Ziad (also transliterated as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad ar, زياد) is an

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Given name

Actors

* Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor

Athletes

Zeyad Abdulrazak Zeyad Abdulrazak Al-Khudhur Al-Enazy (born 18 July 1969) is a Kuwaiti hurdler. He competed in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 19 ...

, Kuwaiti hurdler * Zeyad Mater, Yemeni judoka *

Zyad Chaabo Zyad Barakat Chaabo ( ar, زياد شعبو; born 1 January 1979) is a Syrian former footballer who played as a striker. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Syria's goal tally first.'' Honours Hutteen * Syrian Cup: 200 ...

, Syrian footballer *

Ziad Jaziri Ziad Jaziri ( ar, زياد جزيري) (born 12 July 1978 in Tunis) is a Tunisian former football striker. He has 64 caps and 14 goals for the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. He was also in the 2002 World Cup squad. In a ...

, Tunisian football striker *

Ziad Richa Ziad Richa (born September 25, 1967) is a Lebanese skeet shooter who has represented his nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished twenty-ninth out of forty-one shooters in the men's skeet event. Richa was also the flag b ...

, Lebanese skeet shooter *

Ziad Tlemçani Hamed Ziad Tlemçani ( ar, زياد التلمساني, born 10 May 1963) is a retired Tunisian Association football, footballer who played for Espérance Sportive de Tunis, Espérance in Tunisia, Vitória S.C. in Portugal and Vissel Kobe in Jap ...

, Tunisian footballer * Ziad Al-Muwallad, Saudi Arabian football defender * Ziad Agha, Palestinian rugby and rugby league player *

Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam is a former Iraqi footballer who played as a defender for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Karkh, Al-Shorta and Al-Zawra'a. He also played for the Iraq national team. Ziyad played in Al-Zawraa's 2000 Asian Cup Winners' Cup tr ...

, Iraqi football defender * Ziyad Al-Kord, Palestinian footballer *

Ziyad Al-Sahafi Ziyad Al-Sahafi () (born 3 February 1994) is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for Al-Taawoun on loan from Al-Ittihad in the Saudi Professional League. Career On 31 August 2022, Al-Sahafi joined Al-Taawoun on loa ...

, Saudi Arabian footballer * Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker

Businessmen

Ziad Takieddine Ziad Takieddine ( ar, زياد تقي الدين ; born 14 June 1950) is a Lebanese-French businessman, described by ''The Telegraph'' as an "arms broker".

Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker * Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor *

Ziyad Cattan Ziyad Cattan is a dual citizen of Poland and Iraq. He earned a PhD in economics. During the twenty years he lived in Poland Cattan operated both a used car and a pizza companies. According to an article published in ''The Independent'', on 19 Se ...

, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer * Ziad Abdelnour (financier), Lebanese-born American investment banker and financier

Film directors

* Ziad Antar, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer * Ziad Doueiri, Lebanese film director *

Ziad Hamzeh Ziad (also transliterated as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad ar, زياد) is an Arabic given name and surname. Given name Actors * Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor Athletes * Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwaiti hurdler * Zeyad ...

, American film director *

Ziad Touma Ziad Touma is a Lebanese Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1974 and residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the founder of the film, television and digital media production company Couzin Films . ...

, Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

Ziad Majed Ziad Majed ( ar, زياد ماجد) is a Lebanese/French political researcher and university professor. He holds a PhD in political sciences from Sciences Po Paris. He teaches Middle Eastern studies and International Relations at the American U ...

, Lebanese political researcher *

Ziyad Marar Ziyad Marar is an author and President of Global Publishing at SAGE Publishing. He was born in 1966 in Iraq, and moved to London aged 10. He has published four books combining his interests in psychology and philosophy. His fourth ''Judged: The V ...

, Iraqi writer and publisher

Musicians

* Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

* Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am, poet of the Umayyad period of Persian origin

Politicians

* Ziad Aboultaif, Canadian politician * Ziad Abs, Lebanese politician * Ziad Abu Amr Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council *

Ziad Abu Ein Ziad Abu Ein, also spelled Ziad Abu Ain, ( ar, زياد أبو عين; 22 November 1959 – 10 December 2014) was a Palestinian politician. He was a member of the Fatah political party, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and a senior minis ...

, Palestinian politician *

Ziad Bahaa-Eldin Ziad Ahmed Bahaa-Eldin (born 30 August 1964) is an Egyptian economist, commercial lawyer and politician. Biography Ziad Bahaa-Eldin was born on 30 August 1964 and is the son of the journalist and writer Ahmad Baha-Eldin. He was educated at Cair ...

, Egyptian politician * Ziyad Baroud, Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist * Ziad Durrani, Pakistani politician *

Ziad Makhzoumi Ziad Makhzoumi (born in Beirut, Lebanon on January 20, 1955) is a public speaker, coach and business executive currently serving as the chief executive officer of Fakih IVF. Education and career He hold a BSc in Electronic Engineering and an ...

, Lebanese British businessman and public speaker *

Ziyad Sabbagh Ziyad Sabbagh ( ar, زياد صباغ) (born 1960) is a Syrian politician who was Minister of Industry between 2020 and 2023. Education and career 1986: Graduated from the Faculty of Science of Aleppo University and administrative information ...

(born 1960), Syrian politician

Military

Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan Abu al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi ( ar, أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه, Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; – 673), also known as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan ( ar, زياد بن أبي سفيان, Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān), was an adminis ...

, Muslim general *

Ziyad ibn Abih Abu al-Mughira Ziyad ibn Abihi ( ar, أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه, Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; – 673), also known as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan ( ar, زياد بن أبي سفيان, Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān), was an adminis ...

(622–673 AD), Muslim general and administrator *

Ziad Fahd Ziad Fahd ( ar, زياد فهد) is a Free Syrian Army brigadier general, who defected from the Syrian Army to the FSA on March 28, 2012. He currently holds the position of deputy chief of staff in the Southern Front. He is also a former member o ...

, Free Syrian Army brigadier general *

Ziad al-Hariri Mohammed Ziad al-Hariri (born 1930) is a former prominent Syrian Army officer. A staunch Arab nationalist, he supported the union between Syria and Egypt in 1958, opposed Syria's secession from it in 1961 and served as the chief leader of the cou ...

, Syrian senior officer and defence minister *

Zijad Subašić Zijad Subašić (d. 1992) was a Bosnian Muslim paramilitary leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95). He was a founding member of the Patriotic League in Višegrad. After being wounded in a street battle with Serb m ...

, Bosniak military leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95)

Other

Ziad Abuzayyad Ziad Ali Khalil AbuZayyad ( ar, زياد علي خليل أبو زياد) (born April 3, 1940) is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and politician. Biography Ziad Ali Khalil AbuZayyad is an attorney at Law who graduated from Damascus University i ...

, Palestinian lawyer, journalist *

Ziad Rafiq Beydoun Ziad Rafiq Beydoun (1924–1998) was a Lebanese petroleum geologist, leading authority on the geology of the Middle East and Emeritus Professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Background and education Born in Beirut in 1924, Ziad (" ...

, petroleum geologist and professor *

Ziad Fazah Ziad Youssef Fazah ( ar, زياد فصاح; born 10 June 1954) is an alleged Liberian-born Lebanese polyglot. Fazah has falsely claimed to speak 59 languages and maintains that he has proved this in several public appearances in which he suppo ...

, Lebanese polyglot * Ziad el-Doulatli, Tunisian activist *

Ziad al-Khasawneh Ziyad Al-Khasawneh is a Jordanian lawyer who headed a team of over 3000 defense lawyers for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was a ...

, Jordanian lawyer who headed a team of twenty-two defence lawyers for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. * Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese hijacker pilot involved in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 *

Ziyad Khaleel Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member, based in the United States, primarily in Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Missouri. He had been identified as a "procureme ...

, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member * Zijad Delić, Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker *

Ziad Andraous Ziad (also Romanization of Arabic, transliterated as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad ar, زياد) is an Arabic given name and surname. Given name Actors * Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor Athletes * Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwa ...

, Lebanon's best human

Surname

* Howar Ziad, Iraqi politician and ambassador *

Hussein Ziad Hussein Ziad Odtallah ( ar, حسين زياد عودت الله; born January 1, 1985) is a Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin who is a left winger for That Ras That Ras is a football club based in Al Karak which competes in the Jorda ...

, Jordanian footballer *

Tawfiq Ziad Tawfiq Ziad ( ar, توفيق زيّاد, he, תאופיק זיאד, also spelt Tawfik Zayyad or Tawfeeq Ziad, 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994) was a Palestinian Israeli politician well known for his "poetry of protest". Biography Born in Nazareth, P ...

(1929–1994), Palestinian politician well known for his "poetry of protest".