given name
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surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
. Adil is a variation of the name Adel, an Arabic male name that comes from the word Adl, meaning "fairness" and "justice". It is a common name in the Muslim world.
It is not to be confused with the Germanic nameAdel, which has a different pronunciation.
People
Adil and its variants may refer to a number of notable people:
Ayyubid
The Ayyubid dynasty ( ar, الأيوبيون '; ) was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultan of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. A Sunni ...
Bijapur
Bijapur, officially known as Vijayapura, is the district headquarters of Bijapur district of the Karnataka state of India. It is also the headquarters for Bijapur Taluk. Bijapur city is well known for its historical monuments of architectural ...
Ali Adil Shah I
Ali Adil Shah I ( fa, ; 1558–1579) was the fifth Sultan of Bijapur Sultanate.
On the day of his coronation Ali abandoned the Sunni practices and reintroduced the Shi’ah Khutbah and other practices. The Persian doctors of religion were gra ...
Afsharid
Afsharid Iran ( fa, ایران افشاری), also referred as the Afsharid Empire was an Iranian empire established by the Turkoman Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, ruling Iran (Persia). The state was ruled by the ...
Adel Chaveleh
TimeGate Studios was an American video game developer based in Sugar Land, Texas. The company, which was founded in 1998, released eight titles before closing in 2013.
History
TimeGate Studios was founded in 1998 by Alan and Adel Chaveleh, who re ...
, American businessman and CIO of Crane Worldwide Logistics
* Adil Çarçani (1922–1997), Albanian politician
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Adel Fakeih
Adel Fakeih (born 1 July 1959; Arabic:عادل فقيه) is a Saudi Arabian engineer and the former mayor of Jeddah. He was the minister of labor from August 2010 to April 2015, minister of health between April 2014 and December 2014, and minist ...
(born 1959), Saudi Arabian engineer and politician
* Adel Al Jubeir (born 1962), Saudi Arabian diplomat
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Adil Karaismailoğlu
Adil Karaismailoğlu (born 1969) is a Turkish, mechanical engineer, civil servant and current Minister of Transport and Infrastructure.
Adil Karaismailoğlu was born in Trabzon, northern Turkey in 1969. After finishing the Trabzon High School, ...
(born 1969), Turkish mechanical engineer, civil servant and politician
* Adel Labib, Egyptian politician
* Adel Mouwda, Bahraini politician
* Adel Murad (born 1949), Iraqi politician
* Adil Nurmemet (born 1968), former Chinese politician
* Adel Osseiran (1905−1998), Lebanese politician
* Adel Safar (born 1953), Syrian politician and academic, Prime Minister of Syria (2011-2012)
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Adel Al-Saraawi Adel Al-Saraawi is a former member of the National Assembly of Kuwait, Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the Kuwait's Third District, third district. Born in 1962, Al-Saraawi studied accounting before being elected to the National Assembly in ...
(born 1962), Kuwaiti politician
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Adil Shayakhmetov
Adil Shayakhmetuly Shayakhmetov ( kk, Әділ Шаяхметұлы Шаяхметов, ''Ädıl Şaiahmetūly Şaiahmetov''; born 20 January 1956) was the head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (NSC) from December 2009 to August 2010. ...
(born 1956), Kazakhstani politician
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Adel Smith Adel Smith (March 9, 1960 – August 22, 2014), born Emilio Smith in Alexandria, Egypt, was an Italian Muslim known for his radical stances and often accused of fundamentalism. He was the son of a Naples-born Italian architect of Scottish descent ...
(1960–2014), born as Emilio Smith in Alexandria, Egypt, Italian Muslim activist, and radical fundamentalist
* Adel al Zamel, Kuwaiti held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba
* Adil Zulfikarpašić (1921–2008), Bosniak politician and intellectual
Literature and journalism
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Adil Asadov
Adil Asadov - (Azerbaijani: Adil İsgəndər oğlu Əsədov) is an Azerbaijani philosopher, currently head of the department at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and President of Association of Philosophical Enlightenment.
Biography
Adil A ...
(born 1958), Azerbaijani philosopher
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Adel Ferdosipour
Adel Ferdosipour ( fa, عادل فردوسیپور; born 3 October 1974), is an Iranian journalist, football commentator, translator, university professor and television show host and producer. He was the host and producer of the popular TV sho ...
(born 1974), Iranian journalist, translator, sports commentator and television show host and producer
* Adel Hammouda (born 1968), Egyptian journalist
* Adel Karasholi (born 1936), German writer
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Adel Kutuy
Adel may refer to:
Places United States
* Adel, Georgia
* Adel, Indiana
* Adel, Iowa
* Adel Township, Dallas County, Iowa
* Adel, Oklahoma
* Adel, Oregon
* Adel Mountains Volcanic Field, West-central Montana
Elsewhere
* Adelaide, Australia
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(1903−1945), Soviet Tatar poet, writer and playwright
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Adel Manna Dr. Adel Manna (born October 20, 1947) is a Palestinian historian with Israeli citizenship specializing in Palestine in the Ottoman period and the mid-20th century. He was the director of the Academic Institute for Arab Teacher Training at Beit Berl ...
(born 1947), Israeli Palestinian historian
* Adel Al Toraifi (born 1979), Saudi Arabian journalist
Art and cinema
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Adel Abdessemed
Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian-French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of artistic media, media, including animation, installation art, installation, performance art, performance, sculpture and video art, video. Som ...
(born 1971), French Algerian conceptual artist
* Adel Adham (1928–1996), Egyptian actor
* Adel Bencherif (born 1975), French actor
* Adel Abo Hassoon (born 1970), Syrian television actor and voice actor
* Adil Hussain (born 1963), Indian actor
* Adel Imam (born 1940), Egyptian actor
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Adel Kamel
Adel Kamel (1942–2003) عادل كامل was a music critic, musicologist and composer.
He was one of the writers in ''Watani'' newspaper, the founder of “Panorama” section, a lecturer in Universities in Egypt and abroad, a member of ju ...
(1942–2003), Egyptian musicologist
* Adel Karam, Lebanese television host and actor
* Adil Khan (born 1983), Norwegian actor
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Adel Nassief
Adel Nassief ( ar, عادل نصيف; 20 October 1962 – 19 March 2021) was a Coptic painter specializing in Coptic art. He has some work on display on the external wall of a Coptic church in Paris and some work in the Cairo modern art museum ...
(born 1962), Egyptian painter
* Adil Omar (born 1991), Pakistani rapper and singer-songwriter
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Adil Ray
Adil Ray ( ur, عادل رے, born 26 April 1974) is a British actor, comedian and radio/television presenter. Ray stars in the BBC One comedy '' Citizen Khan'', which he created and co-writes, as well as presenting on various BBC radio station ...
(born 1974), British actor, writer and broadcaster
* Adel Tawil (born 1978), German singer
Science
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Adel F. Halasa Adel F. Halasa is an American scientist (originally Jordanian) noted for his contributions to the development of rubber, particularly in the area of tire tread polymers for the Goodyear AquaTred tire. In 1997, he won the Charles Goodyear Medal, best ...
(born 1933), American scientist
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Adel Mahmoud
Adel K. Mahmoud (August 24, 1941 – June 11, 2018) was an Egyptian-born American doctor and expert in infectious diseases. He was credited with helping with the development of the Gardasil HPV vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine while serving as ...
(1941–2018), Egyptian-born American doctor and expert in infectious diseases
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Adel S. Sedra
Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and professor.
Career
Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his Bachelor of Science, B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1964 and his Master of Applied Science, M.A.Sc. and Doctor of Philosophy ...
(born 1943), Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer
Adil Chihi
Adil Chihi ( ar, عادل شيحي; born 21 February 1988) is a professional footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for IR Tanger. Born in Germany, he represented Morocco at international level.
Club career
On 23 July 2014, Chihi jo ...
(born 1988), Moroccan footballer
* Adil Ibragimov (born 1989), Russian footballer
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Adil El Makssoud
Adil El Makssoud (born December 12, 1985) is a Moroccan professional basketball player. He currently plays for the CRA Hoceima club of the Nationale 1, Morocco's first division.
He represented Morocco's national basketball team at the 2017 AfroB ...
(born 1985), Moroccan basketball player
* Adil Ramzi (born 1977), Moroccan footballer
* Adil Rashid (born 1988), English cricketer
* Adil Shamasdin (born 1982), Canadian tennis player
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Adel Abdulaziz
Adel Abdul Aziz (born June 19, 1980) is a professional football wingback defender from the United Arab Emirates. He wears the number '13' jersey in the United Arab Emirates national football team.
At the club level, Abdulaziz played for Al-Ahli ...
(born 1980), Emirati footballer
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Adel Abdullah
Adel Ahmed Abdullah ( ar, عادل أحمد عبدالله; born 12 January 1984), commonly known as Adel Abdullah, is a Syrian footballer who plays for Sur SC in Oman Professional League.
Club career
Nizwa
In 2014, he moved to Oman where he ...
(born 1984), Syrian footballer
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Adel Amrouche
Adel Amrouche ( ar, عادل عمروش; born 7 March 1968) is an Belgium, Belgo-Algeria, Algerian association football, football manager (association football), manager and former player who manages the Yemen national football team, Yemen natio ...
(born 1968), Algerian football manager
* Adel Chedli (born 1976), Tunisian footballer
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Adel Eid
Adel Eid (born 22 March 1984) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. His father is Egyptian and his mother Finnish.
Career
The defender, who is 5'11" tall and weighs 159 pounds, previously played for FC Honka and HJK ...
(born 1984), Egyptian-Finnish footballer
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Adel Fellous
Adel Fellous (born 16 February 1978) is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Lézignan Sangliers club in the Elite One Championship. His usual position was prop-forward. He was an experienced French international ...
(born 1978), French rugby league player
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Adel Guemari
Adel Guemari (born 16 February 1984 in Marseille) is a French-Algerian former professional footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associ ...
(born 1984), French footballer
* Adel El Hadi (born 1980), Algerian footballer
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Adel Humoud
Adel Humoud ( ar, عادل حمود, born 20 June 1986) is a Kuwaiti footballer who is a midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks ...
(born 1986), Kuwaiti footballer
* Adel Kolahkaj (born 1985), Iranian footballer
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Adel Lakhdari
Adel Lakhdari (in arabic : عادل لخضري) (born 12 August 1989) is an Algerian football player who plays for US Biskra in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2.
Club career
On January 12, 2011, Lakhdari signed a -year contract with ES Séti ...
(born 1989), Algerian footballer
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Adel Lami
Adel Lami Khalid Mohamed (born November 13, 1985) is a Qatari footballer who is a midfielder .
Career
Lami was born in Al Magwa, Kuwait. He began playing football on the streets in his neighbourhood, until he joined the youth ranks of Kuwait SC ...
(born 1985), Qatari footballer
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Adel Maïza
Adel Maïza ( ar, عادل معيزة; born March 18, 1983) is an Algerian retired football player who played as a defender for USM Annaba.Adel Massaad (born 1964), Egyptian table tennis player
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Adel Messali
Adel Messali ( ar, عادل مصالي; born 31 July 1983) is an Algerian footballer. He currently plays for MC El Eulma in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
Club career
On 16 June 2008 Messali started for JSM Béjaïa in the final of the 2 ...
(born 1983), Algerian footballer
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Adel Nefzi
Adel Nefzi ( ar, عادل النفزي) (born 16 March 1974 in Béja) is a retired Tunisian football (soccer) player who played as a goalkeeper.
Nefzi originally played for the Olympique de Béja before moving to the US Monastir and then to the ...
(born 1974), Tunisian footballer
* Adel Sellimi (born 1972), Tunisian footballer
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Adel Taarabt
Adel Taarabt ( ar, عادل تاعرابت; born 24 May 1989) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Emirati club Al-Nasr and the Morocco national team.
Taarabt began his playing career in Fran ...
(born 1989), Moroccan footballer
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Adel Tlatli
Adel Tlatli is a Tunisian professional basketball coach.
Coaching career
Tlati has been the long-time head coach of the senior men's Tunisian national basketball team. He has coached the team since the FIBA Africa Championship 2001. At the FIBA ...
, Tunisian basketball coach
* Adel Abdel Rahman (born 1967), Egyptian footballer and coach
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Adel Adili
Adel Adili (born 6 September 1974) is a Libyan long-distance runner. He competed in the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also ...
(born 1974), Libyan long-distance runner
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Adel Belal
Adel Belal Mohamed Diab ( ar, عادل بلال; born June 27, 1987), also known as Adel El Siwi, is an Egyptian professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for the Egyptian club El Gouna FC on loan from El Raja SC
El Raja Spor ...
(born 1987), also known as Adel El Siwi, Egyptian footballer
* Adel Chbouki (born 1971), Moroccan footballer
* Adel Gafaiti (born 1994), Algerian footballer
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Adel Ibrahim Ismail
Adel Ibrahim Ismail (born 28 March 1951) is an Egyptian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known a ...
(born 1951), Egyptian basketball player
* Adel Khudhair (born 1954), Iraqi footballer and coach
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Adel Langue
Jean Anderson Adel Bruano Langue (born 17 September 1997) is a Mauritian international footballer who plays for Spanish club Deportivo Alavés as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Quatre Bornes, he began his career with Cercle de Joachim. In 2018 ...
(born 1997), Mauritian footballer
* Adel Mechaal (born 1990), Morocco-born Spanish middle-distance runner
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Adel Mojallali
Adel Mojallali Moghaddam ( fa, عادل مجللی مقدم; born 21 March 1993) is an Iranian Canoe sprint, canoeist. He competed in the Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 200 metres, men's C-1 200 metres event at the 2016 Summe ...
(born 1993), Iranian canoeist
* Adel Ahmed Malalla (born 1961), Qatari footballer
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Adel Nasser
Adel Nasser Shakroun ( ar, عادل ناصر شكرون ; born 1970) is a coach and former international Iraqi football (soccer), football player, he played as a midfielder, he is currently working as a coach for Naft Al-Janoob club.
Adel is the ...
(born 1970), Iraqi footballer and coach
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Adel Al-Salimi
Adel Ali Al-Salimi ( ar, عادل السالمي, born 6 July 1979) is a former Yemeni football forward. His goal tally for the Yemeni national team is the second-best ever, behind Ali Al-Nono.
International goals
Honours
Club
Al-Ahli San' ...
Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam
Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam ( ar, احمد عادل عبد المنعم; born 10 April 1987) is an Egyptian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Egyptian League club Misr Lel- ...
(born 1987), Egyptian footballer
* Mohamed Adel Gomaa (born 1993), Egyptian footballer
Surname
Arts, literature, and entertainment
* Hany Adel (born 1976), Egyptian guitarist, vocalist, and screen actor
* Zizi Adel (born 1987), Egyptian singer
* Buyong Adil (1907–1976), Malaysian historian
Politics
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Mohammed Adel (youth leader) Mohammed Adel ( ar, محمد عادل, ; born August 8, 1988) is an Egyptian political activist and a founder of the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt. He has been active with the Kefaya movement since 2005 and is one of activists who called for a ge ...
, Egyptian activist
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Ahmed Adil
Ahmed Adil is a citizen of China who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.
Detention
Adil's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 260. American intelligence analysts estimate he was ...
(born 1973), Guantanamo detainee
Sport
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Carolyn Adel
Carolyn Adel (born 27 August 1978) is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from Suriname. She swam for Suriname at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
She was the most decorated swimmer at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games, where ...
(born 1978), Surinamese Olympic swimmer
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Deng Adel
Deng Adel (born 1 February 1997) is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for BC Balkan Botevgrad of the Bulgarian National Basketball League. He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals.
Early life
Adel was ...
(born 1996), Australian basketball player
* Mohamed Adel (born 1978), Egyptian football referee
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Ramy Adel
Ramy Mohamed Adel Mohamed Shawatta ( ar, رامي عادل) (born August 18, 1979) is an Egyptian footballer, who currently plays as a center-back for Egyptian Premier League club Al-Mokawloon al-Arab.
Club career
Ramy started his career at the ...
(born 1979), Egyptian footballer
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Yathreb Adel
Yathreb Adel, (born 6 March 1996 in Cairo) is an Egyptian professional squash player who represents Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa ...
(born 1996), Egyptian squash player
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Farhan Adil
Mohammad Farhan Adil ( ur, ), (born 25 September 1977) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played for the Pakistan national cricket team in his only test cricket match in 2003. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.
Adil ...
(born 1977), Pakistani cricketer
Fictional characters
* Âdel, a character in
Pleasure and Suffering ''Pleasure and Suffering'' ( ar, المتعة والعذاب, al-Mutåt wal-ÂzabHabib, p129 or al-Moutʾah wal-ʾadhâbArmes, p183) is an Egyptian film made circa 1971. The film was directed by Niazi Mostafa. The principal actors are Shams al-Barou ...
* Adel, a character in
Winter of Discontent (film)
''Winter of Discontent'' ( ar, الشتا إللى فات; translit. ) is a 2012 Egyptian drama film directed by Ibrahim El Batout. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, b ...
See also
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Adila (name) Adila (and its variant ''Adela'') (Arabic: حمود) is a feminine given name and a surname. Its given name form is a feminine derivative of the name Adil meaning "just and fair". People with the name include:
Given name
* Adela Humood Alaboudi (b ...
Arabic name
Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given/ middle/family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout ...