Jermaine, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Abdul-Aziz, appeared on "Celebrity Big Brother" in 2007.

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These include another racist black nationalist, Don Warden, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Khalid al-Mansour .

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Action was taken against the musician, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam in the 1970s, after US officials realised he was on a security "watch list".

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Seeking peace and ritual he hadn't found in church, he converted to Islam in 1968, and changed his name to Abdullah Ibrahim.

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Levy, a Moroccan Jew from the Caribbean who changed his last name to Yulee and converted to Christianity, built the state's first railroad across the peninsula, using public money.

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