List of Muslims in entertainment and the media in non-Muslim countries
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This is the list of the Muslims in entertainment and the media outside Muslim-majority countries
Comedy
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- 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
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- 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
- Iman Meskini - Norwegian actrsss
- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
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- 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.
YouTube
edit- Fouseytube -Palestinian YouTuber
- Nas Daily -Palestinian YouTuber
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