Samad
Samad or Samed is an Arabic male given name.
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 (UAV), 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 (fictional character), played by Iranian actor Parviz Sayyad
- Samad Iqbal, a main character in the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith