Azad

Azād is a word of Indo-Iranian origins, which means "free". It is used in the Indo-Iranian languages like Kurdish, Dari, Urdu, Persian and Punjabi. It is also used in Armenian. It may refer to:

People named Azad

• Azad Shah Afghan, founder and first ruler of Azad dynasty.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Indian freedom-fighter
• Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian freedom-fighter
• Azad (Maoist) alias Cherukuri Rajkumar Spokesperson and Central Politburo member of Communist Party of India (Maoist)
• Azad (rapper), German rapper of Iranian-Kurdish descent (formerly a member of Asiatic Warriors)
• Afshan Azad, actress who played the character of Padma Patil in the Harry Potter films
• Humayun Azad, Bangladeshi author and scholar
• Mahmoud Mosharraf Azad Tehrani, Iranian poet
• Azad, a eunuch and companion in martyrdom of Simeon Barsabae

Places

• Azadi Stadium, Iran's national and largest stadium
• Azad, Afghanistan
• Azat, Armenia
• Azad, Azerbaijan
• Azad Kashmir, disputed autonomous region within the state of Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan

Entertainment

• Azad (fictional game), a fictional game from the book The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  • Azadians, the race playing the above game
• Azadi (album), album released by Pakistani rock band, Junoon
• Azaad (disambiguation), multiple Bollywood films
• Azad, a fictional region where most of the plot and gameplay of the videogame Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time takes place
• Azad (Telugu film)

Other

• Azad Empire, an Afghan empire that ruled southern Caucaus, Kurdistan, north-western Persia and south-western Turkmenistan.
• The Azad, a Bangla newspaper which was founded in Kolkata and later became the leading daily in East Bengal
• Azad Hind, collaborationist provisional government of Free India led by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in World War II
• Azad Hind Fauj, Indian National Army
• Islamic Azad University private chain of universities in Iran
• Azaad