Ziyad

Ziad

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈziːjaːd]
Gender	Male
Language	Arabic
Origin
Language	Arabic
Word/name	Middle East, Arabian Peninsula
Meaning	abundance, growth, generous, greater
Other names
Variant forms	Ziad, Zyad, Zeyad, Zijad, Ziyad
Related names	Zayd, Zaid

Ziad (/ˈziːjɑːd, -jæd/; Arabic: زياد, romanized: Ziād) is an Arabic given name and surname.

Given name

Actors

• Zeyad Errafae'ie (1967–2009), Syrian television actor and voice actor

Athletes

• Zeyad Abdulrazak (born 1969), Kuwaiti hurdler
• Zeyad Mater (born 1991), Yemeni judoka
• Zyad Chaabo (born 1979), Syrian footballer
• Ziad Jaziri (born 1978), Tunisian football striker
• Ziad Richa (born 1967), Lebanese skeet shooter
• Ziad Tlemçani (born 1963), Tunisian footballer
• Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam (born 1977), Iraqi football defender
• Ziyad al-Kord (born 1974), Palestinian footballer
• Ziyad al-Sahafi (born 1994), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Ziyad al-Johani (born 2001), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Zyad Jusić (born 1980), Dutch football striker

Businessmen

• Ziad Takieddine (1950–2025), Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker
• Ziad Makkawi (born 1961), Lebanese American investor
• Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer

Film directors

• Ziad Antar (born 1978), Lebanese filmmaker and photographer
• Ziad Doueiri (born 1963), Lebanese film director
• Ziad Touma (born 1983), Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

• Ziad Majed (born 1970), Lebanese political researcher
• Ziyad Marar (born 1966), Iraqi writer and publisher

Musicians

• Ziad Rahbani (1956–2025), Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

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

Politicians

• Siad Barre (1919–1995), Somalian dictator
• Ziad Aboultaif (born 1966), Canadian politician
• Ziad Abs (born 1972), Lebanese politician
• Ziad Abu Amr (born 1950), Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
• Ziad Abu Ein (1959–2014), Palestinian politician
• Ziad Bahaa-Eldin (born 1964), Egyptian politician
• Ziyad Baroud (born 1970), Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist
• Ziad Durrani (1982–2012), Pakistani politician
• Ziad Makhzoumi (born 1955), 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 (1929–2015), Syrian senior officer and defence minister
• Zijad Subašić (died 1992), Bosniak military leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95)

Other

• Ziad Abuzayyad (born 1940), Palestinian lawyer, journalist
• Ziad Rafiq Beydoun (1924–1998), petroleum geologist and professor
• Ziad Fazah (born 1954), 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 (1975–2001), 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 (born 1965), Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker

Surname

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

See also

• Tariq ibn Ziyad (670–720), 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