Salah ad-Din (name)
Salah ad-Din, Salahu’d-Din, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn, Salah ed-Din and other variant spellings, is an Arabic name that means The Righteousness of the Faith.
It commonly refers to An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, known as Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.
Other notable people with the name, or known by the name, include :
Middle East and Africa
Algeria
- Salaheddine Mokdad Saidi, volleyball player
Central African Republic
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa, military ruler, briefly known as Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa
Egypt
- Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan
- Salah Nasr, head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate
- Salah Jahin, writer and cartoonist
- Salah al-Deen Hafez, writer and journalist
- Walid Salah El-Din, footballer
- Mohamed Salah (football manager), footballer
Ethiopia
- Saladin Said, footballer
- Saladin Bargicho, footballer
Iraq
- Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh, Iraqi Army officer and Arab nationalist
- Salaheddine Bahaaeddin, Kurdish-Iraqi politician
- Salah Al-Deen Siamand, Kurdish-Iraqi footballer
Jordan
- Salah Suheimat, politician
Morocco
- Salaheddine Mezouar, politician
- Salaheddine Bassir, footballer
- Salahiddine Khlifi, footballer
- Salaheddine Aqqal, footballer
- Salaheddine Sbaï, footballer
- Salaheddine Saidi, footballer
- Salah Eddine Mraouni, cyclist
- Salahiddine Khlifi, footballer
Sudan
- Ghazi Salah al-Din al-Atabani, politician
Syria
- An-Nasir Yusuf, Ayyubid Emir and Sultan
- Salah al-Din al-Bitar, politician
Yemen
- Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din, imam of Yemen
Asia
Afghanistan
- Salahuddin Rabbani, politician
Bangladesh
- Salahuddin (film director)
- A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed, historian
- Gazi Salahuddin, cricketer
- Kazi Salahuddin, footballer
- Sheikh Salahuddin, cricketer
- Salauddin Ahmed, a contemporary architect
- Salahuddin Ahmad, lawyer and Attorney General 2008–2009
- Salahuddin Ahmed (governor), economist and governor of the Bangladesh Bank 2005–2009
- Salahuddin Ahmed Mukti, Bangladeshi politician
- Saleh Uddin, architect, professor, author and artist
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, politician
- Mohammad Salahuddin, cricket coach
Brunei
- Sallehuddin Damit, footballer
India
- Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, politician
- Sayeed Salahudeen, a Kashmir separatist militant
Indonesia
- Salahuddin of Aceh, sultan
- Salahudin (born 1970), footballer and football manager
- Salahuddin Wahid, Islamic scholar and politician
Malaysia
- Raja Lumu, Sultan of Selangor
- Salahuddin of Selangor, head of state of Malaysia and Sultan of Selangor
- Sallehuddin of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah
- Salahuddin Ayub, politician
- Abang Muhammad Salahuddin, governor of Sarawak
- Izuan Salahuddin, footballer
Maldives
- Husain Salahuddin, writer and scholar
Pakistan
- Salahuddin Mian, ceramic artist
- Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi, politician and Ameer of Bahawalpur from 1988
- Salahuddin (cricketer), cricketer
- Salahuddin (cricketer, born 1998)
- Salahuddin (wrestler)
- Salahuddin Toofani, actor and comedian
- Ghazi Salahuddin, journalist and scholar
- Qazi Salahuddin, field hockey player
- Adil Salahuddin, stamp designer
- Yousuf Salahuddin, philanthropist and politician
- Salahuddin Khan Mehsud, police officer
- Salahuddin Panhwar, judge
- Salahuddin Tirmizi, politician
- Usman Salahuddin, cricketer
- Mooroo, rapper and musician
- Masood Salahuddin, cricket umpire
- Salahuddin Khan, politician
- Shaikh Salahuddin, politician and National Assembly member 2008–2013 and 2018–
- Sheikh Salahuddin (politician)
- Nawabzada Farid Salahuddin, politician
Thailand
- Salahudin Awae, footballer
Europe
- Louis Saladin, 17th-century French composer
- Olivier Saladin, a French actor
- Charles Saladin, French inventor of Saladin box
- Paul Saladin Leonhardt, German chess master of Polish origins
- Lorenz Saladin, Swiss mountain-climber, journalist, photographer and traveler
- William Stewart Ross, Scottish writer who used the pseudonym "Saladin"
Americas
- Bashir Salahuddin, actor, writer and comedian
- Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, Canadian anthropologist and ethnographer
- Dawud Salahuddin, American Muslim assassin
- Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad, imam
- Saladin Martin, American footballer
- Saladin Ahmed, comic book and fantasy writer
- Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, religious writer
- Saladin K. Patterson, television writer and producer