Zaki (Arabic زكي ) is an Arabic male name (with female form

Zakiya Zakiya, Zakia, Zakiyah, Zakiyya or Zakieh may represent two different female given names of Arabic origin, namely ar, زكية (zakiat), meaning "pure", corresponding to the male name ''Zaki'', and ar, ذكيه (ḏakiyya), meaning "intelligen ...

) and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Zaki al-Arsuzi Zaki al-Arsuzi ( ar, زكي الأرسوزي, Zakī al-Arsūzī; June 18992 July 1968) was a Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist, historian, and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and i ...

(1899–1998), Syrian politician *

Zaki Tun Azmi Tun Zaki bin Tun Azmi ( ms, زكي بن عزمي, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; born 12 September 1945) is a Malaysian barrister who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Malaysia. He was appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King ...

(born 1945), Malaysian judge *

Zaki Badawi Sheikh Mohammed Aboulkhair Zaki Badawi ( ar, الشيخ محمد أبو الخير زكي بدوي), KBE, GCFO (14 January 1922 – 24 January 2006) was a prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar, community activist, and promoter of interfaith-dialo ...

(1922–2006), Egyptian Islamic scholar *

Zaki Badr Zaki Badr ( ar, زكي بدر; 28 February 1926 – 2 April 1997) was an Egyptian major general and the former interior minister of Egypt who served in the post from 1986 to 1990 in the Sedki Cabinet. Badr had a confrontational approach ...

(1926-1997), Egyptian security officer and politician *

Zaki Chehab Zaki Chehab (born 1956) is an Arab journalist. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ArabsToday.net, an Arabic-language news website. Until October 2009, Chehab was London Bureau Chief of Al Hayat – LBC TV. He has covered the Middle East for a variety ...

(born 1956), Lebanese-British journalist * Zaki al-Khatib (1887–1961), Syrian politician *

Zaki Naguib Mahmoud Zaki Naguib Mahmoud (Arabic: زكي نجيب محمود‎) (February 2, 1905 – September 8, 1993) was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. He was described by Abbas Mahmoud a ...

(1905–1993), Egyptian philosopher * Zaki Mazboudi (1920–2000), Lebanese politician *

Zaki Nassif Zaki Nassif ( ar, زكي ناصيف; 4 July 1918 – 10 March 2004) was a Lebanese music composer and singer. He was influential among the first generation of composers for the mass audience for music on radio in Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s, ...

(1918–2004), Lebanese composer *

Zaki Nusseibeh Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh is the Cultural Adviser to the President of the UAE and the Chancellor of UAE University. He has been active in government service in the United Arab Emirates since its formation in 1971, and with the Government of the Emirat ...

(died 2004), UAE diplomat *

Zaki Rostom Zaki Rostom ( arz, زكي رستم) (1903–1972) Zaki Moharram Mahmoud Rostom was an Egyptian actor. A Method acting, method actor known for portraying intimidating and often Asociality, asocial villains, Zaki is regarded as one of the influenti ...

(1903–1978), Egyptian actor

Middle name

Muhammad Zaki Butt Air Commodore Muhammad Zakaria Butt was a Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot who served in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and 1971. He was born to a respected family of Lahore in 1929. He was the commander of the Students' Guard for Quaid-e-Aza ...

(1929–1993), Pakistani air force pilot

Surname

Aamir Zaki Aamir Zaki (April 8, 1968 – June 2, 2017) was a Saudi born Pakistani guitarist-songwriter and composer. Zaki is considered by many as one of the most influential guitarists in Pakistan's history. He is considered to be among the pioneers of Roc ...

, Pakistani guitar player *

Abbas Zaki Abbas Zaki ( ar, عباس زكي) is the former representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon and a member of Fatah's central committee.

, Palestinian politician * Ahmad Zaki (disambiguation), several persons *

Akram Zaki Akram Zaki (27 October 1931 – 30 November 2017) was a Pakistani politician. He held the role of senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League and chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. Career Zaki also served as Paki ...

, Pakistani politician *

Amadou Aboubakar Zaki Amadou Aboubakar Zaki (born 10 February 1988) is a Nigerien professional basketball player, who plays for Union Rennes Basket 35. Standing at 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m), Zaki usually plays as power forward or center. Zaki has played in France and in Denm ...

(born 1988), Nigerien basketball player *

Amr Zaki Amr Hassan Zaki ( ar, عمرو زكي; born 1 April 1983) is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He has played for numerous different clubs in Egypt, Russia, England, Turkey and Kuwait. Zaki has made 63 appearan ...

(born 1983), Egyptian footballer * Badr Zaki (born 1988), Moroccan footballer *

Ibrahim Hussein Zaki Ibrahim Hussein Zaki (born 1947) is a politician of the Maldives. Zaki is a former Cabinet Minister of the Maldives government: from 11 November 1993 to 10 November 1998, he was Minister of Tourism. He served as the Secretary General of the Sou ...

(born 1947), Maldives politician *

Kawthar Zaki Kawthar Abdelhamid Zaki (born 1940) is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, known for her work in microwave engineering including the design of microwave waveguides, resonators, and filters. She is a professor emerita of electrical and compu ...

(born 1940), Egyptian-American microwave engineer *

Kim Khan Zaki ''The Contender Asia'' (known as The Contender: Kickboxer in the United Kingdom, and The Contender: Muay Thai in the United States) was a reality-based television series that follows 16 Muay Thai middleweight fighters from 12 countries as they c ...

(born 1982), Singaporean kickboxer *

Mohamed Zaki Dato' Mohamed Zaki (born 20 February 1953), also known as Nazaki Zaki or Sandhaanu Zaki, is a businessman and politician in the Maldives. Zaki is the founder of Nazaki Services Pvt Ltd, which is a company in the Maldives to the extent that all l ...

(born 1953), Maldives businessman *

Mona Zaki Mona Ali Mohamed Zaki ( ar, منى علي محمد زكي; born 18 November 1976) is an Egyptian actress. Biography Mona Zaki was born to her parents Ali Mohamed Zaki and Tahani on November 18, 1976. Until the age of 13, she lived in Kuwait. A ...

(born 1976), Egyptian actress *

Muad Mohamed Zaki Muad Mohamed Zaki (born 7 April 1982) is from a prominent left wing political and business family in the Maldives. He migrated to Malaysia with his family in the 1990s after political turmoil in the Maldives that temporarily drove out large priv ...

(born 1982), Maldives politician *

Muhamed Amin Zaki Muhammed Amin Zaki Bey, (1880 Sulaymaniyah –1948 Sulaymaniyah), was a Kurdish writer, historian and politician. He was born in Sulaimaniya, son of Hagi Abdul Rahman. After studying in Sulaimaniya Military School and Baghdad Military High School, ...

(1880–1948), Kurdish historian and politician *

Soheir Zaki Soheir Zaki ( ar, سهير زكي, born in Mansoura, Egypt on January 4, 1945) is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She appeared in over 100 Egyptian films from the 1960s to the 1980s. Early life Soheir Zaki was born in Mansoura, Egypt on Jan ...

, Egyptian belly dancer and actress *

Wissam Zaki Wissam Zaki ( ar, وسام زكي born 5 August 1986 in Iraq) is an Iraqi former professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are ...

(born 1986), Iraqi footballer *

Zakia Zaki Zakia Zaki (c. 1972 – June 4, 2007) was an Afghan journalist for the Afghan Radio Peace (Sada-i-Sulh) station north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Zaki was the first Afghani journalist to speak out against the Taliban after the US forces initiated the W ...

(died 2007), Afghan journalist *

Zeeko Zaki Zakaria Sherif Zaki (born January 18, 1990), commonly known as Zeeko Zaki ( arz, زيكو زكي), is an Egyptian-born American actor best known for his role portraying Special Agent Omar Adom "O. A." Zidan on Dick Wolf's ''FBI''. Early life ...

(born 1990), American actor of Egyptian descent

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