with President
George W. Bush at the
White House •
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 • Tahir Ali – first Pakistani American elected as a National delegate-at-large (R) from
Massachusetts, 1992 •
Aisha al-Adawiya – American interfaith activist and founder of Women in Islam •
Nihad Awad – National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations •
André Carson –
Congressman from
Indiana •
Shamila N. Chaudhary –
US government policy adviser •
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury - civil rights lawyer and District Court judge for the
Eastern District of New York. First Muslim woman to serve as a
United States federal judge. •
Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author •
Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the
Organisation of the Islamic Conference •
Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the
North Dakota House of Representatives •
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. •
Ghazala Hashmi – Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office in the United States • 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. •
Mustafa T. Kasubhai - first Muslim federal judge in the United States •
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 •
Edina Lekovic – Communications Director of the
Muslim Public Affairs Council •
Zohran Mamdani – first Muslim elected
Mayor of New York City •
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 – Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the US Department of State; official advisor to President Obama on Muslim matters •
Zahid Quraishi – first Muslim
Article III district court judge in the United States •
Zainab Salbi – co-founder and president for
Women for Women International •
Betty Shabazz (also known as Betty X) – civil rights activist and educator; widow of Malcolm X •
Ilyasah Shabazz – social activist and daughter of Malcolm X •
Malcolm Shabazz – activist and grandson of Malcolm X;
Murdered during a labor rights tour in
Mexico •
el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (also known as Malcolm X) – human rights activist, civil rights activist, public speaker and
Black Muslim minister; Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952, before converting to Sunni Islam in 1964. •
Azadeh Shahshahani – human rights attorney and past president of the
National Lawyers Guild •
Saghir "Saggy" Tahir –
New Hampshire State Representative; the only elected Pakistani American in the
Republican Party; re-elected in 2006 for a fourth term to represent Ward 2, District 9 in his home town of
Manchester •
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli – White House appointee at various senior posts in the executive branch and the State department during five Republican administrations. •
Rashida Tlaib – One of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. •
Elias Zerhouni – Director, National Institutes of Health ==Armed forces==