Hadji (also spelled ''
Hajji
Hajji ( ar, الحجّي; sometimes spelled Hadji, Haji, Alhaji, Al-Hadj, Al-Haj or El-Hajj) is an honorific title which is given to a Muslim who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca. It is also often used to refer to an elder, since i ...
'', ''Haji'' or ''Hatzi'') is a title and prefix that is awarded to a person who has successfully completed the
Hajj ("pilgrimage") to Mecca.
It may refer to:
People
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El Hadji Diouf
El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf (; born 15 January 1981) is a Senegalese former professional footballer. Throughout his career, Diouf played as a winger or a forward.
Having started his professional football career in France with Sochaux, Rennes ...
(born 1981), Senegalese footballer
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El Hadji Guissé
El Hadji Guissé is a Senegalese judge. Guissé began practicing law in 1970 and was elected as a judge to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights from 2006-2010. He has also worked in the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is ...
, Senegalese judge
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Hadji Murad
Hadji Murad (russian: Хаджи-Мурат, av, XӀажи Мурад; 1818 – April 23, N.S. May 5, 1852) was an important North Caucasian Avar leader during the resistance of the peoples of Dagestan and Chechnya in 1811–1864 against t ...
(c. 1790–1852), Caucasian leader
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Mustapha Hadji
Mustapha Hadji (born 16 November 1971) is a Moroccan football coach and former player. He was named the 50th greatest African player of all time by the African football expert Ed Dove.
Early life
Hadji was born in Ifrane Atlas-Saghir, Morocco. ...
(born 1971), Moroccan international footballer
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Youssouf Hadji
Youssouf Hadji ( ar, يوسف حجي; born 25 February 1980) is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He notably had three spells for French side AS Nancy, also serving as the team captain, making 378 a ...
(born 1980), Moroccan international footballer (and Mustapha's younger brother)
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Samir Hadji
Samir Hadji (born 12 September 1989, in Creutzwald) is a footballer who plays for the Luxembourgian club F91 Dudelange as a striker. Born in France, he has represented Morocco at youth level.
Personal life
He is the son of former Moroccan int ...
(born 1989), French footballer
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Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou ( el, Στέλιος Χατζηιωάννου, translit=Stelios Hatziioannou; born 14 February 1967) is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost ai ...
(born 1967), Cypriot entrepreneur
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Hajji Ebrahim Shirazi
Hajji Ebrahim Shirazi (; 1745–1801), who is also known by his honorific title E'temad-al-Dawla (), was an Iranian statesman who served as the ''kalantar'' ( lord mayor) of the city of Shiraz during the late Zand era and later as the first g ...
(1745–1801),
kalantar
''Kalantar'' is a daily Bengali-language newspaper issued from Kolkata, India. It is the organ of the West Bengal State Council of the Communist Party of India. It was published as a weekly newspaper since 1965; 'Kalantar' converted to a dail ...
of
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
and
Grand Vizier under the
Qajars
The Qajar dynasty (; fa, دودمان قاجار ', az, Qacarlar ) was an IranianAbbas Amanat, ''The Pivot of the Universe: Nasir Al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831–1896'', I. B. Tauris, pp 2–3 royal dynasty of Turkic origin ...
Fictional
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Hadji (character)
''Jonny Quest'' (also known as ''The Adventures of Jonny Quest'') is an American animated science fiction adventure television series about a boy who accompanies his scientist father on extraordinary adventures. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera, ...
, an Indian protagonist in the American television series ''Jonny Quest''
Other uses
* "
Hadji Girl", a 2006 song by Corporal Joshua Belile of the United States Marine Corps
See also
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Hajji (disambiguation)
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