Mahmud
Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name محمود, common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning praise, along with Muhammad.
Given name
Mahmood
- Mahmood Ali, Pakistani radio, television and stage artist
- Mahmood Hussain (cricketer), Pakistani Test cricketer
- Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022
- Mahmood Shaam, Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet writer and analyst
- Mahmood Yakubu, Nigerian academic and current chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission
- Mahmood Monshipouri, Iranian-born American scholar, educator, and author
- Mahmooda Sultana, Aerospace engineer
- Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, Pakistani social worker
- Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Somalian merchant seaman
- Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, four-star admiral of the Pakistan Navy
- Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani fighter pilot
- Mahmood Anjir Faghnawi, the 13th sheikh in the chain of the masters of the Naqshbandi Order
- Mahmood Mamdani, Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator
Mahmoud
- Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine
- Mahmoud al-Abrash, Syrian politician
- Mahmoud Afshartous, Iranian military officer
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former President of Iran
- Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian musician
- Mahmoud Alavi, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, Egyptian businessman
- Mahmoud El-Araby, Egyptian businessman and philanthropist
- Mahmoud Baharmast, Iranian army general
- Mahmoud Balbaa, Egyptian businessman and politician
- Mahmoud Chahoud, Lebanese footballer
- Mahmoud Charr, German professional boxer
- Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet
- Mahmoud Dahoud, German professional footballer
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iranian writer and actor
- Mahmoud Etemadzadeh, Iranian writer and literary translator
- Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha, Egyptian politician and diplomat
- Mahmoud Farshchian, Iranian painter and miniaturist
- Mahmoud Farshidi, Iranian politician
- Mahmoud Fayad, Egyptian Olympic weightlifter
- Mahmoud Fustuq, Lebanese businessman
- Mahmoud Guinia, Moroccan singer
- Mahmoud Hamshari, assassinated Palestinian official
- Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Mahmoud Hessabi, Iranian nuclear physicist and politician
- Mahmoud Hussein, Egyptian journalist
- Mahmoud Hweimel, Jordanian politician
- Mahmoud Ismail, Egyptian actor, filmmaker
- Mahmoud Jaballah, Egyptian-Canadian Jihad member
- Mahmoud Kahil, a Lebanese-born British editorial cartoonist
- Mahmoud Khalil, Syrian-born Palestinian Columbia University student detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2025: see Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
- Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer and President of Al Ahly
- Mahmoud Khayami, Iranian industrialist and philanthropist of French nationality
- Mahmoud Labadi, Palestinian journalist, writer and politician
- Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Mahmoud Mekki, the vice president of Egypt from August 2012 to December 2012
- Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian actor
- Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, Palestinian terrorist
- Mahmoud Mohieldin, economist
- Mahmoud Nabavian, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Mahmoud Namjoo, Iranian weightlifter
- Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi, a member of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty
- Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt 1945–1946 and 1946–1948
- Mahmoud Bodo Rasch, a German architect who specializes in the construction of large convertible umbrellas and lightweight structures
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
- Mahmoud Abdul Razak, Syrian footballer
- Mahmoud Saeed, Iraqi-born American novelist
- Mahmoud Salavati, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Mahmoud Salem, Egyptian journalist and author
- Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Egyptian politician and poet
- Mahmoud el-Sisi, Egyptian brigadier general and son of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi
- Mahmoud Taleghani, Iranian Shia Cleric
- Mahmoud Zakzouk, Egyptian academic
- Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as "Shawkan", Egyptian photojournalist
Mahmud
- Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1730–1754
- Mahmud II, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1808–1839
- Ghazan, born Mahmud Ghazan, the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304
- Sultan Mahmud (Chagatai), last Khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate.
- Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan), Khan of Tashkent and of the Moghuls of western Moghulistan
- Mäxmüd of Kazan, the Khan of the Khanate of Kazan from 1445 to 1466.
- Arpa Ke'un, known as Mu'izz ad-Din Mahmud, an Ilkhan during the disintegration of the Ilkhanate, Mongol state in Southwest Asia based in Persia.
- Jani Beg, or Jalal ad-Din Mahmud, Khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357
- Mahmud bin Küchük, a Khan who founded the Khanate of Astrakhan in the 1460s
- Maghan III, known as Mahmud I, mansa of the Mali Empire from 1390 to about 1400.
- Mahmud II (mansa), mansa of the Mali Empire of 1481–1496.
- Qutuz, or Mahmud ibn Mamdud, military leader and the third or fourth Mamluk Sultan of Turkic origin.
- Mahmud I (Seljuk sultan), sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1092 to 1094.
- Mahmud II of Great Seljuk, Sultan of Baghdad in 1118
- Mahmud of Ghazni, ruler of Ghazni 997–1030
- Mahmud Begada, the most prominent Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate.
- Mahmud Shah III of Gujarat, 12th Sultan of Gujarat
- Mahmud Hotak, the Shah of Persia from 1722–1725.
- Mahmud Shah Durrani, ruler of Afghanistan 1801–1803 & 1809–1818
- Shahanshah ibn Mahmud, the Kurdish Shaddadid emir of Ani from 1164 to 1174.
- Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī known as Nur ad-Din (died 1174), Emir of Aleppo and Damascus
- Al-Muzaffar II Mahmud, the Ayyubid emir of Hama first in 1219 and then restored in 1229–1244
- Al-Muzaffar III Mahmud, the Kurdish Ayyubid emir of Hama from 1284 to 1300.
- Mu'izz al-Din Mahmud, the Zengid Emir of the Jazira 1208–1241.
- Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, or Shihab-Ud-Din Mahmud, the sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate 1482–1518.
- Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, Sultan of Delhi, the eighth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty 1246–1266.
- Rashid al-Dawla Mahmud, the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
- Nasr ibn Mahmud, the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo in 1075–1076.
- Sabiq ibn Mahmud, the Mirdasid emir of Aleppo from 1076 to 1080.
- Nasir ad-Din Mahmud, Emir of Mosul from 1219 to 1234.
- Alp Arslan ibn Mahmud, ruler of Mosul 1127–1146.
- Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq, the last sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty
- Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd, a ruler of the Hasankeyf of the Artuqid dynasty.
- Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud, Sultan of the Ghurid Empire 1206–1212
- Mahmud Shah of Bengal, the First Sultan of Bengal
- Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, the last Sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of the Bengal Sultanate, from 1533–1538 CE.
- Mahmud ibn Muhammad, the seventh leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1814–1824.
- Muhammad II ibn Mahmud, Sultan of Seljuq Empire from 1153 to 1159.
- Mahmud Khalji, the Sultan of Malwa, in what is now the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
- Nasiruddin Mahmud (eldest son of Iltutmish), the eldest son of the Delhi Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish
- Şehzade Mahmud (son of Mehmed III), Ottoman prince
- Mahmud Khan of Bengal, 17th-century Bengali nobleman.
- Sultan Mahmud Mirza, Timurid Dynasty prince.
- Sayyed Mahmud Khan, general in the Akbar's army
- Mirza Shah Mahmud, Timurid ruler of Herat 1446.
- Mahmud Mirza Qajar, Iranian prince of the Qajar dynasty.
- Mirza Mahmud Shah Bahadur, also known Shah Jahan IV, the eighteenth Mughal emperor for a brief period in 1788.
- Mahmud Shah of Jaunpur, the 4th ruler of the Jaunpur Sultanate, reigned from 1440 to 1457.
- Jalal al-Din Mahmud, the Mihrabanid malik of Sistan from 1350.
- Sultan Mahmud ibn Nizam al-Din Yahya, the last Mihrabanid malik of Sistan from 1495 until 1537.
- Osman Mohamoud (king), known as Uthman III ibn Mahmud, Somali king who led the Majeerteen Sultanate during the 19th century.
- Mohamoud Ali Shire, Somali Sultan of the Warsengali Sultanate.
- Mahmud Gawan, prime minister in the Bahmani Sultanate of Deccan 1411 – 1481.
- Mahmud Bey, the fourth and final bey of the Chobanids.
- Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi, Persian physician from Shiraz.
- Mahmud Yalavach, administrator in the Mongol Empire who ruled over Turkestan as governor and eventually went on to be mayor of Taidu.
- Chaophraya Chakri (Mud), or Mahmud, the Prime Minister of Siam.
- Muhammad Shah of Brunei, known as Mahmud Shah, first sultan of Brunei, possibly from 1363 to 1402.
- Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Malacca), Sultan of Malacca 1488–1528
- Mahmud Badaruddin II, Sultan of Palembang.
- Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten, born Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir, the first king in Java to use the title " Sultan".
- Mahmud of Terengganu, Sultan Terengganu.
- Mahmud Shah I of Pahang, the fifth Sultan of Pahang from 1519 to 1530.
- Melewar of Negeri Sembilan, the first Yamtuan Besar
- Mahmud Pasha Angelović, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1456 to 1466 and from 1472 to 1474. He also wrote Persian and Turkish poems under the pseudonym Adni.
- Çürüksulu Mahmud Pasha, Ottoman army general and statesman of ethnic Georgian background.
- Mahmud Pasha (governor), Ottoman statesman from Bosnia
- Mahmud Shams, known as Ma He, Chinese admiral and world explorer
- Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman generalissimo and statesman, who was an important political figure during the Second Constitutional Era.
- Mahmud al-Kashgari, lexicographer Uyghur scholar.
- Abu-Mahmud Khujandi, Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician.
- Mahmud Karimov, Azerbaijani physicist
- Makhmud Muradov, professional mixed martial artist
- Makhmud Sabyrkhan, a Kazakh boxer.
- Abdullah Mahmud Hendropriyono, Indonesian general
- La Nyalla Mattalitti, full name is La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti is an Indonesian politician.
- Karaeng Pattingalloang, or Sultan Mahmud known as Father of Makassar.
- Mahmud Pasha (1853–1903), Ottoman statesman, poet and writer.
- Mahmud Taymur, Egyptian fiction writer.
- Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti, a 13th-century Iraqi-Arab painter and calligrapher.
- Sultan Mahmud Khan, a commander of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of Sarkar e Khalsa.
- Shah Mahmud Khan, the Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1946 to 1953.
- Mahmud Jamal, Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021.
- Mahmud Al-Nashaf, Israeli Arab politician
- Mahmud Khalid, Ghanaian politician
- Mahmud Mahmud, Iranian politician
- Mahmud Tarzi, Afghan journalist
- Mahmud Arif, Saudi Arabian poet
- Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistani two-star rank general officer.
- Mahmud Eyvazov, Azerbaijani long-lived 150 years collective farmer.
- Mahmud Kamani, British billionaire businessman.
- Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, the most famous Sufi Muslim saints of the Ottoman Empire.
- Mahmud al-Muntasir, the first Prime minister of Libya
- Mahmud Barzanji, King of Kurdistan
- Mahmud Ali (statesman), progressive leftist Pakistani politician
- Mahmud Nedim Pasha, a Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1871–1872 and 1875–1876
- Mahmud Bayazidi, Ottoman Kurdish philosopher and polymath from Bayazid.
- Mahmud Bayumi, Egyptian orthopaedic surgery professor at Kasr El Aini Medical School.
- Makhmud Esambayev, a Soviet and Chechen dancer, ballet master, choreographer and actor.
- Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy, a Jadid activist, writer, journalist and leading public figure in Imperial Russian and Soviet Turkestan.
- Mahmud Deobandi, Indian Muslim scholar
- Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, Indian Muslim scholar and activist
- Mahmud Hasan Gangohi, Indian mufti and Islamic scholar
- Mufti Mahmud, Pakistani statesman and Islamic scholar
- Md. Mahmud Hassan Talukder, Bangladeshi politician
Mahmudi/Mahmudin
- Elias Mahmoudi, French Muay Thai fighter currently signed to ONE Championship.
- Nur Mahmudi Ismail, Mayor of Depok City, a satellite city of West Java located in the southern part of Jakarta.
Mahmut
- Mahmut Celal Bayar, third President of Turkey.
- Mahmut Dikerdem, Turkish diplomat, writer and peace activist.
- Mahmut Cuhruk, Turkish judge.
- Mahmut Esat Bozkurt, Turkish politician.
- Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, Turkish Sufi Sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah centred in Çarşamba, Istanbul.
- Mahmut Orhan, Turkish disc jockey and record producer.
- Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo Albanian politician.
- Mahmut Atalay, Turkish freestyle wrestler and coach of Circassian origin, won a gold medal in 1968 Olympics.
- Mahmut L. Unlu, Turkish Business executive and entrepreneur.
- Mahmut Özgener, Turkish Football Federation president.
- Mahmut Bezgin, Turkish footballer.
- Mahmut Boz, Turkish footballer.
- Mahmut Hoşgiz, Turkish footballer.
- Mahmut Tekdemir, Turkish footballer.
- Mahmut Özdemir, German politician of Turkish descent.
- Mahmut Yilmaz, German footballer of Turkish descent.
- Mahmut Bozteke, Turkish para taekwondo practitioner.
- Mahmut Küçükşahin, Turkish footballer.
- Mahmut Demir, Turkish sport wrestler.
- Mahmut Şenol, Turkish author.
- Mahmut Sönmez, Turkish-Dutch footballer.
- Mahmut Yavuz, Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner.
- Mahmut Yıldırım, Kurdish contract killer.
Mehmood
- Mehmood (actor), Indian actor, singer, director and producer.
- Mehmood Aslam, Pakistani Television & Stage Actor
- Mehmood Bhatti, Pakistani fashion designer
- Mehmood Quaraishy, Kenyan cricketer
- Mehmood Sham, Pakistani journalist
Mehmud
- Maulana Mehmud Hasan, Indian independence activist
- Mehmud Abdukerem, Chinese footballer who played most recently as a defender for Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard.
Surname
Mahmood
- Khalid Mahmood (British politician), British politician
- Shabana Mahmood, British politician.
- Jemilah Mahmood, Doctor and humanitarian activist.
- Mazher Mahmood, British reporter
- Saba Mahmood, American anthropologist
- Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
- Abdullah al Mahmood, Bengali politician, lawyer and minister in Pakistan
- Iqbal Hasan Mahmud, Bangladeshi politician and minister.
- Ayaz Mahmood, hockey player won a gold medal in 1984 summer olympics, Los Angeles.
- Kashif Mahmood (cricketer, born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
- Shahid Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer
- Zia Mahmood, Pakistani bridge player.
- Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, Pakistani nuclear engineer
- Syed Mahmood, Indian jurist
- Tahir Mahmood, Indian jurist
- Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor
- Banaz Mahmod, Honour killing victim.
Mahmoud
- Ahmad Mahmoud, Iranian novelist
- Alessandro Mahmoud, known as Mahmood (singer), Italian singer and songwriter, with Egyptian and Corsican descent
- Aram Mahmoud, badminton player
- Emtithal Mahmoud, Sudanese poet and activist
- Joseph Mahmoud, French athlete
- Karem Mahmoud, Egyptian singer
- Mayam Mahmoud, rapper and women activist in Egypt
- Shaaban Mahmoud, Egyptian footballer
- Younis Mahmoud, Iraqi footballer
- Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, President of Somaliland from 2010 to 2017.
Mehmood
- Arshad Mehmood (composer), Pakistani actor and music composer
- Kashif Mehmood, Pakistani actor
- Hasnat Mehmood, Pakistani artist
- Arshad Mehmood (singer), Pakistani singer
- Faakhir Mehmood, Pakistani singer
- Arif Mehmood, Pakistani footballer
Mehmud
- Salim Mehmud, Pakistani rocket scientist
Mahmud
- Arslanbek Makhmudov, Russia professional boxer
- Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi general
- Nureddin Mahmud, the Prime Minister of Iraq from 23 November 1952 until 29 January 1953.
- Amir Machmud, Indonesian military general
- Machmud Singgirei Rumagesan, Papuan King of Sekar, and Indonesian independence activist
- Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak for 33 years from 1981–2014
- Al Mahmud, Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and short-story writer
- Mahmud Mahmud, Iranian academic and politician
- Hayat Mahmud, Bengali feudal lord and military commander
- Abdul Gafoor Mahmud, former chief of the Bangladesh Air Force
- Heyat Mahmud, medieval Bengali poet
- Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi artist
- Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
- A. T. Mahmud, Indonesian songwriter
- Syamsuddin Mahmud, Indonesian economist and politician.
- Sultan Mahmud (minister), politician from Arakan, Burma
- Hasan Mahmud (cricketer), Bangladeshi cricketer
- Dean Mahomed, a British Indian traveller, soldier, surgeon, entrepreneur, and one of the most notable early non-European immigrants to the Western World
Mahfud
- Mahfud MD, Indonesian politician and lawyer
Mahfouz
- Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, Saudi Arabian businessman
- Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature
Compound names with the element ''Mahmud''
- Mahmudul Amin Choudhury, 11th Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Mahmudullah
- *Mahmoodullah Shah Hussaini, Indian Sufi poet
- *Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Mahmudul Haque (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mahmudul Hasan (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mahmudul Islam
- *Mahmudul Islam, 10th Attorney General of Bangladesh
- *Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury, 1st Mayor of Chittagong
- Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician
- Mahmudunnabi Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician, businessman and former minister
- Mahmudur Rahman (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Pakistani politician
- Sikder Mahmudur Razi, Bangladeshi High Court justice
Fictional characters
- Mahmoud Bishara, fictional character in the book ''Refugee''