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

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Notable people with the name include:

First name

  • Jaouad Achab (born 1992), Belgian taekwondo practitioner
  • Jawad Ahmad (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
  • Jawad, a character in the video game Need for Speed: Nitro
  • 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
  • References

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