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 (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 1927–1988), Egyptian Quran reciter * Abdus Samad Azad (1922–2005), Bangladeshi diplomat and politician *

Hamed Abdel-Samad Hamed Abdel-Samad ( ar, حامد عبد الصمد, ''Ḥāmid ʿAbd aṣ-Ṣamad'', ; born 1 February 1972) is a German-Egyptian political scientist and author. Life Abdel-Samad was born as the third of five children, the son of a Sunni Musl ...

(born 1972), German-Egyptian writer * Mohammad Samad (born 2000), Indian actor * Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad, 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 (born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer * Omar Samad, 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 (1979–2018), Yemeni politician * Ziad Al-Samad (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''. *

, 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 by

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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