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This is an incomplete list of notable or famous Ahmadi Muslims, members of the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...
- a movement within Islam.


Religious figures


Founder

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdi—which is the metaphori ...
– The founder of the Ahmadiyya movement


Caliphs

*Maulana
Hakeem Noor-ud-Din Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (also spelt: Hakim Nur-ud-Din) ( ar, حکیم نور الدین) (8 January 1834 – 13 March 1914) was a close companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, and was chosen as his first successor on ...
– First Caliph *
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad ( ur, ) (12 January 1889 – 8 November 1965), was the second caliph ( ar, خليفة المسيح الثاني, ''khalīfatul masīh al-thāni''), leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the ...
– Second Caliph *
Mirza Nasir Ahmad Hāfiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad ( ur, ) (16 November 1909 – 9 June 1982) was the third caliph ( ar, خليفة المسيح الثالث, ''khalīfatul masīh al-Thālith''), head of the Ahmadiyya Community. He was elected as the third successor o ...
– Third Caliph *
Mirza Tahir Ahmad Mirza Tahir Ahmad ( ur, ) (18 December 1928 – 19 April 2003) was the fourth caliph ( ar, خليفة المسيح الرابع, ''khalīfatul masīh al-rābi'') and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Community. He was elected as the fourt ...
– Fourth Caliph *
Mirza Masroor Ahmad Mirza Masroor Ahmad ( ur, ; born 15 September 1950) is the current and fifth leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. His official title within the movement is Fifth Caliph of the Messiah ( ar, خليفة المسيح الخامس, ''khal ...
– Fifth Caliph and current leader of the worldwide
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...


Companions

* Mufti Muhammad Sadiq *
A. R. Dard Abdur Rahim Dard, known as A. R. Dard (19 June 1894 – 7 December 1955) was an Ahmadi Muslim writer, missionary, and political activist for the Pakistan Movement, who served as the Imam of the historic Fazl Mosque, the premier gathering place ...
* Abdul Rahim Nayyar *
Maulvi Sher Ali Maulvi Sher Ali Ranjha (24 November 1875 – 13 November 1947) was a prominent Ahmadi scholar and a companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed to be the Promised Messiah and the awaited mahdi. Early life Sher Ali was born to a well off and ed ...
* Fateh Muhammad Sial * Shams ud Din Khan *
Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (1870 – December 28, 1932) was a prominent figure of the early Ahmadiyya movement and the author of numerous works about Islam. Life Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din was born in Punjab, India in 1870. His grandfather, Abdur Rashid, a p ...
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Maulana Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; ar, محمد علي‎; 1874 – 13 October 1951) was an Indian writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. Biography Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State (now in Ludhiana district, Punja ...
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Malik Ghulam Farid Malik Ghulam Farid (1897–1977), was a notable Ahmadiyya Muslim scholar. He was deputed the task of preparing the 5 Volume The English Commentary of the Holy Quran, in 1942, by Mirza Mahmood Ahmad, the second Khalifa Khalifa or Khalifah (Arab ...
* Mirza Bashir Ahmad * Khwaja Nazir Ahmad * Qazi Muhammad Yousaf *
Mirza Muhammad Ismail Mirza Muhammad Ismail Qandahari (c 1813–1912), usually known as Mirza Muhammad Ismail, was an Afghan religious scholar and the first convert to the Ahmadiyya faith among the Pashtons of the North West Frontier Province of India.Tareekh-e-Ahmadi ...
* Sayyid Abdul Latif


Missionaries

* Bashir Ahmad Orchard – first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community of European descent * Abdul Wahab Adam – Ameer (Head) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana; member of National Peace Council; member of National Reconciliation Commission


Lahore Ahmadiyya Emirs

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Maulana Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; ar, محمد علي‎; 1874 – 13 October 1951) was an Indian writer, scholar, and leading figure of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. Biography Ali was born in Murar, Kapurthala State (now in Ludhiana district, Punja ...
* Saeed Ahmad Khan * Asghar Hameed *
Maulana Sadr-ud-Din Maulana Sadr-ud-Din ( ur, ; died 14–15 November 1981) became the first missionary of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam Lahore in the Wilmersdorfer Moschee (Berlin Mosque) in 1922. Work * ''Der Koran: Arabisch-Deutsch: Übersetzung, ...
* Abdul Karim Saeed Pasha


Royalty


Kings


Beninese

* Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla – King of the Fon State of Alada; President of the Supreme Council of Kings of Benin * Akpaki Dagbara II – King of the Bariba State of Paraku, Benin * Egba Kotan II – King of the Yoruba State of Dassa, Benin * Orou Igbo Akambi – King of Toui, Benin


Other nationalities

* Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II – King of Lagos, Nigeria * Mumuni Koray – Ruler of Wa, Ghana


Other royalty

* Khalil Gamanga – Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone * Kenawa Gamanga – Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone


Artists


Musicians

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Yusef Lateef Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America. Although Lateef's main instruments ...
– American Ahmadi spokesperson; Jazz multiinstrumentalist; Grammy Award winner * Ahmad Jamal – American jazz pianist * Art Blakey – American jazz drummer * Rudy Powell – American jazz reed player *
Sahib Shihab Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory; June 23, 1925 – October 24, 1989) was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist (baritone, alto, and soprano) and flautist. He variously worked with Luther Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, ...
– American jazz Saxophonist *
Dakota Staton Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930 – April 10, 2007) was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No. 4 hit "The Late, Late Show". She was also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period due to her conversion to ...
– American jazz vocalist *
McCoy Tyner Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career afterwards. He was an NEA Jazz Master and five-time Gram ...
– American jazz pianist * Sadik Hakim – American jazz pianist *
Abbey Lincoln Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of deli ...
– American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress * Talib Dawud – Anitguan-born American jazz Trumpeter *
Ahmed Abdul-Malik Ahmed Abdul-Malik (born Jonathan Tim, Jr.; January 30, 1927 – October 2, 1993) was an American jazz double bassist and oud player. Abdul-Malik is remembered for integrating Middle Eastern and North African music styles in his jazz music.Kelse ...
– American jazz double bassist *
Idrees Sulieman Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002) was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter. Biography He was born Leonard Graham in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, later changing his name to Idrees Sulieman, after converting to Is ...
– American jazz Trumpeter


Writers

* Aziz Kashmiri – Kashmiri journalist *
Wage Rudolf Supratman Wage Rudolf Soepratman (''Wage Soepratman'' in the old orthography or commonly known as W. R. Supratman) (9 March 1903 – 17 August 1938) was an Indonesian journalist and songwriter who wrote both the lyrics and melody of the national anth ...
– Indonesian National Hero and songwriter; wrote the national anthem of Indonesia, "Indonesian Raya" * Muhammad Fazal Khan Changwi – translator of works by
Ibn Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , ' Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influen ...
* Qalandar Momand – Pakistani poet, writer, journalist, critic, academician, lexicographer. Recipient of Pakistan's Pride of Performance civil award, the National Award for Democracy and Sitara-e-Imtiaz * Obaidullah Aleem – Urdu poet * – Nigerian journalist *
Hadayatullah Hübsch Hadayatullah Hübsch (January 8, 1946 in Chemnitz – January 4, 2011; born as Paul-Gerhard Hübsch) was a German author, journalist, poet, political activist of the 68s movement and, following his conversion to Ahmadiyya Islam, long-time spoke ...
– German writer and journalist *
Khola Maryam Hübsch Khola Maryam Hübsch (born October 25, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German journalist and writer of German-Indian origin. Hübsch is the daughter of the German writer Hadayatullah Hübsch. She is a prominent member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Com ...
– German writer and journalist, daughter of Hadayatullah * Qasim Rashid – American writer * Sabir Zafar – Pakistani songwriter, lyricist and poet. *
Qamar Ajnalvi Qamar Ajnalvi (قمر اجنالوی), born Abdus Sattar (July 1919 – 30 May 1993), was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in the Urdu language.
– Pakistani novelist


Actors

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Mahershala Ali Mahershala Ali (; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore, February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named him one of th ...
– American actor, first Muslim actor to win an Oscar


Politicians


Ghanaians

* Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu – member of the Council of State and former Minister for Defence * Alhaji Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu – member of Pan-African Parliament and former Minister for Interior *
Kobina Tahir Hammond Kobina Tahir Hammond (born June 16, 1960) is a Ghanaian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and the 8th Parliament of the 4th Ghanaian Republi ...
– Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Ashanti Region * Ameen Salifu – Member of Parliament for Wa East, Upper West Region * Alhaji Issifu Ali – former co-chairman of the National Democratic Congress * Musheibu Mohammed Alfa – Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Innovation * Mahmud Khalid – former Minister of State for Upper West Region * Alhaji Mumuni Abudu Seidu – former Minister of State without portfolio; former Member of Parliament, Wa Central, Upper West Region * Alhaji Mogtari Sahanun – former Ghana ambassador to Burkina Faso; former Minister of State for Upper West Region


Nigerians

* Alhaji Abdul Azeez Kolawole Adeyemo – Member of Parliament, front-line member of Action Group political party, Ondo State Parliamentary Co-ordinator * Alhaji Jibril Martin – president of the Nigerian Youth Movement; cofounder and chairman of the Hajj Pilgrims’ Board of Nigeria's western region


Pakistanis

* Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – President of the UN General Assembly, First Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the International Court of Justice


United Kingdom

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Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon Tariq Mahmood Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon (born 3 April 1968), is a British-Pakistani businessman and a Conservative life peer. He was appointed Minister of State for the Commonwealth and United Nations, and later for South Asia; then Cen ...
– Member of the House of Lords, UK, Minister for the Commonwealth and the United Nations at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. * Iftikhar A. Ayaz – Tuvaluan consular official, UK * Imran Ahmad Khan
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Other nationalities

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Farimang Mamadi Singateh Al Hajj Sir Farimang Mamadi Singhateh, GCMG (10 November 1912 – 19 May 1977) was the second and last Governor-General of the Gambia, representing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Succeeding Sir John Warburton Paul, who had previously be ...
– second and last Governor General of The Gambia * Sahibzada Abdul Latif – Afghan Ahmadi Muslim martyr; king Abdur Rahman Khan's advisor; government representative for the Durand Line * Amir Abedi – first African mayor of Dar es Salam, Tanzania * Barakat Ahmad – Indian diplomat * Muhammad Fiaz – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada


International bodies

* Muhammad Zafrulla Khan – President of the UN General Assembly, first Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the International Court of Justice * M M Ahmad – former executive director and vice president of the
World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...


Military

* Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry – first Chief of Air Staff and a three-star general of the Pakistan Air Force *
Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...
Akhtar Hussain Malik – lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army *
Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...
Iftikhar Janjua Shaheed – major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war *
Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...
Abdul Ali Malik – Pakistani war hero of the Chawinda, 1965 Indo-Pakistan war *
Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...
Abdullah Saeed Abdullah Saeed (born May 18, 1984) is a Pakistani-American producer, composer, journalist, host, writer, and comic. He produced and hosted several TV shows and documentaries for Vice. Personal life Saeed was born in New Hampshire to a Pakistani ...
– Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, Chief Martial Law Administrator for Baluchistan, Pakistan


Business and economics

* M M Ahmad – former executive director and vice president of the World Bank * Faysal Sohail – American venture capitalist *
Atif Mian Atif Rehman Mian ( ur, ; born 28 June 1975) is a Pakistani-American economist who serves as the John H. Laporte Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy, and Finance at Princeton University, and as the Director of the Julis-Ra ...
– Top 25 Economist of the world. Prime Minister Imran Khan selected Mian as one of Pakistan's economists, he reached international notability in 2018 after his forced removal because he is an Ahmadi Muslim. The
International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster glo ...
(IMF) identified Mian as one of twenty-five economists it expects to shape the world's thinking about the global economy in the future. *
Amjad Khan Chowdhury Amjad Khan Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi Army officer and founder of Bangladesh conglomerate PRAN-RFL Group. Early life and family Chowdhury was born on 10 November 1937 to Ali Qasim Khan Chowdhury and Amatur Rahman. He belongs to the branch of th ...
– Founder of PRAN-RFL Group


Scientists

*Professor
Abdus Salam Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Punjabi Pakistani theoretical physicist and a ...
– First Pakistani and first Ahmadi Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics * Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz – Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes * Mojib Latif – German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent * Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin – Indian astronomer, professor at Osmania University, Hydrabad, India * Clement Lindley Wragge – New Zealander meteorologist * Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels – Austrian German Orientalist and anthropologist


Sportspersons

* Abdul Jeelani – American professional basketball player *
Adnan Virk Adnan Virk ( ur, ) (born July 29, 1978) is a Canadian sportscaster for MLB Network and DAZN who previously worked for ESPN, TSN, and WWE. He also produces and hosts the weekly podcast ''Cinephile with Adnan Virk'' show covering cinema news and ...
– Canadian sports anchor * Waseem Ahmed - Pakistani field hockey player and ex-captain of Pakistan hockey team


Others

* Sitara Brooj Akbar – World's youngest O'Levels awardee and IELTS candidate. * A. George Baker – American
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clergyman who converted to Islam * Asad Shah – British murder victim of a religiously-motivated attack *
Nazhat Shameem Nazhat Shameem Khan (born 1960) is a Fijian diplomat and former judge who served as the Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations from 2014 to 2022. She was also the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2021. S ...
– Former High Court Judge, Fiji * Shaista Shameem – Indo-Fijian lawyer; former director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission


References

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