Alia (name)
Alia or Aleah is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Gjergj Elez Alia, a legendary hero of poetry and literature in Bosnia and Albania
- Giuseppe Alia, murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs (1867-1908)
- Malek Aït Alia (born 1977), Algerian footballer
- Ramiz Alia (1925-2011), second and last Communist leader of Albania (1985-1991) and head of state (1982-1992)
Given name
Alia
- Alija Izetbegović, first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Alia Muhammad Baker, chief librarian of the Al Basrah Central Library, Basra, Iraq
- Alia Bano, British playwright of Pashtun origin
- Alia Bhatt (born 1993), Bollywood actress
- Alia Ghanem, birth name of Hamida al-Attas (born 1934), mother of Osama bin Laden
- Alia Humaid Al Qassimi, Emirati surgeon
- Alia al-Hussein (1948-1977), Queen of Jordan
- Princess Alia bint Al Hussein (born 1956), eldest child of King Hussein of Jordan
- Alia Mamdouh (born 1944), Iraqi novelist, author and journalist
- Alia Ouabdelsselam (born 1978), French retired ice dancer
- Alia Sabur (born 1989), American materials scientist and world's youngest professor
- Alia Shawkat (born 1989), American actress
- Alia Syed (born 1964), Welsh experimental filmmaker and artist
- Princess Alia Tabba (born 1964), Jordanian princess
Aleah
- Aleah Chapin (born 1986), American painter
- Aleah Stanbridge (1976–2016), South African singer-songwriter, former singer of death/doom metal band Trees of Eternity.
Fictional characters
- Alia Atreides, in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert
- Alia, from the Mega Man X video game series
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