Mousavi (surname)
Mousavi is a surname. It is also spelled Moosavi, Mossavi, Moussaoui, Moussavi and Moussawi. The word is an adjective in Arabic which means descendants of Musa al-Kazim. Notable people with the name include:
Politics
- Abbas al-Musawi, Lebanese Muslim cleric and leader of Hezbollah
- Abdolrahim Mousavi, Iranian general
- Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi Leader of TNFJ, Pakistan
- Fakhraddin Mousavi, Iranian judge and politician
- Farid Mousavi, Iranian politician
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian politician
- Mohammad Vaez Mousavi, Iranian cleric and politician
- Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini, Iranian politician who came to power after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
- Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, Iranian diplomat
- Salam Adil, Iraqi communist politician
Sport
- Ahmad Mousavi, Iranian football player
- Ali Mousavi (footballer), Iranian football player
- Alireza Mousavi, Iranian handball player
- Danial Mousavi, Iranian football player
- Hussain Al-Moussawi, Kuwaiti football player
- Iman Mousavi, Iranian footballer
- Kaveh Mousavi, Iranian athlete
- Mohammad Mousavi, Iranian volleyball player
- Seyed Ayoub Mousavi, Iranian weightlifter
Other people
- Farshid Moussavi, Iranian-born British architect
- Granaz Moussavi, Iranian-born Australian poet, film director and screenwriter
- Ibrahim Mousawi, Lebanese journalist
- Hamid Hussain Musavi, Indian scholar
- Jamaluddin Mousavi, Afghan TV presenter
- Muhammad Quli Musavi, Indian scholar
- Mohammad Mofti-ol-shia Mousavi, Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja
- Seyed Ali Mousavi, nephew of Mir-Hossein Mousavi who was killed during the 2009 Iranian election protests
- Syed Askar Mousavi, Afghan author
- Sayyed Razi Mousavi, Iranian major general in the IRGC's Quds Force