- Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.[161]
- Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi - influential 12th century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[162]
- Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al was an 12th century Arab Muslim mathematician and astronomer of Jewish descent.[163] His father was a Jewish Rabbi from Morocco, but al-Samawʾal converted to Islam.[164]
- Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[165]
- Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.[166]
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s. Later, after WWII, he became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.[167] Also translated the Qur'an into English and wrote several books on Islam. His son Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the City University of New York
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani - 13th century Persian physician[168]
- Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[169]
- Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[170]
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