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Pronunciation
  
Arabic: [marwaːn]

Language(s)
  
Arabic

Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
Solid stone from marou used to make fire in ancient times.

Marwan (also spelled Maruan, Marouane, Merouane, Mervan, or Merwan, Arabic: مروان‎‎) is an Arabic male name. Notable persons with that name include:

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Persons with the given name

Marwan
  • Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, King of Morocco (1576-1578)
  • Marwan, alias of Zulkifli Abdhir, bomb maker and terrorist killed in 2015 in the Philippines
  • Marwan I, Umayyad caliph (623-685)
  • Marwan II, Umayyad caliph (688-750)
  • Marwan (rapper), Danish-Palestinian rapper Mohamed Marwan
  • Marwan Ali, Tunisian pop singer
  • Marwan Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian group Fatah
  • Marwan Charbel, Lebanese general and politician
  • Marwan Dudin (1936–2016), Jordanian politician
  • Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese politician
  • Marwan Hamed, Egyptian film director
  • Marwan Khoury, Lebanese artist
  • Marwan al-Muasher, Jordanian politician
  • Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati hijacker-pilot who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the second World Trade Center tower
    • Marouane
  • Marouane Chamakh, a Moroccan-French footballer
  • Marouane Fellaini, a Belgian footballer
    • Merouane
  • Merouane Abdouni, Algerian footballer
  • Merouane Anane, Algerian footballer
  • Merouane Kial, Algerian footballer
  • Merouane Zemmama, Moroccan footballer
    • Mervan
  • Mervan Çelik, Swedish footballer of Kurdish descent
    • Merwan
  • Merwan Rim, French actor and singer-songwriter

    • Persons with the surname

  • Ashraf Marwan, Egyptian businessman
  • Asma bint Marwan, a medieval Arabian female poet (7th century)
  • Ibn Marwan, chieftain in the Al-Andalus (9th century)
  • Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, general in the Al-Andalus (8th/9th century)

    • Fictional characters

  • Habib Marwan, character in the TV drama 24

    • References

    Marwan Wikipedia
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