Top Celebrity Names Starting With Ahmad

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   Ahmad Rashād

   Age 62 Male
   

   Former American Football Player, Sportcaster

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   Ahmad Rashād is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. An All-American running back and wide receiver from Oregon known as Bobby Moore, Rashad was the fourth overall pick in the 1972 NFL Draft, drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. He was the first skill-position player taken, following three linemen. Rashād was converted back to wide receiver while with the Cardinals, where he played for two seasons.… read more

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   Ahmad Shah Massoud

   1953 - 2001 Male
   

   Afghan Military Leader

   
   

   Ahmad Shah Massoud was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the name "Lion of Panjshir" (شیر پنجشیر). His followers call him Āmir Sāhib-e Shahīd (Our Beloved Martyred Commander).… read more

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   Ahmad Jamal

   Age 81 Male
   

   Pianist, Composer, Musician

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   Ahmad Jamal is an innovative and influential American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. According to Stanley Crouch, Jamal is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Charlie Parker. For five decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. Since the 1980s Jamal has been regularly touring the major clubs of the United States and the large European jazz festivals.… read more

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   Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

   Age 80 Male
   

   Politician, Rival, President

   
   

   Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah served as President of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007. He worked for the United Nations Development Programme and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992. He was elected president in 1996 Sierra Leone presidential election with 59% of the vote defeating his closest rival John Karefa-Smart of the United National People's Party (UNPP) who had 40%.… read more

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   Ahmad Albar

   Age 65 Male
   

   Musician

   
   

   Ahmad Syech Albar is an Indonesian rock star and founding member of God Bless; in the band he is known as Iyek.

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   Ahmad Shah Durrani

   1722 - 1773 Male
   

   Founder of the State of Afghanistan

   
   

   Ahmad Shah Durrani, also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī and born as Ahmad Khān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire (Afghan Empire) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan. Ahmad Khan enlisted as a young soldier in the military of the Afsharid kingdom and quickly rose to become a commander of four thousand Abdali Pashtun soldiers. After the death of Nader Shah Afshar of Persia in June 1747, Abdali became the Emir of Khorasan.… read more

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   Ahmad Jannati

   Age 85 Male
   

   Politician, Ayatollah, Cleric

   
   

   Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati Massah is a hardline Iranian politician, fundamentalist Shi'i cleric and a founding member of Haghani school with close ties with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mesbah-Yazdi. He is the conservative chairman of the Guardian Council, the body in charge of checking legislation approved by Majlis with the Constitution and sharia, and approving the candidates in various elections. He is also a temporary Friday prayer imam of Tehran.… read more

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   Ahmad Said

   Age 55 Male
   

   Politician, Assemblyman

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   Datuk Seri Ahmad Said is the Menteri Besar of the state of Terengganu, Malaysia since 2008. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation which is part of the nation ruling coalition Barisan Nasional. He is currently the state assemblyman of Kijal, Terengganu.… read more

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   Ahmad Zia Massoud

   Age 56 Male
   

   Vice President, Major, Politician

   
   

   Ahmad Zia Massoud was the First Vice President of Afghanistan in the first elected administration of President Hamid Karzai, from December 2004 to November 2009. He is a younger brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the legendary resistance leader against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against the Taliban. In late 2011, Ahmad Zia Massoud united major leaders in the National Front of Afghanistan which strongly opposes a return of the Taliban to power.… read more

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    Ahmad Ismail

    Age 57 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Datuk Ahmad Ismail, is a Malaysian politician and a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), serving as the chief of UMNO's Bukit Bendera division in the state of Penang.

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    Ahmad Zahir

    1946 - 1979 Male
    

    Songwriter, Singer, Composer

    
    

    Ahmad Toryalay Zahir was a singer, songwriter, and composer from Afghanistan. He is widely considered an icon of Afghan music and is sometimes called the "King of Afghan music". His songs are mostly in Persian and based on well-recognized Persian poems, although a few are in Pashto and English. Zahir composed and performed rock and pop music, in a similar style to Elvis Presley. Today, he is regarded as one of the greatest persons in Afghan culture and history.… read more

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    Ahmad al-Tijani

    1737 - 1815 Male
    

    Founder

    
    

    Mawlana Ahmed ibn Mohammed Tijani al-Hassani al-Maghribi, in Arabic سيدي أحمد التجاني (Sidi Ahmed Tijani) is the founder of the Tijaniyya Sūfī order. The al-Tijani was born in Aïn Madhi, Algeria and died in Fez, Morocco at the age of 80.… read more

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    Ahmad Alaadeen

    1934 - 2010 Male
    

    Saxophonist, Musician

    
    

    Ahmad Alaadeen was a jazz saxophonist and educator whose career spanned over six decades. A longtime fixture on the Kansas City jazz scene, Aladeen came to wider prominence in the 1990s with a series of self-released albums featuring his swing- and hard bop-oriented compositions that led Allmusic critic Scott Yanow to declare that the saxophonist "deserves to be much better known."… read more

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    Ahmad Tibi

    Age 53 Male
    

    Politician, Deputy, Speaker

    
    

    Ahmad Tibi is an Arab-Israeli politician and leader of Ta'al, an Arab party in Israel. He currently serves as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. He was elected on a joint ticket with the United Arab List to serve in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. He describes himself as Arab-Palestinian in nationality, and Israeli in citizenship. Tibi is also a trained physician and graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.… read more

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    Ahmad Fathi Sorour

    Age 79 Male
    

    Politician, Speaker, Minister

    
    

    Ahmad Fathi Sorour is an Egyptian politician who was the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt from 1990 until the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Previously he served in the government as Minister of Education from 1986 to 1990. Dr. Sorour was first elected to the People's Assembly in April 1989 was elected Speaker in November 1990.… read more

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    Ahmad Moftizadeh

    1933 - 1993 Male
    

    Politician, Religious, Thinker

    
    

    Ahmad Moftizadeh was an influential political and religious thinker among the Sunni Kurdish minority in Iranian Kurdistan. He is best known for his leading role in negotiating democratic freedoms for the Kurdish people in Iran during the country's Islamic Revolution. Moftizadeh led one of three major Kurdish factions during the Islamic Revolution that were demanding increased rights for Kurds in the new government.… read more

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    Ahmad Kasravi

    1890 - 1946 Male
    

    Linguist, Historian, Writer

    
    

    Ahmad Kasravi, was a notable Iranian linguist, historian, and reformer. Born in Hokmabad, Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He experienced a sort of conversion to Western learning when he learned that the comet of 1910 had been identified as a reappearance of Halley's comet.… read more