List of Ahmadis

This is an incomplete list of notable or famous Ahmadi Muslims, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - a movement within Islam.

Religious figures

Founder

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad[1][2][3] – The founder of the Ahmadiyya movement

Caliphs

Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din – First Caliph
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad – Second Caliph
Mirza Nasir Ahmad – Third Caliph
Mirza Tahir Ahmad – Fourth Caliph
Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Fifth Caliph and current leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Companions

Missionaries

Bashir Ahmad Orchard – first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community of European descent
Abdul Wahab Adam[5] – Ameer (Head) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana; member of National Peace Council; member of National Reconciliation Commission

Lahore Ahmadiyya Emirs

Royalty

Beninese

Kpodégbé Lanmanfan Toyi Djigla[6] – King of the Fon State of Alada; President of the Supreme Council of Kings of Benin
Akpaki Dagbara II[6] – King of the Bariba State of Paraku, Benin
Egba Kotan II – King of the Yoruba State of Dassa, Benin
Orou Igbo Akambi[7] – King of Toui, Benin

Other nationalities

Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II[8] – King of Lagos, Nigeria
Mumuni Koray[9] – Ruler of Wa, Ghana

Other royalty

Khalil Gamanga[10] – Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone
Kenawa Gamanga[10] – Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone

Artists

Musicians

Yusef Lateef[11] – American Ahmadi spokesperson; Jazz multiinstrumentalist; Grammy Award winner
Ahmad Jamal[11] – American jazz pianist
Art Blakey[11] – American jazz drummer
Rudy Powell[11] – American jazz reed player
Sahib Shihab[11] – American jazz Saxophonist
Dakota Staton[11] – American jazz vocalist
McCoy Tyner[11] – American jazz pianist
Sadik Hakim[12] – American jazz pianist
Abbey Lincoln[13] – American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress
Talib Dawud[14] – Anitguan-born American jazz Trumpeter
Ahmed Abdul-Malik[15] – American jazz double bassist
Idrees Sulieman[16] – American jazz Trumpeter

Writers

Aziz Kashmiri – Kashmiri journalist
Wage Rudolf Supratman[17] – Indonesian National Hero and songwriter; wrote the national anthem of Indonesia, "Indonesian Raya"
Muhammad Fazal Khan Changwi – translator of works by Ibn Arabi
Qalandar Momand[18] – 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[19] – Urdu poet
Babatunde Jose – Nigerian journalist
Hadayatullah Hübsch[20] – German writer and journalist
Khola Maryam Hübsch[21] – German writer and journalist, daughter of Hadayatullah
Qasim Rashid – American writer
Sabir Zafar[22] – Pakistani songwriter, lyricist and poet.
Qamar Ajnalvi – Pakistani novelist

Actors

Mahershala Ali[23][24] – American actor, first Muslim actor to win an Oscar

Politicians

Ghanaians

Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu[25] – member of the Council of State and former Minister for Defence
Alhaji Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu[26] – member of Pan-African Parliament and former Minister for Interior
Kobina Tahir Hammond[25] – Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Ashanti Region
Ameen Salifu[27] – Member of Parliament for Wa East, Upper West Region
Alhaji Issifu Ali[25] – former co-chairman of the National Democratic Congress
Musheibu Mohammed Alfa[25] – Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Innovation
Mahmud Khalid[28] – former Minister of State for Upper West Region
Alhaji Mumuni Abudu Seidu[29] – former Minister of State without portfolio; former Member of Parliament, Wa Central, Upper West Region
Alhaji Mogtari Sahanun[29] – 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[30] – president of the Nigerian Youth Movement; cofounder and chairman of the Hajj Pilgrims’ Board of Nigeria's western region

Pakistanis

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan[31][32] – President of the UN General Assembly, First Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the International Court of Justice

United Kingdom

Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon[33] – Member of the House of Lords, UK, Minister for the Commonwealth and the United Nations at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[34]
Iftikhar A. Ayaz – Tuvaluan consular official, UK
Imran Ahmad Khan – Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield.

Other nationalities

Farimang Mamadi Singateh[35] – second and last Governor General of The Gambia
Sahibzada Abdul Latif[36] – 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[37] – Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada

International bodies

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan[31][32] – President of the UN General Assembly, first Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the International Court of Justice
M M Ahmad[38] – former executive director and vice president of the World Bank

Military

Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry – first Chief of Air Staff and a three-star general of the Pakistan Air Force
Lieutenant General Akhtar Hussain Malik[39] – lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army
Major General Iftikhar Janjua Shaheed[40] – major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war
Lieutenant General Abdul Ali Malik[41] – Pakistani war hero of the Chawinda, 1965 Indo-Pakistan war
Major General Abdullah Saeed – Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, Chief Martial Law Administrator for Baluchistan, Pakistan

Business and economics

M M Ahmad[38] – former executive director and vice president of the World Bank
Faysal Sohail[42] – American venture capitalist
Atif Mian[43][44] – 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 (IMF) identified Mian as one of twenty-five economists it expects to shape the world's thinking about the global economy in the future.[45]
Amjad Khan Chowdhury– Founder of PRAN-RFL Group

Scientists

Professor Abdus Salam[46] – First Pakistani and first Ahmadi Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics
Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz[47] – 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[48][49] – Canadian sports anchor
Waseem Ahmed[50][51][52] - Pakistani field hockey player and ex-captain of Pakistan hockey team
Naseer Malik – Pakistani fast bowler (cricket), bowled the first ball for Pakistan in the first-ever Cricket World Cup

Others

Sitara Brooj Akbar – World's youngest O'Levels awardee and IELTS candidate.
Qamar Muneer Akbar -- World's youngest IGCSE & IELTS speaking candidate
A. George Baker – American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam
Asad Shah – British murder victim of a religiously-motivated attack
Nazhat Shameem[53] – Former High Court Judge, Fiji
Shaista Shameem – Indo-Fijian lawyer; former director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission

References

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AHMAD OF QADIAN, HADHRAT MIRZA GHULAM. (2018). JESUS IN INDIA. [Place of publication not identified]: THIRD MILLENNIUM Press LT. ISBN 978-1861185228. OCLC 1007057385.
"Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad | Islam Ahmadiyya". Islam Ahmadiyya. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
Seerat Hadrat Maulvi Sher Ali by Khadija Begum et al
"Preparations Underway For Burial of Late Maulvi Wahab-Adam On Wednesday". June 24, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
Denise Brégand. "La Ahmadiyya au Bénin" (in French). Retrieved September 5, 2016.
"Œuvres sociales dans la commune de Ouessè : La Jama'at Islamique Ahmadiyya au chevet des populations". May 10, 2016. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
"Oba Musendiq Adeniji Adele Oba of Lagos, 1949 – 1964". Archived from the original on September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
Ivor Wilks (4 July 2002). Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. p. 188. ISBN 9780521894340.
Fisher, Humphrey (1963). Ahmadiyyah: Astudy in Contemporary Islam on the West African Coast. Oxford University Press. p. 123.
The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. Routledge. 2003. p. 325. ISBN 9780415967693. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
Kelley, Robin (8 December 2009). Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. p. 154. ISBN 9781439190494. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
Capone, Stefania (December 2005). Les Yoruba du Nouveau Monde. Religion, ethnicité et nationalisme noir aux. p. 67. ISBN 9782811140052. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
Plummer, Brenda Gayle (1996). Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960. p. 275. ISBN 9780807845752. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
Robin D. G. Kelley (13 March 2012). Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. p. 94. ISBN 9780674065246.
Jason C. Bivins (2015). Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780190230913.
"The cold war of faith between Hamadiyya". Theeagleonline.com.ng. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
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"Das Kopftuch als Demonstration der Treue" (in German). echo-online.de. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
"Sabir Zafar ke sath aik sham By Jamaat Ahmadiyya Karachi Pakistan".
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"Maulvi Wahab Adam to be buried on Wednesday". Ghana News Agency. June 23, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
"What If MP Malik Yakub Were To Be Vetted". February 13, 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
"MPs Pay Tribute To Maulvi Wahab". Daily Guide Ghana. June 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
"The Politics Of Orthodox And Ahmadiyya Muslims In Wa". Retrieved 2013-01-07.
Bob Kelly. "Ideology, Regionalism, Self-Interest and Tradition: An Investigation into Contemporary Politics in Northern Ghana". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 77 (2): 187.
"The Ahmadiyya Movement in Nigeria". Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
"Sir Muhammad Zafarulla Khan (Pakistan)". United Nations. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
Wilson John (2009). Pakistan: The Struggle Within. p. 96. ISBN 9788131725047. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
"Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
"Lord Ahmad appointed FCO Minister for the Commonwealth and UN – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
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"Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan" (PDF). Retrieved April 9, 2016.
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"The Battle of Chawinda". defencejournal.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
"Jesus, Muhammad and The Modern State". Retrieved 30 November 2014.
"Atif R Mian highlights the most important issue facing Pakistan".
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IMF Lists 25 Brightest Young Economists
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"Mansoor Ijaz – The memogate controversy".
"Adnan Virk joins ESPN". muslimmedianetwork.com. 11 July 2010. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
Ahmadiyya Gazette Canada (PDF). p. 16. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
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[1] Aḥmad, G̲h̲ulām, 1839?-1908. (1996). The philosophy of the teachings of Islam. Tilford, Eng.: Islam International Publications. ISBN 185372193X. OCLC 36563814.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] AHMAD OF QADIAN, HADHRAT MIRZA GHULAM. (2018). JESUS IN INDIA. [Place of publication not identified]: THIRD MILLENNIUM Press LT. ISBN 978-1861185228. OCLC 1007057385.

[3] "Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad | Islam Ahmadiyya". Islam Ahmadiyya. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

[4] Seerat Hadrat Maulvi Sher Ali by Khadija Begum et al

[5] "Preparations Underway For Burial of Late Maulvi Wahab-Adam On Wednesday". June 24, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

[Bregand-6] Denise Brégand. "La Ahmadiyya au Bénin" (in French). Retrieved September 5, 2016.

[7] "Œuvres sociales dans la commune de Ouessè : La Jama'at Islamique Ahmadiyya au chevet des populations". May 10, 2016. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.

[8] "Oba Musendiq Adeniji Adele Oba of Lagos, 1949 – 1964". Archived from the original on September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2015.

[9] Ivor Wilks (4 July 2002). Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. p. 188. ISBN 9780521894340.

[Fisher1962-10] Fisher, Humphrey (1963). Ahmadiyyah: Astudy in Contemporary Islam on the West African Coast. Oxford University Press. p. 123.

[music-11] The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. Routledge. 2003. p. 325. ISBN 9780415967693. Retrieved July 21, 2014.

[12] Kelley, Robin (8 December 2009). Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. p. 154. ISBN 9781439190494. Retrieved 9 December 2014.

[13] Capone, Stefania (December 2005). Les Yoruba du Nouveau Monde. Religion, ethnicité et nationalisme noir aux. p. 67. ISBN 9782811140052. Retrieved 9 December 2014.

[14] Plummer, Brenda Gayle (1996). Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960. p. 275. ISBN 9780807845752. Retrieved 9 December 2014.

[15] Robin D. G. Kelley (13 March 2012). Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. p. 94. ISBN 9780674065246.

[16] Jason C. Bivins (2015). Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780190230913.

[17] "The cold war of faith between Hamadiyya". Theeagleonline.com.ng. Retrieved 2015-12-24.

[18] Shaeen Buneri (4 February 2007). "Qalandar Momand". TheKhyberWatch. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[19] "Who are the killers, Who are getting killed?". anindianmuslim.org. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[20] "Gotteslästerung von Hadayatullah Hübsch". Jf-archiv.de. Retrieved 2012-11-14.

[21] "Das Kopftuch als Demonstration der Treue" (in German). echo-online.de. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2015-09-20.

[22] "Sabir Zafar ke sath aik sham By Jamaat Ahmadiyya Karachi Pakistan".

[23] "'Jordan' co-star's name will fill screen". pqasb.pqarchiver.com. St. Petersburg Times. 10 September 2001. Retrieved 4 August 2010.

[24] By the Dawn's Early Light: Short Stories by American Converts to Islam (PDF). Retrieved July 23, 2014.

[wahab-25] "Maulvi Wahab Adam to be buried on Wednesday". Ghana News Agency. June 23, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2014.

[26] "What If MP Malik Yakub Were To Be Vetted". February 13, 2005. Retrieved October 29, 2015.

[27] "MPs Pay Tribute To Maulvi Wahab". Daily Guide Ghana. June 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

[28] "The Politics Of Orthodox And Ahmadiyya Muslims In Wa". Retrieved 2013-01-07.

[Kelly187-29] Bob Kelly. "Ideology, Regionalism, Self-Interest and Tradition: An Investigation into Contemporary Politics in Northern Ghana". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 77 (2): 187.

[30] "The Ahmadiyya Movement in Nigeria". Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved September 19, 2015.

[auto-31] "Sir Muhammad Zafarulla Khan (Pakistan)". United Nations. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[auto1-32] Wilson John (2009). Pakistan: The Struggle Within. p. 96. ISBN 9788131725047. Retrieved July 23, 2014.

[auto2-33] "Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[auto3-34] "Lord Ahmad appointed FCO Minister for the Commonwealth and UN – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-16.

[35] Arnold Hughes, David Perfect (11 September 2008). Historical Dictionary of The Gambia. Scarecrow Press. p. 214. ISBN 9780810862609. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2014.

[36] B. A. Rafiq. "The Afghan Martyrs" (PDF). Raqeem Press.

[37] "Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan" (PDF). Retrieved April 9, 2016.

[:0-38] Nicolaas A. Rupke (2009). Eminent Lives in Twentieth-century Science & Religion. Peter Lang GmbH. p. 326. ISBN 9783631581209. Retrieved July 23, 2014.

[39] Aslam Minhas (27 November 2005). "Operation Gran Slam". Dawn Newspaper. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[40] "An Ahmadi General who saved Pakistan". thepersecution.org. Retrieved 21 June 2011.

[41] "The Battle of Chawinda". defencejournal.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[42] "Jesus, Muhammad and The Modern State". Retrieved 30 November 2014.

[43] "Atif R Mian highlights the most important issue facing Pakistan".

[44] "'We will not bow to extremists': Govt hits back after vicious campaign targets Atif Mian". Dawn. 4 September 2018.

[45] IMF Lists 25 Brightest Young Economists

[auto4-46] "Abdus Salam – Biography". Official Site of Nobel Prize. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[47] "Mansoor Ijaz – The memogate controversy".

[48] "Adnan Virk joins ESPN". muslimmedianetwork.com. 11 July 2010. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.

[49] Ahmadiyya Gazette Canada (PDF). p. 16. Retrieved July 23, 2014.

[50] "Waseem AHMAD - Olympic Hockey | Pakistan". International Olympic Committee. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

[51] "Waseem Ahmed - Field Hockey player profile & career statistics - Global Sports Archive". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

[52] Friskin, Sydney. (1997). Going for gold : Pakistan at hockey. Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195778073. OCLC 38048127.

[fiji-53] "Behind another invented story from blog Coup 4.5 – 'Fiji Muslims aiding terrorists'". pacific.scoop.co.nz. July 14, 2011. Retrieved September 23, 2015.