Jackson's family — led by mother Katherine and father Joe — were in the Los Angeles court to hear the guilty verdict.
Murray, who worked in Trinidad before moving to the US, faces up to four years in jail and could be banned from practicing medicine.
He was accused of giving Jackson an overdose of propofol on June 25, 2009. The drug reduces anxiety and tension, and promotes relaxation and sleep or loss of consciousness. It is used for short diagnostic tests and surgical procedures, sleep at the beginning of surgery, and supplements other types of general anesthetics.
In his closing arguments last week, Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said Murray caused the pop star's death through negligence and greed.
Walgren claimed that Murray concocted lies to cover his tracks — specifically about the timeline on the day Jackson died. The prosecutor also accused the doctor of not telling paramedics what drugs he had administered.
The prosecutor expanded on his greed theory by stating that Murray just wanted to protect his salary of US$150,000 a month.
"Conrad Murray in multiple instances deceived, lied, obscured, but more importantly, Conrad Murray acted with criminal negligence," the prosecutor told the jury.
The defence argued that Jackson was a desperate drug addict who caused his own death by taking more medicines while Murray was out of the room at the star's mansion in Los Angeles.
Defense attorney Ed Chernoff described Murray as "a little fish in a big dirty pond," alleging that key witnesses conspired to agree on a story after Jackson died.
Murray was born in grenada and lived there with his maternal grandparents until he migrated to Trinidad at age seven to join his mother. He became a T&T citizen and completed his primary and secondary education after which he became an elementary school teacher.
He also work as a customs clerk and an insurance underwriter and at 19 he bought his first house, which he later sold at a profit to finance his education.
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