From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the list of the Muslims in entertainment and the media outside
Muslim-majority countries
American comedian
Dave Chappelle in 2007.
Indian film actor
Aamir Khan , one of the
Three Khans of Bollywood , in 2008.
Fady Elsayed - actor
[12]
Mammotty – molly wood actor
Cinta Laura – Indonesian Hollywood actress
Nathalie Issa - Lebanese British actress
Manal Issa - Lebanese British actress
Ahmed Malek -Egyptian British actor
Kinda Alloush -Syrian British actress
Ali Suliman -Palestinian British actor
Tania Gunadi - Indonesian Hollywood actress
Tan France -Pakistan Hollywood actor
Janab Kareem -African, Asian, European Hollywood actress
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – director, novelist, screenwriter, journalist,
Palme d'Or winner
Nabil Abou-Harb – filmmaker, writer-director of Arab in America
[13]
Riz Ahmed – actor, rapper, MC, activist,
[14] first Muslim actor to win
Emmy for
The Night Of .
[15]
Mahershala Ali – actor, first Muslim actor to win
Oscar (for
Moonlight )
[16]
[17]
Mara Brock Akil – screenwriter, producer
[18]
Moustapha Akkad – film director, producer
[19]
Lewis Arquette – film actor, writer, and producer
[20]
[21]
Dulquer Salmaan - actor
Sayed Badreya – actor, filmmaker
[22]
Asghar Farhadi – director, screenwriter,
Academy Award winner
Aamir Khan – actor, producer, director,
[23] Academy Award nominee
Irrfan Khan – actor
Mehboob Khan – director, producer, actor, writer, Academy Award nominee
Saif Ali Khan – actor, producer
Salman Khan – actor, film producer, television personality
[24]
Shah Rukh Khan – actor, producer, television presenter
[25]
Abbas Kiarostami – director, screenwriter, producer, photographer, Palme d'Or winner
Dilip Kumar (Muhammad Yusuf Khan) – actor, producer, activist
Madhubala – actress
Majid Majidi – director, producer, screenwriter, Academy Award nominee
Aasif Mandvi – comedian, actor
[26]
Rizwan Manji – actor
[27]
Mumtaz – actress
Mehmet Oz – medical doctor, talk show host
[28]
Kamran Pasha – screenwriter, producer
[29]
Serena Rasoul – comedian, actress, writer and founder of
Muslim American Casting
[30]
Saïd Taghmaoui – actor
[31]
Iqbal Theba – actor
[32]
Bassem Youssef – Egyptian satirist and columnist, former host of
Al-Bernameg
Sarah Khan - Producer
Shyama – actress in Bollywood films
Shakila – actress in Bollywood films
Shabana Azmi – actress in Bollywood films
Tabu – actress in Bollywood films
Dipika Kakar – television actress
[33]
Muhammad Asyrof Al-Ghifari –
character actor , director, and writer
Amina Khan – science journalist,
[34] and author of Adapt
[35]
Ali Abbasi – former Scottish TV presenter
[36]
Tazeen Ahmad – British television and radio presenter and reporter
[37]
Fareena Alam – Editor of British Muslim Magazine Q News .
[38] She was named Media Professional of the Year by
Islamic Relief in 2005 and at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2006.
[39]
Lisa Aziz – news presenter, and journalist. Best known as the co-presenter of the Bristol-based
ITV West Country nightly weekday news programme
The West Country Tonight ,
[40] one of the first Asian presenters to be seen on television.
[41] She won the
Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy Best Television News Journalist Award .
[42]
[43]
Kristiane Backer – German television presenter, television journalist and author residing in London.
[44]
Zeinab Badawi – BBC presenter of "
Hard Talk "
Cenk Uygur -Host on The Young Turks
Anila Baig – columnist at
The Sun
[45]
Shamim Chowdhury – television and print journalist for
Al Jazeera English .
Mehdi Hasan – senior politics editor at the New Statesman and a former news and current affairs editor at Channel 4
[47]
Ginella Massa – Host of Canada Tonight on
CBC News . Canada’s first hijab wearing national news anchor.
Nina Hossain – journalist, newscaster, and sole presenter of
ITV London 's regional news programme
London Tonight .
[48]
Kanak 'Konnie' Huq – television presenter, best known for being the longest-serving female
Blue Peter presenter.
[49]
[50]
Mishal Husain – currently an anchor for
BBC World
[51]
Rizwan Hussain – barrister, television presenter, philanthropist, international humanitarian worker, former Hindi music singer and producer. TV presenter for Islamic and charity shows on
Channel S and
Islam Channel .
[52]
Faisal Islam – economics editor and correspondent for
Channel 4 News . He was named Young Journalist of the Year at the
Royal Society of Television awards 2006.
[53]
Nurul Islam – broadcast journalist, radio producer, and presenter best remembered for his work with the
BBC World Service .
[54]
Saira Khan – runner-up on the first series of
The Apprentice , and now a TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA
[55]
Waheed Khan – documentary television director working in British television
[56]
Tasmin Lucia-Khan – journalist, presenter, and producer.
[57] Best known for delivering
BBC Three 's nightly hourly '
World News ' bulletins on in
60 Seconds ,
[58] and presenting E24 on the rolling news channel
BBC News .
[59] Currently delivers news bulletins and breaking stories on
ITV breakfast television programme
Daybreak .
[60]
Mazher Mahmood
[61]
Fatima Manji – British television journalist, Britain's first hijab-wearing TV newsreader
[62]
Sarfraz Manzoor – British writer, journalist, documentary maker, and broadcaster. He writes regularly for The Guardian, presents documentaries on BBC Radio 4.
[63]
Ajmal Masroor – television presenter, politician, Imam,
[64] and
UK Parliamentary candidate for
Bethnal Green and Bow constituency representing
Liberal Democrats in
2010 General Election .
[65] He is a television presenter on political and Islamic programmes on
Islam Channel and
Channel S .
[66]
Shereen Nanjiani – radio journalist with BBC Radio Scotland
[67]
Adnan Nawaz – news and sports presenter working for the BBC World Service
[68]
Amna Nawaz – Pakistani-American anchor and correspondent for
PBS Newshour .
A. N. M. Serajur Rahman – journalist, broadcaster, and Bangladeshi nationalist.
[69]
Tahera Rahman – newscaster for
WHBF-TV and
KLJB . Widely covered by the media for being the first American
hijabi
Muslim newscaster.
[70]
[71]
[72]
[73]
Adil Ray – British radio and television presenter, for
BBC Asian Network
[74]
Fareed Zakaria – Indian American journalist and author, host of
CNN 's
Fareed Zakaria GPS
Abdallah Goollamallee – Mauritian journalist and entrepreneur, consultant
Kia Abdullah – Novelist and journalist. She contributes to
The Guardian newspaper
[75] and has written two novels: Life, Love and Assimilation
[76] and Child's Play.
[77]
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – Author, lecturer, political scientist specialising in interdisciplinary security studies, and participant of the
9/11 Truth Movement .
[78]
Ayad Akhtar – Writer, actor
[79]
[80]
Kaniz Ali – Makeup artist and freelance beauty columnist.
[81] She won Best Make-Up Artist category at the 2011 International Asian Fashion Awards.
[82]
Monica Ali – Author of
Brick Lane a story based on a Bangladeshi woman.
Tariq Ali – Historian and novelist
[83]
Moniza Alvi – Poet and writer
[84]
Tahmima Anam – Author of
A Golden Age which was the Best First Book winner of the 2008
Commonwealth Writers' Prize .
[85]
Nadeem Aslam – Novelist
[86]
Reza Aslan –
Iranian-American author of
No god but God and
Zealot , public intellectual,
religious studies scholar
Shamim Azad – Bilingual poet, storyteller and writer
[87]
Imtiaz Dharker – Poet and documentary filmmaker
[24]
Roopa Farooki – Novelist.
[88]
Ruby Hammer
MBE – Fashion and beauty makeup artist,
[89] and founder of Ruby & Millie cosmetics brand.
[90]
Mohammed Mahbub 'Ed' Husain – Writer of the book
The Islamist on account of his experience for five years with the
Hizb ut-Tahrir .
[91]
Kazi Nazrul Islam – Poet, write, musician and revolutionary from
Bengal . He is the national poet of
Bangladesh .
Muhammad Iqbal – One of the most important figures in
Urdu literature , with literary work in both the
Urdu and
Persian languages.
[92]
Razia Iqbal – Arts correspondent for the BBC; born in East Africa and is of Muslim Punjabi origin.
[93]
Runa Islam – Film and photography visual artist, nominated for the
Turner Prize 2008 .
[94]
[95]
Hanif Kureishi – Playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer
[25]
Rohina Malik – Playwright, solo performance artist, story teller and speaker;
[96]
Daaimah Mubashshir – Playwright, winner of 2021 Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting
[97]
Dr Ghulam Murshid – Author, scholar, and journalist. He's received numerous top literary awards from India and Bangladesh including the
Bangla Academy award.
[98]
Shahida Rahman – Award-winning author of
Lascar , writer and publisher
[99]
Qaisra Shahraz – Novelist, journalist, Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts and a director of Gatehouse Books
[100]
Rezia Wahid
MBE – Award-winning textile artist whose work has been exhibited both in the UK and abroad.
[101]
G. Willow Wilson – American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist.
[102]
[103]
Rekha Waheed – Writer and novelist best known as the author of The A-Z Guide To Arranged Marriage .
[104]
Saladin Ahmed – Novelist, best known for writing
Throne of the Crescent Moon .
[105]
Sabaa Tahir – Novelist, wrote
Ember in the Ashes .
[106]
Rapper
Ice Cube performing in 2006.
Anggun – singer
World Music Award winner, songwriter, and television personality.
Shabab Zayn - Singer, Songwriter
Ahmed Bukhatir – Emirati
Nasheed Singer. He is one of the famous Islamic singers in UAE.
Ahmad Hussain – faith inspired singer/songwriter. Inducted into the Muslim Power 100 list. Founder of IQRA Promotions.
A. R. Rahman – composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, philanthropist,
Grammy Award winner,
Academy Award winner
Atif Aslam –
Filmi singer
Jade Thirlwall - North African, European singer
Dua Lipa -Albanian singer
Ahmad Jamal –
jazz pianist
[117]
Ahmet Ertegün – songwriter and founder of
Atlantic Records
[118]
Akon – singer
[119]
[120]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad – producer, DJ and rapper. Formerly of
A Tribe Called Quest . He is a Sunni Muslim.
[121]
Art Blakey – American jazz drummer and bandleader
[122]
Bas – rapper
B.G. Knocc Out – rapper from
Compton, California , (converted to Islam in 1999)
[123]
Beanie Sigel – rapper
[124]
[125]
[126]
Big Daddy Kane – rapper. He is a
5 percenter .
[127]
Brother Ali – rapper. Converted to Sunni Islam.
[121]
[128]
Busta Rhymes – hip-hop artist and rapper. He is a
5 percenter .
[121]
[129]
Chali 2na – rapper. Formerly of the alternative hip-hop group
Jurassic 5 , and of
Ozomatli
[130]
Dawud Wharnsby – Canadian singer-songwriter, poet
[131]
DJ Khaled – rap artist and DJ
[132]
[133]
Everlast – rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group
House of Pain . Converted to Sunni Islam.
[121]
[134]
[135]
Flesh N Bone – rapper
Freeway – rapper, Sunni Muslim
[121]
[126]
[136]
[137]
Freddie Gibbs – rapper
French Montana – rapper
Ghostface Killah – rapper. Member of the hip-hip group
the Wu-Tang Clan
[124]
[138]
Ice Cube – rapper, actor and producer.
[139]
Jermaine Jackson – singer, bass guitarist
[140]
[141]
Jay Electronica – rapper
Junoon – Sufi rock band
Kevin Gates – rapper
K'naan – Canadian rapper of Somali descent
[142] He is a Sunni Muslim, and visited the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in 2015.
Lupe Fiasco – rapper. He is a Sunni Muslim.
[124]
[121]
[143]
MC Ren – rapper
[144]
Mona Haydar – rapper
[145]
Mos Def – rapper. Initially joined the Nation of Islam before converting to Sunni Islam.
[124]
[121]
[146]
Napoleon – former member of
Tupac Shakur 's rap group the Outlawz, now a motivational Muslim speaker
[147]
Native Deen – artist rap group
[148]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Pakistani traditional singer, helped popularise
Qawwali singing throughout the non-Muslim world
[149]
Q-Tip – rapper. Formerly of
A Tribe Called Quest . He is a Sunni Muslim.
[121]
[150]
Raekwon – rapper. Member of the hip-hip group
the Wu-Tang Clan
[151]
[152]
[153]
[154]
Rakim –
5 percenter , rapper and former member of the hip-hop duo
Eric B. & Rakim .
[155]
[156]
Rhymefest – Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist and co-writer of the single "
Jesus Walks "
[157]
Rondodasosa - Italian rapper
Scarface – rapper
[124]
[158]
Sheck Wes — Senegalese rapper and songwriter
Shila Amzah – Malaysian singer
Sinéad O'Connor — Irish singer-songwriter. Converted to Islam in 2018
Swizz Beatz – Producer
SZA – American singer
[159]
T-Pain – singer, rapper
[160]
Rutaba Yaqub – Saudi Arabian singer
[161]
Richard Thompson – British singer-songwriter
Vinnie Paz – rapper in the hip-hop group
Jedi Mind Tricks .
[162]
Yuna – Malaysian singer-songwriter
Yusef Lateef – jazz musician and
Grammy Award winner
[121]
[163]
Yusuf Islam – commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, and education philanthropist.
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