Jawad (name)

Jawad, Javadd, or Jaouad (Arabic: جواد‎), also transliterated as Javad, is an Arabic given name meaning a steed, open-handed, merciful, or generous. The name is common in Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Arab countries.

Notable people with the name include:

First name

• Jaouad Achab (born 1992), Belgian taekwondo practitioner
• Jawad born 1970), Pakistani singer and musician
• Jaouad Akaddar (1984–2012), Moroccan footballer
• Jawad Akeel (born 1978), Dutch-Qatari footballer
• Javad Alizadeh (born 1953), Iranian cartoonist
• Javad Allahverdi (born 1954), Iranian footballer
• Jawad Anani (born 1943), Jordanian economist and politician
• Jawad El Andaloussi, Moroccan footballer
• Jawad Al Arrayed (born 1940), Bahraini politician
• Jawad al-Assadi (born 1947), Iraqi theater director and playwright
• Jawad Bashir, Pakistani director, actor, and singer
• Jawad Blunt (born 1995), Pakistani freestyle football champion
• Jawad Botmeh, Palestinian student convicted of the 1994 attack in the London Israeli embassy
• Jawad al-Bulani (born 1960), Iraqi politician and minister
• Jaouad Chiguer (born 1985), French amateur boxer
• Jawad Rumi Daini (born 1948), Iraqi Army general
• Javad Davari (born 1983), Iranian basketball player
• Jawad Dawood (born 1982), Pakistani-Canadian cricketer
• Javad Fakoori (1938–1981), Iranian Air Force officer
• Javad Gharavi Aliari (born 1935), Iranian Grand Ayatollah
• Jaouad Gharib (born 1972), Moroccan runner
• Jawad Ghaziyar, Afghan singer
• Javad Hadian, American entrepreneur
• Jawad El Hajri (born 1979), French footballer
• Jawad Hameed (born 1976), Pakistani cricketer
• Javad Hamidi (born 1918), Iranian painter and poet
• Javad Hashemi (born 1966), Iranian actor and director
• Jawad Hussain (1939–2008), Indian cricketer
• Jawad Kadhim (born 1993), Iraqi footballer
• Javad Kazemian (born 1981), Iranian footballer
• Javad Khan (died 1804), member of the royal Qajar family
• Javad Malik-Yeganov (1878–1942), Azerbaijani politician and Governor-General of Lankaran
• Javad Maroufi (1912–1993), Iranian composer and pianist
• Javad Mojabi (born 1939), Iranian poet and literary critic
• Javad Nekounam (born 1980), Iranian footballer
• Javad Nurbakhsh (1926–2008), Iranian Sufi leader and psychiatrist
• Jawad Ouaddouch (born 1981), Moroccan footballer
• Javad Razavian, Iranian actor
• Javad Razzaghi (born 1982), Iranian footballer
• Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan Al-Sahlani, Iraqi man held at Guantanamo
• Jawad Saleem (1919–1961), Iraqi painter and sculptor
• Jawad Salehi (born 1956), Iranian electrical and computer engineer
• Javad Shamaqdari (born 1960), Iranian filmmaker and politician
• Javad Shirzad (born 1982), Iranian footballer
• Javad Tabatabai (born 1945), Iranian political philosopher and historian
• Jawad Tabrizi (1926–2006), Iranian Ayatollah
• Jawad Williams (born 1983), American basketball player
• Javad Yasari (born 1947), Persian singer
• Jaouad Zairi (born 1982), Moroccan footballer
• Javad Zarincheh (born 1966), Iranian football player and coach

Middle name

• Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933–1981), Iranian theologian and politician
• Mohammad Jawad Balaghi (1865–1933), Iraqi Shia Muslim religious authority
• Mohamad Jawad Chirri (1905–1994), Lebanese founder of the Islamic Center of America
• Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (born 1939), Iraqi journalist and politician
• Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, Lebanese politician and minister of health
• Mohammad-Javad Larijani (born 1951), Iranian politician, hard-line cleric and mathematician
• Zayn Javadd Malik (born 1993), Pakistani-English singer and songwriter
• Syed Jawad Naqvi (born 1952), Pakistani Twelver Shia Muslim cleric
• Hossam Jawad Al-Sabah (born 1948), Lebanese actor
• Ali Jawad al-Sheikh (1997–2011), Bahraini boy killed in the Bahraini uprising
• Ali Jawad Al Taher (c. 1911–1996), Iraqi literary scholar and critic
• Ridha Jawad Taqi, Iraqi politician and member of Parliament
• Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine (1916–2012), Lebanese regional Druze spiritual leader
• Ali Jawad Zaidi (1916–2004), Indian Urdu poet and scholar
• Mohammad Javad Zarif (born 1960), Iranian diplomat, academic, and foreign minister

Last name

• Abdul Sattar Jawad (born 1943), Iraqi-American scholar of Arabic and English literature
• Ahmad Javad (1892–1937), Azerbaijani poet
• Ali Jawad (born 1989), British paralympic powerlifter
• Daniane Jawad (born 1986), Moroccan footballer
• Hussain Jawad (born 1987), Bahraini human rights activist
• Kalbe Jawad, Indian Muslim cleric and scholar
• Kashif Jawad (born 1981), Pakistani field hockey player
• Mazen Abdul-Jawad (born 1977), Saudi Arabian man arrested for talking publicly about sex
• Mohamed Abd Al-Jawad (born 1962), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Mohammed Abdel-Jawad (born 1979), Palestinian footballer
• Mohamed Jawad (born 1985), Pakistani youth accused and held for attempted murder at Guantanamo
• Muhammad al-Jawad, (811–835), ninth of the Twelve Imams
• Said Tayeb Jawad (born 1958), Afghan diplomat
• Saleh Abd al-Jawad (born 1952), Palestinian historian
• Shamim Jawad, Afghan activist
• Shireen Jawad (born 1971), Bangladeshi-English singer
• Sophia Jawad (born 1986), Iraqi actress and model

See also

• Jawad (disambiguation), for non-name uses