Samad or Samed ( ar, صمد, ''Ṣamad'') is an
Arabic male
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
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Samed Abdul Awudu
Samadu Okocha Awudu (born 15 September 1984) is a retired Ghanaian football player.
He played in Ghana for Hearts of Oak, in Austria for SC Bregenz, in Slovakia for FC Senec, in Israel for Maccabi Netanya, Bnei Sakhnin, Hapoel Acre & Hapoel ...
(born 1984), Ghanaian football player
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Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball player
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Samad Behrangi (1939–1967), Iranian teacher, folklorist and writer
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Samad Marfavi
Abdolsamad Marfavi ( fa, صمد مرفاوی , born May 18, 1964 in Khorramshahr, Iran) is an Iranian football coach and former player.
Club career
He played the majority of his playing career for IPL giants Esteghlal.
International career
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(born 1965), Iranian football player
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Samad bey Mehmandarov
Samad bey Sadykh bey oghlu Mehmandarov ( az, Səməd bəy Sadıx bəy oğlu Mehmandarov; October 16, 1855 – February 12, 1931) was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in the Imperial Russian Army and served as Minister of Defense o ...
(1855–1931), Azerbaijani-Russian general
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Samad Rustamov
Samad Rustamov is an Uzbekistani Combat Sambo fighter who competed in the 2008 World Sambo Championship and placed 5th, losing to the eventual champion Blagoi Ivanov
Blagoy Ivanov ( bg, Благой Александров Ивано ...
, Uzbek Sambo player
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Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh (1869–1955), Iranian diplomat
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Samad Shohzukhurov (born 1990), Tajik football player
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Samad Taylor, American baseball player
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Samad Vurgun (1906–1956), Azerbaijani-Soviet poet
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Samed Yeşil
Samed Yeşil (, born 25 May 1994) is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Oberliga Niederrhein club Ratingen 04/19.
Formed at Bayer Leverkusen, he moved as a teenager to Liverpool in 2012. In 2015, he was loaned to FC Lu ...
(born 1994), Turkish-German football player
Middle name
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Abdul Samad Ismail (1924–2008), Malaysian journalist
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Abdul Samad Rabiu
Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu (was born 4 August 1960) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. His late father, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu, was one of Nigeria's foremost industrialists in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdul Samad is the founder ...
(born 1960), Nigerian businessman
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Abdul Samad of Selangor (1804–1898), Sultan of Selangor
Surname
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Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad 1927–1988), Egyptian Quran reciter
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Abdus Samad Azad
Abdus Samad Azad ( bn, আব্দুস সামাদ আজাদ; 15 January 1922 – 27 April 2005) was a Bangladeshi diplomat and politician. He was elected to Bangladesh's parliament five times from 1970 to 2001. He was also elected Mem ...
(1922–2005), Bangladeshi diplomat and politician
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Hamed Abdel-Samad
Hamed Abdel-Samad ( ar, حامد عبد الصمد, ''Ḥāmid ʿAbd aṣ-Ṣamad'', ; born 1 February 1972) is a German-Egyptian political scientist and author.
Life
Abdel-Samad was born as the third of five children, the son of a Sunni Musl ...
(born 1972), German-Egyptian writer
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Mohammad Samad (born 2000), Indian actor
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Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad, a convicted rioter and gang member of
Salakau in Singapore
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Nabil Samad (born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer
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Omar Samad, Afghan diplomat
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Sahal Abdul Samad (born 1997), Indian football player
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Saleh Ali al-Sammad (1979–2018), Yemeni politician
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Ziad Al-Samad (born 1978), Lebanese football player
In fiction
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Samad, a character played by
Ameet Chana in the British web series ''
Corner Shop Show''.
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Samad, a fictional character played by Iranian actor
Parviz Sayyad.
*Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel
White Teeth by
Zadie Smith.
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Arabic-language surnames
Masculine given names