Ziyad

Ziad

Pronunciation	[ˈzi:.jaːd]
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)	Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, Zijad
Related names	Zaid

Ziad (also transliterated as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad Template:Lang-ar) is an Arabic given name and surname.

Given name

Actors

• Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor

Athletes

• 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
• Ziad Al-Muwallad, Saudi Arabian football defender
• Ziad Agha, Palestinian rugby and rugby league player
• Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender
• Ziyad Al-Kord, Palestinian footballer
• Ziyad Al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker
• Zeyad Sameh, Engineers should kms

Businessmen

• Ziad Takieddine Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker
• Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor
• Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer
• Ziad Abdelnour (financier), Lebanese-born American investment banker and financier

Film directors

• Ziad Antar, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer
• Ziad Doueiri, Lebanese film director
• Ziad Hamzeh, American film director
• Ziad Touma, Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

• Ziad Majed, Lebanese political researcher
• Ziyad Marar, Iraqi writer and publisher

Musicians

• Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

• Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am, poet of the Umayyad period of Persian origin

Politicians

• 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

• Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan, Muslim general
• Ziyad ibn Abih (622–673 AD), Muslim general and administrator
• Ziyad ibn Ubaydallah 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

• 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 hijacker pilot 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

• 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

• Tarik-ibn-Zeyad, more commonly Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Muslim commander who led the Islamic Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania 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