Islam (name)
Islam is an Arabic male and female given name and surname meaning "acceptance, agreement approval ", "god-fearing, humility, devoutness", "acknowledgment, admission, yield, obeyance", "obedience, preservation, protection, safeguarding, keeping", "piety, loyalty, devotion", "subjection, submissiveness, wonder, admiration, respect, submitting".
Also, it is the name of the religion Islam and is primarily associated with Muslims. The name Islam is a diminutive of the name Aslam, which both names stemming from the male noun-name Salaam.
Notable people with the name include:
People with the given name
- Islam Alijaj, Swiss disability activist
- Islam al-Behairy, Egyptian liberalist
- Islam Alsultanov, Russian footballer
- Islam Chipsy, stage name of Egyptian musician Islam Said
- Islam El-Shater, Egyptian football player
- Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan
- Islam Makhachev, Russian mixed martial artist, UFC Lightweight Champion
- Islam Satpayev, Kazakh sport shooter
- Islam Slimani, Algerian football player
- Noor Islam Dawar, Pakistani Pashtun human rights activist
- Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, Bangladeshi business magnate
People with the surname
- Aktar Islam, English restaurateur, curry chef and businessman
- Faisal Islam, British journalist
- Faizul Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Faizul Islam (writer), Bangladeshi economist and fiction writer
- Mitchell Islam, Canadian figure skater
- Naeem Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Rizza Islam, member of the Nation of Islam and social media influencer
- Runa Islam, Bangladeshi-born British visual artist and filmmaker
- Rupam Islam, Bengali singer and composer
- Sabirul Islam, British author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker
- Saiful Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Samira Islam, Saudi Arabian pharmacologist
- Samirul Islam, Indian-Bengali social activist
- Sanchita Islam, English artist, painter, writer and filmmaker of Bangladeshi descent
- Shafiul Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Shahara Islam, the youngest victim killed of the 7 July 2005 London bombings
- Taijul Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Umar Islam, formerly Brian Young, member of the foiled 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
- Yusuf Islam, British singer, born Stephen Demetre in 1948 and formerly known as Cat Stevens
Compound names with ''Islam'' as a suffix
- Manzurul Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Monirul Islam, multiple people
- Nazrul Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nurul Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Qamar al-Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Sirajul Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tajul Islam (disambiguation), multiple people
- Zahurul Islam (disambiguation), multiple people