Awad

Awad or Aouad or Awwad (Arabic: عوض or at times عوّاد) is an Arabic given name and surname. People with the name include:

Given name

of the origin عوّاد

• Awwad Eid Al-Aradi Al-Balawi, former Director General of Saudi Arabian Border Guards, Ministry of Interior, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Awad Hamad al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency
• Awad Khleifat (born 1945), Jordanian politician

Surname

of the origin عوض

• Gamal Awad, Egyptian squash player
• Jacqueline Cabaj Awad, Swedish tennis player
• Krayem Awad, Austrian painter, sculptor and poet
• Mira Awad, Israeli Arab musician
• Mohammed Awad (politician), Iraqi politician
• Mubarak Awad, Palestinian-American psychologist
• Nihad Awad, American activist
• Ramzi Aouad, Australian murderer
• Saad Awad, American mixed martial artist
• Samer Awad, Syrian footballer
• Sumaya Awad, Palestinian American writer and activist

of the origin عوّاد

• Ahmed El Aouad, French-Moroccan footballer
• Awwad Alawwad (born 1972), Saudi politician and government minister
• Juliet Awwad (born 1951), Jordanian actress and director of Armenian descent
• Mohamed El Amine Aouad, Algerian

Other uses

• A Word A Day, Anu Garg