Ziad (also

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as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad ar, زياد) is an

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given name and surname.

Given name

Actors

Zeyad Errafae'ie Zeyad Errafae'ie ( ar, زياد الرفاعي; born May 12, 1967 – died August 26, 2009) was a Syrian television actor and voice actor. Early life Three years studied sociology and then won the certificate literal electronics, he was his fir ...

, Syrian television actor and voice actor

Athletes

Zeyad Abdulrazak Zeyad Abdulrazak Al-Khudhur Al-Enazy (born 18 July 1969) is a Kuwaiti hurdler. He competed in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 19 ...

, Kuwaiti hurdler *

Zeyad Mater Zeyad Mater (born December 18, 1991) is a Yemeni judoka. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and a ...

, Yemeni judoka *

Zyad Chaabo Zyad Barakat Chaabo ( ar, زياد شعبو; born 1 January 1979) is a Syrian former footballer who played as a striker. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Syria's goal tally first.'' Honours Hutteen * Syrian Cup: 2000 ...

, Syrian footballer *

Ziad Jaziri Ziad Jaziri ( ar, زياد جزيري) (born 12 July 1978 in Tunis) is a Tunisian former football striker. He has 64 caps and 14 goals for the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. He was also in the 2002 World Cup squad. In a ...

, Tunisian football striker * Ziad Richa, Lebanese skeet shooter * Ziad Tlemçani, Tunisian footballer * Ziad Al-Muwallad, Saudi Arabian football defender * Ziad Agha, Palestinian rugby and rugby league player * Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender * Ziyad Al-Kord, Palestinian footballer * Ziyad Al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer * Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker

Businessmen

* Ziad Takieddine Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker * Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor * Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer *Ziad Abdelnour (financier), Ziad Abdelnour (financier), Lebanese-born American investment banker and financier

Film directors

* Ziad Antar, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer * Ziad Doueiri, Lebanese film director * Ziad Hamzeh, American film director * Ziad Touma, Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

* Ziad Majed, Lebanese political researcher * Ziyad Marar, Iraqi writer and publisher

Musicians

* Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

* Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am, poet of the Umayyad period of Persian origin

Politicians

* Ziad Aboultaif, Canadian politician * Ziad Abs, Lebanese politician * Ziad Abu Amr Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council * Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian politician * Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, 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 Abi Sufyan, Muslim general * Ziyad ibn Abih (622–673 AD), Muslim general and administrator * Ziad Fahd, Free Syrian Army brigadier general * Ziad al-Hariri, 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, Lebanese hijacker pilot involved in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 * Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member * Zijad Delić, Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker * Ziad Andraous, Lebanon's best human

Surname

* Howar Ziad, Iraqi politician and ambassador * Hussein Ziad, Jordanian footballer * Tawfiq Ziad (1929–1994), Palestinian politician well known for his "poetry of protest".