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• Faysal Bank 1987 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Pakistan

  A Pakistani Islamic bank in Karachi, which began in Pakistan in October 1987 as a branch of Bahrain's Faysal Islamic Bank, owned by Prince Mohammed bin Faisal; it became a conventional bank and converted fully to Islamic banking in December 2022; Bahrain's Ithmaar Bank holds most of it.

• ICB Islamic Bank 1987 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A second-generation commercial Islamic bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which began operating on 20 May 1987 as Al-Baraka Bank, became Oriental Bank in 2004, and was bought and renamed by the ICB Banking Group in 2008; its accumulated losses reached nearly 20 billion taka in 2022.

• Abdul Aziz Mollazadeh 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdul Aziz Mollazadeh, the Sunni mufti of Zahedan in Iran; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• 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.

• Asmir Begović 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian professional footballer (goalkeeper), born in Trebinje in 1987, whose family fled the Bosnian War to Germany and then Canada. He began at Portsmouth and established himself at Stoke City — where in November 2013 he scored from his own penalty area, a Guinness world record for the longest goal in football — then played for Chelsea, Bournemouth, Everton, Queens Park Rangers and Leicester City. He represented Canada at youth level before switching to Bosnia and Herzegovina, whom he helped qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, their first major tournament.

• Gervinho 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ivorian retired footballer, born in Anyama, Ivory Coast in 1987. A forward who won the French league-and-cup double with Lille in 2010–11, played for Arsenal, Roma, Hebei China Fortune, Parma and Trabzonspor — winning the Turkish Süper Lig with the last in 2021–22 — and won over 80 caps for Ivory Coast, scoring 23 goals and lifting the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

• Jackie Aina 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian-American beauty creator and entrepreneur, born in Los Angeles in 1987, who launched her YouTube channel in 2009, campaigned for the visibility of people of colour in the cosmetics industry and for wider foundation shade ranges, collaborated with major brands, co-founded the lifestyle brand FORVR Mood in 2020, and won the NAACP Image Award for YouTuber of the Year in 2018.

• Kamaru Usman 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian-American mixed martial artist and former freestyle wrestler (born 1987 in Auchi, Nigeria, emigrating to Texas as a child). NCAA Division II national wrestling champion in 2010, The Ultimate Fighter 21 winner in 2015, he won the UFC welterweight championship in 2019, defended it five times, and lost it in 2022; he holds the division-record 15-fight UFC win streak.

• Karim Benzema 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  French professional footballer, born in Lyon in 1987. A striker who broke through at Lyon, then spent fourteen seasons at Real Madrid, winning five UEFA Champions League titles and becoming the club's second-highest goalscorer, won the 2022 Ballon d'Or, and joined Saudi club Al-Ittihad in 2023; for France he earned 97 caps, was absent from the national team for over five years after 2015 in connection with a blackmail case, and returned for Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup.

• Medhi Benatia 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Retired Moroccan centre-back (born 1987 in Courcouronnes, France, to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother) who played for Udinese, Roma, Bayern Munich and Juventus, captained Morocco at the 2018 World Cup, and later served as sporting director of Marseille.

• Moeen Ali 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  English cricketer, born in Birmingham in 1987 of Kashmiri and English descent. A left-handed batting, right-arm off-spin all-rounder, he played for England from 2014 to 2024 in 68 Tests, 138 One Day Internationals and 92 Twenty20 Internationals, was England's vice-captain in limited-overs cricket, won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup with England, scored 3,094 Test runs and took 204 Test wickets, retired from international cricket in September 2024, and published his autobiography Moeen in 2018.

• Nordin Amrabat 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moroccan professional footballer (born 1987 in Naarden, Netherlands, to Moroccan-Riffian parents). A winger who played for PSV, Galatasaray, Watford, Al-Nassr and AEK Athens among others, winning 64 caps for Morocco and playing at the 2018 World Cup; the elder brother of Sofyan Amrabat.

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal, singer and composer (1948–1997) of the Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana of Delhi, who led his family's party from 1971 and carried qawwali to world audiences through Real World and Peter Gabriel, performed in over forty countries, received the Pride of Performance (1987) and the UNESCO Music Prize (1995), and recorded more than 125 qawwali albums by Guinness's count.

• Pir Ali Muhammad Rashidi 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sindhi journalist, politician and diplomat (1905–1987) of the Rashidi pir family of Bahman in Larkana: a leading Sindh Muslim Leaguer, provincial and then federal minister for information and broadcasting, Pakistan's ambassador to the Philippines and to China, and author of the classic Sindhi memoirs Uhee Denhin Uhee Shenih. He was the elder brother of the historian Pir Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi.

• Ramy Ashour 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian former professional squash player, born in Cairo in 1987. A three-time world champion (2008, 2012 and 2014) and the first player to win the World Junior Championship twice, he reached world No. 1 in January 2010 and retired in April 2019.

• Sadequain 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Sadequain Naqqash, the Pakistani calligrapher and painter who renewed calligraphy in the twentieth century; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sadia Azmat 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sadia Azmat is an English stand-up comedian, author and broadcaster, born in Leyton, London. She began stand-up in 2010 after working in call centres, performed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, made the BBC short Things I Have Been Asked As a British Muslim (2015), hosted the podcast No Country for Young Women (2018-2020), and published her memoir Sex Bomb in 2022.

• Salim Ali 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian ornithologist and naturalist, known as the Birdman of India: the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across India, a key figure behind the Bombay Natural History Society after 1947, and co-author with S. Dillon Ripley of the ten-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan; he received the Padma Bhushan (1958) and the Padma Vibhushan (1976).

• Sami Khedira 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  German former professional footballer of Tunisian descent, born in Stuttgart in 1987. A central midfielder who began at VfB Stuttgart, winning the Bundesliga in 2007, then played for Real Madrid, winning the UEFA Champions League in 2014, and for Juventus, winning five consecutive Serie A titles, before ending his playing career at Hertha BSC in 2021. A Germany international with 77 caps, he was part of the squad that won the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and he now works as an assistant coach at Real Madrid.

• Tawfiq al-Hakim 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  An Egyptian writer born in Alexandria in October 1898, grew up in Alexandria and Cairo, and was a pioneer of the Arabic theatre and novel.

• The Holy Qurān: The Arabic Text and its Translation in the English Language (Houssein Nahaboo) 1987 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an self-published in Mauritius in 1987 by Houssein Nahaboo, with a French translation issued at about the same time, after his Creole one; in modern English avoiding the King James style, with just enough notes to understand the text, influenced by Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation, and seeking to harmonise interpretations and avoid division.