Nu'man (Arabic: نعمان ) or Nu'maan is an Arabic given name dating to pre-Islamic times, meaning blood or red. Not to be confused with the close proximity of a similar Arabic word meaning happiness. It is also used with the definite article, النعمان, transliterated an-Nu'man or al-Nu'man. It may refer to:
seven of the Ghassanid Kings (327-ca. 600)Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qays (reigned ca. 390–418), king of the LakhmidsAl-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad (reigned 497–503), king of the LakhmidsAl-Nu'man VI ibn al-Mundhir (active 581-583), king of the GhassanidsAl-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (active (582–ca. 602), king of the LakhmidsNouman ibn Muqarrin (died 641), one of the companions of MuhammadNuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zuṭā ibn Marzubān, known as Abū Ḥanīfa (699—767), founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudenceQadi al-Nu'man (died 974), Isma'ili jurist, official historian of the Fatimid caliphsKöprülü Numan Pasha (died 1719), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman EmpireNoman Çelebicihan (1885-1918), Crimean Tatar politicianAhmad Muhammad Numan (1909-1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab RepublicYasin Said Numan, Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986-1990Numan Gumaa (born 1937) Egyptian lawyer and politicianMohamed Noman Galal (born 1943), Egyptian diplomat and authorNuman Kurtulmuş (born 1959), Turkish politicianNoman Mubashir (born 1974), Pakistani-Norwegian journalistNoman Bashir, Pakistani admiralNomanul Haq, Pakistani-American historianMarwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman, Yemeni diplomatNo'man Ashour, Egyptian poet and playwrightNoman Benotman, Libyan politicianNoman Masood, Pakistani television actorNoman Ijaz, Pakistani television and film actorNouman Ali Khan, Pakistani-American Muslim speaker