Ziyad
(Redirected from Zyad)
| Pronunciation | Arabic: [ˈziːjaːd] |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Arabic |
| Word/name | Middle East, Arabian Peninsula |
| Meaning | abundance, growth, generous, greater |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Ziad, Zyad, Zeyad, Zijad |
| Related names | Zayd |
Ziyad (/ˈziːjɑːd, -jæd/; Arabic: زياد, romanized: Ziyād) is an Arabic given name and surname.
Given name
[edit]Actors
[edit]- Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor
Athletes
[edit]- Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwaiti hurdler
- Zeyad Mater, Yemeni judoka
- Zyad Chaabo, Syrian footballer
- Ziad Jaziri, Tunisian football striker
- Ziad Richa, Lebanese skeet shooter
- Ziad Tlemçani, Tunisian footballer
- Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender
- Ziyad al-Kord, Palestinian footballer
- Ziyad al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer
- Ziyad al-Johani, Saudi Arabian footballer
- Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker
Businessmen
[edit]- Ziad Takieddine Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker
- Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor
- Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer
- Ziad Zanayed investor and financier.
Film directors
[edit]- Ziad Antar, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer
- Ziad Doueiri, Lebanese film director
- Ziad Touma, Lebanese Canadian film director
Writers
[edit]- Ziad Majed, Lebanese political researcher
- Ziyad Marar, Iraqi writer and publisher
Musicians
[edit]- Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator
Poets
[edit]- Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am, poet of the Umayyad period of Persian origin
Politicians
[edit]- Ziad Aboultaif, Canadian politician
- Ziad Abs, Lebanese politician
- Ziad Abu Amr Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
- Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian politician
- Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, Egyptian politician
- Ziyad Baroud, Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist
- Ziad Durrani, Pakistani politician
- Ziad Makhzoumi, Lebanese British businessman and public speaker
- Ziyad Sabbagh (born 1960), Syrian politician
Military
[edit]- Ziyad ibn Abihi (622–673), Muslim general and administrator
- Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Harthi, Abbasid governor of Medina from 750 to 758.
- Ziad Fahd, Free Syrian Army brigadier general
- Ziad al-Hariri, Syrian senior officer and defence minister
- Zijad Subašić, Bosniak military leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95)
Other
[edit]- Ziad Abuzayyad, Palestinian lawyer, journalist
- Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, petroleum geologist and professor
- Ziad Fazah, Lebanese polyglot
- Ziad el-Doulatli, Tunisian activist
- Ziad al-Khasawneh, Jordanian lawyer who headed a team of twenty-two defence lawyers for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
- Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese terrorist hijacker involved in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93
- Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member
- Zijad Delić, Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker
Surname
[edit]- Howar Ziad, Iraqi politician and ambassador
- Hussein Ziad, Jordanian footballer
- Tawfiq Ziad (1929–1994), Palestinian politician well known for his "poetry of protest".
See also
[edit]- Tariq ibn Ziyad, Umayyad-era commander who led the Muslim conquest of Spain in the 8th century
- Ziyadid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid
- Zayed (disambiguation)
- Zaid, an Arabic masculine name
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