Jawad (name)
Jawad or Javadd (Arabic: جواد), also transliterated as Javad, is an Arabic given name meaning a steed, open-handed, or generous. The name is common in Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Arab countries.
Notable people with this name
- First name
- Jawad Ahmad (born 1970), Pakistani singer and musician
- Jawad Anani (born 1943), Jordanian economist and politician
- Jawad Al-Arrayedh, Bahrain's first Shia Deputy Prime Minister
- Jawad al-Assadi, Iraqi theater director, playwright, theater researcher and poet
- Jawad Bashir, Pakistani director/actor/singer
- Jawad al-Bulani (born 1960), Iraqi politician and minister
- Jawad Dawood (born 1982), Pakistani Canadian cricketer
- Jawad Ghaziyar, Afghan singer
- Jawad Hussain (1939–2008), India cricketer
- Jawad Rumi Daini (born ca. 1948), former general in the Iraqi Army later in exile
- Jawad Saleem (1919 – 1961), Iraqi sculptor
- Jawad Salehi (born 1956), Iranian electrical and computer engineer
- Jawad Tabrizi (1926-2006), Ayatollah Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'
- Javad Alizadeh (born 1953), Iranian cartoonist
- Javad Allahverdi, retired Iranian football player of Azeri descent
- Javad Davari (born 1983), Iranian professional basketball player
- Javad Fakori (1938–1981), Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force leader
- Javad Gharavi Aliari (born 1935), Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja
- Javad Hadian, American entrepreneur and businessman
- Javad Hamidi (born 1918), Iranian painter and poet
- Javad Hashemi (born 1965), Iranian Actor and Director
- Javad Kazemian (born 1981), Iranian football right winger
- Javad Khan (died 1804), member of the royal Qajar family
- Javad Malik-Yeganov (1878–1942), Azerbaijani politician and Governor-General of Lankaran
- Javad Maroufi (1912–1993), celebrated Iranian composer and pianist
- Javad Mojabi (born 1939), Iranian poet, writer, researcher, and literary critic
- Javad Nekounam (born 1980), Iranian footballer
- Javad Nurbakhsh (1926–2008), the Master (pir) of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order from 1953 to 2008
- Javad Razavian, Iranian TV actor
- Javad Razzaghi (born 1982), Iranian professional footballer
- Javad Shamaqdari, Iranian filmmaker, cultural adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Javad Shirzad (born 1982), Iranian football player
- Javad Tabatabaei, political philosopher, historian and university professor
- Javad Yasari (born 1954), Persian singer
- Javad Zarincheh (born 1966), retired Iranian football player and now a coach
- Middle name
- Zayn Javadd Malik British Pakistani (born 12 January 1993), former member of the boyband One Direction.
- Ali Jawad Al Taher (1911?/1922? - 10 October 1996) was an Iraqi critic and literary scholar
- Ali Jawad Zaidi (1916–2004), Urdu poet, scholar and author
- Hossam Jawad Al-Sabah, Lebanese actor
- Mohamad Jawad Chirri, founder and director of the Islamic Center of America
- Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, Lebanese politician and minister of health
- Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (born 1939), Iraqi politician and minister
- Rida Jawad Taqi, Iraqi politician and member of Parliament
- M. Javad Zarif (born 1960), former Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933–1981), the second prime minister of Iran following the 1979 revolution
- Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Iranian politician, hard-line cleric and mathematician
- Last name
- Abdul Sattar Jawad (born 1943), Iraqi-born Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies
- Ahmad Javad (1892–1937), Azerbaijani poet
- Kalbe Jawad, Shi'a scholar (Maulana) from Lucknow, India
- Mazen Abdul-Jawad (born 1977), Saudi Arabian man who spoke about his sexual exploits on television creating controversy
- Mohamed Jawad, Pakistani youth accused of attempted murder before a Guantanamo military commission
- Muhammad al-Jawad, (811–835), ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
- Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghan diplomat
- Shamim Jawad, Afghan activist, founder and president of the Ayenda Foundation, the Afghan Children Initiative, which works for the welfare, education, health, shelter and safety of Afghan children
- Sophia Jawad, Iraqi actress and model based in the United Arab Emirates
Fictional characters
- Jawad, a character in Need for Speed: Nitro
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