This is a list of notable people who have converted to Islam after a period where they claimed to be atheistic or non-theistic.
| Notes | Refs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gai Eaton | British diplomat and writer. | [1] [2] | |
| 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. | [12] |