Adib (also spelled Adeeb) (
Arabic
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:أديب) is a given name and a surname meaning enlighted writer or one who practises ''
adab''. Notable people having this name:
Given name
Adeeb
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Adeeb
Muzaffar Adeeb (1934 – 26 May 2006), known mononymously as Adeeb, was a Pakistani film actor. He appeared in 38 Indian films from 1940 to 1962, although he did not start performing in films very actively until the 1950s. In 1962, he shifted ...
(1934–2006), Pakistani film actor
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Adeeb Ahamed
Adeeb Ahamed is a UAE-based billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dolla ...
, Indian businessman
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Adeeb Al-Haizan
Adeeb Al-Haizan (; born 3 May 2001) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a forward
Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.
Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (assoc ...
(born 2001), Saudi Arabian footballer
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Adeeb Khalid
Adeeb Khalid (born February 17, 1964) is associate professor and Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History in the history department of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. His academic contributions are highly cited. ...
(born 1964), American professor
Adib
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Adib Bourenane (born 2011), Algerian 5th grader Congress award winner
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Adib Boroumand
Adib Boroumand (or Adīb Borūmand) ( fa, ادیب برومند; 11 June 1924 – 13 March 2017) was an Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer. He was the head of the leadership council and chairman of the central council of the National Front of ...
(1924–2017), Iranian poet
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Adib Fahim
Adib Fahim is the former deputy director general of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security. His father, Marshal Mohammad Fahim, was the first vice president of Afghanistan. Following the death of his father in March 2014, Adib was appoin ...
(born 1980s), Afghan politician
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Adib Farhadi (born 1972), Afghan professor
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Adib Ishaq
Adib Ishaq ( ar, اديب اسحق, ; 21 January 1856 – 12 June 1885) was an important Syrian literary figure of nineteenth-century Arab Nahda.
Born in Damascus (then a city of the Ottoman Empire, and the present-day capital of Syria), he was ...
(1856–1885), Syrian literary figure
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Adib Domingos Jatene
Adib Domingos Jatene (June 4, 1929 – November 14, 2014) was a noted Brazilian physician of Lebanese background, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon. He is remembered as the inventor of the arterial switch operation (somet ...
(1929–2014), Brazilian physician
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Adib Khan
Adib Khan is an Australian novelist of Bangladeshi origin. He moved to Australia in 1973 and obtained an MA from Monash University in 1976. He taught creative writing at Ballarat University, and in 2007 returned to Monash to pursue a PhD.
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, Australian novelist
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Adib Khansari
Adib Khansari (born Esmaeil Khansari; 1901 – January 25, 1982) was an Iranian musician.
He started music from childhood when his first music teacher was Andalib Golpaygani in Khansar. When he was 18, he moved to Isfahan.
In 1921, he wa ...
(1901–1982), Iranian musician
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Adib Kheir
Adib Kheir ( ar, أديب الخير) was a leading Syrian nationalist of the 1920s. He was the owner of the Librairie Universelle in Damascus. His granddaughter is the spouse of Manaf Tlass
Manaf Tlass or Manaf Tlas ( ar, مَنَاف ط� ...
, Syrian nationalist
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Adib Raop
Muhammad Adib bin Abdul Ra'op (born 25 October 1999) is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Malaysia Super League club Penang
Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast ...
(born 1999), Malaysian footballer
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Adib Sabir
Shihabuddin Sharaful-udaba Sabir ( Persian: شهابالدین شرفالادبا صابر) known as Adib Sabir (ادیب صابر), was a 12th-century Persian poet. Originating from Termedh, he was employed in the court of Sultan Sanjar. ...
(died 1143 AD), Persian poet
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Adib Shishakli
Adib al-Shishakli (1909 – 27 September 1964 ar, أديب الشيشكلي, ʾAdīb aš-Šīšaklī) was a Syrian military leader and President of Syria from 1953 to 1954.
Early life
Adib Shishakli was born (1909) in the Hama Sanjak of O ...
(1909–1964), Syrian military leader
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Adib Taherzadeh
Adib Taherzadeh (29 April 1921 in Yazd, Iran – January 26, 2000) was a Baháʼí author who also served as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Baháʼís, between 1988 and 2000.
Biography
Taherzadeh was ...
(1921–2000), Iranian Bahá'í Faith scholar
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Adib Zainudin
Muhammad Adib bin Zainudin (born 15 February 1995) is a Malaysian footballer who plays for Malaysia Super League club Terengganu. Adib plays mainly as a centre-back. Adib was promoted as the captain of the Malaysia U-23 national team in 201 ...
(born 1995), Malaysian footballer
Adíb
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Hájí Mírzá Ḥasan-i-Adíbu'l-`Ulamá (1848–1919), eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith
Surname
Adeeb
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Ali al-Adeeb
Ali Mohammad Al-Hussein Ali Al-Adeeb is an Iraqi politician and a senior member of the Islamic Dawa Party. In April 2006 he was tipped by the United Iraqi Alliance as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister, after their original choice, Ibrahi ...
(born 1944), Iraqi politician
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Mirza Adeeb
Mirza Adeeb, ( ur, —; 4 April 1914 – 31 July 1999), also known as Meerza Adeeb, (—), was a Pakistani Urdu writer of dramas and short stories. His plays and short stories won him six prizes and awards from the .
Name
Mirza Adeeb's birt ...
(1914–1999),
Pakistani playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
Adib
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Auguste Adib Pacha
Auguste Adib Pacha (2 August 1859 – 9 July 1936) ( ar, أوغست أديب باشا) was the first Prime Minister of Lebanon, which at the time was a part of the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. He served in that capacity twice between 19 ...
(1859–1936), Lebanese politician, writer and the first Prime Minister of Lebanon
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Mustapha Adib (activist)
Mustapha Adib ( ar, مصطفى أديب; born 1968 in Taroudannt) is an ex-captain in the Royal Moroccan Air Force. In late 1999, he was arbitrarily detained then imprisoned for 30 months after he denounced corruption in the military.
Imprisonm ...
(born 1968), Moroccan human rights activist and ex-captain in the Royal Moroccan Air Force
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Mustapha Adib (politician)
Mustapha Abdul Wahed Adib ( ar, مصطفى عبد الواحد أديب ; born 30 August 1972) is a Lebanese diplomat, politician and academic who has served as Lebanese Ambassador to Germany since 11 July 2013. In 2020, he was chosen as the p ...
(born 1972), Lebanese diplomat, lawyer, educator, politician, researcher, academic and incumbent Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon
See also
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Al Adib'', Lebanese literary magazine published between 1942 and 1983
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Thuban
Thuban (), with Bayer designation Alpha Draconis or α Draconis, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Draco. A relatively inconspicuous star in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, it is historically signifi ...
, star in the constellation Draco sometimes known as Adib
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Arabic-language surnames
Arabic masculine given names
Masculine given names
Iranian masculine given names
Pakistani masculine given names