List of North American Muslims

This is an incomplete list of notable Muslims who live or lived in the United States.

Academia

*Asad Abidi – Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles; member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Gul Agha – Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*Akbar S. Ahmed – US resident Pakistani anthropologist; the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University; producer of the film ''Journey Into Europe'', on Islam in Europe
* Saleem H. Ali – environmental researcher and Associate Dean for Graduate studies at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; writer and contributor to publications such as the '' International Herald Tribune''; has dual American and Pakistani citizenship
*Talal Asad – Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at CUNY
*Farooq Azam – Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; researcher in the field of marine microbiology
*Ayesha Jalal – MacArthur Fellow and Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University
*Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil – Professor of Physics at Portland State University; a highly cited researcher in the field of atmospheric physics
*Sadaf Jaffer – the first female Muslim American mayor, first female South Asian mayor, and first female Pakistani-American mayor in the United States, of Montgomery in Somerset County, New Jersey.
* Hafeez Malik – Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, in PennsylvaniaHafeez Malik
, May 22, 2010.
* Nergis Mavalvala, Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and 2010 MacArthur Fellow; part of the team that made the first direct gravitational wave observation
* Zia Mian – physicist
*Adil Najam – Professor of Geography and International Relations and Director of the Pardee Center at Boston University; founding editor of popular blog Pakistaniat
* S. Hamid Nawab, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University; co-author of widely used textbook ''Signals and Systems'' (1997), published by Prentice Hall (Pearson); researcher in signal processing and machine perception with application to auditory, speech, and neuromuscular systems
* Anwar Shaikh – Professor of Economics at the graduate faculty of The New School in New York City
* Sara Suleri – Professor of English at Yale University
* Abdul Jamil Tajik – researcher in clinical medicine
* Muhammad Suhail Zubairy – Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics at the Texas A&M University

Activism and politics

*Huma Abedin – aide to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; served as traveling chief of staff during Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election
*Saqib Ali – served as delegate to the Maryland House of Delegates, elected in 2006, represented the 39th District Retrieved December 10, 2006
* Tahir Ali – first Pakistani American elected as a National delegate-at-large (R) from Massachusetts, 1992
*Arif Alikhan – former appointee to the Obama Administration where he served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the United States Department of Homeland Security; former Deputy Mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles; visiting Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University's (NDU) College of International Security Affairs in Washington, DC
*Nihad Awad – National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
*André Carson – Congressman from Indiana
* Shamila N. Chaudhary – US government policy adviser
* Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author
*Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
* Keith Ellison – first Muslim congressman from Minnesota
*Louis Farrakhan - leader of the Nation of Islam
*George Bethune English (1787-1828) – American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam.
*Ibrahim Hooper – National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
*Mansoor Ijaz – hedge fund manager and venture capitalist involved in Pakistan–United States relations and peace efforts surrounding the Kashmir conflict
*Arsalan Iftikhar – human rights lawyer, global media commentator, and author of the book ''Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms''
* Noor Al-Hussein – anti- nuclear weapons proliferation advocate and former Queen consort of Jordan
*Hakim Jamal – civil rights activist; Member of the Nation of Islam but converted to traditional Islam after the assassination of his cousin Malcolm X.
*Zalmay Khalilzad – former US Ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan
*Yuri Kochiyama – Japanese American activist who converted to Sunni Islam from Protestantism in 1971
*Umar Lee – Activist and Writer
* Edina Lekovic – Communications Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
* Gholam Mujtaba – chair of the Pakistan Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to improve the US-Pakistan relationship
* Ilhan Omar – One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
*Farah Pandith

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