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• African Footballer of the Year 1992 Prize Awards and competitions

  The Confederation of African Football's annual award for the best African footballer, conferred since 1992 and part of the CAF Awards ceremony since 2000; France Football magazine gave a predecessor award from 1970 to 1994.

• Ali Farag 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian former professional squash player, born in Cairo in 1992. A four-time world champion (2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022–23) and former world No. 1, he retired in May 2025 with 46 PSA titles.

• Daud Kim 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  South Korean singer and YouTuber, born Kim Jae-han in Seoul in 1992. He began as the singer Jay Kim, built a Southeast Asian fan base through live streaming and fan meetings, embraced Islam in September 2019 and became South Korea's best-known Muslim content creator, with 8.45 million YouTube subscribers by vidIQ's count updated in November 2026. His 2024 campaign to build a mosque in Incheon drew national attention when local opposition ended the land purchase.

• Édouard Mendy 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese professional goalkeeper (born 1992 in Montivilliers, France). Released by Cherbourg in 2014, he spent a year without a club during which he registered as unemployed, then rebuilt his career through Marseille's reserves, Reims and Rennes to Chelsea, where he won the 2021 Champions League and was named The Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper; he joined Al-Ahli in 2023 and won two Africa Cup of Nations titles with Senegal (2021 and 2025).

• Enes Kanter Freedom 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish-American basketball player and activist (born 1992) born in Zurich as Enes Kanter and raised in Turkey, who played eleven NBA seasons and, on becoming an American citizen on 29 November 2021, legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom; a practising Muslim.

• Fatima Sana Shaikh 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian actress (born 1992) at Hyderabad who began as a child artist in Chachi 420 (1997) and rose to fame as the wrestler Geeta Phogat in Dangal (2016), the highest-grossing Indian film; she later starred in Ludo (2020) and portrayed Indira Gandhi in Sam Bahadur (2023).

• Feza Gürsey 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish theoretical physicist (1921–1992), born in Istanbul and educated at Galatasaray, Istanbul University and Imperial College London (PhD 1950). Known for the chiral model, his SU(6) symmetry work and the Gürsey–Radicati formula, he founded the theoretical physics department at the Middle East Technical University and later held the Gibbs chair at Yale. He received the Oppenheimer Prize in 1977 and the Wigner Medal in 1986, and the Feza Gürsey Institute in Istanbul bears his name.

• Granit Xhaka 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Swiss professional footballer of Kosovar Albanian descent, born in Basel in 1992. A defensive midfielder who began at Basel, moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach, then spent seven years at Arsenal, making nearly 300 appearances and winning two FA Cups, before helping Bayer Leverkusen to their first-ever Bundesliga title in 2024 and joining Sunderland in 2025. He captains Switzerland and is the country's record appearance holder.

• Jazeman Jaafar 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian racing driver, born in Kuala Lumpur in 1992. He won the Formula BMW Asia title in 2007 at fourteen, finished runner-up in British Formula 3 in 2012 — winning the Pau Grand Prix that year — and later raced in Formula Renault 3.5, Blancpain and Super GT.

• Kyrie Irving 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  American basketball guard (born 1992) born in Melbourne, Australia, and raised in New Jersey, the first overall pick of 2011 and a 2016 NBA champion with Cleveland; in 2021 he stated his commitment to Islam and has fasted Ramadan in season since.

• Mehdi Taremi 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iranian professional footballer (born 1992 in Bushehr). A striker who twice finished as the Iranian league's top scorer with Persepolis before playing for Rio Ave and Porto — where his bicycle kick against Chelsea was voted UEFA's goal of the season — Inter Milan and Olympiacos, joining Al Wasl in 2026; an Iran international since 2015 who played at three World Cups.

• Mohamed Salah 1992 SportFigures of the last fifty years Egypt

  Egyptian professional footballer, born in Nagrig, Gharbia, in 1992, who began at Al-Mokawloon, starred for Liverpool (2017–2026) winning the Champions League and Premier League titles and setting scoring records, captained Egypt at the 2026 World Cup, and plays for Trabzonspor in Türkiye since 2026. This record is the footballer, not the Tunisian scholar Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad, who has his own record in the museum.

• Mohammad Hidayatullah 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian jurist and statesman (1905–1992), chief justice of India from 1968 to 1970. On the death in office of President Zakir Husain he served as acting president of India in July–August 1969, and he was vice president of India from 1979 to 1984. Educated at Cambridge and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, he was also a noted scholar of Urdu literature.

• Muhammad Asad 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Austro-Hungarian-born Pakistani writer, thinker, journalist, translator and diplomat, born Leopold Weiss at Lemberg in 1900 to a Jewish family. He converted to Sunni Islam in Berlin in 1926, travelled the Arab world as a correspondent, was close to King Abdul Aziz in the Hejaz, and served the new state of Pakistan as Director of the Department of Islamic Reconstruction and as its envoy to the United Nations. His best-known books are The Road to Mecca (1954) and his Qur'an translation and commentary, The Message of the Qur'an.

• Nur Tatar 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish taekwondo practitioner, born in Van in 1992. A world and European champion, she won silver at 67 kg at the London 2012 Olympics and gold at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. She married the former Iranian taekwondo practitioner Mehran Askari in 2017 and is also known as Nur Tatar Askari.

• Reema Juffali 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi racing driver, born in Jeddah in 1992. The first Saudi Arabian woman racing driver, the first Saudi woman to hold a racing licence and the first to win an international motor race; she founded Theeba Motorsport in 2022 and was named to the BBC 100 Women list of 2022.

• Sadio Mané 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese professional footballer, born in Bambali, in the Sédhiou region, in 1992. A winger for Saudi club Al-Nassr and the Senegal national team, he is among the leading African players of his generation: he won the Premier League (2020) and the UEFA Champions League (2019) with Liverpool, scored the Premier League's fastest hat-trick for Southampton (176 seconds, 2015), led Senegal to their first Africa Cup of Nations title (2021), and funded a mosque, a school and a hospital in his home village of Bambali.

• Togrul Asgarov 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, born in Ganja in 1992. Olympic champion at London 2012 (60 kg) and silver medallist at Rio 2016 (65 kg), European champion in 2012 and European Games champion in 2015; he was disqualified for one year in 2017 for a doping-rules violation.

• Wilfried Zaha 1992 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ivorian footballer, born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1992 and raised in England. A Crystal Palace academy winger who was Alex Ferguson's last signing for Manchester United in 2013, then returned to Palace and became the club's record Premier League goalscorer; he later played for Galatasaray and Charlotte FC. He won two friendly caps for England before switching to the Ivory Coast national team in 2017.

• Aladdin 1992 Animation Films United States

  Aladdin.

• Malcolm X 1992 Film Films United States

  Spike Lee's epic biopic starring Denzel Washington — Malcolm X's journey from crime to the Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam after the hajj.

• The Majestic Qur'an: An English Rendition of Its Meanings (Ali Özek and team) 1992 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by a team of Turkish scholars led by Ali Özek of Marmara University, with Nureddin Uzunoğlu, Tevfik Rüştü Topuzoğlu and Mehmet Maksutoğlu, published in Istanbul in 1992 as one of the first English translations produced in Turkey, and republished in 2000 as The Majestic Qur'an by the Nawawi and Ibn Khaldun Foundations after review by Abdal Hakim Murad, Uthman Hutchinson and Mostafa al-Badawi, with the Arabic text and some 809 footnotes.

• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree 1992 Book Books and publishers

  Tariq Ali's first Islam Quintet novel — an Andalusi family after Granada's fall, as the books are burned.

• Yahya Haqqi 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  An Egyptian writer born in the Sayyida Zaynab district of Cairo in January 1905, who held a law degree.

• Abubakar Gumi 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian scholar and judge (d. 1992), Grand Khadi of the Northern Region (1962-1967) and the leading figure of Salafi reform in northern Nigeria. He was known for his public conflicts with the Sufi brotherhoods and for his translation of the Qur'an's meanings into Hausa; his student Ismaila Idris founded the Izala society under his direction.