Ahmad (disambiguation)

Ahmad, or Ahmed, is a common Arabic given name.

Ahmad or Ahmed may also refer to:

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See also: Ahmad § List of people with the name
  • Ahmad Aali (born 1935), Iranian photographer and artist
  • Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla Abbaro (1933–2016), London-based Sudanese ceramicist and potter
  • Abu Sa'id Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (1020–8206), Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer
  • Ahmad Abdalla (born 1979), Egyptian film director, editor and screenwriter
  • Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah (born 1953), Sudanese physician and human rights activist
  • Ahmad Kamal Abdullah (born 1941), Malaysian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic
  • Ahmed Abdullah (born 1947), jazz trumpeter who was a prominent member of Sun Ra's band
  • Ahmed Abukhater, architect, environmental scientist, urban and regional planner by trade
  • Ahmed Achour (born 1945), Tunisian composer and conductor
  • Ahmad Adaya (1927–2006), American Muslim real estate tycoon and philanthropist
  • Afroz Ahmad, Indian environment scientist and development administrator
  • Ahmad ibn 'Imad al-Din, Persian physician and alchemist
  • Aminah L. Ahmad, African-American ballet dancer
  • Asad Ahmad, BBC journalist and news presenter
  • Ashab Uddin Ahmad (1914–1994), Bangladeshi writer, educator and politician
  • Aziz Ahmad (novelist) (1914–1978), Urdu poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, historian, research scholar from Pakistan
  • Darin Ahmad (born 1979), Syrian artist, poet and writer
  • Habib Ahmad, Pakistan scientist, currently Professor of Genetics and vice-chancellor of Islamia College, Peshawar in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Ibrahim Ahmad (1914–2000), Kurdish writer, novelist and translator
  • Ishfaq Ahmad, D.Sc., Minister of State, SI, HI, NI, FPAS (1930–2018), Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics
  • Israr Ahmad (1940–2010), Indian theoretical nuclear physicist and professor at Aligarh Muslim University
  • Jamil Ahmad (writer) (1931–2014), Pakistani civil servant, novelist and story writer
  • Kamal Ahmad (born 1965), American lawyer, educator, social entrepreneur, and CEO of Asian University for Women Support Foundation
  • Kontek Kamariah Ahmad (1911–2006), scored many “firsts” for women in the co-operative movement, education and politics in Malaysia
  • Manzoor Ahmad, DSc (born 1934), Pakistani scientist and philosopher of science
  • Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti (c. 950 – 1007), Arab Muslim astronomer, chemist, mathematician, economist and scholar in Islamic Spain
  • Munshi Siddique Ahmad (8201–2011), Bangladeshi rice scientist
  • Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Bangladeshi economist and development thinker and activist
  • Rafiq Ahmad, Pakistani scientist and beekeeping expert
  • Saiyed Saghir Ahmad (born 1935), judge of the Supreme Court of India
  • Soanya Ahmad or Reid Stowe (born 1952), American artist and mariner
  • Talat Ahmad, Indian Earth Scientist and Professor at Department of Geology, University of Delhi
  • Yousef Ahmad (born 1955), Qatari artist, art adviser, collector, writer and educator in the field of art
  • Zakariyya Ahmad (1896–1961), Egyptian musician and composer
  • Ziauddin Ahmad CIE, MP (1878–1947), mathematician, parliamentarian, logician, natural philosopher, political theorist, educationist, scholar
  • Abu Sayeed M Ahmed, architect and architectural conservation specialist from Bangladesh
  • Aftab Ahmed (photojournalist) (1934–2013), Bangladeshi photojournalist
  • Ahmed al-Madini, scholar, a novelist, a poet, and a translator from Morocco
  • Ahmed es-Sikeli, baptised a Christian under the name Peter, was a eunuch and kaid of the Diwan of the Kingdom of Sicily
  • Anna Molka Ahmed (1917–1995), Pakistani artist and a pioneer of fine arts in the country after its independence in 1947
  • Asif Ahmed (scientist) FRSB is a British entrepreneurial scientist
  • Dilruba Ahmed, Bangladeshi American writer, educator, and poet
  • Iqbal Z. Ahmed (born 1946), businessman and philanthropist of Pakistan
  • Kafil Ahmed (born 1962), contemporary Bangladeshi poet, singer and artist
  • Kausar Bashir Ahmed (1939–2006), Pakistani architect, townplanner and educationist
  • M. W. Ahmed, Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Modhir Ahmed (born 1956), Iraqi-Swedish artist
  • Nissar Ahmed, Indian Educationist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Founder Chancellor of Presidency University, Bangalore
  • Novera Ahmed (1939–2015), modern sculptor of Bangladesh
  • Qanta A. Ahmed, British physician specializing in sleep disorders
  • Said Salah Ahmed, Somali playwright, poet, educator and filmmaker
  • Salauddin Ahmed (born 1967), contemporary Bangladeshi architect
  • Shafi Ahmed, surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur
  • Shahabuddin Ahmed (artist) (born 1950), Bangladeshi painter
  • Shoaib Ahmed (businessman) (born 1964), Indian Software Evangelist
  • Wasi Ahmed, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer
  • Ameena Ahmad Ahuja, Indian painter, calligrapher, writer and linguist, known for her Urdu poetry-inspired art works
  • Ahmad ibn Ajiba (1747–1809), 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawa Sufi Sunni Islamic lineage
  • Ahmad Alaadeen (1934–2010), jazz saxophonist and educator whose career spanned over six decades
  • Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (8206–1969), Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, sociologist, anthropologist & ethnographer
  • Ahmed Ali (writer) (1910–1994), Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar
  • Madanur Ahmed Ali, Indian surgical gastroenterologist from Chennai
  • Thani Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates
  • Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad Abū ‘Abdallāh Badr al-Dīn (1423–1506), Egyptian-born astronomer and mathematician
  • Ahmed Al Bahrani (sculptor) (born 1965), Iraqi sculptor
  • Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi, Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist
  • Ahmed Benyahia (born 1943), Algerian artist
  • Ahmed Best (born 1973), American actor, voice actor, and musician
  • Ahmed Bouzfour (born 1945), Moroccan novelist
  • Nazir Ahmad Bulbul, Wakhi language poet and an educationist
  • Ahmed the Calligrapher, Christian saint and official of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century
  • Ahmed Dawood (1899–2002), Pakistani industrialist, pioneer merchant and a philanthropist
  • Ahmed Djoghlaf (born 1953), the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • Ahmed Ertegun (1923–2006), Turkish-American businessman, songwriter and philanthropist
  • Ahmed Fagih (born 1942), Libyan novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and diplomat
  • Ahmed Hajeri (born 1948), Tunisian painter from Tazerka
  • Ahmed Hassanein, KCVO, MBE (1889–1946), Oxford-educated Egyptian courtier, diplomat, Olympic athlete in fencing, photographer, writer, politician, geographic explorer, tutor then chamberlain to King Farouk
  • 'Ali Ahmad Ibn Hazm (8206–1064), Andalusian poet, polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in Córdoba, (Spain)
  • Ahmed Gaffer Hegazi (born 1948), Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the department of Zoonotic Diseases, National Research Centre, Egypt
  • Ahmad Heryawan, Governor of West Java (2008–Incumbent)
  • Abu ‛Abbas Ahmad Ibn al-Banna (1256–1321), Moroccan-berber mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi, and a one-time astrologer
  • Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, Ph.D. (1937–1992), Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for discovering new neutron-deficient isotopes
  • Ahmed Mohamed Iman, Director General of the Fisheries, Marine Resources and Environment Sector of the Ministry of the National Resources of Somalia
  • Ahmed el Inglizi, English renegade architect and engineer who worked for the Sultan of Morocco Mohammed ben Abdallah in the 18th century
  • Sultan Ahmed Ismail (born 1951), Indian soil biologist and ecologist
  • Ahmad Jafari (born 1938 in Iran), veteran architect based in USA whose career extends over 6 decades
  • Ahmad Jamal (born 1930), American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator
  • Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (1889–2001), Sufi saint, author, scholar of Hadith and Quran, and Muslim missionary in Bangladesh
  • Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani. (800/805-870) a.k.a. Alfraganus in the West, famed astronomer in the Abbasid court in Baghdad
  • Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada (1929–2017), South African politician, political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist.
  • Naseer Ahmed Khan (born 1936), Pashtun tribal chieftain, social activist and public philanthropist in Baluchistan, Pakistan
  • Shamim Ahmed Khan (1938–2012), sitarist and composer, and notably, a student of Pandit Ravi Shankar
  • Ahmad Khani, Ahmad-i Khani (8206–1707), Kurdish writer, poet, astronomer and philosopher
  • Maqbool Ahmed Lari, Indian social worker, philanthropist, Urdu littérateur, and the founder of Mir Academy, Lucknow
  • Ahmed Mater (born 1979), Saudi artist and physician
  • Ahmed Muradbegović (1898–1972), Bosniak writer, dramatist and novelist
  • Ahmed Naguib el-Hilaly (1891–1958), Egyptian lawyer and educator who served as Prime Minister of Egypt twice in 1952
  • Ahmad Nahavandi, Persian astronomer of the 8th and 9th centuries
  • Ahmad Nakhchivani, Azerbaijani medieval architect
  • Bashar Ahmad Nuseibeh, (born 1967), Professor of Computing at The Open University in the United Kingdom
  • Osman Ahmed Osman (1917–1999), Egyptian engineer, contractor, entrepreneur, politician
  • Ferdous Ahmed, Bangladeshi actor
  • Ferdousi Ahmed Lina, Bangladeshi actress
  • Şeker Ahmed Pasha (1841–1907), Ottoman painter, soldier and government official
  • Ahmed Pochee (1939–1998), British-Indian wine merchant and entrepreneur, founder of Oddbins and the Great Wapping Wine Company
  • Ahmad Danny Ramadan (born 1984), Syrian-Canadian novelist, public speaker, columnist, and a gay refugee activist
  • Muneer Ahmad Rashid, PhD, D.Sc., PAS Gold Medal, FPAS (born 1934), Pakistani Mathematical Physicist and Emeritus Professor of Applied and Mathematical Physics
  • Ahmed Saadawi (born 1973), Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary film maker
  • Ahmed Al Safi (born 1971), Iraqi sculptor and painter
  • Basheer Ahmed Sayeed (1900–1984), Indian judge, politician and educationist, member of the Madras Legislative Council
  • Ahmed Sefrioui (1915–2004), Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language
  • Haji Syed Ahmed Shah, saint who migrated from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan in 15th/16th century to preach Islam
  • Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999), educationist, philosopher, critic, writer and scholar of medieval Bengali literature
  • Ahmed Sofa (1943–2001), Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, and public intellectual
  • Ahmad Vaezi (born 1963), Iranian philosopher, scholar and clergyman
  • Ahmad Wahib (1942–1973), Indonesian progressive Islamic intellectual
  • Ahmed Yacoubi (1928–1985), Moroccan painter and storyteller
  • Ahmad Yadgar, Mughal-era author of the Tārikh-i-Salātin-i-Afghāniyah, a history of the Afghan monarchs of India
  • Ahmad Yani, National Hero of Indonesia
  • Zareef Ahmad Zareef (born 1943), Kashmiri poet, writer, social activist and environmentalist
  • Ahmad Ali El Zein (born 1956), Lebanese novelist, documentary film maker and television journalist
  • Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016), Egyptian-American scientist, known as the father of femtochemistry
  • Ahmad Zoay, Pakistani painter and sculptor
  • Ahmad Zohadi, Iranian architecture scholar, publisher and researcher

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