Fatah (name)

Fatah (Arabic: فَتْح fat·ḥ) is an Arabic name and surname, meaning "open, begin, start, commence". A variant of the name is Fattah, also spelt Fattaah (Arabic: فَتَّاح fattāḥ) which denotes the same or similar meaning.

Notable people with the name Fatah include:

• Abdul Fatah Haqqani (died 2011), Afghanistani alleged Taliban activist
• Abdel-Fatah Qudsiyeh (born 1953), deputy director of the Syrian National Security Bureau
• Abdoul Fatah (Malagasy politician) (active 2007)
• Abdoul-Fatah Mustafa (born 1984), Cameroonian footballer
• Abdul Fatah Younis (1944–2011), Libyan senior military officer
• Chopy Fatah (born 1983), Kurdish singer
• Essam Abdel-Fatah (born 1965), Egyptian football referee
• Fatah Ait Saada (born 1978), Algerian artistic gymnast
• Fatah Masoud (born 1989), Libyan futsal goalkeeper.
• Fatah Nsaief (born 1951), Iraqi football goalkeeper
• Fatah Said (born 1986), Moroccan footballer
• Ismail Fatah al-Turk (1934/38 – 2004), Iraqi painter and sculptor
• Karim Adel Abdel Fatah (born 1982), Egyptian footballer
• Mir-Fatah-Agha (AKA Mushthaid, before 1829 – 1892), high-ranking Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric in the Caucasus
• Natasha Fatah (active from 1996), Canadian journalist
• Rebwar Fatah (active from 1982), Kurdish writer and journalist
• Ridzuan Fatah Hasan (born 1981), Singaporean football player
• Tarek Fatah (born 1949), Canadian writer, broadcaster, secularist and liberal activist