Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name محمود (Maḥmūd), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning praise, along with Muhammad.

Given name

Mahmood

• Mahmood Ali (1928–2008), Pakistani radio, television and stage artist
• Mahmood Hussain (cricketer) (1932–1991), Pakistani Test cricketer
• Mahmood Hussain (councillor), former Lord Mayor of Birmingham, England
• Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistani politician who served as the 29th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022.
• Mahmood Shaam (born 1940), Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet writer and analyst.
• Mahmood Yakubu, Nigerian academic and current chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
• Mahmood Mamdani (born 1946), Ugandan academic, author and political commentator
• Mahmood Monshipouri (born 1952), Iranian-born American scholar, educator, and author.
• Mahmood (singer) (born 1992), Italian singer-songwriter and participant in Eurovision Song Contest 2019 and Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
• Mahmood Khan, Australian singer song writer, Billboard Number 1 charting Artist.
• Mahmooda Sultana, Aerospace engineer (NASA)
• Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, Pakistani social worker.
• Mahmood Jaffer, member of the Indian hockey team that won an Olympic gold medal in 1936.
• Mahmood Hussein Mattan, Somalian former merchant seaman
• Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, retired four-star admiral of the Pakistan Navy

Mahmoud

• Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), President of the State of Palestine
• Mahmoud al-Abrash (born 1944), Syrian politician
• Mahmoud Afshartous (1907–1953), Iranian military officer
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born 1956), former President of Iran
• Mahmoud Ahmed (born 1941), Ethiopian musician
• Mahmoud Alavi, Iranian Shia Cleric

• Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, Egyptian businessman
• Mahmoud El-Araby (1932–2021), Egyptian businessman and philanthropist.
• Mahmoud Baharmast (1899–1977), Iranian army general
• Mahmoud Balbaa (born 1952), Egyptian businessman and politician
• Mahmoud Chahoud (born 1976), Lebanese footballer
• Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008), Palestinian poet
• Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, Egyptian businessman
• Mahmoud Dahoud, German professional footballer
• Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (born 1940), Iranian writer and actor
• Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha (1884–1955), Egyptian politician and diplomat
• Mahmoud Fayad (1925–2002), Gold medal winner at the Summer Olympics of 1948 in London.
• Mahmoud Fustuq (died 2006), Lebanese businessman
• Mahmoud Guinia (1951–2015), Moroccan singer
• Mahmoud Hamshari (1938–1973), assassinated Palestinian official
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (1948–2018), Iranian Shia Cleric
• Mahmoud Hussein (born 1966), Egyptian journalist
• Mahmoud Hweimel (died 2013), Jordanian politician
• Mahmoud Ismail (1914–1983), Egyptian actor, filmmaker
• Mahmoud Jaballah, Egyptian-Canadian Jihad member
• Mahmoud El Khatib (born 1954), Egyptian footballer and President of Al Ahly
• Mahmoud Khayami (1930–2020), Iranian industrialist and philanthropist of French nationality.
• Mahmoud Labadi (1940–2014), Palestinian journalist, writer and politician
• Mahmoud Mar'ashi Najafi (born 1941), Iranian Shia Cleric
• Mahmoud Mekki (born 1954), the vice president of Egypt from August 2012 to December 2012
• Mahmoud el-Meliguy (1910–1983), Egyptian actor
• Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, Palestinian terrorist
• Mahmoud Mohieldin (born 1965), economist
• Mahmoud Nabavian, Iranian Shia Cleric
• Mahmoud Namjoo (1918–1989), Iranian weightlifter
• Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha (1888–1949), Prime Minister of Egypt 1945–1946 and 1946–1948
• Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
• Mahmoud Abdul Razak, Syrian footballer
• Mahmoud Salem (1931–2013), Egyptian journalist and author
• Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, Egyptian businessman
• Mahmoud Salavati (born 1953), Iranian Shia Cleric
• Mahmoud el-Sisi (born 1982), Egyptian brigadier general and son of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi
• Mahmoud Taleghani (1911–1979), Iranian Shia Cleric
• Mahmoud Vahidnia (born 1989), gold medal winner at the Iranian Mathematical Olympiad in 2007
• Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi (1839–1904), Egyptian politician and poet

• Mahmoud Zakzouk (1933–2020), Egyptian academic*Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, (born c. 1987), Egyptian photojournalist

Mahmud

• Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1730–1754
• Mahmud II, Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1808–1839
• Ghazan born Mahmud Ghazan, (Khan, Ilkhan, Sultan) the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304
• Sultan Mahmud (Chagatai), was last Khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate (1384–1402).
• Mahmud Khan (Moghul Khan), Khan of Tashkent and of the Moghuls of western Moghulistan
• Arpa Ke'un known as Mu'izz ad-Din Mahmud
• Jani Beg or Jalal ad-Din Mahmud, Khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357
• Mahmud bin Küchük, a Khan who founded the Khanate of Astrakhan in the 1460s
• Maghan III, known as Mahmud I, mansa of the Mali Empire from 1390 to about 1400.
• Mahmud II (mansa), mansa of the Mali Empire of 1481-1496.
• Qutuz or Mahmud ibn Mamdud, military leader and the third or fourth Mamluk Sultan of Turkic origin.
• Mahmud II of Great Seljuk, Sultan of Baghdad in 1118
• Mahmud of Ghazni, ruler of Ghazni 997–1030
• Mahmud Begada, the most prominent Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate.
• Mahmud Hotak, the Shah of Persia from 1722-1725.
• Mahmud Shah Durrani, ruler of Afghanistan 1801–1803 & 1809–1818
• Shahanshah ibn Mahmud, the Kurdish Shaddadid emir of Ani from 1164 to 1174.
• Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī known as Nur ad-Din (died 1174), Emir of Aleppo and Damascus
• Mu'izz al-Din Mahmud, the Zengid Emir of the Jazira 1208–1241.
• Mahmood Shah Bahmani II or Shihab-Ud-Din Mahmud , the sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate from 1482-1518.
• Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, Sultan of Delhi, the eighth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty 1246-1266.
• Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq, the last sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty
• Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud, Sultan of the Ghurid Empire 1206-1212
• Mahmud Shah of Bengal, the First Sultan of Bengal
• Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, the last Sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of the Bengal Sultanate, from 1533-1538 CE.
• Mahmud ibn Muhammad, the seventh leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1814-1824.
• Mahmud Khalji, the Sultan of Malwa, in what is now the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
• Mahmud Khan of Bengal, 17th-century Bengali nobleman.
• Mirza Shah Mahmud, Timurid ruler of Herat 1446.
• Jalal al-Din Mahmud, the Mihrabanid malik of Sistan from 1350.
• Osman Mohamoud (king) known as Uthman III ibn Mahmud, was a Somali king, He led the Majeerteen Sultanate during the 19th century.
• Mahmud Gawan, prime minister in the Bahmani Sultanate of Deccan 1411 – 1481.
• Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi, Persian physician from Shiraz.
• Mahmud Yalavach, administrator in the Mongol Empire who ruled over Turkestan as governor and eventually went on to be mayor of Taidu (now Beijing).
• Chaophraya Chakri (Mud) or Mahmud, the Prime Minister of Siam.
• Muhammad Shah of Brunei known as Mahmud Shah, the Sultanate of Brunei and was its first sultan, possibly from 1363 to 1402.
• Sultan Mahmud Syah, Hero of the Revolution of Independence.
• Mahmud Shah (Sultan of Malacca), Sultan of Malacca 1488–1528
• Mahmud Badaruddin II, Sultan of Palembang.
• Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten born Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir, the first king in Java to use the title " Sultan".
• Mahmud of Terengganu, Sultan Terengganu.
• Mahmud Manoppo (Antogia) Korompot, the 14th king of Kaidipang 1908-1910.
• Mahmud Pasha Angelović, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1456 to 1466 and from 1472 to 1474. He also wrote Persian and Turkish poems under the pseudonym Adni (the "Eden-like").
• Çürüksulu Mahmud Pasha, Ottoman army general and statesman of ethnic Georgian background.
• Mahmud Pasha (governor), was an Ottoman statesman from Bosnia
• Mahmud Shams, known as Ma He, Chinese admiral and world explorer
• Mahmud Shevket Pasha, was an Ottoman generalissimo and statesman, who was an important political figure during the Second Constitutional Era.
• Mahmud al-Kashgari, lexicographer Uyghur scholar.
• Abu-Mahmud Khujandi, Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician.
• Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader.
• Mahmud Karimov, Azerbaijani physicist
• Makhmud Muradov, professional mixed martial artist
• Abdullah Mahmud Hendropriyono, Indonesian general
• Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani fighter pilot
• La Nyalla Mattalitti, full name is La Nyalla Mahmud Mattalitti (born 10 May 1959) is an Indonesian politician.
• Laksamana Mahmud Syah, the father of Hero of the Revolution of Independence (keumalahayati).
• Mahmud Pasha (1853-1903), Ottoman statesman, poet and writer.
• Sultan Mahmud Khan, a commander of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of Sarkar e Khalsa.
• Shah Mahmud Khan, the Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1946 to 1953.
• Mahmud Jamal, Canadian jurist serving as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada since 2021.
• Mahmud Al-Nashaf, Israeli Arab politician
• Mahmud Khalid, Ghanaian politician
• Mahmud Mahmud, Iranian politician
• Mahmud Tarzi, Afghan journalist
• Mahmud Arif, Saudi Arabian poet
• Mahmud Ali Durrani, retired Pakistani two-star rank general officer.
• Mahmud Eyvazov, Azerbaijani long-lived 150 years collective farmer.
• Rafiga Mahmud qizi Shabanova, awarded the Gold Medal of Olympic 1976 Montreal for women's Handball first place.
• Mahmud Kamani, British billionaire businessman.
• Mahmud Deobandi
• Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
• Mahmud Hasan Gangohi
• Mufti Mahmud

Mahmudi/Mahmudin

• Elias Mahmoudi, French Muay Thai fighter currently signed to ONE Championship.
• Nur Mahmudi Ismail, Mayor of Depok City, a satellite city of West Java located in the southern part of Jakarta.
• Mahmuddin Yasin, the first Deputy Minister of BUMN.

Mahmut

• Mahmut Celal Bayar, third President of Turkey.
• Mahmut Dikerdem (1916–1993), Turkish diplomat, writer and peace activist.
• Mahmut Cuhruk, Turkish judge.
• Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, Turkish Sufi Sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah centred in Çarşamba, Istanbul.
• Mahmut Orhan, Turkish disc jockey and record producer.
• Mahmut Atalay, Turkish freestyle wrestler and coach of Circassian origin, won a gold medal in 1968 Olympics.
• Mahmut Özgener, Turkish Football Federation president.
• Mahmut Bezgin, Turkish footballer.
• Mahmut Boz, Turkish footballer.
• Mahmut Hoşgiz, Turkish footballer.
• Mahmut Tekdemir, Turkish footballer.
• Mahmut Özdemir (born 1987), German politician of Turkish descent.
• Mahmut Yilmaz, German footballer of Turkish descent.
• Mahmut Bozteke (born 1997), Turkish para taekwondo practitioner.
• Mahmut Demir, Turkish sport wrestler.
• Mahmut Şenol, Turkish author.
• Mahmut Yavuz, Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner.
• Mahmut Yıldırım, Kurdish contract killer.

Mehmood

• Mehmood (actor), Indian actor, singer, director and producer.
• Mehmood Aslam, Pakistani Television & Stage Actor
• Mehmood Bhatti, Pakistani fashion designer
• Mehmood Quaraishy, Kenyan cricketer
• Mehmood Sham, Pakistani journalist

Mehmud

• Maulana Mehmud Hasan, Indian independence activist
• Mehmud Khurd, Pakistani ruler

Surname

Mahmood

• Khalid Mahmood (British politician), He is the longest serving Asian MP in the current Parliament.
• Shabana Mahmood, British politician.
• Jemilah Mahmood, Doctor and humanitarian activist.
• Mazher Mahmood, British reporter
• Saba Mahmood, American anthropologist
• Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
• Abdullah al Mahmood, Bengali politician, lawyer and former minister in Pakistan
• Iqbal Hasan Mahmud, Bangladeshi politician and minister.
• Ayaz Mahmood, hockey player won a gold medal in 1984 summer olympics, Los Angeles.
• Amra Sultana Mendoza Mahmood, Guinness World Records Title for the “Largest Origami Heart” at year 2022.
• Kashif Mahmood (cricketer, born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
• Shahid Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer
• Zia Mahmood, Pakistani bridge player.
• Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, Pakistani nuclear engineer
• Syed Mahmood, Indian jurist
• Tahir Mahmood, Indian jurist
• Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor
• Banaz Mahmod, Honour killing victim.

Mahmoud

• Ahmad Mahmoud, Iranian novelist
• Alessandro Mahmoud, known as Mahmood (singer), Italian singer and songwriter
• Aram Mahmoud, badminton player
• Emtithal Mahmoud, Sudanese poet and activist
• Joseph Mahmoud, French athlete
• Karem Mahmoud, Egyptian singer
• Mayam Mahmoud, rapper and women activist in Egypt
• Shaaban Mahmoud, Egyptian footballer
• Younis Mahmoud, Iraqi footballer

Mehmood

• Arshad Mehmood (composer), Pakistani actor and music composer
• Kashif Mehmood, Pakistani actor
• Hasnat Mehmood, Pakistani artist
• Arshad Mehmood (singer), Pakistani singer
• Faakhir Mehmood, Pakistani singer
• Arif Mehmood, Pakistani footballer

Mehmud

• Salim Mehmud, Pakistani rocket scientist

Mahmud

• Arslanbek Makhmudov, Russia professional boxer
• Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi general
• Amir Machmud, Indonesian military general
• Machmud Singgirei Rumagesan, Papuan King of Sekar, and Indonesian independence activist
• Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak for 33 years from 1981-2014
• Al Mahmud, was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and short-story writer
• Mahmud Mahmud, Iranian academic and politician
• Hayat Mahmud, Bengali feudal lord and military commander
• Abdul Gafoor Mahmud, former chief of the Bangladesh Air Force
• Heyat Mahmud, medieval Bengali poet
• Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi artist
• Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
• A. T. Mahmud, Indonesian songwriter
• Sultan Mahmud (minister), politician from Arakan, Burma (now Rakhine State, Myanmar)

Mahfud

• Mahfud MD, Indonesian Politician and Lawyer.

Mahfouz

• Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz, Saudi Arabian businessman
• Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Mahfuzur Rahman, Guinness Book of World Records of painting an 18 by 6 feet canvas. and the 'International Artist of the Year 2021 Award' (IAA) from Camelback Gallery in the US.

Fictional characters

• Mahmoud Bishara, fictional character in the book Refugee