Jawad (Arabic & Persian: جواد), ; ; , ; ; ) is an Arabic
given name
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that means generous, liberal, magnanimous, and open-handed. The name is common in the
Balkans
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Caucasus
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Middle East
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Morocco
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and
South Asia
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First name
* Jaouad Achab (born 1992), Belgian taekwondo practitioner of Moroccan origin
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Jawad Ahmad
Jawad Ahmed is a Pakistani pop singer and musician turned politician.
Jawad Ahmed is currently chairman of Barabri Party Pakistan, a leftist party.
Early life and education
Jawad Ahmad was born on 29 September 1970 in Lahore, Punjab into a ...
(born 1970), Pakistani singer and politician
* Jaouad Akaddar (1984–2012), Moroccan footballer
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Jawad Akeel
Jawad Akeel Ahannach (; born August 4, 1978) in Harderwijk, Netherlands is a naturalized Qatari football player, who plays as a midfielder.Jawad Ali
Jawad Ali (1907–1987) was an Iraqi historian and academic who specialized in the history of both Islam and the Arabs. He is best known for his work ''al-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab Qabl al-Islam'' (''The Abridged History of the Arabs before Is ...
(1907–1987), Iraqi historian
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Javad Alizadeh
Javad Alizadeh ( Javād Alīzādeh ; professional name: Javad; born 9 January 1953) is an Iranian professional cartoonist best known for his caricatures of politicians, comic actors, footballers, and for his scientific/philosophical column (incl ...
(born 1953), Iranian cartoonist
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Javad Allahverdi
Javad Allahverdi is a retired Iranian footballer of Taj and Persepolis. Also he was a member of Iran national football team in World Cup 1978.
Club career
Allahverdi started his career playing for Taj. There he could win the Asian Champions ...
(born 1954), Iranian footballer
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Jawad Anani
Jawad Anani (born 28 June 1943) is a Jordanian economist and politician. After working for the Central Bank of Jordan in the 1960s and 1970s he held high ranking positions in the civil service. He has held several ministerial posts since 1979, in ...
(born 1943), Jordanian economist and politician
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Jawad El Andaloussi
Abbad Jawad El Andaloussi () is a Moroccan footballer who played for Morocco in the 1976 and 1978 African Cup of Nations. At club level he played for Wydad, Raja Casablanca, Saudi Arabia's Al-Shabab and Hong Kong's Tung Sing FC.
Internationa ...
(born 1955), Moroccan footballer
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Jawad Al Arrayed
Jawad Salem Al Arrayed (born 1941) is a lawyer and former cabinet member in Bahrain. Currently, he is President of the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs (effectively, the General Counsel to the Cabinet) and former deputy prime minister in ...
(born 1940), Bahraini politician
* Jawad al-Assadi (born 1947), Iraqi theatre director and playwright
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Jawad Bashir
Jawad Bashir (born 5 December 1972) is a Pakistani film and television director, actor, and singer.Jawad Blunt
Muhammad Jawad Aftab (born 15 April 1995) commonly known as Jawad Blunt is a two time freestyle football champion from Pakistan. He started his career as a professional football freestyler in 2012 and won his first national title in Pakistan Foo ...
(born 1995), Pakistani freestyle football champion
* Jawad Botmeh, Palestinian student convicted of the 1994 attack in the London Israeli embassy
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Jawad al-Bulani
Jawad al-Bulani () (also spelled Al-Bolani; born in 1960) served as the Ministry of Interior (Iraq), Interior Minister of Iraq within the Council of Ministers of Iraq, Council of Ministers under Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from 8 June 20 ...
(born 1960), Iraqi politician and minister
* Jaouad Chiguer (born 1985), French amateur boxer
* Cevat Cobanli (1870-1938), Turkish commander and politician
* Jawad Rumi Daini (born 1948), Iraqi Army general
* Javad Davari (born 1983), Iranian basketball player
* Jawad Dawood (born 1982), Pakistani-Canadian cricketer
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Javad Fakoori
Javad Fakouri (; 3 January 1936 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian prominent military figure who served as the 4th defence minister of Iran in September 1980 to August 1981.
Career
Fakoori was a commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air F ...
(1938–1981), Iranian Air Force officer
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Javad Gharavi Aliari
Grand Ayatollah Mirza Javad Gharavi Aliari Tabrizi () (1935-2018) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Tabriz, Iran. He migrated to Najaf to study in Grand Ayatollah al-Khoei's seminaries. He was close to Iranian reformists.
Deat ...
(1935-2018), Iranian Grand Ayatollah
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Jaouad Gharib
Jaouad Gharib (, born 22 May 1972 in Khenifra, Morocco) is a Morocco, Moroccan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. Winner of the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, 2003 World Championships and 2005 World Championshi ...
(born 1972), Moroccan runner
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Jawad Ghaziyar
Jawad Ghaziyar () is a popular Afghan singer. He is one of the 1980s era singers who took refuge in United States after the fall of Afghanistan government in 1992. Jawad was also a special judge in Season 8 of '' Afghan Star''.
Discography
(' ...
, Afghan singer
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Cevat Güler
Cevat Güler (born 12 March 1959 in Perşembe, Ordu Province) is a Turkish former football player and coach.
Coaching career
After Karl Heinz Feldkamp resigned at the end of 2007–08 season, he took over the managership and became the first c ...
(born 1959), Turkish footballer and coach
* Cevat Abbas Gurer (1887–1943), Turkish officer and politician
* Jawad El Hajri (born 1979), French footballer
* Javad Hakimli (1914–2016), Soviet Azerbaijani Partisan during WWII
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Jawad Hameed
Jawad Hameed (born 31 August 1976) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer who played for Rawalpindi cricket team
Rawalpindi cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents Rawalpindi, Punjab. The team's home ground is Rawalpindi Cri ...
(born 1976), Pakistani cricketer
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Javad Hamidi
Javad Hamidi (1918 – 2002) was an Iranian Modernism, Modernist painter, poet, and educator. He was a pioneer of modern art in Iran.
Biography
Javad Hamidi was born in 1918 in Hamadan, Qajar Iran. Hamidi studied in the Faculty of Fine Arts ...
(1918-2002), Iranian painter and poet
* Javad Hashemi (born 1966), Iranian actor and director
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Javad Heyat
Javad Heyat (; 25 May 1925 – 12 August 2014) was an Iranian surgeon and writer. He performed the first open heart surgery in Iran and was Ayatollah Khamenei's personal physician when the latter was President of Iran in the 1980s. Heyat was the ...
(1925-2014), Iranian Azerbaijani surgeon and Writer
* Jawad Hussain (1939–2008), Indian cricketer
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Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı
Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (17 April 1890 – 13 October 1973; born Musa Cevat Şakir; pen-name "The Fisherman of Halicarnassus", ) was a Cretan Turkish author, essayist, ethnographer and travel writer.
Early life
On April 17, 1890, he was ...
(1886–1973), Turkish writer
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Jawad Kadhim
Jawad Kadhim (born 14 October 1993) is an Iraqi footballer who currently plays for Al-Minaa in the Iraqi Premier League.
International career
Jawad Kadhim was called up to the senior Iraq squad for a 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against Saudi ...
(born 1993), Iraqi footballer
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Dževad Karahasan
Dževad Karahasan (25 January 1953 – 19 May 2023) was a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded the Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.
In 2020, the city of Frankfurt awarded him the Goethe Prize.
Early li ...
(1953-2023), Bosnian writer and philosopher
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Javad Kazemian
Javad Kazemian (; born 23 April 1981 in Kashan, Iran) is an Iranian former football winger. He is commonly mistaken for a striker as he is frequently involved in running towards the opposing box, but his preferred position is a right winger.
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(born 1981), Iranian footballer
* Xhevat Kelmendi (born 1955), Kosovar singer
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Javad Khan
Javad Khan (); 1748 – 1804) was a member of Ziyadoghlu Qajar, a clan of the Qajars (tribe), Qajar tribe, as well as the sixth and the last Khan (title), khan of the Ganja Khanate from 1786 to 1804 before it was lost to Russian Empire, Russia.
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(1748-1804), member of the royal Qajar family
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Cevat Kula
Cevat Kula (7 July 1902 – 20 April 1977) was a Turkish equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, ...
(1902–1977), Turkish equestrian
* Javad Malik-Yeganov (1878–1942), Azerbaijani politician and Governor-General of Lankaran
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Javad Maroufi
Javād Ma'roufi (), (1912 in Tehran – December 7, 1993, in Tehran) was an Iranian composer and pianist.
Biography
Javād Ma'roufi was born in Tehran to the musician father Musā Ma'roufi and mother Ozrā Ma'roufi (or ''Ezra'' Ma'roufi) who w ...
(1912–1993), Iranian composer and pianist
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Javad Mojabi
Javad Mojabi (; born 14 October 1939) is an Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary and art critic. Mojabi is one of Iran's most prominent modern writers and poets, and has published over 50 literary works in various forms. He has also writ ...
(born 1939), Iranian poet and literary critic
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Javad Nekounam
Javad Nekounam (; born 7 September 1980) is an Iranian Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as a midfielder. He holds the record for the most appearances for the Iran national football tea ...
(born 1980), Iranian footballer
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Javad Nurbakhsh
Javad Nurbakhsh (; 10 December 1926 – 10 October 2008) was the Master ('' pir'') of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order from 1953 until his death. He was also a psychiatrist and a successful writer in the fields of both psychiatry and Sufi mysticism.
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(1926–2008), Iranian Sufi leader and psychiatrist
* Jawad Ouaddouch (born 1981), Moroccan footballer
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Dževad Prekazi
Dževad Prekazi (, , ; born 18 August 1957) is a Yugoslav former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Titova Mitrovica, Prekazi made his first football steps at his local club Remont, being registered for thei ...
(born 1957), Yugoslav Kosovar footballer
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Dževad Poturak
Dževad Poturak (born September 20, 1977) is a Bosnian heavyweight kickboxer, fighting out of Jumruk Gym in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the former WAKO Pro World Low-Kick champion and K-1 Fighting Network Prague 2007 tournament cham ...
Javad Razavian
Seyed Javad Razavian () (born 28 July 1974) is an Iranian actor, voice actor, presenter and director. He is known mainly for appearing in popular sitcom series.
Javad razavian
Razavian was born in the city of Qom to father from Yazd and a moth ...
Jawad Saleem
Jawad Saleem (, 1919–1961) was an Iraq, Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Ankara, Ottoman Empire in 1919. He became an influential artist through his involvement with the Iraqi Baghdad Modern Art Group, which encouraged artists to explore tech ...
(1919–1961), Iraqi painter and sculptor
* Jawad Salehi (born 1956), Iranian electrical and computer engineer
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Dževad Šećerbegović
Dževad Šećerbegović (born 15 July 1955) is a Bosnian retired footballer who played for SFR Yugoslavia.
Club career
Born in Gornji Rahić, Brčko, Šećerbegović spent most of his football career playing for local side FK Sloboda Tuzla. At ...
(born 1955), Yugoslav Bosnian footballer
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Cevat Seyit
Cevat Seyit (17 July 1906 – 23 November 1945) was a Turkish footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He played for Fenerbahçe for a total of 14 years between 1925 and 1939, and is one of the longest-s ...
(1906-1945), Turkish footballer
* Javad Shamaqdari (born 1960), Iranian filmmaker and politician
* Javad Khan Shiravanski (1809-1882), Major General of the Russian Imperial Army and Azerbaijani Noble
* Javad Shirzad (born 1982), Iranian footballer
* Javad Tabatabai (1945-2023), Iranian political philosopher and historian
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Jawad Tabrizi
Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mirza Jawad Kubar Tabrizi (; 1926 – November 20, 2006) was an Iranian Shia marja'.
Tabrizi was another prominent student of the late grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and one of the leading religious authoriti ...
(1926–2006), Iranian Ayatollah
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Dževad Turković
Dževad Turković (born 17 June 1972) is a former Croatian football player. He capped 6 times for Croatia. He was champion of the Prva HNL in 1993, 1996 and 1997.
Club career
Turković played domestically for Dinamo Zagreb and Osijek and for Sou ...
(born 1972), Yugoslav and Croatian footballer
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Jawad Williams
Jawad Hason Williams (born February 19, 1983) is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays as a small forward-po ...
(born 1983), American basketball player
* Javad Yasari (born 1947), Persian singer
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Cevat Yerli
Cevat Yerli (born 1978 in Coburg, Germany, to Turkish immigrants from Giresun) is a video game developer. He co-founded Crytek, one of the largest video game developers in Germany, and served as its CEO and President until February 2018.
In 2017 ...
(born 1978), Turkish and German computer game developer
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Jaouad Zairi
Jaouad Zairi (; born 17 April 1982) is a Moroccan professional footballer who played as a winger. He played for the Morocco national team between 2000 and 2009, making 34 appearances and scoring six goals.
Early life
Zairi was born into a la ...
(born 1982), Moroccan footballer
* Javad Zarincheh (born 1966), Iranian football player and coach
Middle name
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Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (, 5 September 1933 – 30 August 1981) was a Shia Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month in August 1981. Bahonar and other members of Mohammad-Ali Rajai's govern ...
(1933–1981), Iranian theologian and politician
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Mohammad Jawad Balaghi
Ayatollah Sheikh Muhammad-Jawad al-Balaghi al-Najafi (; 1865 – December 10, 1933) was an Iraqi Shia religious authority, author, poet, and polemicist. It is reported that besides his native Arabic language, al-Balaghi was also well-versed in En ...
(1865–1933), Iraqi Shia Muslim religious authority
* Migjen Xhevat Basha (born 1987), Kosovar Albanian footballer
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Mohamad Jawad Chirri
Imam Mohamad Jawad Chirri (; October 1, 1905 – November 10, 1994) was the founder and director of the Islamic Center of America until his death.
Books authored
In addition to writing The Shi'ites Under Attack:
Books about Islamic jurisprude ...
(1905–1994), Lebanese founder of the Islamic Center of America
* Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (born 1939), Iraqi journalist and politician
* Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh (born 1961), Lebanese politician and minister of health
* Mohammad-Javad Larijani (born 1951), Iranian politician, hard-line cleric and mathematician
* Zayn Javadd Malik (born 1993), Pakistani-English singer and songwriter
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Syed Jawad Naqvi
Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi (born 1963) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar, Religious Leader, religious leader and Preacher who is the founder and Chancellor (education), chancellor of Jamia Urwat-ul-Wusqa in Lahore and many Islamic schools. A leading ...
(born 1952), Pakistani Twelver Shia Muslim cleric
* Hossam Jawad Al-Sabah (1948-2021), Lebanese actor
* Ali Jawad al-Sheikh (1997–2011), Bahraini boy killed in the Bahraini Uprising
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Ali Jawad Al Taher
Ali Jawad Al Taher (; 1911?/1922? – 10 October 1996) was an Iraqi critic and literary scholar. He was born and raised in Hilla, Iraq. He received a PhD from Sorbonne University in 1954, and published numerous critical studies during his lifet ...
(c. 1911–1996), Iraqi literary scholar and critic
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Ridha Jawad Taqi
Rida Jawad Taqi is an Iraqi politician and served until 2010 as a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq for the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
He was elected to the Council in December 2005 as part of the United Iraqi Alliance coali ...
, Iraqi politician and Member of Parliament
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Leman Cevat Tomsu
Leman Cevat Tomsu (1913–1988) was a Turkish architect. Together with Münevver Belen, she was one of the first Turkish women to qualify as an architect when she graduated in 1934 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul. She was also the first ...
(1913-1988), Turkish architect and academic
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Mohammad Javad Tondguyan
Mohammad Javad Bagher Tondguyan (; 16 June 1950 – 16 December 1991) was an Iranian engineer and petroleum minister under Prime Minister Mohammad-Ali Rajai from 2 September to 3 November 1980 when he was captured by the Iraqi forces in November ...
(1950–1991), Iranian engineer and politician
* Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine (1916–2012), Lebanese regional Druze spiritual leader
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Ali Jawad Zaidi
Syed Ali Jawad Zaidi (10 March 1916 – 6 December 2004) was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and author of over 80 books in several languages. He was also an Indian independence activist, lawyer and later a civil servant, but is best known for ...
(1916–2004), Indian Urdu poet and scholar
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Mohammad Javad Zarif
Mohammad Javad Zarif (; born 8 January 1960) is an Iranian career diplomat and academic. He served as the vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025.Abdul Sattar Jawad (born 1943), Iraqi-American scholar of Arabic and English literature
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Ahmad Javad
Ahmad Javad (; May 5, 1892 – October 13, 1937) was an Azerbaijani poet who is best known for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan used under the 1918–1920 Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, and again since 1991, and anoth ...
(1892–1937), Azerbaijani poet
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Ali Jawad
Ali Jawad (born 12 January 1989) is a British Paralympic powerlifter competing in the −59 kg class. Born without legs, he took up powerlifting at the age of 16. He competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, finishing fourth. The ...
(born 1989), British paralympic powerlifter
* Daniane Jawad (born 1986), Moroccan footballer
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Hussain Jawad
Hussain Jawad Parweez (; born 10 December 1987) is a leading Bahraini human rights activist. He is the Chairman and founder of the European-Bahraini Organisation for Human Rights (EBOHR). He is also one of the founders of Bahrain Youth Society f ...
(born 1987), Bahraini human rights activist
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Kalbe Jawad
Kalbe Jawad is a Shia Islam, Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, India.
Family background
He comes from a family of scholars known as ''"Ijtihadi family, Khandan-e-Ijtehad"'', and traces his lineage from Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (also known as Ghu ...
(born 1966), Indian Muslim cleric and scholar
* Kashif Jawad (born 1981), Pakistani field hockey player
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Mazen Abdul-Jawad
Mazen Abdul-Jawad (born 1977) is a Saudi Arabian man who spoke about his sexual exploits on television in July 2009. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes for talking publicly about sex. After the program by the ...
(born 1977), Saudi Arabian man arrested for talking publicly about sex
* Mohamed Abd Al-Jawad (born 1962), Saudi Arabian footballer
* Mohammed Abdel-Jawad (born 1979), Palestinian footballer
* Mohamed Jawad (born 1985), Pakistani youth accused and held for attempted murder at Guantanamo
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Muhammad al-Jawad
Muhammad al-Jawad (, – ) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Rida (). He is known by the epithets al-Jawād () and al-Taqī (). Like most of his predecessors, M ...
, (811–835), ninth of the Twelve Imams
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Said Tayeb Jawad
Said Tayeb Jawad (, born 1958) is an Afghan politician, businessman, academic, and diplomat. He is the Chief Executive officer of Capitalize LLC, Global Political Strategist and Senior Counselor at APCO Worldwide, and the Chairman of the Ameri ...
(born 1958), Afghan diplomat
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Saleh Abd al-Jawad
Saleh Abd al-Jawad, also spelled Saleh Abdel Jawad, (, born 1952) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian historian. He has worked as Professor of History and Political Science at Birzeit University since 1981.
Biography
Born in Al-Bireh, he rece ...
(born 1952), Palestinian historian
* Shamim Jawad, Afghan activist
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Shireen Jawad
Shireen Jawad (; born 10 August 1971) is a Bangladeshi British singer.
Early life
Jawad was born and brought up in East London, England. Her first memories are of singing on her father's lap at the age of two She began singing Bollywood songs ...
(born 1971), Bangladeshi-English singer
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Suleika Jaouad
Suleika Jaouad ( ; ; born July 5, 1988) is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker. She is the author of the "Life, Interrupted" column in ''The New York Times'' and has also written for ''Vogue, Glamour'', NPR's ''All Things Con ...
(born 1988), an American writer and motivational speaker
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