Sharmila Tagore Reportedly, Sharmila Tagore has accepted Islam and changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana to marry her love. The pair have three children- Saba Ali Khan, Saif Ali Khan, and Soha Ali Khan.
Popular TV actress and Bigg Boss 12 winner Dipika Kakar embraced Islam when she married Shoaib Ibrahim.
Dipika Kakar
Popular TV actress Dipika Kakar converted to Islam and changed her name to Faiza to marry the love of her life. She was first married to Raunak Samson.
Vivian Dsena confirms converting to Islam in 2019, says 'I find peace in praying five times a day' - India Today.
Among those who have converted to Islam, a majority come from a Christian background. In fact, about half of all converts to Islam (53%) identified as Protestant before converting; another 20% were Catholic.
Lauren Booth is a UK citizen who converted to Islam after travelling through the Middle East and finding faith 'in a mosque in Iran'. She has been living in Türkiye, and her newest book has been published in Turkish just recently.
In June last year, teenage Hindu girl Kareena Kumari told a court here that she was forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man. In March last year, three Hindu girls — Satran Oad, Kaveeta Bheel and Anita Bheel — were abducted, converted to Islam and married to Muslim men within eight days.
A 17-year-old Hindu girl in Pakistan's Sindh was kidnapped and converted to Islam. The minor is a resident of Naukot, Mirpur Khas district in Sindh province in Pakistan. According to her family, the girl was kidnapped on February 15 from Naukot market where she had gone with her younger brother to purchase vegetables.
Rahman (Allah-Rakha Rahman): Music composer, singer-songwriter and music producer, AR Rahman was born a Hindu and named AS Dileep Kumar. However, he converted to Islam later. The musician was introduced to Qadiri Islam when his younger sister was severely ill.
Hinduism is an ancient religion with the largest religious grouping in India, with around 966 million adherents as of 2011, composing 79.8% of the population.
Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread, Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world.
Newly Islamised Arabs were Islam's first contact with India. Historians Elliot and Dowson say in their book The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians, that the first ship bearing Muslim travellers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 CE. H.G.
Nagma, a popular actress and politician, who began her career opposite Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, was born Nandita Arvind Morarji. In 2007, the actress converted to Christianity.
Sunni sources often describe Ali as the first child to embrace Islam, while the significance of Ali's Islam has been questioned by Watt and the Sunni al-Jahiz ( d. 869).
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's report, around 1,000 girls are forcibly converted to Islam every year. Hindus form the biggest minority community in Pakistan. According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus live in the Muslim-majority country.
Following his conversion to Islam, Cat Stevens (now named Yusuf Islam), abandoned his musical career for nearly two decades.
Sadiq Khan: Mayor of London. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi: The First Muslim to Serve in a British Cabinet, Lawyer, Businesswoman and Campaigner. Mo Farah CBE: Double Gold Olympic Medallist. Nadiya Hussain: TV Personality and Winner of The Great British Bake Off.
Most British converts belong to the British Orthodox Church, which is canonically part of the Coptic Orthodox Church. There is also the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in London. There is also the Armenian Apostolic Church in London.
The main reasons for Islam's growth ultimately involve simple demographics. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study.
The Muslim population of England and Wales has grown consistently since World War II. Sophie Gilliat-Ray attributes the recent growth to "recent immigration, the higher than average birth rate, some conversion to Islam".
Hindus by state or territory
Hinduism is one of the fastest growing religion in absolute numbers in every state and territory of Australia.