List of Muslims in entertainment and the media in non-Muslim countries

This is the list of the Muslims in entertainment and the media outside Muslim-majority countries

Comedy

American comedian Dave Chappelle in 2007.

• Ahmed Ahmed – standup comedian, actor ^[1]
• Humza Arshad – English comedian ^[2]
• Dave Chappelle – standup comedian ^[3]
• Said Durrah – standup comedian ^[4]
• Maz Jobrani – standup comedian, actor ^[5]
• Mohammed "Mo" Amer – standup comedian, actor ^[6]
• Hasan Minhaj – standup comedian ^[7]
• Preacher Moss – standup comedian, comedy writer ^[8]
• Dean Obeidallah – standup comedian ^[1]
• Aamer Rahman – Australian standup comedian
• Zainab Johnson -African American comedian
• Azhar Usman – standup comedian ^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Ramy Youssef – standup comedian, actor
• Maysoon Zayid – standup comedian, actress ^[1]
• Jamel Debbouze – French Moroccan comedian, actor, singer

Film and television

See also: Khans of Bollywood

Indian film actor Aamir Khan, one of the Three Khans of Bollywood, in 2008.

• Fady Elsayed - actor ^[12]
• Mammootty – Malayali 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
• Iman Meskini - Norwegian actress
• 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
• Waheeda Rehman - actress in Bollywood films
• Zarina Wahab - actress in Bollywood films

Journalism and media

• 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. ^[46]
• 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

Literature and art

• 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]
• Ramisha Sattar - Digital artists
• 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]

Modeling

• Farida Khelfa – Algerian and French model
• Katoucha Niane – French model, who was Yves Saint Laurent's egerie.
• Arjumman Mughal – Indian model and actress
• Anissa Bakhti – French and Algerian model. Égérie of Balmain hair couture and Eddine Belmahdi
• Thanina Medjber – French and Algerian model. Egerie of Eddine Belmahdi
• Anwar Hadid – European and Palestinian fashion model
• Halima Aden – American fashion model, first Somali-American to compete and become a semi-finalist in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. ^[107]
• Hanaa Ben Abdesslem – Tunisian model, first Muslim spokesmodel for the French perfume and cosmetic house Lancôme. ^[108]
• Kenza Fourati – Tunisian model, first Arab Muslim model to be featured in Sports Illustrated. ^[109]
• Mariah Idrissi – British Moroccan and Pakistani model, public speaker, and online personality. ^{[110] [111] [112]}
• Iman (Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid) – Model and designer, Muslim originally from Somalia. ^[113]
• Bella Hadid – American fashion model. ^[114]
• Gigi Hadid – American fashion model.
• Esma Voloder – Model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Australia 2017. ^[115]
• Hammasa Kohistani – British model ^[116]

Music

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
• 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.

YouTube and live streaming video sharing platforms.

• Hassan "Aboflah" Suleyman - Kuwaiti YouTuber and philanthropist.
• Anwar Jibawi -Palestinian-American YouTuber, social media influencer, actor, and dancer.
• Fouseytube -Palestinian YouTuber.
• Hasan Piker -Turkish-American online streamer, YouTuber, influencer, and left-wing political commentator.
• Nas Daily -israeli-Palestinian YouTuber.
• Ali "SypherPK" Hassan -American YouTuber and Twitch streamer.

See also

• Lists of Muslims

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