Jawad (name)
Jawad is an Arabic given name that means generous, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, and open-handed. The name is common in the Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East and South Asia.First name
- Jaouad Achab, Belgian taekwondo practitioner
- Jawad, Pakistani singer and musician
- Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer
- Jawad Akeel, Dutch-Qatari footballer
- Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist
- Javad Allahverdi, Iranian footballer
- Jawad Anani, Jordanian economist and politician
- Jawad El Andaloussi, Moroccan footballer
- Jawad Al Arrayed, Bahraini politician
- Jawad al-Assadi, Iraqi theatre director and playwright
- Jawad Bashir, Pakistani director, actor, and singer
- Jawad Blunt, Pakistani freestyle football champion
- Jawad Botmeh, Palestinian student convicted of the 1994 attack in the London Israeli embassy
- Jawad al-Bulani, Iraqi politician and minister
- Jaouad Chiguer, French amateur boxer
- Cevat Cobanli, Turkish commander and politician
- Jawad Rumi Daini, Iraqi Army general
- Javad Davari, Iranian basketball player
- Jawad Dawood, Pakistani-Canadian cricketer
- Javad Fakoori, Iranian Air Force officer
- Javad Gharavi Aliari, Iranian Grand Ayatollah
- Jaouad Gharib, Moroccan runner
- Jawad Ghaziyar, Afghan singer
- Cevat Güler, Turkish footballer and coach
- Cevat Abbas Gurer, Turkish officer and politician
- Jawad El Hajri, French footballer
- Javad Hakimli, Soviet Azerbaijani Partisan during WWII
- Jawad Hameed, Pakistani cricketer
- Javad Hamidi, Iranian painter and poet
- Javad Hashemi, Iranian actor and director
- Javad Heyat, Iranian Azerbaijani surgeon and Writer
- Jawad Hussain, Indian cricketer
- Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, Turkish writer
- Jawad Kadhim, Iraqi footballer
- Dževad Karahasan, Bosnian writer and philosopher
- Javad Kazemian, Iranian footballer
- Xhevat Kelmendi, Kosovar singer
- Javad Khan, member of the royal Qajar family
- Cevat Kula, Turkish equestrian
- Javad Malik-Yeganov, Azerbaijani politician and Governor-General of Lankaran
- Javad Maroufi, Iranian composer and pianist
- Javad Mojabi, Iranian poet and literary critic
- Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
- Javad Nurbakhsh, Iranian Sufi leader and psychiatrist
- Jawad Ouaddouch, Moroccan footballer
- Dževad Prekazi, Yugoslav Kosovar footballer
- Dževad Poturak, Bosnian super heavyweight kickboxer
- Javad Razavian, Iranian actor
- Javad Razzaghi, Iranian footballer
- Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan Al-Sahlani, Iraqi man held at Guantanamo
- Jawad Saleem, Iraqi painter and sculptor
- Jawad Salehi, Iranian electrical and computer engineer
- Dževad Šećerbegović, Yugoslav Bosnian footballer
- Cevat Seyit, Turkish footballer
- Javad Shamaqdari, Iranian filmmaker and politician
- Javad Khan Shiravanski, Major General of the Russian Imperial Army and Azerbaijani Noble
- Javad Shirzad, Iranian footballer
- Javad Tabatabai, Iranian political philosopher and historian
- Jawad Tabrizi, Iranian Ayatollah
- Dževad Turković, Yugoslav and Croatian footballer
- Jawad Williams, American basketball player
- Javad Yasari, Persian singer
- Cevat Yerli, Turkish and German computer game developer
- Jaouad Zairi, Moroccan footballer
- Javad Zarincheh, Iranian football player and coach
Middle name
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Iranian theologian and politician
- Mohammad Jawad Balaghi, Iraqi Shia Muslim religious authority
- Migjen Xhevat Basha, Kosovar Albanian footballer
- Mohamad Jawad Chirri, Lebanese founder of the Islamic Center of America
- Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi, Iraqi journalist and politician
- Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, Lebanese politician and minister of health
- Mohammad-Javad Larijani, Iranian politician, hard-line cleric and mathematician
- Zayn Javadd Malik, Pakistani-English singer and songwriter
- Syed Jawad Naqvi, Pakistani Twelver Shia Muslim cleric
- Hossam Jawad Al-Sabah, Lebanese actor
- Ali Jawad al-Sheikh, Bahraini boy killed in the Bahraini Uprising
- Ali Jawad Al Taher, Iraqi literary scholar and critic
- Ridha Jawad Taqi, Iraqi politician and Member of Parliament
- Leman Cevat Tomsu, Turkish architect and academic
- Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, Lebanese regional Druze spiritual leader
- Ali Jawad Zaidi, Indian Urdu poet and scholar
- Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian diplomat, academic, and foreign minister
Last name
- Abdul Sattar Jawad, Iraqi-American scholar of Arabic and English literature
- Ahmad Javad, Azerbaijani poet
- Ali Jawad, British paralympic powerlifter
- Daniane Jawad, Moroccan footballer
- Hussain Jawad, Bahraini human rights activist
- Kalbe Jawad, Indian Muslim cleric and scholar
- Kashif Jawad, Pakistani field hockey player
- Mazen Abdul-Jawad, Saudi Arabian man arrested for talking publicly about sex
- Mohamed Abd Al-Jawad, Saudi Arabian footballer
- Mohammed Abdel-Jawad, Palestinian footballer
- Mohamed Jawad, Pakistani youth accused and held for attempted murder at Guantanamo
- Muhammad al-Jawad,, ninth of the Twelve Imams
- Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghan diplomat
- Saleh Abd al-Jawad, Palestinian historian
- Shamim Jawad, Afghan activist
- Shireen Jawad, Bangladeshi-English singer
- Sophia Jawad, Iraqi actress and model
