Ataullah

Ataullah
Pronunciation	Arabic: [ʕatˤaː.ɑɫɫɑh]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Arabic
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Gift of God
Region of origin	Middle East
Other names
Alternative spelling	Atallah
Variant form(s)	Ataollah (Iranian)
Related names	Ata

Ataullah (Arabic: عطا ٱلله‎‎) is an Arabic given name meaning "gift of God", composed of Ata (gift) + Allah (God). It is also a surname to Middle Eastern Catholics, derived from the Aramaic form Attallah..

Persons

Given name

• Sultan Ataullah Muhammad Shah I (1422-1472), Sultan of Kedah
• Sultan Ataullah Muhammad Shah II (1687-1698), Sultan of Kedah
• Attallah Suheimat (1875-1965), Jordanian politician
• Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari (1892-1961), Indian religious and political leader
• Qazi Ataullah Khan (1895-1952), Pakistani politician
• Ataullah Mengal (born 1929), Chief Minister of Balochistan, Pakistan
• Ataullah Bogdan Kopański (born 1948), Polish-born historian
• Ataollah Salehi (born ca. 1950), commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army
• Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi (born 1951), Pakistani folk singer
• Ata'ollah Mohajerani (born 1964), Iranian historian, politician, journalist, and author
• Ataullah Guerra (born 1987), Trinidadian footballer
• Ataullah (cricketer), (born 1986) Pakistani cricketer

Middle name

• Salah al-Din Attallah Suheimat, or just Salah Suheimat (1914-1966), Jordanian politician
• Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani (born 1923), Afghan Muslim scholar

Family name

• Naim Attallah (born 1931), Palestinian businessman and writer
• Samir Atallah (born 1941), Lebanese journalist, author and political analyst
• Elias Atallah (born 1947), Lebanese politician
• Alain Attalah (born 1964), Egyptian basketball player
• Nasri Atallah (born 1982), Lebanese-British author
• Mikhail Atallah, Lebanese-American computer scientist
• Christine Atallah, Canadian singer-songwriter

See also

• Atala (disambiguation)