Naim (also spelled Na'im, Nayeem, Naeem, Naiem, Nahim, Naheem, Nyhiem, Nihiem, Nyheim, Niheem, or Nahiem) ( ar, نعیم, he, נעים) is a male given name and surname.
Notable persons with the name include:
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Naim ibn Hammad (died 843 AD),
Hadith collector
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Naeem Ahmed
Naeem Ahmed Khan (born September 20, 1952 in Karachi, Sindh) is a former Pakistani cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end ...
(born 1952), Pakistani cricketer
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Na'im Akbar (born 1944), American psychologist
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Naïm Aarab (born 1988), Belgian football player
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Naim Araidi (1950–2015), Israeli writer
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Naim Ateek
Naim Stifan Ateek ( ar, نعيم عتيق, Na`īm `Ateeq) (born in the Palestinian village of Beisan in 1937) is a Palestinian priest in the Anglican Communion and founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. He has b ...
(born 1937), Palestinian priest
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Naim Attallah (born 1931), Palestinian businessman
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Naeem Ashraf
Naeem Ashraf (نعیم اشرف) is a British Pakistani cricket umpire and former cricketer who played two One Day International matches in 1995. Naeem is a left-arm fast-medium bowler and a left-handed batsman.
Naeem now plays for Clitheroe Cr ...
(born 1972), Pakistani cricketer
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Naim Bey
''The Memoirs of Naim Bey: Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportation and the Massacres of Armenians'', containing the Talat Pasha telegrams, is a book published by historian and journalist Aram Andonian in 1919. Originally redacted in ...
(1872–1934), Ottoman bureaucrat
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Naeem Bokhari
Syed Naeem Altaf Bokhari ( Punjabi, ) is a Pakistani lawyer and television personality. Previously, he has hosted ''Khabarnaak'' on a Pakistani news channel Geo News.
On 23 November 2020, He has been appointed Chairman of Pakistan Television C ...
(born 1948), Pakistani television host and lawyer
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Naim Dangoor (1914–2015), British businessman
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Naim Farouqi (born 1960), Afghan detainee
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Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian romantic poet
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Naim Frashëri (actor) (1923–1975), Albanian actor
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Naeem Hashmi
Naeem Hashmi (died 27 April 1976) was a Pakistani film, television and stage actor, writer, poet, producer, and director. He was known for his roles as a villain in the late 1940s and 1950s, but he later took character roles in over 100 films. (died 1976), Pakistani film actor
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Na'im ibn Musa, Iraqi mathematician
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Na'eem Jeenah (born 1965), South African political activist
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Naeem Khan (born 1958), American fashion designer
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Naïm Kattan (born 1928), Jewish Iraqi-born Canadian writer
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Niam Kuchi (born 1940), Afghan detainee
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Naim Krieziu (1918–2010), Albanian football player
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Naim Maloku (born 1958), Kosovar politician
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Naeem Murr (born 1965), British novelist
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Naim Popal (born 1954), Afghan musician
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Naeim Saadavi (born 1969), Iranian football player and coach
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Naim Süleymanoğlu (1967–2017), Turkish weightlifter
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Naim Talu (1919–1998), Turkish politician and Prime Minister
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Naim Terbunja (born 1984), Swedish boxer
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Naimuddin
Muhammad Naimuddin ( bn, মোহাম্মদ নইমুদ্দীন; 1832 - 1907/1916) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, writer and journalist. He was the chief editor of the Akhbare Islamia.
Early life and education
Naimuddin was born ...
(1832-1907), Bengali writer and scholar
*Naeem Hanif (born 1989), Billionaire Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
*Naim Name (born in 1991), Brazilian lawyer
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Naeem Wardak. (born 1985), Afghan Taliban spokesperson
Persons with the surname
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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im ( ar, عبد الله أحمد النعيم; born in 1946) is a Sudanese-born Islamic scholar who lives in the United States and teaches at Emory University. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory Univ ...
(born 1946), Sudanese lawyer and writer
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Armon Ben-Naim (born 1990), Israeli football player
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C. M. Naim
Choudhri Mohammed Naim (born 3 June 1936) is an American scholar of Urdu language and literature. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.
Naim is the founding editor of both ''Annual of Urdu Studies'' and ''Mahfil'' ( ...
(born 1936), American writer
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Hussein Naeem
Hussain Hassan Naeem ( ar, حسين حسن نعيم; 19 March 1987 – 13 June 2007) was Lebanese footballer who played as a forward. He was killed by a car bomb, alongside other victims, in an assassination attempt on Lebanese politician Walid ...
(1987–2007), Lebanese football player
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Mohammad Naeem (disambiguation) Mohammad Naeem may refer to one of the following people:
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* Mohammad Naeem (cricketer, born 1959), Pakistani cricketer for Income Tax Department and Lahore City
* Mohammad Naeem (cricketer, born 1986), Pakistani cricketer for Abbottabad an ...
, several people
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Moisés Naím
Moisés Naím (born July 5, 1952) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2013, the British magazine '' Prospect'' listed Naím as one of the world's leading thinke ...
(born 1952), Venezuelan writer
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Omar Naim
Omar Naim ( ar, عمر نعيم; born 27 September 1977) is a Lebanese people, Lebanese film director and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 2004 film ''The Final Cut (2004 film), The Final Cut''.
Life and career Early life ...
(born 1977), Lebanese film director and screenwriter
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Ra'anan Naim (born 1935), Israeli politician
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Yael Naim
Yael Naim ( he, יעל נעים, born 6 February 1978) is a French-born Israeli singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song p ...
(born 1978), Israeli singer
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Yuval Naim (born 1967), Israeli former football player and manager
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Yuval Naimy (born 1985), Israeli basketball player
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