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 ...
Radawi/Radhawi and the Persian surname Razavi. It is a surname commonly associated with Muslims, who claim descent from the Imam
Ali al-Ridha
Ali ibn Musa al-Rida ( ar, عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا, Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā, 1 January 766 – 6 June 818), also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the e ...
, a descendant of the
Islamic prophet
Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God in Islam, God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. So ...
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
through his grandson
Husayn ibn Ali
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
. Since the Rizvi clan trace their lineage to
Fatimah
Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, th ...
, many of them often use the prefix
Sayyid
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Prophets in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali ...
(or its synonyms) in front of their name.
Notable people with the surname Rizvi
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Abbas Rizvi
Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi ( ur, سيد حیدر عباس رضوی ), (born, January 1, 1968, in Karachi) is the former deputy parliamentary leader of MQM who had been the member of National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he ...
Abis Rizvi
Abis Hasan Rizvi (27 February 1968 – 1 January 2017) was an Indian businessman, film producer, and screenwriter.
Life Early life
Rizvi was born to Dr. Akhtar Hassan Rizvi, a former member of the Rajya Sabha in Bandra, West Mumbai, Maha ...
is an Indian film producer and businessman.
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Adeebul Hasan Rizvi
Syed Adeebul Hasan Rizvi (also spelled: Adibul Hasan Rizvi) is a Pakistani philanthropist, doctor, Renal transplant surgeon and founder of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), the largest kidney transplant centre in Pakista ...
is head of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT).
* Akhtar Hussein Rizvi was a noted Indian lyricist and poet under the pen name "
Kaifi Azmi
Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated ...
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Ali Amjad Rizvi
Ali Amjad Rizvi (born 29 May 1975) is a Pakistani-born Canadian atheist ex-Muslim and secular humanist writer and podcaster who explores the challenges of Muslims who leave their faith. He writes a column for the ''Huffington Post'' and co-host ...
is a Pakistani-born Canadian atheist, secular humanist and activist.
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Ali Hussain Rizvi
Ali Hussain Rizvi (Urdu: علی حسین رضوی) (born January 6, 1974, Karachi) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1997. A leg spin
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with ...
is a former Pakistani cricketer.
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Anusha Rizvi
Anusha Rizvi (born 13 March 1978) is an Indian film director and screenwriter.
Formerly a journalist, Anusha's directorial debut, ''Peepli Live'', premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2010 in the World Competition Section. It was the first In ...
is a Bollywood director, famous for her debut movie, ''
Peepli Live
''Peepli Live'' is a 2010 Indian satirical black comedy film that explores the topic of farmer suicides and the subsequent media and political response. It is written and directed by Anusha Rizvi in her directorial debut, and produced by Aami ...
Gowher Rizvi
Gowher Rizvi is a Bangladeshi historian, scholar and academic.
Currently he is the International Affairs adviser to the prime minister of Bangladesh. Prior to that he was MacArthur Fellow in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford Un ...
is a Bangladeshi historian, scholar, and academic who currently serves as the international affairs advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Haidar Abbas Rizvi
Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi ( ur, سيد حیدر عباس رضوی ), (born, January 1, 1968, in Karachi) is the former deputy parliamentary leader of MQM who had been the member of National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he ...
is the deputy parliamentary leader of
Muttahida Qaumi Movement Muttahida Qaumi Movement (abbreviated MQM) is a name currently claimed by two competing Pakistani political factions:
* Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London, a political faction managed from the UK
* Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan
Muttah ...
in the National Parliament of Pakistan.
* Syed Hasan Rizvi was a Pakistani Urdu poet under the pen name
Shakeb Jalali
Shakeb Jalali or Shakeeb Jalali ( ur, ), born Syed Hassan Rizvi (1 October 1934 – 12 November 1966), was a Pakistani Urdu poet, considered one of the distinguished Urdu poets of the post-independence era.
Shakeb was born on 1 October 1934 i ...
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* Shah Ïnayatullah Rizvi was a 17th-century revolutionary poet from Miranpur, Sindh, Pakistan.
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Jalaluddin Rizvi
Syed Jalaluddin Rizvi is a former field hockey player who represented India in the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles USA. He is from Bhopal in the state of Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in cen ...
is a former field hockey player who represented India.
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Khawar Rizvi
Khawar Rizvi (1 June 1938 – 15 November 1981) was a poet and scholar of Urdu and Persian. His real name was Syed Sibte Hassan Rizvi. Rizvi adopted "Khawar," meaning "the east" in Persian, as a pen-name for writing poetry and essays ...
was a prominent poet in Urdu and
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 ...
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Khurshid Rizvi
Khurshid Rizvi (ڈاکٹرخورشید رضوی) is a Pakistani scholar of languages and an Urdu poet.
Early life
Rizvi was born on 8 December 1940 in Amroha, Muradabad (India) in a Sunni Sadaat family. As a young child, he immigrated with his f ...
is a Pakistani scholar, poet, linguist and historian of Arabic languages and literature.
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Komal Rizvi
Komal Rizvi ( ur, ; born 3 August 1981) is a Pakistani actress, singer, songwriter, and a television host. She is famous for her songs in Coke Studio (Pakistan).
Early life
Rizvi was born in Dubai and then raised in England and Nigeria. As a ...
is a Pakistani singer and TV host.
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Majida Rizvi
Justice (R) Majida Rizvi ( ur, ماجدہ رضوی) is the first woman judge of a High Court in Pakistan. She practiced in the High Courts and Supreme Court and taught Law in Hamdard School of Law. As a writer she specialized in legal issues per ...
is the first woman judge of a High Court in Pakistan.
* Nasreen Rizvi, known as
Kaveeta
Nasreen Rizvi, better known as Kaveeta, is a Pakistani film actress who is known for films ''Tere Mere Sapne'' (1975), ''Society Girl'', ''Mohabbat Aur Mehangai'' (1976), ''Kabhi Kabhi'' (1978), ''Mutthi Bhar Chawal'' (1978), ''Mian Biwi Razi'' ...
, is a Pakistani film actress.
* Naushad Ali Rizvi is a former Pakistani cricketer.
* Parveen Rizvi, known as Sangeeta, is a Pakistani film actress, director and producer.
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Qasim Razvi
Syed Kasim Razvi (also Qasim Razvi; 17 July 1902 – 15 January 1970) was a politician in the princely state of Hyderabad. He was the president of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party from December 1946 until the state's accession to India in ...
was the leader of a local militia, the Razakars of Hyderabad, India.
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Runa Rizvi
Runa Rizvi is an Indian classical and Bollywood playback singer. She sings Sufi songs, folk, Bollywood movies etc.
Early life
Runa Rizvi was born in Bombay to Indian singers Rajkumar Rizvi and Indrani Rizvi. She graduated from Mithibai Colleg ...
is an Indian singer.
* Saad Hussain Rizvi is an Islamic cleric and politician.
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Saeed Rizvi
Saeed Rizvi ( ur, سعيد رضا ) is a Pakistani film director.
The movie industry and the government
Rizvi would like the government to play a more optimistic role in the movie industry. He exclusively blames General Zia ul Haq for th ...
is a Pakistani film director, producer, and writer.
* Ayatollah
Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi
Sayyid Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi ( ur, سيد سعيد اختر رضوي) (1927–2002) was an Indian born, Twelver Shī‘ah scholar, who promoted Islam in East Africa. He was given authorizations ( ar, اجازة) by fourteen Grand Ayatullahs for ...
was an Indian advocate of
Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...
in East Africa.
* Sonya Rizvi, known as
Sonya Jehan
Sonya Rizvi ( ur, ; born 24 April 1980), better known by her stage name Sonya Jehan, is a Pakistani film actress who predominantly works in Urdu and Hindi-language films. She is the granddaughter of legendary singer Noor Jehan and filmmaker S ...
Indian-American
Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...
co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rizvi Traverse Management.
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Ayatollah
Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیتالله, āyatollāh) is an Title of honor, honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
Etymology
The title is originally derived from ...
Syed Ahmed Rizvi Kashmiri
Ayatollah Aqa Syed Ahmed Rizvi or Razavi (1316–1384 in Hijri) (Urdu; آیت اللہ آقا سید احمد رضوی کشمیری) was a Shiite Islamic jurist, religious reformer, and scholar who lived in Srinagar city of Kashmir. Hakim ...
was a
Shia
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...
Mujtahid
''Ijtihad'' ( ; ar, اجتهاد ', ; lit. physical or mental ''effort'') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a le ...
who lived in
Kashmir
Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...
and died on 9 July 1964.
* Allamah
Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi
Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi (19 September 1948 – 10 February 2002), widely known as Adeeb-e-Asr and Allamah Shaoor, was an Indian Twelver Shī'ah scholar, public speaker, translator, and historian as well as an author and poet. He authored and ...
was an Indian Twelver Shī'ah scholar, public speaker, author, historian and poet.
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Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi
Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi (born 1 January 1942) is a Pakistani politician.
Education
Rizvi was born in Mirpur Khas, Sindh. He held various representative offices of the student communities at almost all the educational institutions he attended ...
is a Pakistani politician.
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Syed Ali Qutab Shah Rizvi
Syed Ali Qutab Shah Rizvi was a member of the Pakistani Sindh Provincial Assembly in the 1970s and 1980s, representing the district of Tharparkar
Tharparkar (Dhatki/ sd, ٿرپارڪر, ur, ), also known as Thar, is a district in Sindh provi ...
was a member of the Pakistani Sindh Provincial Assembly.
* Syed Meesaq Rizvi was a Pakistan sprinter and middle-distance runner.
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Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi
Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi (1914 – 1999) was a Pakistani actor, film producer and director. He is widely considered as a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry.
Early life and career
Shaukat Hussain Rizvi was born in the city of Azamgarh, ...
was a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry.
* Syed Waseem Rizvi is the former name of Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi. He is a former chairman of the Shia Central Board of Waqf in Uttar Pradesh who converted to Hinduism. He filed a petition in India's Supreme Court to remove 26 verses from the Quran.
* Syed Zaheer Rizvi is a Pakistani music director and teacher.
* Uzma Z. Rizvi is an archaeologist and anthropologist whose work focuses on
urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly t ...
Zameer Rizvi
Zameer Rizvi (born 5 February 1981) is a technology entrepreneur and innovator of AI software. Before finding success in the tech business, he pursued a music career as a singer/songwriter. He founded Odesso Inc in 2017, a rapidly growing tech st ...
is a Canadian singer and musician
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Ziauddin Rizvi Shaheed Agha Ziauddin Rizviشہید آغا ضیاء الدین رضوی was a Shi'a cleric born at Amphary, Gilgit, in a religious family. He completed his early schooling in Gilgit; he later moved to Lahore, and afterwards Iran, for higher religio ...