Gul is a common name in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

( ) and

Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

() languages, meaning ''rose''. Gul is used as a family name in

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

Central Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

and

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;;;;; ...

. It is also a Nordic given name, used in

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ance ...

, and

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

languages as a short form of Guðólfr (

Godwulf A number of royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, have been preserved in a manuscript tradition based in the 8th to 10th centuries. The genealogies trace the succession of th ...

). The name is also an abbreviation used in the

medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...

and early modern periods for

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

(derived from

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

Guillaume Guillaume may refer to: People * Guillaume (given name), the French equivalent of William * Guillaume (surname) Other uses * Guillaume (crater) See also * '' Chanson de Guillaume'', an 11th or 12th century poem * Guillaume affair, a Cold War espi ...

), for example in the signature "''Gul: Ebor''" for

William Dawes William Dawes Jr. (April 6, 1745 – February 25, 1799) was one of several men who in April 1775 alerted colonial minutemen in Massachusetts of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the outse ...

, Archbishop of York.Deeds of Londesborough and area
Lease for years MD239/35, 1 Jul 1715. The National Archives, UK. Retrieved 19 November 2010

Given name

Males

Gul Bakhsh Gul Bakhsh ( bn, গুল বখশ, gul bôkhsh) was a Bengali poet of the late 19th-century. He is mainly known for his magnum opus, ''Kukikatar Puthi'', which was a narrative of the Kuki raids at Chhagalnaiya in 1860. It was written in the ...

, Bengali poet *

Gul Hameed Bhatti Gul Hameed Bhatti (1947 – 4 February 2010) was a Pakistani journalist, editor and a leading sports writer. Known as Pakistan's "Encyclopaedia of Cricket", Bhatti wrote for ''The Cricketer'', published from Karachi.

, Pakistani journalist * Gul Chaman, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base * Gul Haider, Afghan politician *

Gul Mohammed Jangvi Mullah Gul Mohammed Jangvi (also known as Gul Mohammed) is a Taliban field commander.Alam Gul Kuchi Hajji Alam Gul Kuchi is an Afghan politician, the parliamentary representative of the Kuchi nomads in the Wolesi Jirga. Parliamentary dispute in 2008 In the 9th of April 2008 session of the Afghan parliament The Leadership Council of the Islamic ...

, Afghan politician *

Gul Mohammad Gul Mohammad , sometimes referred to as Gul Mahomed, (15 October 1921 – 8 May 1992) played Test cricket for India and Pakistan. He was educated at Islamia College, Lahore. Gul Mohammad was a small man who stood only 5' 5, but a brilliant at ...

, Indian/Pakistani cricketer *

Gul Mohammed Gul Mohammed (February 15, 1957 – October 1, 1997) of New Delhi, India, according to Guinness World Records, was the shortest adult human being of his time whose existence and height have been independently verified. On July 19, 1990, ...

, Guinness world record holder as the shortest human being * Gul Mudin (1994–2010), Afghan child premeditatedly murdered by United States troops *

Gul Rahman Gul Rahman ( ps, ګل رحمان; died November 20, 2002) was an Afghan man, suspected by the United States of being a militant, who was a victim of torture. He died in a secret CIA prison, or black site, located in northern Kabul, Afghanistan k ...

, Afghan torture victim *

Gul Hameed Khan Rokhri Gul Hameed Khan Rokhri (1 January 1936 - 23 August 2020) was a Pakistani politician. Throughout his political career, he has been a member of the Provincial Assembly, been elected as an MNA, and then later became the Punjab Revenue, Relief & Co ...

, Pakistani politician *

Gul Agha Sherzai Gul Agha Sherzai (), also known as Mohammad Shafiq, is a politician in Afghanistan. He is the former governor of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 ...

, Afghan politician *

Gul Mohamad Zhowandai Gul Mohamad Zhowandai (1905–1988) son of Khair Mohamad khan was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. A poet and writer, his publications were novels written in Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persi ...

, Afghan poet

Females

Gül Gölge Gül Gölge (born September 28, 1981 in İzmir, Turkey) is a Turkish TV presenter. She is the well-known for being the former host of the program ''Canlı Canlı'' which aired on Kanal D. She is also a model and actress, having acted in ''Çiçek ...

(born 1981), Turkish model and actress *

Gul Panag Gul Panag (born Gulkirat Kaur Panag, 3 January 1979; Chandigarh, India) is an Indian actress, voice actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Panag began her career in Bollywood with the 2003 film '' Dho ...

(born 1979), Indian Bollywood actress *

Gul Panra Minhaz, known professionally as Gul Panra ( ps, ; sometimes spelled Gulpanra), is a Pakistani Pashto language, Pashto folk singer and Concert tour, touring artist. Her Concert, live concerts include United Kingdom and Afghanistan. In 2015, she ...

(born 1989), Pakistani singer

Surname

Notable people with the surname Gul or Gül include: *

Abdullah Gül Abdullah Gül (; ; born 29 October 1950) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th President of Turkey, in office from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently served as both ...

, President of the Republic of Turkey ın years 2007-2014. *

Aftab Gul Aftab Gul Khan (Urdu: آفتاب گل خان) (born 31 March 1946) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in six Test matches from 1969 to 1971. Gul was an opening batsman who represented a number of first-class sides in Pakistan from 1964 ...

, Pakistani cricketer *

Ajab Gul Ajab Gul (Pashto: عجب گل) is a Pakistani actor turned film director, producer and music director who has mostly worked in Pashto films. As well as working in Pakistani cinema he has worked in television and theater. Career Ajab Gul has star ...

, Pakistani actor-turned-director * Amir Gul, Pakistani footballer *

Awal Gul Awal Gul (July 1, 1962 – February 2, 2011) was a citizen of Afghanistan who died in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after nine years of imprisonment without charge. Personal The US Department of Defense, Departme ...

, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base *

Dawd Gul According to the United States Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006. They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following the US and allies' invasion ...

, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base *

Faruk Gül Faruk R. Gül is a Turkish American economist, a professor of economics at Princeton University and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Gül did his undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986,< ...

, Turkish American economist *

Gerardus Gul Gerardus Gul (27 October 1847 – 9 February 1920) served as the seventeenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1892 to 1920. He is known for his role in assisting the persons who would later found the Polish National Catholic Church in the United States ...

, Dutch bishop of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands *

Hamid Gul Lieutenant General Hamid Gul ( ur, ‎; 20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army and defence analyst. Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligenc ...

, former Director General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence * Khi Ali Gul, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base *

Meirchion Gul {{more citations needed, date=September 2018Meirchion Gul was probably a late 5th-century king of Rheged, a Brythonic realm in the area of Sub-Roman Britain known as the ''Hen Ogledd'' (in the North of England and Southern Scotland today). Next t ...

, 5th-century king of Rheged (modern-day northern England) * Mohammad Gul, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base *

Roman Gul Roman Borisovich Gul (russian: Роман Борисович Гуль; 13 August 1896 in Penza – 30 June 1986 in New York City) was a Russian émigré writer, his political position was leftist-liberal, he was critical towards the conservati ...

, Russian émigré writer * Sahar Gul, Afghan child bride tortured by her husband's family *

Sajjad Gul Agha Sajjad Gul ( ur, آغا سجاد گل) is a producer, director and one of the biggest media moguls in Pakistan. He is the youngest of the sons of renowned film studio owner and a pioneer of Pakistan film industry, the late Agha G. A. Gul (19 ...

, Pakistani CEO *

Umar Gul Umar Gul (Urdu: , ps, عمر گل) (born 15 October 1982 ) is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer who is the current bowling coach of Quetta Gladiators. He played all three formats of the game as a right arm fast medium bowler for ...

, Pakistani cricketer *

Yekta Yılmaz Gül Yekta Yılmaz Gül (born December 1, 1978 in Tirebolu, Giresun Province) is a Turkish professional Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed for the men's 120 kg division. He is a member of the İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. Gül studied at ...

(born 1978), Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler

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