Sufyan is an Arabic name. * Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi (born 1954), Indian Islamic scholar, rector of Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband * Nader Sufyan Abbas (born 1975), Qatari weightlifter *

Abu Sufyan Al-Azdi Sa'id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri (1971–2013) was a Saudi Arabian deputy leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and possibly involved in the kidnappings and murders of foreigners in Yemen. Said Ali al-Shihr ...

(1973–2013), Saudi Arabian deputy leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula * Khaled bin Sufyan Al-Hathali belonged to the Banu Lahyan tribe at the time of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad *

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Sakhr ibn Harb ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams ( ar, صخر بن حرب بن أمية بن عبد شمس, Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya ibn ʿAbd Shams; ), better known by his '' kunya'' Abu Sufyan ( ar, أبو سفيان, Abū Sufyān), was a prominent ...

(560–652), leader of the Quraish tribe of Mecca *

Muawiyah ibn-abi-Sufyan Mu'awiya I ( ar, معاوية بن أبي سفيان, Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the deat ...

or Muawiyah I (602–680) established the Umayyad Dynasty of the caliphate *

Sufyan Ben Qumu Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu ( ar, أبو سفيان إبراهيم أحمد حمودة بن قمو, born 26 June 1959) is a citizen of Libya who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, ...

or Abu Sufian bin Qumu (born 1959), citizen of Libya held in Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba *

Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith Abū Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ( ar, أبو سفيان بن الحارث بن عبد المطلب), born al-Mughīra (), was a companion and first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.Abdalmalik ibn Hisham. ''Notes to ...

, son of Ḥārith ibn Abd al-Muttalib and a sahaba (companion) and a cousin of Muhammad * Ramla bint Abi Sufyan (c. 594–666), a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers *

Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released nine solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomi ...

(born 1975), American singer *

Sufyan al-Thawri Sufyan al-Thawri ( ar, أبو عبد الله سفيان بن سعيد بن مسروق الثوري, ʼAbu ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʻīd ibn Masrūq al-Thawrī ; 716–778) was a ''Tābi‘ al-Tābi‘īn'' Islamic scholar, jurist, and founder ...

(716–778), tabi'i Islamic scholar, Hafiz and jurist, founder of the Thawri madhhab * Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah (725–814), prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca * Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, one of the companions of Muhammad * Yazid Ibn Muawiyah Ibn Abu Sufyan or Yazid I, (647–683), the second Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate * Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (died 673 AD), Muslim general and administrator and a member of the clan of the Umayyads

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