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Masum

Gender	masculine
Languages	Arabic: مسعود اِقرا:مَس عَود, Persian: مسعود خوانده شود:مسود
Origin
Meaning	fortunate, prosperous, lucky, happy
Other names
Alternative spelling	Masoud, Massoud, Massoude, Massudeh, Masood, Masʽud, Mashud, Messaoud, Mesut, Mesud

Masud (Arabic: مسعود اِقرا:مَس عَود‎, romanized: fortunate, prosperous, lucky, happy, Persian: مسعود خوانده شود:مسود) is a given name and a surname, commonly found in the Middle East and Asia. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Masʽud I (998–1040), sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire
• Masud Ahmad (1943–2018), Pakistani theoretical physicist
• Masud Ahmed (born 1955), Bangladeshi bureaucrat
• Masud Akhond (born 1972), Bangladeshi actor, director, and writer
• Masud Alioghlu (1928–1973), Azerbaijani writer
• Masud Arun, Bangladeshi politician
• Masud Choudhary (1944–2022), Indian civil servant, educator, social reformer, thinker, and politician
• Masud Uddin Chowdhury (born 1954), Bangladeshi Army general
• Masud ibn Davud, Azerbaijani architect
• Masud Gharahkhani (born 1982), Iranian-born Norwegian politician
• Masud Ghnaim (born 1965), an Israeli Arab politician
• Masud Husain, British neurologist and neuroscientist
• Masud Jani, 13th century governor of Bengal
• Masʽud El-Jibril, Nigerian politician
• Masud Karim (1936–1996), Bangladeshi lyricist
• Masud Khan (1924–1989), British psychoanalyst
• Masud Ali Khan (1929–2024), Bangladeshi actor
• Masud Husain Khan (1919–2010), Indian linguist
• Masud Minhas (1911–1936), Indian field hockey player
• Masud Bin Momen, Bangladeshi diplomat
• Masud ibn Namdar, Kurdish document collector and writer
• Masud Naraghi (died 2020), Iranian-born American nuclear physicist and engineer
• Masud Pathik (born 1979), Bangladeshi filmmaker, poet, and lyricist
• Masʽud Hai Rakkaḥ (1690–1768), Sephardi Jewish Hakham and shadar
• Masud Hassan Rizvi (1893–1975), Indian author
• Masud Sabri (1886–1952), Uyghur governor of Xinjiang
• Masud Sa'd Salman (died 1121), Persian poet
• Masud Sezan, Bangladeshi television series and telefilm director
• Masud Shah (died 1246), sultan of the Delhi Sultanate
• Masʽud ibn Muhammad Sijzi, Persian physician
• Masud Yunus (1952–2020), Indonesian politician

Surname

• Faisal Masud (1954–2019), Pakistani endocrinologist
• Khalid Masud (1935–2003), Pakistani Islamic scholar
• Mohammad Masud (1905–1948), Iranian journalist
• Muhammad Khalid Masud (born 1939), Pakistani judge and Islamic scholar
• Naiyer Masud (1936–2017), Indian Urdu short-story writer and literary critic
• Rahmad Mas'ud (born 1976), Indonesian politician and the current mayor of Balikpapan, East Kalimantan
• Zafar Masud (air commodore) (1927–2003), Pakistan Air Force personnel