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This is an incomplete list of notable Ahmadi Muslims.
Religious figures
Founder
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - founder of Ahmadiyya movement in Islam.
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
Companions
- Mufti Muhammad Sadiq
- A. R. Dard
- Maulvi Sher Ali[1] - Companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. One of earliest translator of the Quran in English
- Fateh Muhammad Sial
- Shams ud Din Khan
- Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din
- Maulana Muhammad Ali
- Malik Ghulam Farid
- Mirza Bashir Ahmad
- Khwaja Nazir Ahmad
- Aziz Kashmiri
- Qazi Muhammad Yousaf
- Basharat Ahmad
Missionaries
- Bashir Ahmad Orchard - first Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community of European descent
- Abdul Wahab Adam[2] - 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[3] - King of the Fon State of Alada; President of the Supreme Council of Kings of Benin
- Adetutu Akinmou Akikenju VI[3] - King of the Yoruba State of Sabe, Benin
- Akpaki Dagbara II[3] - King of the Bariba State of Paraku, Benin
- Egba Kotan II - King of the Yoruba State of Dassa, Benin
- Orou Igbo Akambi[4] - King of Toui, Benin
Other nationalities
- Musendiku Buraimoh Adeniji Adele II[5] - King of Lagos, Nigeria
- Mumuni Koray[6] - Ruler of Wa, Ghana
- Khalil Gamanga[7] - Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone
- Kenawa Gamanga[7] - Paramount Chief of the Simbaru Chiefdom, Kenema District, Sierra Leone
Artists
Musicians
- Yusef Lateef[8] – American Ahmadi spokesperson; Jazz multiinstrumentalist
- Ahmad Jamal[8] - American jazz pianist
- Art Blakey[8] - American jazz drummer
- Rudy Powell[8] - American jazz reed player
- Sahib Shihab[8] - American jazz Saxophonist
- Dakota Staton[8] - American jazz vocalist
- McCoy Tyner[8] - American jazz pianist
- Sadik Hakim[9] - American jazz panist
- Abbey Lincoln[10] - American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress
- Talib Dawud[11] - Anitguan-born American jazz Trumpeter
- Ahmed Abdul-Malik[12] - American jazz double bassist
- Idrees Sulieman[13] – American jazz Trumpeter
- Aamir Zaki - Pakistani guitarist, songwriter, composer
Writers
- Wage Rudolf Supratman[14]- 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[15] - 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[16] - Urdu poet
- Babatunde Jose - Nigerian Journalist
- Hadayatullah Hübsch[17] - German writer and journalist
- Khola Maryam Hübsch[18] - German writer and journalist, daughter of Hadayatullah.
- Qasim Rashid - American writer
Other artists
- Saira Wasim - Pakistani-born American miniature paint artist
- Adnan Virk[19][20] - Canadian sports anchor
- Mahershalalhashbaz Ali[21][22] - American actor
- Abdul Jeelani - American professional basketball player
Politicians
Ghanaians
- Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu[23] - member of the Council of State and former Minister for Defence
- Alhaji Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu[24] - member of Pan-African Parliament and former Minister for Interior
- Kobina Tahir Hammond[23] - Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Ashanti Region
- Ameen Salifu[25] - Member of Parliament for Wa East, Upper West Region
- Alhaji Issifu Ali[23] - former Co-chairman of the National Democratic Congress
- Musheibu Mohammed Alfa[23] - Deputy Minister of Environment, Science and Innovation
- Mahmud Khalid[26] - former Minister of State for Upper West Region
- Alhaji Mumuni Abudu Seidu[27] - former Minister of State without portfolio; former Member of Parliament, Wa Central, Upper West Region
- Alhaji Mogtari Sahanun[27] - 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[28] - president of the Nigerian Youth Movement; cofounder and chairman of the Hajj Pilgrims’ Board of Nigeria’s western region
Pakistanis
- Muhammad Zafrulla Khan[29][30] - first Foreign Minister of Pakistan, President of the UN General Assembly, President of the International Court of Justice
- Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum[31] - Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; founder Islamia College University, Pakistan
Other nationalities
- Farimang Mamadi Singateh[32] - second and last Governor General of The Gambia
- Sahibzada Abdul Latif[33] - 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[34] - Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskachewan, Canada
- Tariq Ahmad[35] - Member of the House of Lords, UK
- Iftikhar A. Ayaz - Tuvaluan consular official, UK
Military people
- Air Marshal Zafar Chaudhry - first Chief of Air Staff and a three-star general of the Pakistan Air Force
- Lieutenant General Akhtar Hussain Malik[36] - lieutenant general of the Pakistan Army
- Major General Iftikhar Janjua Shaheed[37] - major general of the Pakistan Army; 1965 war hero, killed in the 1971 war
- Lieutenant General Abdul Ali Malik[38] - 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
Scientists
- Abdus Salam[39] - first Pakistani and first Muslim recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics
- Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz[40] - 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
Others
- M M Ahmad[41] - former executive director and vice president of the World Bank
- Aslam Khan[42] - CEO Vodafone Fiji
- Nazhat Shameem [42] - Former High Court Judge, Fiji
- Justice Saeed Kwaku Gyan - Appeal Court Judge, Ghana
- Shaista Shameem - Indo-Fijian lawyer; former director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission
- Sitara Brooj Akbar - Youngest O'Levels and IELTS candidate.
- Faysal Sohail[43] - American venture capitalist
- Atif Mian - Princeton University economist
- Asad Shah - British murder victim of a religiously-motivated attack
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- 1 2 Fisher, Humphrey (1963). Ahmadiyyah: Astudy in Contemporary Islam on the West African Coast. Oxford University Press. p. 123.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. Routledge. p. 325. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
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