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Actors

* Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor

Athletes

* Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwaiti hurdler * Zeyad Mater, Yemeni judoka *

Zyad Chaabo Zyad Barakat Chaabo (; born 1 January 1979) is a Syrian former football (soccer), footballer who played as a Striker (association football), striker. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Syria's goal tally first.'' Honou ...

, Syrian footballer *

Ziad Jaziri Ziad Jaziri (; born 12 July 1978) is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He has 64 caps and 14 goals for the Tunisia national team, and was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was also in the 2002 World Cup ...

, Tunisian football striker *

Ziad Richa Ziad Richa (born September 25, 1967) is a Lebanese skeet shooter who has represented his nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished twenty-ninth out of forty-one shooters in the men's skeet event. Richa was also the flag b ...

, Lebanese skeet shooter *

Ziad Tlemçani Hamed Ziad Tlemçani (, born 10 May 1963) is a retired Tunisian footballer who played for Espérance in Tunisia, Vitória S.C. in Portugal and Vissel Kobe in Japan. He was also a member of the Tunisia national team and scored 2 goals at the 19 ...

, Tunisian footballer * Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender * Ziyad al-Kord, Palestinian footballer * Ziyad al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer *

Ziyad al-Johani Ziyad Mubarak Eid Al-Marwani Al-Johani (; born 11 November 2001) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Al-Ahli and the Saudi Arabia national team. Career Al-Johani started his career at the youth teams of Al ...

, Saudi Arabian footballer *

Zyad Jusić Zyad Jusić (born 29 February 1980) is a Bosnian-Dutch former professional association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), striker. Early and personal life Jusić was born in Ljubovija, then a part of Socialist Fe ...

, Dutch football striker

Businessmen

Ziad Takieddine Ziad Takieddine (, Latn, ar, Zyād Taqī al-Dīn; born 14 June 1950) is a Lebanese-French businessman, described by ''The Telegraph'' as an "arms broker".

Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker *

Ziad Makkawi Ziad Makkawi (December 25, 1961) is an American entrepreneur and investor, he has French nationality and was born in New York City to Lebanese parents. Makkawi has focused on the development of both the investment banking and asset management in ...

, Lebanese American investor *

Ziyad Cattan Ziyad Cattan is a dual citizen of Poland and Iraq. He earned a PhD in Economics. During the twenty years he lived in Poland Cattan operated both a used car and a pizza companies. According to an article published in ''The Independent'', on 19 Sep ...

, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer *Ziad Zanayed investor and financier.

Film directors

Ziad Antar Ziad Antar (born 1978 in Saida, Lebanon) is a Lebanese filmmaker and photographer. He studied Agricultural Engineering at the American University of Beirut before turning to video and arts with a residency at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and a po ...

, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer *

Ziad Doueiri Ziad Doueiri ( ; born October 7, 1963) is a Lebanese film director. He is known for his award-winning films '' West Beirut'' (1998) and '' The Insult'' (2017), a film that was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards, representing Lebanon in the Bes ...

, Lebanese film director *

Ziad Touma Ziad Touma is a Lebanese Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon and residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the founder of the film, television and digital media production company Couzin Films . Earlier ...

, Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

Ziad Majed Ziad Majed () is a Lebanese/French political researcher and university professor. He holds PhD in political sciences from Sciences Po Paris a master's degree in Arabic Literature and a BA in economics from the American University of Beirut. He ...

, Lebanese political researcher *

Ziyad Marar Ziyad Marar is an author and President of Global Publishing at SAGE Publishing. He was born in 1966 in Iraq, and moved to London aged 10. He has published four books combining his interests in psychology and philosophy. His fourth ''Judged: The ...

, Iraqi writer and publisher

Musicians

Ziad Rahbani Ziad Rahbani (, born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the founders of modern Arabic music ...

, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am was an Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization fo ...

, poet of the Umayyad period of Persian origin

Politicians

Siad Barre Mohammed Siad Barre (, Osmanya script: , ''Muhammad Ziād Barīy''; 6 October 1919 – 2 January 1995) was a Somali military officer, politician, and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 Janu ...

, Somalian dictator *

Ziad Aboultaif Ziad Aboultaif (Arabic: زياد أبو لطيف; born 10 September 1966) is a Canadian politician first elected to represent the riding of Edmonton Manning in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election. Before politics On first com ...

, Canadian politician *

Ziad Abs Ziad Raymond Abs (زياد ريمون عبس) (born August 2, 1972 in Beirut) is a Beiruti political activist since the early rallies for the liberation of Lebanon in 1989–1990, and a previous member of the Lebanese political party Free Patriot ...

, Lebanese politician *

Ziad Abu Amr Ziad Abu Amr (; born 22 January 1950) is a Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine and is a member (independent) of the PLO Executive Committee. From 17 ...

Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council * Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian politician *

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin Ziad Ahmed Bahaa-Eldin (born 30 August 1964) is an Egyptian economist, commercial lawyer and politician. Biography Ziad Bahaa-Eldin was born on 30 August 1964 and is the son of the journalist and writer Ahmad Baha-Eldin. He was educated at Cair ...

, Egyptian politician * Ziyad Baroud, Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist * Ziad Durrani, Pakistani politician * Ziad Makhzoumi, Lebanese British businessman and public speaker * Ziyad Sabbagh (born 1960), Syrian politician

Military

Ziyad ibn Abihi Abu al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi (; ), also known as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (), was an administrator and statesman of the successive Rashidun and Umayyad caliphates in the mid-7th century. He served as the governor of Basra in 665–670 and ultimat ...

(622–673), Muslim general and administrator * Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Harthi, Abbasid governor of Medina from 750 to 758. * Ziad Fahd, Free Syrian Army brigadier general *

Ziad al-Hariri Ziyad (; ) is an Arabic given name and surname. Given name Actors * Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor Athletes * Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwaiti hurdler * Zeyad Mater, Yemeni judoka * Zyad Chaabo, Syrian footballer * Ziad ...

, Syrian senior officer and defence minister * Zijad Subašić, Bosniak military leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95)

Other

* Ziad Abuzayyad, Palestinian lawyer, journalist * Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, petroleum geologist and professor * Ziad Fazah, Lebanese polyglot * Ziad el-Doulatli, Tunisian activist * Ziad al-Khasawneh, Jordanian lawyer who headed a team of twenty-two defence lawyers for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. *

Ziad Jarrah Ziad Samir Jarrah (11 May 197511 September 2001) was a Lebanese man who was one of the four terrorist hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a rural area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as part of the September 11 atta ...

, Lebanese terrorist hijacker involved in the hijacking of

United Airlines Flight 93 United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a feder ...

Ziyad Khaleel Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was an American al-Qaeda member, based in the United States, primarily in Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Missouri. He had been identified as a "procurement agent" f ...

, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member *

Zijad Delić Dr. Zijad Delić (born 12 May 1965) is a Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker. He is the former executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC). Early life and career Delić was born and raised in Bosni ...

, Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker

Surname

* Howar Ziad, Iraqi politician and ambassador * Hussein Ziad, Jordanian footballer *

Tawfiq Ziad Tawfiq Ziad (; ; 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994), also romanized Tawfik Zayyad or Tawfeeq Ziad, was a Palestinian-Arab politician, poet, and activist who served in Israel's Knesset. He is best known for his advocacy on behalf of Palestinian citize ...

(1929–1994), Palestinian politician well known for his "poetry of protest".