Ziad (also

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as Ziyad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad ar, زياد) is an

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and surname.

Given name

Actors

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

Athletes

* Zeyad Abdulrazak, 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 Association footballer, football striker. He has 64 caps and 14 goals for the Tunisia national football team, national team, and was called up to the 2006 F ...

, Tunisian football striker * Ziad Richa, Lebanese skeet shooter * Ziad Tlemçani, 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 Ziyad Saeed Al-Kord bin Samir, known simply as Ziyad Al-Kord ( ar, زياد الكرد; born 15 January 1974 in Gaza), is a Palestinian footballer who has played with various clubs in the Palestinian territories, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. He is ...

, 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 Ziad Makkawi is an entrepreneur & investor, a French national born in New York City on December 25, 1961, to Lebanese parents. Career Makkawi is a serial Financial Services entrepreneur. Makkawi is the Founder & CEO of EQUIAM a San Francisco bas ...

, 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 Ziad Antar (born 1978 in Saida, Lebanon, Saida, Lebanon) is a Lebanese filmmaker and photographer. He studied Agricultural Engineering at the American University of Beirut before turning to video and arts with a residency at the Palais de Tokyo in ...

, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer *

Ziad Doueiri Ziad Doueiri ( ar , زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963) is a Lebanese film director, cinematographer and writer. He is best known for his award-winning films ''West Beirut'' (1998) and '' The Insult'' (2017), a film that was nominated a ...

, 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 Ziad Rahbani ( ar, زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the fou ...

, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

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

Politicians

Ziad Aboultaif Ziad Aboultaif (Arabic: زياد أبو لطيف; born 10 September 1966) is a Canadian politician first elected to represent the riding of Edmonton Manning in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election. Before politics On first comin ...

, Canadian politician * Ziad Abs, Lebanese politician *

Ziad Abu Amr Ziad Abu Amr ( ar, زياد أبو عمرو; born 1950) is a Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He currently serves as the first deputy prime minister and is a member (independent) of the PLO Execut ...

Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council * Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian politician * Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, Egyptian politician * Ziyad Baroud, Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist * Ziad Durrani, Pakistani politician * Ziad Makhzoumi, 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, 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, Bosniak military leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95)

Other

* Ziad Abuzayyad, 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, 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 Ziad Samir Jarrah ( ar, زياد سمير جراح, '; May 11, 1975 – September 11, 2001) was a Lebanese terrorist and one of the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks. He was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, crashing the pl ...

, Lebanese hijacker pilot involved in the hijacking of

United Airlines Flight 93 United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda attackers aboard the plane on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The plane eventually crashed in S ...

* Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member *

Zijad Delić Dr. Zijad Delić (born 12 May 1965) is a Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker. He is the former executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC). Early life and career Delić was born and raised in Bosnia ...

, 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 Howar Ziad was the ambassador of Iraq to Canada. He is also a senior advisor to Jalal Talabani, the current president of Iraq. Prior to his diplomatic career, Ziad and his family had a long history of participation in the Kurdish freedom movement. ...

, Iraqi politician and ambassador * Hussein Ziad, 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".