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 , 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 , last Khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate.
  • Mahmud 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 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 , 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 , 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 , the eldest son of the Delhi Sultan Shamsuddin Iltutmish
  • Şehzade Mahmud , 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, 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 , 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 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 , 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, 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 , 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