Ubayd Allah (), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".

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* Obaidullah (detainee), an Afghan detainee held in Guantanamo * Obaidullah (Bangladeshi cricketer), Bangladeshi cricketer * Obaidullah (Pakistani cricketer), Pakistani cricketer * Obaidullah (Kandahar politician), elected to Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga in 2005 * Obaidullah Akhund, Afghan defence minister * Obaidullah Aleem, Pakistani poet * Obaidullah Baig, Pakistani writer * Obaidullah Hamzah (born 1972), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar * Obaidullah Karimi, Afghan footballer * Azmi Maulana Obaidullah Khan, Indian National Congress politician * Obaidullah Rameen, Afghan politician

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Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Zuhayr ibn Abd Allah ibn Jud'an al-Taymi () was a Medinian hadith narrator. He was possibly the ''Judge (Islamic law), qadi'' of Ta'if for caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (). He retold the event of the pen and paper as ...

, hadith narrator * Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, founder of the Fatimid dynasty * Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh, brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh * Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, Spanish military personnel *

Ubayd Allah ibn Umar Ubayd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab (; died summer 657) was a son of Caliph Umar (). His killing of Hormuzan, whom he suspected of involvement in his father's assassination in 644, and his pardon by Caliph Uthman () was opposed by Ali, the cou ...

, son of Caliph Umar *

Ubayd-Allah ibn Ziyad Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad () was the Umayyad governor of Basra, Kufa and Khurasan during the reigns of caliphs Mu'awiya I () and Yazid I (), and the leading general of the Umayyad army under caliphs Marwan I () and Abd al-Malik (). He virtually inh ...

, a son of Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan * Ubaydullah Khan, Khan of Bukhara (1534-1539)

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* Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab, important Umayyad official in Egypt from 724 to 734 *

Ubaydah ibn al-Harith ʿUbayda ibn al-Ḥārith () () was a relative and Companions of the Prophet, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is known for commanding the expedition in which Islam’s first arrow was shot and for being the first Muslim to be shahid, ...

, son of Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib *

Abū 'Ubayd 'Abd Allāh al-Bakrī Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an Arabs, Arab Al-Andalus, Andalusian historian and a geographer of the Muslims in Western Europe, Muslim W ...

, Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian * Gibadulla Murtasin (Ğobäydulla Mortaza), Turkestan-born teacher among the Finnish Tatar community

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* Talha ibn Ubayd-Allah, a companion of Muhammad * Abu Zafar Obaidullah, Bangladeshi writer *

Dean Obeidallah Dean Obeidallah is an American lawyer, comedian, and journalist. He is the host of SiriusXM Progress' ''The Dean Obeidallah Show'' and a frequent contributor to CNN, The Daily Beast, and MSNBC. Obeidallah was born in New Jersey and is of Palesti ...

, American comedian * Habibah binte Ubayd-Allah, daughter of Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh

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Obaidullah

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