Samad or Samed (, ''Ṣamad'') is an
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Abd al-Samad ibn Ali, Abbasid governor of Jazira in 780s.
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Samed Abdul Awudu (born 1984), Ghanaian football player
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Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball player
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Samad Behrangi (1939–1967), Iranian teacher, folklorist and writer
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Samad Marfavi (born 1965), Iranian football player
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Samad bey Mehmandarov (1855–1931), Azerbaijani-Russian general
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Samad Rustamov, Uzbek Sambo player
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Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh (1869–1955), Iranian diplomat
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Samad Shohzukhurov (born 1990), Tajik football player
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Samad Taylor (born 1998), American baseball player
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Samad Vurgun (1906–1956), Azerbaijani-Soviet poet
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Samed Yeşil (born 1994), Turkish-German football player
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Abdul Samad Ismail (1924–2008), Malaysian journalist
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Abdul Samad Rabiu (born 1960), Nigerian businessman
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Abdul Samad of Selangor
Sultan Sir Abdul Samad ibni Almarhum Raja Bendahara Raja Abdullah ( Jawi: سلطان عبد الصمد ابن المرحوم راج عبد الله; born Raja Abdul Samad bin Raja Abdullah, 1804 ''–'' 6 February 1898) was the fourth Sultan ...
(1804–1898), Sultan of Selangor
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Abdul Samad Abdulla (1946–2013), Maldivian foreign affairs minister
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Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927–1988), Egyptian Quran reciter
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Abdus Samad Azad (1922–2005), Bangladeshi diplomat and politician
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Hamed Abdel-Samad (born 1972), German-Egyptian writer
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Mohammad Samad (born 2000), Indian actor
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Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad, a convicted rioter and gang member of Salakau in Singapore
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Nabil Samad
Nabil Samad (born 9 October 1986) in Dhaka is a Bangladesh cricket team, Bangladeshi cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Sylhet Division cricket team, Sylhet Division. A bowler, he represented Bangladesh in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup ...
(born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer
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Omar Samad, Afghan diplomat
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Sahal Abdul Samad
Sahal Abdul Samad (born 1 April 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Indian Super League club Mohun Bagan and the India national team.
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Sahal was born in Al Ain, UAE ...
(born 1997), Indian football player
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Saleh Ali al-Sammad
Saleh Ali al-Sammad (;
1 January 1979 – 19 April 2018) was a Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement who served as the chairman of Yemen's Supreme Political Council and the '' de facto'' president of Yemen until his assassination b ...
(1979–2018), Yemeni politician
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Samad (UAV)
The Samad () (also spelled Sammad) is a family of long-range UAVs of unidentified origin used in the Middle East. The Samad is available in three variants: The Samad-1, the Samad-2 (also known as "UAV-X"), and the Samad-3. The Samad family of UAV ...
, an Iranian suicide drone named after Saleh Ali al-Sammad
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Ziad Al-Samad
Ziad Ali Al Samad (; born 6 August 1978) is a Lebanese professional football coach and former player who is the goalkeeper coach of club Ansar and the Lebanon national under-23 team. As a player, Al Samad played as a goalkeeper.
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(born 1978), Lebanese football player
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Samad, a character played by Ameet Chana in the British web series ''Corner Shop Show''
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Samad (fictional character), played by Iranian actor Parviz Sayyad
*Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel ''
White Teeth
''White Teeth'' is British author Zadie Smith's debut novel, published in 2000. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones—and their families in London. The novel centres ...
'' by Zadie Smith
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