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Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. was born in Harlem, New York City, [14] the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. [15] Cora was born in North Carolina but came to Harlem as part of the Great Migration.
Power Memorial Academy (PMA) was an all-boys Catholic high school in New York City that operated from 1931 through 1984. It was a basketball powerhouse, producing several NBA players including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [1] Len Elmore, [2] Mario Elie, [3] Chris Mullin, [4] as well as NBA referee Dick Bavetta and a record 71-game winning streak.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Hall of Fame basketball player, author, [31] born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., raised Catholic in New York City where he attended Catholic schools, converted to Islam in 1971 at age 24. Keith Ellison, first Muslim to serve in the United States Congress; Everlast, Irish-American rapper and guitar player
Grier met basketball player Ferdinand Lewis (Lew) Alcindor in 1969. [24] Early in their relationship, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar proposed to Grier on the condition that she immediately convert to Islam. [25] Grier refused, and he married a different woman that day. [26] [27]
Ferdinand the Bull, a mild-mannered bull in the children's book The Story of Ferdinand; Ferdinand the Bull, mascot of the Taranaki Rugby Football Union team; Ferdinand, a character from the television series Thomas & Friends; Dr. Ferdinand, a character from the manga Steel Ball Run; Ferdinand, a character from the action-adventure game L.A. Noire
Some African-Americans would later change their name after a religious conversion (Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) from Malcolm Little, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr, and Louis Farrakhan changed his from Louis Eugene Walcott, for example) [11] [12] or involvement with ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer. [9] [10] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – (born Chris Wayne Jackson) – American former professional basketball player. [11] Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland) – American jazz trumpeter. [12]
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), author; lived late in life in Baltimore, buried in Rockville; Paul Ford (1901–1976), actor, notably for The Phil Silvers Show and The Music Man; Edward R. Foreman (1808–1885), meteorologist; Jane Frank (1918–1986), abstract expressionist artist, painter, sculptor, mixed media and textile artist, pupil of ...