Samad or Samed ( ar, صمد, ''Ṣamad'') is an Arabic male

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* Samed Abdul Awudu (born 1984), Ghanaian football player *

Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Mohammad Samad Nikkhah Bahrami ( fa, محمدصمد نیکخواه بهرامی, born 11 May 1983) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian professional basketball player. Pro career He previously played for Saba Battery BC, Saba Battery as a subsidiary pl ...

(born 1983), Iranian basketball player *

Samad Behrangi Samad Behrangi ( fa, صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particu ...

(1939–1967), Iranian teacher, folklorist and writer *

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 ...

(born 1965), Iranian football player *

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 *

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 *

Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh, or Momtaz ol Saltaneh (1869–26 March 1954) (in Persian : صمد خان ممتاز السطنه) was an Iranian diplomat of the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasty era. Early life Samad Khan Momtaz was born in 1869 in Tabr ...

(1869–1955), Iranian diplomat * Samad Shohzukhurov (born 1990), Tajik football player *

Samad Taylor Below is a partial list of minor league baseball players in the Kansas City Royals system. Players CJ Alexander Charles Joseph Wesley Alexander (born July 17, 1996) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Kansas City Royals ...

, American baseball player * Samad Vurgun (1906–1956), Azerbaijani-Soviet poet *

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

* Abdul Samad Ismail (1924–2008), Malaysian journalist *

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 * Abdul Samad of Selangor (1804–1898), Sultan of Selangor

Surname

* Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad 1927–1988), Egyptian Quran reciter *

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 *

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 * Mohammad Samad (born 2000), Indian actor * Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad, a convicted rioter and gang member of Salakau in Singapore * Nabil Samad (born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer * Omar Samad, Afghan diplomat * Sahal Abdul Samad (born 1997), Indian football player * Saleh Ali al-Sammad (1979–2018), Yemeni politician * Ziad Al-Samad (born 1978), Lebanese football player

In fiction

Samad Samad or Samed ( ar, صمد, ''Ṣamad'') is an Arabic male given name. Given name * Samed Abdul Awudu (born 1984), Ghanaian football player *Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball player * Samad Behrangi (1939–1967), Iranian t ...

, a character played by Ameet Chana in the British web series '' Corner Shop Show''. *

, a fictional character played by Iranian actor

Parviz Sayyad Parviz Sayyad ( fa, پرویز صیاد, Parviz Sayyād; born 22 March 1939) is an Iranian-born American celebrated actor, director, translator, and screenwriter of Iranian cinema. He was one of the earliest television stars in Iran. Early life ...

. *Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel

White Teeth ''White Teeth'' is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones—and their families in London. The novel centres on Britain' ...

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