Bilal (name)
Bilal, or variants, is both a given name and a surname of Arabic/African origin. Notable people with the name include:
Mononym
- Bilal ibn Rabah, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Bilal ibn al-Harith, one of the sahaba, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Cheb Bilal, full name Bilal Mouffok, Algerian raï singer
- Bilal (American singer), American R&B/jazz singer
- Bilal (Lebanese singer), Lebanese gypsy singer
- Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan-Bahraini distance runner
Given name
- Bilal Abdullah, British doctor behind the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack
- Bilal Akgül, Turkish Olympian mountain biker
- Bilal Ali, American politician
- Bilal Asad, Pakistani cricketer
- Billel Attafen, Algerian football player
- Bilal Aziz Özer, Lebanese-Turkish footballer
- Bilal Baig, Canadian writer and actor
- Billel Benaldjia, Algerian football player
- Bilal Coulibaly, French basketball player
- Bilal Çubukçu, Turkish footballer
- Bilal Duckett, American soccer player
- Billel Dziri, Algerian football player
- Bilal Fawaz, UK-based Nigerian born boxer
- Bilal Gülden, Turkish footballer
- Bilal Gurbanov, Azerbaijani gymnast
- Bilal Haider, Pakistani cricketer
- Bilal Hajji, Moroccan Swedish lyricist, songwriter and record producer
- Bilal Hasna, British actor
- Bilal Hassani, French pop singer and YouTuber
- Bilal Hussein, Iraqi photojournalist
- Bilel Ifa, Tunisian football player
- Bilal Khan (singer), Pakistani singer-songwriter
- Bilal Khan (actor), Pakistani television actor and model
- Bilal Khazal, Lebanese Australian suspected member of Al-Qaeda
- Bilal Kısa, Turkish footballer
- Bilal Lashari, Pakistani film director and cinematographer
- Bilal Macit, Turkish politician
- Bilal Maqsood, Pakistani pop artist and member of the Pakistani pop band Strings
- Bilal Mohammed, Qatari football player
- Bilel Mohsni, French-Tunisian football player
- Franck Ribéry, later known as Bilal Yusuf Mohammed, French football player
- Bilal Moumen,, Algerian football player
- Bilal Saad Mubarak, Qatari shot putter
- Belal Muhammad, American mixed martial artist
- Billel Naïli, Algerian football player
- Bilal Najdi, Lebanese football player
- Bilal El Najjarine, Lebanese football player
- Bilal Najjarin (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
- Bilal Nazki, Indian jurist
- Bilal Nichols, American football player
- Billel Omrani, French football player
- Bilal Orfali, Lebanese scholar of Arabic language and literature
- Bilal Ould-Chikh, Dutch football player
- Bilal Philips, speaker and author on Islam
- Bilal Powell, American football running back
- Bilal Rafiq, Pakistani footballer
- Bilal Rifaat, Egyptian fencer
- Bilal Saeed, Pakistani singer and songwriter
- Bilal Salaam, American singer and composer
- Bilal Shafayat, English cricketer
- Bilal Sidibé, Mauritanian football player
- Bilal Skaf, Australian convicted gang rapist
- Bilal Wahib, Dutch actor, singer and rapper
- Bilal Xhaferri, Albanian poet, novelist, political dissident
Surname or family name
- Asmar Bilal, American football player
- Badr Bilal, Qatari football player
- Charles Bilal, American administrator, mayor of Kountze, Texas
- Enki Bilal, French comic book creator, comics artist and film director
- Malika Bilal, broadcast journalist
- Mohamed Gharib Bilal, nuclear scientist, Chief Minister of Zanzibar
- Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, member of a terrorist group dubbed the Portland Seven
- Muhsen Bilal, Syrian surgeon, ambassador and politician
- Ashley Chin, also known by his stage name Muslim Belal, British actor, screenwriter and spoken word performance poet
- Wafaa Bilal, Iraqi American artist