Qais ( ar, قیس) is an Arabic given name. 'Qays' and 'Qai' are alternatives of Qais.
Notable people with the name include:
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Imru' al-Qais
Imruʾ al-Qais Junduh bin Hujr al-Kindi ( ar, ٱمْرُؤ ٱلْقَيْس جُنْدُح ٱبْن حُجْر ٱلْكِنْدِيّ, ALA-LC: ''ʾImruʾ al-Qays Junduḥ ibn Ḥujr al-Kindīy'') was an Arab king and poet in the 6th century, an ...
, Arabic poet in the 6th century
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Kais Saied
Kais Saied ( ar, قَيس سَعيد; born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian politician, jurist, and retired law professor, and currently the 8th President of Tunisia since October 2019. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutiona ...
(born 1958), Tunisian President
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Qais Ashfaq
Qais Ashfaq (born 10 March 1993) is a British professional boxer. As an amateur, Ashfaq competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as well as winning a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Amateur career
He won the 2012 and 2014 Amateur Bo ...
(born 1993), British boxer
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Qais Abdur Rashid
Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed ( ps, قيس عبد الرشيد) is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns. It is believed that the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring harmony betw ...
, legendary founding father of the Pashtuns
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Qais Khazali
Qais Hadi Sayed Hasan al-Khazali ( ar, قيس هادي سيد حسن الخزعلي; born 20 June 1974) is best known as the founder and leader of the Iran-backed Special Groups in Iraq from June 2006 until his capture by British forces in Marc ...
(born 1974), founder of the Iran-backed Special Groups
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Qais Essa
Qais Essa Hussein ( ar, قيس عيسى حسين ; born 1975) was an Iraqi international football player, who played with the Iraqi national football team in 1996 Summer Olympics qual.
Honors Club
; Al-Minaa
*Iraqi Premier League
**Runner-up (1 ...
(born 1975), Iraqi international football player
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Qais Akbar Omar
Qais Akbar Omar (born November 18, 1982) is an Afghan-American writer. Omar is the author of '' A Fort of Nine Towers'', an autobiography of his childhood in Afghanistan during the years of the civil war and the Taliban from 1992 to 2001.
Biog ...
(born 1982), Afghan-American writer
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Qais Al-Sindy
Qais Al-Sindy (born 1967) is an Iraqi contemporary artist and painter currently residing in California.
Education and work
Qais received B.Sc., from college of Engineering, Baghdad University in 1989. Thereafter, he started to study Art. In 2 ...
(born 1967), Iraqi painter
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Azzan bin Qais
Imam Azzan bin Qais ( ar, الإمام عزان بن قيس ) was the Imam of Oman between 1868 and 1870. He deposed his distant relative Sayyid Salim bin Thuwaini. Opposing Saudi interference in the Buraimi Oasis, he fought against Salim's uncle ...
, Sultan of Oman
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Arabic masculine given names