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Jamal

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Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
Beauty

Word/name
  
Arabic

Region of origin
  
Arab World

Pronunciation
  
Central Arabia: [dʒæˈmæːl] Levant: [ʒaˈmaːl] Tunisia: [ʒæˈmɛːl] Egypt: [ɡæˈmæːl] English /dʒəˈmɑːl/

Related names
  
Cemal, Cemil, Jamil; Jamila (feminine)

Jamal (Arabic: جمال‎‎ Jamāl/Ǧamāl ) is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning beauty. The use of this name is widespread across the Muslim world.

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In Egypt the name is pronounced [ɡæˈmæːl] and so is normally spelled Gamal . Tunisians may spell it Jamel. In Turkish, the name is transliterated as Cemal, Albanian as Xhemal and in Bosnian as Džemal.

Notable people with this given name

  • Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), Egyptian president
  • Djamel Abdoun
  • Jamal Abro (2 May 1924 – 30 June 2004) Pakistani Sindhi Writer
  • Djamal Amrani
  • Jamal Anderson (born 1972), American football player
  • Džemal Bijedić (1917–1977), Bosnian Communist politician
  • Jamal Dajani (born 1957), Palestinian-American journalist, producer, and writer
  • Jamal Crawford (born 1980), American basketball player
  • Jamaal Charles (born 1986), American football player
  • Jamal Fyfield (born 1989), English footballer
  • Jamal Hamdan (born 1958), Lebanese actor and voice actor
  • Jamal Idris (born 1990), Australian professional Rugby League player
  • Jamal Khwaja (born 1926), Indian philosopher
  • Jamal Lewis (born 1979), American football player
  • Djamal Mahamat
  • Jamal Mashburn (born 1972), American basketball player
  • Jamal Mayers (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Djamal Mohamed
  • Jamal Mohamed (born 1984), Kenyan footballer
  • Gamal Mubarak (born 1963), son of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
  • Jamal Mustafa, American wrestler (better known by the ring name Mustafa Saed)
  • Jamal Nebez (born 1933), Kurdish linguist and mathematician.
  • Jamal Phillips (born 1979), American rapper and member of Illegal and Def Squad
  • Jamal Woolard (born 1975), American entertainer
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner (born 1970), American television actor, film director, and musician
  • Jamal, stage name of Eddie Fatu or Umaga (wrestler) (1973–2009), Samoan wrestler
  • Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (1929–2008), Pakistani journalist

    • Notable people with this surname

  • Ahmad Jamal (born 1930), American jazz pianist and composer
  • Amir H. Jamal, former Tanzanian Minister of Finance
  • Ammar Jemal (born 1987), Tunisian footballer
  • Maher Jamal, Syrian politician
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook, 1954), American convict
  • Sharif El-Gamal (born 1973), New York City real estate developer
  • Taher Elgamal (born 1955), Egyptian cryptographer

    • Fictional characters

  • Jamal Lyon, one of the main protagonists of the Fox show Empire
  • Jamal Malik, protagonist in the film Slumdog Millionaire
  • Jamal Grant, main character in the NBC show City Guys
  • Jamal Al-Fayeed, main antagonist of the FX show Tyrant
  • Jamal Wallace, main character for the film Finding Forrester

    • Music

  • Jamal (band), Polish hip hop, ragamaffin, reggae and dancehall band

    • References

    Jamal Wikipedia
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