List of converts to Islam from nontheism

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This is a list of notable people who have converted to Islam after a period where they claimed to be atheistic or non-theistic.

Converts to Islam

Name	Notes	Refs
Gai Eaton	British diplomat and writer.	[1][2]
Silma Ihram	Née Anne Frances Beaumont; Australian educator, author, and racial tolerance campaigner. After an agnostic upbringing she became "born again Christian" and then Muslim.	[3]
Martin Lings	Widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.	[4]
Ingrid Mattson	Canadian scholar and former president of the Islamic Society of North America; was raised in Catholicism but left it years before conversion.	[5][6]
Nursultan Nazarbayev	Former President of Kazakhstan.	[7]
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez	"Carlos the Jackal" - Marxist who was convicted of terrorism and converted to Islam.	[8]
G. (Gwendolyn) Willow Wilson	American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist; relaunched the Ms. Marvel title for Marvel Comics starring a 16-year-old Muslim superhero named Kamala Khan. She was an atheist and grew up as such.	[9][10]
Dr. Abdullah (Periyar Dasan)	Professor, scholar, eminent speaker, psychologist, activist, national award winning film's actor from Tamil Nadu.[11] He propagated atheism and rationalist ideologies for most part of his life, and later converted to Islam.[11]	[11][12]
Mahmudul Hasan Sohag	Founder of Rokomari.com	[13]

See also

• List of converts to Islam