Ziyad Explained

Ziyad
Pronunciation:	pronounced as /ar/
Gender:	Male
Language:	Arabic
Language origin:	Arabic
Origin:	Middle East, Arabian Peninsula
Meaning:	abundance, growth, generous, greater
Variant:	Ziad, Zyad, Zeyad, Zijad
Related Names:	Zayd

Ziyad (; Arabic: زياد|translit=Ziyād) 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 Mater, Yemeni judoka
• Zyad Chaabo, Syrian footballer
• Ziad Jaziri, Tunisian football striker
• Ziad Richa, Lebanese skeet shooter
• Ziad Tlemçani, Tunisian footballer
• Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender
• Ziyad al-Kord, Palestinian footballer
• Ziyad al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Ziyad al-Johani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker

Businessmen

• Ziad Takieddine Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker
• Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor
• Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer
• Ziad Zanayed investor and financier.

Film directors

• Ziad Antar, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer
• Ziad Doueiri, Lebanese film director
• Ziad Touma, Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

• Ziad Majed, Lebanese political researcher
• Ziyad Marar, 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, 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 (born 1960), Syrian politician

Military

• Ziyad ibn Abihi (622–673), Muslim general and administrator
• Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Harthi, Abbasid governor of Medina from 750 to 758.
• Ziad Fahd, Free Syrian Army brigadier general
• Ziad al-Hariri, 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, petroleum geologist and professor
• Ziad Fazah, Lebanese polyglot
• Ziad el-Doulatli, Tunisian activist
• Ziad al-Khasawneh, Jordanian lawyer who headed a team of twenty-two defence lawyers for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
• Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese terrorist hijacker involved in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93
• Ziyad Khaleel, 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

Surname

• Howar Ziad, Iraqi politician and ambassador
• Hussein Ziad, Jordanian footballer
• Tawfiq Ziad (1929–1994), Palestinian politician well known for his "poetry of protest".

See also

• Tariq ibn Ziyad, Umayyad-era commander who led the Muslim conquest of Spain in the 8th century
• Ziyadid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty that ruled western Yemen from 819 until 1018 from the capital city of Zabid
• Zayed (disambiguation)
• Zaid, an Arabic masculine name