Politics and Activism
- Nihad Awad - National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
- André Carson - Congressman from Indiana
- Robert D. Crane - Former foreign policy advisor and an author
- C. Jack Ellis - Former mayor of Macon, Georgia
- Keith Ellison - First Muslim congressman from Minnesota
- Ibrahim Hooper - National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- Zalmay Khalilzad - Former US Ambassador to the United Nations as well as former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan
- Edina Lekovic - Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
- Malcolm X (also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) - Civil rights activist, public speaker and Black Muslim minister. Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952, before converting to Sunni Islam in 1964.
- Farah Pandith is the Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State. She is the official advisor to President Obama on Muslim matters.
- Betty Shabazz - Civil rights activist and educator; widow of Malcolm X.
- James Yee - Former U.S. Army chaplain with the rank of Captain
- Elias Zerhouni - Director, National Institutes of Health
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