Salman (name)

Salmaan (also transliterated as Salman or Selman, it comes from the Arabic language and is spelled as:Arabic: سلمان‎) is a male Arabic given name that comes from the root of the Arabic word silm which is also where the word Islam comes from.

Given name

• Salman the Persian, one of Muhammad's companions
• Salman of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia
• Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain
• Salman Abedi,Terrorist responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017
• Salman Ahmad, Pakistani pop artist and member of the band Junoon
• Selman Akbulut, Turkish mathematician
• Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• Salman Al-Farij, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Salman Irshad, Pakistani cricketer
• Salman Khan, educator
• Salman Khan, Indian film actor
• Salman Khurshid, Indian politician
• Salmaan King, South African footballer
• Salman Raduyev, Chechen separatist warlord
• Selman Reis, Ottoman admiral
• Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist
• Salman bin Sultan Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician
• Salman Shahid, Pakistani actor
• Selman Stërmasi, Albanian footballer
• Salmaan Taseer (1944–2011), Pakistani businessman and politician
• Salman Yusuff Khan, Indian dancer and actor

Surname

• Ali Salman, Bahraini Personality
• Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University
• David Salman (1936–2010), a New Mexico, USA, state representative known for sponsoring the first bill for use of medical marijuana in the state
• Dulquer Salmaan (1984- ), Indian Malayalam film actor and playback singer active from 2012
• Hussain Salman, Bahraini footballer
• İlyas Salman, Turkish actor, film director, author, screenwriter and musician
• John Selman (disambiguation)
• Saad Salman, Iraqi-French film director
• Sam Selman, American baseball player
• Ilya Salmanzadeh, Swedish-Iranian music producer
• Marcus Sahlman, Swedish footballer
• Peyman Salmani, Iranian footballer

See also

• Arabic name
• Solomon
• Zalman
• All pages beginning with Salman