Salah (name)

Not to be confused with Saleh (name).

Salah (Arabic: صلاح, Ṣalāḥ, [sˤɑlɑːħ]) is a Biblical and an Arabic given name and family name. Its meaning in the Bible is 'mission', or 'sending', whereas the Arabic meaning is 'righteousness', 'goodness', or 'peace'.

People with the given name

• Salah (biblical figure), an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10
• Salah (dancer), full name Salah Benlemqawanssa, a hip-hop dancer
• Salah Aboud Mahmoud, an Iraqi former officer
• Salah Abdel Sabour, an Egyptian poet, editor, playwright and essayist
• Salah Abdel-Shafi, a Palestinian economist and ambassador
• Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi, a Bahraini held in extrajudicial detention in the United States on suspicion of terrorism
• Salah Abu Seif, an Egyptian film director
• Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, a Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat
• Salah Ali Al-Ghali, a governor of South Darfur
• Salah Amin, an Egyptian footballer
• Salah Assad, an Algerian footballer and sports manager
• Salah Bachir, Canadian philanthropist and businessman
• Salah Bakour, an Algerian footballer
• Salah Al Bandar, a British-Sudanese known for role in revealing the Bandargate scandal in Bahrain
• Salah Bouchekriou, an Algerian handball player and coach
• Salah Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist
• Salah Dessouki, an Egyptian Olympic fencer
• Salah Edin, real name Abid Tounssi, a Dutch-Moroccan rapper
• Salah Ezzedine, a Lebanese businessman accused of running a pyramid scheme
• Salah Gaham, an Algerian French concierge who died during the 2005 civil unrest in France, see 2005 French riots#Salah Gaham's death
• Salah Goudjil, an Algerian politician, belonging to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front
• Salah Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi poet, actor and playwright
• Salah Hissou, a Moroccan long-distance runner
• Salah Jadid, a Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970
• Salah Jahin, an Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
• Salah Khalaf, (aka Abu Iyad), deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a senior official of Fatah
• Salah Larbès, an Algerian international footballer
• Salah Mansour, an Egyptian film actor
• Salah Mohsen, an Egyptian footballer
• Salah Mejri, a Tunisian basketball player
• Salah Nasr, an Egyptian former head of the country's General Intelligence Directorate
• Salah Omar al-Ali, a former Iraqi politician, minister and ambassador
• Salah Qoqaiche, a retired Moroccan long-distance marathon runner
• Salah Ragab, an Egyptian drummer and jazz musician
• Salah Salem, an Egyptian military officer and politician
• Salah Samadi, an Algerian football player
• Salah Shehade, a Palestinian Hamas movement member
• Salah Sid, an Algerian-born British radio broadcaster, producer and voice-over artist
• Salah Soliman, an Egyptian footballer
• Salah Stétié, a Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language
• Salah Suheimat, a Jordanian politician and Member of the Jordanian Parliament
• Salah Taher, an Egyptian painter
• Salah Tarif, a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli Knesset
• Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, a Saudi Arabian forensics officer
• Salah Zulfikar, an Egyptian actor and movie star
• Sallah, a character from Indiana Jones.

People with the middle name

• Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah, a Dutch actor Moroccan-Yemenite roots raised in France
• Ahmad Salah Alwan, an Iraqi footballer
• Ahmed Salah Hosny, an Egyptian footballer
• Ali Salah Hashim, an Iraqi footballer
• Mohamed Salah Ghaly, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Liverpool and Egypt
• Mohamed Salah Mzali, a Tunisian educator, historian, and politician
• Mohamed Salah Zaray, a Tunisian politician

People with the family name

• Asher Salah, an Israeli historian, specialist and translator in Italian Hebrew literature
• Hussein Ahmed Salah, a Djibouti long distance runner athlete
• Kamal Salah, birth name of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born Israeli Hebrew author
• Maha Naji Salah, a Yemeni writer and social activist
• Mahmud Salah, an Azerbaijani musician of traditional and ethnic music
• Mohamed Salah, an Egypt footballer who plays Liverpool F.C.
• Trish Salah, a Lebanese Canadian feminist writer, educator and sociologist
• Raed Salah, a Palestinian leader, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel
• Yiḥyah Salaḥ, known as the Maharitz, an 18th-century Yemenite rabbi, author and scholar

Football

• Arturo Salah, a Chilean former football player, manager and administrator
• Ibrahim Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Zamalek and Egypt
• Luay Salah, an Iraqi football player, plays for Al-Zawra'a and has played for Iraq
• Mohamed Salah (football manager), an Egyptian coach and retired footballer

Other uses

• Ibn al-Salah, a Shafi'i hadith scholar and author

See also

• Beni Salah (disambiguation)
• Salah (disambiguation)
• Salah ad-Din (name)
• Saleh (name)