Riaz (name)
Riaz is a Central Asian masculine given name and surname of Arabic and Persian origin.
Given name
- Riaz Hassan, Australian academic
- Riyaz Punjabi, professor and vice chancellor at the University of Kashmir
- Riaz Ahsan, Pakistani statistician
- Riyaz Ahmad, Indian politician
- Riaz Shahid, Pakistani filmmaker and journalist
- Riaz Bagwan, Indian cricketer
- Riaz Poonawala, former cricketer
- Riaz Basra, Pakistani militant
- Riaz Farcy, Hong Kong cricketer
- Riyaz Khan, Indian actor and bodybuilder
- Riaz (actor), Bangladeshi film actor
- Riaz Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
- Riaz Amin, English professional martial artist
- Riyaz Kharrat, Iranian chemical engineer
- Reaz Rahman, Bangladeshi former State Minister of Foreign Affairs
Surname
- Fahmida Riaz, Urdu writer
- Mohammed Riaz, Indian field hockey player
- Hussain Riyaz, Maldivian sprinter
- Wahab Riaz, Pakistani cricketer
- Adeeba Riyaz, Kashmiri poet
Arabic-based compound names with ''Riaz'' as an element
- Riaz al-Din, multiple people
- *Riazuddin, Pakistani theoretical physicist
- *Riazuddin, Pakistani cricket umpire
- *Shaikh Riazuddin, Indian cricketer
- *Hamza Riazuddin, British-Pakistani cricketer
- *Riyaz Uddin, Indian painter
- *Riaz al-Din Ahmad, multiple people
- Riaz al-Hasan
- *Mirza Riyaz Ul Hassan Effendi
- Riaz Al Haqq
- *A. F. Mohammad Reazul Huq Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician
- *Reyazul Haque Raju, Indian politician
- Riaz al-Huda
- *Riyazul Huda, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Riaz al-Mawla
- *Reazul Mowla Rezu, Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenplay writer