Nasrallah () is a masculine given name, commonly found in the Arabic language and is used by

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, and other Arabs. It may also be transliterated as Nasralla, Nasrollah, Nasrullah, and Al-Nasrallah. Bearing the surname often indicates that the family adopted the name Nasrallah from one of its

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ancestors.

Notable people

Notable people with the name Nasrallah and its variants include:

Afghanistan

* Nasrollah Sarvari (1942–2017) Afghani painter, educator

Egypt

Yousry Nasrallah Yousry Nasrallah ( ) (born 26 July 1952) is an Egyptian film director. Biography Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He grew up in Zamalek, in central Cairo. He graduated in econo ...

(born 1952), Egyptian film director

Honduras

Salvador Nasralla Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salum (born 30 January 1953) is a Honduran civil engineer, sports journalist, television presenter, businessman, and politician who served as the First Vice President of Honduras from 2022 until his resignatio ...

(born 1953), Honduran media personality, TV presenter, politician, founder of Honduran Anti-Corruption Party

Iraq

In Iraq, the most notable family to carry the name is the Alid Faizid family of Nasrallah from

Karbala Karbala is a major city in central Iraq. It is the capital of Karbala Governorate. With an estimated population of 691,100 people in 2024, Karbala is the second largest city in central Iraq, after Baghdad. The city is located about southwest ...

. However, there are other

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and non-Alid families that carry the name, that come from Hindiyah,

Hillah Hillah ( ''al-Ḥillah''), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq. On the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, it is south of Baghdad. The population was estimated to be about 455,700 in 2018. It is the capital of Babylon Province and is ...

, and

Nasiriyah Nasiriyah ( , ; , BGN: , ), also spelled Nassiriya or Nasiriya, is a city in Iraq, the capital of the Dhi Qar Governorate. It lies on the lower Euphrates, about south-southeast of Baghdad, near the ruins of the ancient city of Ur. Its po ...

. * Nasrallah al-Haeri (1696–1746), Iraqi scholar and poet * Jawad Nasrallah (d. 1808), Iraqi nobleman and custodian of Imam Husayn Shrine *

Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah (, ; 31 August 196027 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024. Bor ...

(1881–1959), Iraqi nobleman, activist, and businessman * Murtadha Nasrallah (1922–2005), Iraqi law professor * Hashem Nasrallah (1923–1997), Iraqi businessman and chairman of Karbala's chamber of commerce * Mohammed Hussain Nasrallah (born 1951), Iraqi judge and prosecutor * Abdul Sahib Nasrallah (born 1951), Iraqi author and custodian of Imam Husayn Shrine * Aref Nasrallah (born 1958), Iraqi social activist and philanthropist

Iran

Abu'l-Ma'ali Nasrallah Nasrallah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid Shirazi (), better known as Abu'l-Ma'ali Nasrallah (ابوالمعالی نصرالله), was a Persian poet and statesman who served as the ''vizier'' of the Ghaznavid Sultan Khusrau Malik. Biography N ...

, Persian poet, statesman and vizier * Moein (singer), Iranian singer * Nasrallah Shah-Abadi, Iranian Shia cleric, politician * Nasrollah Jahangard, Iranian politician * Nasrollah Sajjadi, Iranian politician and sports administrator * Nasrollah Pejmanfar, Iranian Shia cleric, politician * Nasrollah Nasehpour, Iranian-Azeri music composer

Kazakhstan

* Nasrullah Nauryzbai Kutpanbetuly Bahadur

Kuwait

In Kuwait, the most notable family to carry the name is known as the family of Al-Nasrallah. They trace back to the

Anazzah Anizah or Anazah (, Najdi pronunciation: ) is an Arabian tribe in the Arabian Peninsula, Upper Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Genealogy and origins Anizah's existence as an autonomous tribal group, like many prominent modern tribes, predates ...

tribe, and migrated from

Sudair Sudair or Sudayr () is a historical region in Najd in the central of Saudi Arabia, and is located approximately 150 km north of the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The region lies in a valley directly to the east of the Tweig escarpment, which runs ...

. They reside mainly in Jiblah and Jahrah. *

Danah Al-Nasrallah Dana or Danah Al-Nasrallah (born 7 March 1988) is a Kuwaiti female track and field athlete competing in sprint (running), sprinting events. In 2004, she became the first Kuwaiti female Olympic competitor. References External links

* 198 ...

(born 1988), Kuwaiti female track and field athlete

Lebanon

In Lebanon, the name can be found in Shia, Sunni, Druze, and Christian families all across Lebanon, and they trace back to Sednayah,

Hauran The Hauran (; also spelled ''Hawran'' or ''Houran'') is a region that spans parts of southern Syria and northern Jordan. It is bound in the north by the Ghouta oasis, to the northeast by the al-Safa field, to the east and south by the Harrat ...

and

Babylon Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...

. *

Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ('; ; ; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the 76th Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and the Whole Levant and head of the Maronite Church from 1986 to 2011. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1994. E ...

(1923–1997), Lebanese

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of Lebanon's largest Christian body *

Emily Nasrallah Emily Daoud Nasrallah (; []; 6 July 1931 – 13 March 2018) was a Lebanese people, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. She graduated from the Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese American University) with an associate degree in ...

(1931–2018), Lebanese writer and women's rights activist *

(1960–2024), Secretary General of the Lebanese political party Hezbollah *

(born 1982), Lebanese footballer

Mexico

* Jesús Nader Nasrallah (born 1959), Mexican politician

Pakistan

* Nasrullah Khan (footballer) (born 1985), Pakistani football midfielder *

Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi (died 1588) was born in Thatta, Sindh. He was among the renowned and widely traveled Muslim scholars at the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar. He was the son of a Qazi (Kazi) in Thatta. During his early life he was in ...

, 16th-century Muslim geographer and historian

Palestine

In Palestine, it is believed that the Nasrallah family traces back to either the one that originated in the Levant (North Syria and Rif-Dimashq), or in the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen). They reside mainly in

Qaqun Qaqun () was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain. Evidence of organized settlement in Qaqun dates back to the period of Assyrian rule in th ...

. * Adel Gharib Nasrallah, birth name of Eddie Nash (1929–2014), Palestinian-American convicted gangster and drug dealer *

Ibrahim Nasrallah Ibrahim Nasrallah (; 2 December 1954), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were evicted from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp ...

(born 1954), Jordanian-Palestinian poet

United States

* Nasrallah Onea "Naz" Worthen (born 1966), American football

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