Samad or Samed ( ar, صمد, ''Ṣamad'') is an

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...

male given name.

Given name

Samed Abdul Awudu Samadu Okocha Awudu (born 15 September 1984) is a retired Ghanaian football player. He played in Ghana for Hearts of Oak, in Austria for SC Bregenz, in Slovakia for FC Senec, in Israel for Maccabi Netanya, Bnei Sakhnin, Hapoel Acre & Hapoel ...

(born 1984), Ghanaian football player * Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball player *

Samad Behrangi Samad Behrangi ( fa, صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particu ...

(1939–1967), Iranian teacher, folklorist and writer *

Samad Marfavi Abdolsamad Marfavi ( fa, صمد مرفاوی , born May 18, 1964 in Khorramshahr, Iran) is an Iranian football coach and former player. Club career He played the majority of his playing career for IPL giants Esteghlal. International career ...

(born 1965), Iranian football player * Samad bey Mehmandarov (1855–1931), Azerbaijani-Russian general *

Samad Rustamov Samad Rustamov is an Uzbekistani Combat Sambo fighter who competed in the 2008 World Sambo Championship and placed 5th, losing to the eventual champion Blagoi Ivanov Blagoy Ivanov ( bg, Благой Александров Ивано� ...

, Uzbek Sambo player * Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh (1869–1955), Iranian diplomat * Samad Shohzukhurov (born 1990), Tajik football player *

Samad Taylor Below is a partial list of minor league baseball players in the Kansas City Royals system. Players CJ Alexander Charles Joseph Wesley Alexander (born July 17, 1996) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Kansas City Royals or ...

, American baseball player *

Samad Vurgun Samad Vurgun ( az, Səməd Vurğun ; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov;, . March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan N ...

(1906–1956), Azerbaijani-Soviet poet *

Samed Yeşil Samed Yeşil (, born 25 May 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Oberliga Niederrhein club Ratingen 04/19. Formed at Bayer Leverkusen, he moved as a teenager to Liverpool in 2012. In 2015, he was loaned to FC ...

(born 1994), Turkish-German football player

Middle name

* Abdul Samad Ismail (1924–2008), Malaysian journalist * Abdul Samad Rabiu (born 1960), Nigerian businessman * Abdul Samad of Selangor (1804–1898), Sultan of Selangor

Surname

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ‘Abdul-Basit ‘Abdus-Samad ( ar, عبـدُ الباسِـط مُحـمّـد عبـدُ ٱلصّـمـد), or Abdel Basit Abdel Samad, or Abdul Basit Muhammad Abdus Samad (1927 – 30 November 1988) was an Egyptian Quran reciter and Hafiz ...

1927–1988), Egyptian Quran reciter * Abdus Samad Azad (1922–2005), Bangladeshi diplomat and politician * Hamed Abdel-Samad (born 1972), German-Egyptian writer * Mohammad Samad (born 2000), Indian actor *

Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad On the early morning of 31 May 2001, 17-year-old national footballer Sulaiman bin Hashim (4 June 1983 – 31 May 2001), along with his two friends were attacked by a group of eight youths from gang 369, known as Salakau, as they were walking a ...

, a convicted rioter and gang member of

Salakau Salakau ( zh, s=三六九, poj=Saⁿ-la̍k-káu), which means 369 in Hokkien, also known as "Sah Lak Kau", is a street gang or secret society based in Singapore. The numbers 3, 6 and 9 add up to 18, which was the name of an older gang; the nu ...

in Singapore *

Nabil Samad Nabil Samad (born 9 October 1986) in Dhaka is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Sylhet Division. A bowler, he represented Bangladesh in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. Nabil was bought by Sylhet Royals for $ ...

(born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer *

Omar Samad Omar Samad is the former Senior Advisor to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the former Chief Executive of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2020. He served as the Afghan Ambassador to Canada from 2004 to 2009, and to France from 2009 to 2011. He was a Senior Central ...

, Afghan diplomat *

Sahal Abdul Samad Sahal Abdul Samad (born 1 April 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters and the India national team. Club career Early life and youth career Sahal was born ...

(born 1997), Indian football player *

Saleh Ali al-Sammad Saleh Ali al-Sammad ( ar, صالح علي الصمَّاد; 1 January 1979 – 19 April 2018) was a Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement who served as the president of Yemen's Supreme Political Council and the ''de facto'' President ...

(1979–2018), Yemeni politician *

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. With 47 cap ...

(born 1978), Lebanese football player

In fiction

Samad Samad or Samed ( ar, صمد, ''Ṣamad'') is an Arabic male given name. Given name *Samed Abdul Awudu (born 1984), Ghanaian football player * Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball player * Samad Behrangi (1939–1967), Iranian ...

, a character played by

Ameet Chana Ameet Chana (born 12 September 1975 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a British-Indian actor. His most notable role is Adi Ferreira in ''EastEnders''. In May 2006 he took over presenting the Breakdown Show (Bhangra Music) on BBC Asian Network ( ...

in the British web series ''

Corner Shop Show ''Corner Shop Show'' is a British comedy drama web series that premiered on YouTube in March 2014. The series is created by Islah Abdur-Rahman and consists of continuous episodes uploaded on his YouTube channel CornerShopShow, following the adv ...

''. *

, a fictional character played by Iranian actor

Parviz Sayyad Parviz Sayyad ( fa, پرویز صیاد, Parviz Sayyād; born 22 March 1939) is an Iranian-born American celebrated actor, director, translator, and screenwriter of Iranian cinema. He was one of the earliest television stars in Iran. Early lif ...

. *Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel

White Teeth ''White Teeth'' is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. 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 on Britain's ...

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...

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