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

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Given name

* 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 professional basketball player. Pro career He previously played for Saba Battery as a subsidiary player, teaming with his since-dece ...

(born 1983), Iranian basketball player * Samad Behrangi (1939–1967), Iranian teacher, folklorist and writer * Samad Marfavi (born 1965), Iranian football player * Samad bey Mehmandarov (1855–1931), Azerbaijani-Russian general * Samad Rustamov, Uzbek Sambo player * Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh (1869–1955), Iranian diplomat *

Samad Shohzukhurov Samad Shohzukhurov (born 8 February 1990) is a Tajikistani footballer who last played for Barki Tajik. He is a member of the Tajikistan national football team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. He also joined the 2007 FIFA U-17 W ...

(born 1990), Tajik football player * Samad Taylor, American baseball player *

Samad Vurgun Samad Vurgun ( az, Səməd Vurğun ; born Samad Yusif oghlu Vekilov;, . March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan N ...

(1906–1956), Azerbaijani-Soviet poet * Samed Yeşil (born 1994), Turkish-German football player

Middle name

Abdul Samad Ismail Tan Sri Abdul Samad bin Ismail (18 April 19244 September 2008), who often went by the moniker Pak Samad, was a Malaysian journalist, writer and editor. Early life Samad was born on 18 April 1924, in Singapore to Javanese immigrant parents, wh ...

(1924–2008), Malaysian journalist * Abdul Samad Rabiu (born 1960), Nigerian businessman *

Abdul Samad of Selangor Sultan Abdul Samad ibni Almarhum Raja Abdullah ( Jawi: سلطان عبد الصمد ابن المرحوم راج عبد الله ; born Raja Abdul Samad bin Raja Abdullah, 1804 - 6 February 1898) was the fourth Sultan of Selangor. Raja Abdul ...

(1804–1898), Sultan of Selangor

Surname

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ‘Abdul-Basit ‘Abdus-Samad ( ar, عبـدُ الباسِـط مُحـمّـد عبـدُ ٱلصّـمـد), or Abdel Basit Abdel Samad, or Abdul Basit Muhammad Abdus Samad (1927 – 30 November 1988) was an Egyptian Quran reciter and Hafiz ...

1927–1988), Egyptian Quran reciter * Abdus Samad Azad (1922–2005), Bangladeshi diplomat and politician * Hamed Abdel-Samad (born 1972), German-Egyptian writer *

Mohammad Samad Mohammad Samad (born 7 May 2000) is an Indian actor, known for movies like ''Gattu (2012),'' ''Haraamkhor (2015)'', ''Tumbbad (2018),'' ''And Chhichhore (2019). He played the lead role of Manju Kumar in the Netflix web series Selection Day (201 ...

(born 2000), Indian actor *

Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad On the early morning of 31 May 2001, 17-year-old national footballer Sulaiman bin Hashim (4 June 1983 – 31 May 2001), along with his two friends were attacked by a group of eight youths from gang 369, known as Salakau, as they were walking a ...

, a convicted rioter and gang member of

Salakau Salakau ( zh, s=三六九, poj=Saⁿ-la̍k-káu), which means 369 in Hokkien, also known as "Sah Lak Kau", is a street gang or secret society based in Singapore. The numbers 3, 6 and 9 add up to 18, which was the name of an older gang; the nu ...

in Singapore *

Nabil Samad Nabil Samad (born 9 October 1986) in Dhaka is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Sylhet Division. A bowler, he represented Bangladesh in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. Nabil was bought by Sylhet Royals for ...

(born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer *

Omar Samad Omar Samad is the former Senior Advisor to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the former Chief Executive of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2020. He served as the Afghan Ambassador to Canada from 2004 to 2009, and to France from 2009 to 2011. He was a Senior Central ...

, Afghan diplomat *

Sahal Abdul Samad Sahal Abdul Samad (born 1 April 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters and the India national team. Club career Early life and youth career Sahal was born in ...

(born 1997), Indian football player *

Saleh Ali al-Sammad Saleh Ali al-Sammad ( ar, صالح علي الصمَّاد; 1 January 1979 – 19 April 2018) was a Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement who served as the president of Yemen's Supreme Political Council and the ''de facto'' Presiden ...

(1979–2018), Yemeni politician *

Ziad Al-Samad Ziad Ali Al Samad (; born 6 August 1978) is a Lebanese professional football coach and former player who is the goalkeeper coach of club Ansar and the Lebanon national under-23 team. As a player, Al Samad played as a goalkeeper. With 47 ca ...

(born 1978), Lebanese football player

In fiction

* Samad, a character played by

Ameet Chana Ameet Chana (born 12 September 1975 in Epsom, Surrey, England) is a British-Indian actor. His most notable role is Adi Ferreira in '' EastEnders''. In May 2006 he took over presenting the Breakdown Show (Bhangra Music) on BBC Asian Network ( ...

in the British web series ''

Corner Shop Show ''Corner Shop Show'' is a British comedy drama web series that premiered on YouTube in March 2014. The series is created by Islah Abdur-Rahman and consists of continuous episodes uploaded on his YouTube channel CornerShopShow, following the adv ...

''. * Samad, a fictional character played by Iranian actor Parviz Sayyad. *Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel White Teeth by

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...

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