= Messiah Foundation International Site about Shahi|publisher=Messiah Foundation International|accessdate=March 13, 2010}}</ref><ref name="About GS.PK">{{cite web|url=http://goharshahi.pk/images/ie-about.html|title=Website from Pakistan Sector|publisher=goharshahi.pk|accessdate=March 12, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Akbar|Akbar the great]] – [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor and founder of [[Din-i-Ilahi|Dīn-i Ilāhī]], a religious movement whose followers never numbered more than 19 adherents.<ref name = "Akbar">{{cite book|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-163768/Din-i-Ilahi |title=Dīn-i Ilāhī |publisher=Britannica.com |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Ariffin Mohammed]] – Founder of the [[Sky Kingdom]] who claimed a unique connection to God. In spite of renouncing Islam in 2001, he stated that there was no restriction on practising your own faith and at the same time belonging to the Sky  Kingdom.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/02/wteapot02.xml&site=5&page=0 The Telegraph]</ref>
* [[Báb]] – the founder of [[Babism]]. Most of his followers later accepted Bahá'u'lláh and thus became [[Baha'is]].<ref>[[Shoghi Effendi]], introduction to ''The Dawn-breakers'', p. xxx.</ref>
* [[Bahá'u'lláh]] – after the Bab's death, claimed to be the prophet the Báb spoke of, thereby founding the Bahá'í Faith.<ref name = "Balyuzi" >{{Cite book|first=Hasan |last=Balyuzi |year=2000 |title=Bahá'u'lláh, King of Glory }}</ref>
* [[Salih ibn Tarif]] – Second king of the [[Berghouata]]. He proclaimed himself a Prophet/[[Mahdi]] and came out with his own [[Qur'an]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://google.com/search?q=cache:0FIAbkyw8rQJ:www.umass.edu/afroam/downloads/allen.identity.pdf+%22Salih+ibn+Tarif%22+syncretic+-wikipedia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us |title=U of Massachusetts |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Kabir]] – 15th century mystical poet and founder of the [[Kabirpanthi]]. Born to a Hindu [[Brahmin]] widow but adopted and raised as Muslim by a childless Muslim couple, later denouncing both Hinduism and Islam.<ref>[http://www.crl.edu/focus/Spr05litGems.asp?issID=3 Rare Literary Gems: The Works of Kabir and Premchand at CRL]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=V.Jayaram |url=http://www.hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/other/kabir.asp |title=The songs of Kabir |publisher=Hinduwebsite.com |date=January 9, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Musaylimah]] – Prophet of the [[Banu Hanifa]] tribe who lived during and after the lifetime of [[Muhammad|Prophet Muhammad]].<ref>[http://al-islam1.org/message/62.htm A short biography of Musaylimah] "He was one of those persons, who came to Madina in the tenth year of migration and embraced Islam. However, after his return to his birthplace he himself claimed to be a prophet and some simple-minded and also some fanatical persons responded to his call".</ref>
*[[Dwight York]] – [[African American]] author, black supremacist leader, musician, convicted child molester and founder of the religious doctrine called [[Nuwaubianism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol9No1/Cult%20Fighting%20in%20Middle%20Georgia.htm |title=Cult Fighting in Middle Georgia |publisher=Trincoll.edu |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
*[[Ṣāliḥ ibn Tarīf]] – formed a syncretic religion based in [[Barghawata]]
*[[Sultan Sahak]] – founded [[Ahl-e Haqq]]
*[[David Myatt]] – founded the Numinous Way<ref>http://www.davidmyatt.ws/biog.html#N11a</ref>

[[File:WesleySnipesSept08.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|American actor '''[[Wesley Snipes]]''' converted from Christianity to Islam in 1978, but he left the faith in 1988.<ref name = "Wesley"/>]]

===Undetermined current belief system===
* [[Khalid Duran]] – Specialist in the history, sociology and politics of the Islamic world.<ref>[[Khalid Duran|Duran, Khalid]]''Children of Abraham : An Introduction to Islam for Jews'' Ktav Publishing House ISBN 0-88125-724-9</ref>
* [[Charles Bronson (prisoner)|Charles Bronson]] – British criminal and self-styled ''"most violent prisoner in Britain"''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/product-description/1906358117 |title=Loonyology: In My Own Words |publisher= |date= |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[David Matthew Hicks|David Hicks]] – Australian-born Guantanamo Bay detainee who converted to Islam<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3044386.stm |title=David Hicks: 'Australian Taleban' |publisher=BBC News |date=May 20, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref> and was notorious in his homeland for his once support of radical Islam and for the circumstances surrounding his incarceration, is believed to have renounced Islam whilst incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay.<ref>{{cite news|author=February 28, 2007 12:00AM |url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21298791-662,00.html |title=Hicks drops Islamic faith |publisher=News.com.au |date=February 28, 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Wesley Snipes]] – American actor, film producer, and martial artist.<ref name = "Wesley">''Wesley Snipes, Hollywood's hottest new star talks about: his divorce, his days on the streets and why he doesn't have 'jungle fever.'' [[Ebony Magazine]]. Sept, 1991 by Laura B. Randolph</ref>
*[[Lex Hixon]] – Not raised religious; Conversions to [[Hinduism]], [[Sufism]]. Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and possibly [[Zen]].<ref>Sufi Review (Pir Publications, Spring 1997), p.5-8</ref>

==See also==
* [[Apostasy]]
* [[Apostasy in Islam]]
* [[Criticism of Islam]]
* [[List of converts to Islam]]
* [[Religious conversion]]

===Other apostasy-related lists===
*[[List of former Jews]]
*[[List of former atheists and agnostics]]
*[[List of former Protestants]]
*[[List of former Roman Catholics]]
*[[List of former Latter Day Saints]]
*[[List of former Christians]]

==References==
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