Saleh or Salih ( ar, صالح, or ) is an Arabic masculine

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which means "Pious".

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* Salih, Arabian prophet * Salih ibn Ali (711–769 CE), was the Abbasid general and governor in Syria and Egypt. * ''Salih ibn Harun al-Rashid'', was the son of Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, His mother was Ri'm. *

Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi Sheikh Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi (1921 – February 12, 2011) ( ar, الشيخ صالح بن عبد العزيز الراجحي) was a Saudi businessman and philanthropist who founded the Al-Rajhi Bank, the largest Islamic banking instituti ...

, Saudi Arabian businessman * Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (born 1986), Kuwaiti long jumper * Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (born 1986), Kuwaiti long jumper * Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (born 1986), Kuwaiti long jumper * Salih Ashmawi (1910–1983), Egyptian politician * Salih Bozok (1881–1941), Turkish military officer * Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer *

Salih Güney Salih Güney (born January 1, 1945) is a Turkish film actor. Biography Salih Güney was born in Adana in 1945. His father was a Circassian.

, Turkish film actor * Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, Iraqi musician * Saleh al-Mutlaq, Iraqi politician *

Salih Muslim Muhammad Salih Muslim Muhammad (Kurmanji ku, Salih Muslim Mihemed, ar, صالح مسلم محمد, Ṣāliḥ Muslim Muḥammad) is the co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main party of the Autonomous Administration of North and East ...

, Rojava politician *

Salih Neftçi Salih Nur Neftçi (14 July 1947 – 15 April 2009) was a leading expert in the fields of financial markets and financial engineering. He served many advisory roles in national and international financial institutions, and was an active research ...

, Turkish financial economist *

Salih Omurtak Salih Omurtak (1889–23 June 1954) was a Turkish general and the fourth Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces. Biography He was born 1889 in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece). ...

, Turkish general * Salih Özcan, Turkish footballer * Salih Pasha (disambiguation), various Ottoman people *

Salih Sadir Salih Sadir Salih Al-Sadoun ( ar, صالح سدير صالح السعدون; born 21 August 1981) is an Iraqi former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Previously, Sadir played with Rah Ahan and Paykan in the Persia ...

, Iraqi footballer *

Salih Uçan Salih Uçan (, born 6 January 1994) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Beşiktaş. Club career Fenerbahçe Fenerbahçe signed Uçan for €1.4 million on 6 June 2012, for a five-year contract worth €220,000 per ...

, Turkish footballer * Salih Hudayar,Uyghur prime-minister of government

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* Abdul Azis Saleh * Abdul Rahman Saleh, Indonesian aviator and physician * Adam Saleh, American YouTube personality * Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni military commander * Ali Abdullah Saleh, former President of Yemen * Allah-Yar Saleh, Iranian politician * Amrullah Saleh, former Vice President and 16th de jure president of Afghanistan *

Anas Khalid Al Saleh Anas Khalid Al Saleh (; born on 11 January 1972), also known as AKS, is a Kuwaiti politician who has been serving as deputy prime minister and minister of interior and cabinet affairs, He also served as minister of finance from January 2014 to ...

(born 1972), Kuwaiti politician * Barham Salih, president (2018) of Iraq *

Farhan Saleh Farhan Farhan (born 24 October 1996) is a Bahraini swimmer. He competed in the men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Ol ...

, Lebanese writer and militant * Hashim Saleh, Omani footballer *

Jahanshah Saleh Jahanshah Saleh (1905–1995) was an Iranian physician. He served as health minister and as an obstetrician of Queen Farah Diba, spouse of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Early life and education Saleh was born in Kashan in 1905. He obtained a deg ...

, Iranian physician * Muhammad Salih, 18th-century Bengali Islamic scholar * Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter * Robert Saleh, American, NFL football coach * Sania Saleh (1935–1985), Syrian poet *

Tayeb Salih Tayeb Salih ( ar, الطيب صالح, aṭ-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ; 12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer, cultural journalist for the BBC Arabic programme as well as for Arabic journals, and a staff member of UNESCO. He is best ...

, Sudanese author

Fictional characters

* Saleh, powerful and wise mage from Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones * Salih Koçovalı, alternate name for Vartolu Sadettin in the Turkish television program Çukur *Saleh, major antagonist in

Tales of Rebirth is a Japanese action role-playing game published for the PlayStation 2. It is the sixth main entry of Namco's '' Tales'' series of video games. The game was developed by Namco Tales Studio and published by Namco Games. The game was released for ...

* Salleh, a minor character in the Malasyan cartoon Upin & Ipin *Fatima Saleh, suspect in Criminal Minds

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