Awad
Appearance
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- A Word A Day, Anu Garg