Ghani Explained

Al-Ghani or Ghani (Arabic:الغنى) means generous or bountiful in Arabic and is one of the names of God in Islam.

Ghani may refer to:

People

Given name or mononym

• Ghani Animofoshe (born 1985), Nigerien footballer
• Ghani Yalouz (born 1968), French wrestler and Olympian
• Mullah Ghani, briefly governor of Nimruz Province, Afghanistan in 1995
• Ghani Khan (Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, 1914–1996), Pashto language poet

Surname

• Abdul Ghani, a male Muslim given name, including a list of people with the name
• Ahmed Yasin Ghani (born 1991), Iraqi footballer of Kurdish descent
• Aishah Ghani (1923–2013), Malaysian politician and government minister
• Ali Ghani or Aly Goni (born 1991), Indian actor
• Ashraf Ghani (Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, born 1949), former president of Afghanistan
• Cyrus Ghani (1929–2015), Iranian-born academic, lawyer, Iranian studies scholar, and film critic
• Esmail Ghaani (born 1957), Iranian military commander
• Hassan Ghani, (born 1985), Scottish broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker
• Karim Ghani, politician in South-East Asia of Indian origin
• Nazneen Ghaani, Indian actress
• Nus Ghani (born 1972), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP)
• Owais Ahmed Ghani, former governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
• Rula Ghani, First Lady of Afghanistan and the wife of Ashraf Ghani
• Tanveer Ghani, British Asian actor
• Usman Ghani (born 1996), Afghanistan cricketer
• Yusof Ghani (born 1950), Malaysian painter, sculptor, writer, professor and curator

Films

• Ghani (2006 film), or The Cycle, a Bangladeshi film
• Ghani (2022 film), an Indian Telugu-language film

Other uses

• Ghani (letter), the 26th letter of the three Georgian scripts

See also

• • • Goni (disambiguation), alternative transcription
• Banu Ghani, an Arab tribe
• Ghan (disambiguation)
• Afghani (disambiguation)