Kareem

For other uses, see Kareem (disambiguation).

Kareem

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Generous, Noble
Other names
Alternative spelling	Kareem, Kareem, Kare in iCal karim

Kareem (alternatively spelled Karim, (Kahreem) or Kerim) (Arabic: کریم) is a common given name and surname of Arabic origin that means generous or noble. It should not be confused with Al-Karim (Arabic: الکریم), which is one of the 99 names of Allah, meaning The Most Generous.

Karim is also a spelling of the similar, though much less common, name (Arabic: كرم), which is commonly spelled as Karam, Karem or Kerem. Another derivative name of (Arabic: أکرم) is Akram, meaning more generous.

Given name

Karim

• Karim Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor
• Karim Abdul-Jabbar (later known as Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar), American football player
• Prince Karim Aga Khan current Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
• Karim Ali, American TV/film writer and producer
• Karim Ansarifard, Iranian football player
• Karim Azizou, Moroccan footballer
• Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer
• Karim Bangoura, Guinean diplomat
• Karim Benounes, Algerian footballer
• Karim Benzema, French footballer
• Karim Boudiaf, Algerian footballer
• Karim Dahou, Moroccan footballer
• Karim Djeballi, French footballer
• Karim Haggui, Tunisian footballer
• Karim Garcia, baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
• Karim Haddad, Lebanese composer of contemporary music
• Karim Keïta, Malian politician
• Karim Kerkar, Algerian footballer
• Karim Khan Zand, Iranian king
• Karim Laribi, Italian footballer
• Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
• Karim Maroc, Algerian footballer
• Karim Masimov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
• Karim Noureldin, Swiss Artist
• Karim Pakradouni, Lebanese-Armenian Christian politician and former government minister
• Karim Prince, American actor
• Karim Saidi, Tunisian footballer
• Karim Tulaganov, Uzbek boxer and Olympic medalist
• Karim Van Overmeire, Belgian politician
• Karim Ziani, Algerian footballer
• Karim Rashid, Egyptian industrial designer

Kareem

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American former National Basketball Association player
• Kareem Amer (born c. 1984), Egyptian blogger
• Kareem Campbell (born 1973), American skateboarder
• Kareem Dennis (born 1986), British rapper performing as Lowkey
• Kareem Ennab (born 1987), Jordanian swimmer
• Kareem Hunt (born 1995), American National Football League player
• Kareem Jackson (born 1988), American National Football League player
• Kareem Kelly (born 1981), American former football player
• Kareem McKenzie (born 1979), American former National Football League player
• Kareem Moses (born 1990), Trinidadian footballer
• Kareem Rush (born 1980), American basketball player
• Kareem Serageldin, American banking executive convicted of fraud

Surname

Karim

• Aasif Karim, Kenyan cricketer
• Afsir Karim, Indian Army general and military scholar
• Bavand Karim, Iranian-American filmmaker
• Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
• Mahmoud Karim, Egyptian professional squash player
• Manzoor Ul Karim, former Chief National Commissioner of the Bangladesh Scouts and government official
• Mohammed Karim, Egyptian film director
• Mona Karim, Lebanese actress
• Rashid Karim, Bangladeshi novelist
• Saba Karim, Indian cricketer
• Sajjad Karim, British Member of the European Parliament

Kareem

• Yaqub Kareem (Yakuba Karim), Nigerian boxer of the 2000s and 2010s

Fictional characters

• Karim family in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Kareem Said, a Muslim prisoner in the T.V. series Oz
• Kareem, played by Rodney Sinclair in the British web series Corner Shop Show
• Karim, in the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

See also

• Abdul Karim (disambiguation), Arabic theophoric name
• Karimov, Russianized surname
• Kerimov, Russianized surname