Sadi and its variant ''Saadi'' are used as a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Sadi Carnot, multiple people
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Sadi Celil Cengiz (born 1983), Turkish actor
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Sadi Dastarac (1888–1911), French football player
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Sadi Eldem (1910–1995), Turkish diplomat
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Sadi Gülçelik (1929–1980), Turkish basketball player, civil engineer and entrepreneur
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Sadi Güven (born 1955), Turkish judge
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Sadi Irmak
Mahmut Sadi Irmak (May 15, 1904, Seydişehir – November 11, 1990, Istanbul) was a Turkish academic in physiology, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.
Biography
He was born in the town Seydişehir of Konya, Ottoman Empire i ...
(1904–1990), Turkish academic and politician
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Sadi Jalali (born 1995), Indian-born Canadian professional soccer player
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Sadi Kalabar (1901–1960), Yugoslav chess player
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Sadi Koçaş Saadi, Sadī, Sadi, or SADI may refer to:
People
* Sadi (name)
* Saadi dynasty, a dynasty of Morocco
Places
* Sədi, village in Azerbaijan
* Sadi, East Azerbaijan, a village in Iran
* Sadi, Marand, a village in Iran
* Sadi, Kerman, a village in ...
(1919–1998), Turkish military officer and politician
* Sadi Pol Lallemand (1927–2009), known as
Fats Sadi
"Fats" Sadi Pol Lallemand (23 October 1927, Andenne, Belgium – 20 February 2009, Huy) was a Belgian jazz musician, vocalist, and composer who played vibraphone and percussion. He chose the name "Sadi" because he disliked his last name, which mea ...
, Belgian jazz musician
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Sadi Mohammad, Bangladeshi singer and composer
Saadi
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Al-Saadi Gaddafi
Al-Saadi Muammar Gaddafi , also spelt as Al-Saadi Moammer Al-Gaddafi ( ar, الساعدي معمر القذافي; born 25 May 1973) is a Libyan retired professional football player. He captained the national team, but his career was widely att ...
(born 1973), Libyan football player
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Saadi Al Munla (1890–1975), Lebanese politician
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Saâdi Radouani (born 1995), Algerian football player
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Saadi Shirazi
Saadi Shīrāzī ( fa, ابومحمّد مصلحالدین بن عبدالله شیرازی), better known by his pen name Saadi (; fa, سعدی, , ), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (, ''Saʿdī Shīrāzī''; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was ...
(1210–1292), major Persian-language poet and writer
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Saadi Simawe (1946–2017), Iraqi-American author, teacher, and translator
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Saadi Toma
Saadi Toma Jirjes ( syr, ܣܥܕܝ ܬܐܘܡܐ) (born 25 April 1955) is an Iraqi former Association football, football player and coach.
He played during his professional career at Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and made 10 appearances with the Iraqi national ...
(born 1955), Iraqi football player
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Saadi Yacef
Saadi Yacef (; 20 January 1928 – 10 September 2021) was an Algerian independence fighter, serving as a leader of the National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence. He was a Senator in Algeria's Council of the Nation unti ...
(1928–2021), Algerian politician
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Saadi Youssef
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(1934–2021), Iraqi writer and publisher
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Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi (born 1938), Iraqi chemical engineer and weapons developer
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Amira Sadi (born 1994), Algerian volleyball player
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Dahiru Sadi
Dahiru Sadi (born 10 December 1963) is a Nigerian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul ...
(born 1963), Nigerian football player
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Dominic Sadi (born 2003), English football player
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Hakim Sadi (born 1992), Algerian athlete
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Joseph Sadi-Lecointe (1891–1944), French aviator
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Mohamed Sadi
Mohamed B. Abdourahman Sadi (born 8 May 1995) is a Libyan basketball player who plays for Sagesse SC. He is a member of the Libya men's national basketball team. Standing at , he plays as shooting guard. In 2021, Sadi made his debut in the Baske ...
(born 1995), Libyan basketball player
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Nawaf Al-Sadi (born 2000), Saudi Arabian football player
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René Sadi (born 1948), Cameroonian politician
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Saïd Sadi
Saïd Sadi ( Kabyle: Saεid Seεdi) (born 26 August 1947) is an Algerian politician who was President of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) until 2012. He is founder of the first Algerian human rights league.
Born at Aghribs, now in Tizi ...
(born 1947), Algerian political activist
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Walid Muhammed Sadi (1939–2019), Jordanian diplomat
Saadi
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Ahmed Al Saadi, multiple people
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Dheyaa al-Saadi
Dheyaa al-Saadi (transliterations include also ''Dhiyaa'') is an Iraqi lawyer. As leader of the Iraqi Bar Association, he protested against the Iraqi government's dissolution of the association's elected council in March 2006. In December 2008, he ...
, Iraqi lawyer
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Elvira Saadi (born 1952) Soviet gymnast
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Idriss Saadi (born 1992), Algerian French football player
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Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi (born 1994), Omani athlete
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Noureddine Saâdi (1950–2021), Algerian football manager
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Osama Saadi
Osama Saadi ( ar, اسامة سعدي, he, אוֹסָאמָה סַעֲדִי; born 1 January 1963) is an Israeli Arab lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the Joint List.
Biography
Saadi studied law at the Hebrew Universit ...
(born 1963), Israeli lawyer and politician
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Ramón Saadi (born 1949), Argentine politician
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Samer Saadi (died 2005), member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
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Suhayl Saadi
Suhayl Saadi (born 1961, Beverley, Yorkshire) is a physician, author and dramatist based in Glasgow, Scotland. His varied literary output includes novels, short stories, anthologies of fiction, song lyrics, plays for stage and radio theatre, and wi ...
(born 1961), Scottish author and physician
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Vicente Saadi
Vicente Leonidas Saadi (1913 – 10 July 1988) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was a senator and governor for Catamarca Province, and became the patriarch of a family that has dominated Catamarca politics since the 1940 ...
(1913–1988), Argentine politician
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Wade E. Saadi, American philatelist
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Youcef Saadi (born 1987), Algerian football player
Fictional characters
* Sadi, a eunuch in
The Belgariad
''The Belgariad'' is a five-book fantasy epic written by David Eddings, following the journey of protagonist Garion and his companions, first to recover a sacred stone, and later to use it against antagonist Torak. It was a bestseller from the fir ...
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The Malloreon
The Malloreon is a five-part fantasy book series written by David Eddings, which follows '' The Belgariad''. The Malloreon is set in the same world as The Belgariad, but expands on several aspects of the setting, especially the eastern continent ...
series of novels
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Turkish masculine given names
Masculine given names
Arabic-language masculine given names
Surnames of Arabic origin