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Awwad Awwad (in Arabic language, Arabic عوّاد, In English can be written as Awad)is an Arabic name or surname. People with the name include: Given name *Awwad Al-Sharafat (born 25 December 1993) is a Jordanian middle-distance runner Surname *Ali Ab ...

() is an Arabic given name and surname. People with the name include:

Given name

;of the origin عوّاد * Awwad Eid Al-Aradi Al-Balawi, former Director General of Saudi Arabian Border Guards, Ministry of Interior, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia * Awad Hamad al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency * Awad Khleifat (born 1945), Jordanian politician

Surname

;of the origin عوض *

Gamal Awad Gamal Awad (; 9 August 1955 – 6 November 2004) was an Egyptian squash player. He was the younger brother of Mohammed Awad another notable Egyptian squash player. Awad became the Egyptian national champion in 1976, and won the British Amateu ...

, Egyptian squash player *

Jacqueline Cabaj Awad Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (; born 28 January 1996) is a Swedish tennis player. She has won ten singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 10 June 2024, she achieved her best singles ranking of world No. 387. On 31 October 2023, she ...

, Swedish tennis player * Krayem Awad, Austrian painter, sculptor and poet *

Mira Awad Mira Anwar Awad (; ; born June 11, 1975) is a Palestinian-Israeli singer-songwriter, actress, television host, and political activist of Arab Palestinian and Bulgarian descent. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 alon ...

, Israeli Arab musician *

Mohammed Awad (politician) Mohammed Hussain Awad Al-Juboori () was a political party member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council that is a moderate Sunni block. He was a representative of this block at the National Assembly of Iraq. On 12 April 2007, he was killed in th ...

, Iraqi politician *

Mubarak Awad Mubarak Awad () is a Palestinian-American psychologist and an advocate of nonviolent resistance. Early life and move to the United States Awad, a Palestinian Christian (a member of the Greek Orthodox Church), was born in 1943 in Jerusalem when ...

, Palestinian-American psychologist *

Nihad Awad Nihad Awad () is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Early life Nihad Awad was born in Amman New Camp, a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. He studied at Second Amman Preparatory ...

, American activist * Ramzi Aouad, Australian murderer * Saad Awad, American mixed martial artist * Samer Awad, Syrian footballer * Sumaya Awad, Palestinian American writer and activist ;of the origin عوّاد * Ahmed El Aouad, French-Moroccan footballer *

Awwad Alawwad Awwad S. Alawwad (Arabic: عواد العواد; born 11 April 1972) is a Saudi politician and senior government official. He served as Minister of Culture and Information from April 2017 to December 2018, and as Ambassador to Germany from 2015 t ...

(born 1972), Saudi politician and government minister * Juliet Awwad (born 1951), Jordanian actress and director of Armenian descent * Mohamed El Amine Aouad, Algerian

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A Word A Day Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising aficionados of the English language from across 170 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored ...

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