Samad

Given name

• Abd al-Samad ibn Ali, Abbasid governor of Jazira in 780s.
• Samed Abdul Awudu, Ghanaian football player
• Samad Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player
• Samad Behrangi, Iranian teacher, folklorist and writer
• Samad Marfavi, Iranian football player
• Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani-Russian general
• Samad Rustamov, Uzbek Sambo player
• Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh, Iranian diplomat
• Samad Shohzukhurov, Tajik football player
• Samad Taylor, American baseball player
• Samad Vurgun, Azerbaijani-Soviet poet
• Samed Yeşil, Turkish-German football player

  Middle name

• Abdul Samad Ismail, Malaysian journalist
• Abdul Samad Rabiu, Nigerian businessman
• Abdul Samad of Selangor, Sultan of Selangor
• Abdul Samad Abdulla, Maldivian foreign affairs minister

  Surname

• Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Egyptian Quran reciter
• Abdus Samad Azad, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician
• Hamed Abdel-Samad, German-Egyptian writer
• Mohammad Samad, Indian actor
• Mohammad Ridzwan bin Samad, a convicted rioter and gang member of Salakau in Singapore
• Nabil Samad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Omar Samad, Afghan diplomat
• Sahal Abdul Samad, Indian football player
• Saleh Ali al-Sammad, Yemeni politician
• *Samad, an Iranian suicide drone named after Saleh Ali al-Sammad
• Ziad Al-Samad, Lebanese football player

  In fiction

• Samad, a character played by Ameet Chana in the British web series Corner Shop Show
• Samad, played by Iranian actor Parviz Sayyad
• Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith