Saleh or Saaleh (Arabic: صَالَح ) [ Arabic form of the Hebrew Shelah, Selah or Methuselah ( Hebrew: שֶׁלַח ) ^[1]] is a semitic masculine name derivative from the Arabic language which means "righteous" or "pious".^[2]

Given name

Sauleh

• Saleh, Islamic Prophet
• Saleh al-Arouri (1966–2024), senior leader of Hamas
• Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (born 1986), Kuwaiti long jumper
• Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, Iraqi musician
• Saleh al-Mutlaq, Iraqi politician
• Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, Saudi Arabian businessman

Salih

• Salih ibn Ali (711–769 CE), the Abbasid general and governor in Syria and Egypt
• Salih ibn Harun al-Rashid, the son of Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid
• Salih, 14th century leader of Adal
• Salih Ashmawi (1910–1983), Egyptian politician
• Salih Bozok (1881–1941), Turkish military officer
• Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer
• Salih Güney, Turkish film actor
• Salih Hudayar, Uyghur prime-minister of government
• Salih Muslim Muhammad, Rojava politician
• Salih Neftçi, Turkish financial economist
• Salih Omurtak, Turkish general
• Salih Özcan, Turkish footballer
• Salih Pasha (disambiguation), various Ottoman people
• Salih Sadir, Iraqi footballer
• Salih Uçan, Turkish footballer

Surname

Saleh / Sauleh

• Abdul Azis Saleh
• Abdul Rahman Saleh, Indonesian aviator and physician
• Adam Saleh, American YouTube personality
• Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni military commander
• Ali Abdullah Saleh, former President of Yemen
• Allah-Yar Saleh, Iranian politician
• Amrullah Saleh, former vice president and 16th de jure president of Afghanistan
• Anas Khalid Al Saleh (born 1972), Kuwaiti politician
• Farhan Saleh, Lebanese writer and militant
• Hashim Saleh, Omani footballer
• Jahanshah Saleh, Iranian physician
• Nimr Saleh (1929–1991), Palestinian leftist figure
• Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter
• Robert Saleh, American, NFL football coach
• Sania Saleh (1935–1985), Syrian poet

Salih

• Barham Salih (born 1960), Iraqi Kurdish politician and president of Iraq (2018–2022)
• Tayeb Salih, Sudanese author

Fictional characters

• Saleh, powerful and wise mage from Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
• Salih Koçovalı, alternate name for Vartolu Sadettin in the Turkish television program Çukur
• Saleh, major antagonist in Tales of Rebirth
• Salleh, a minor character in the Malasyan cartoon Upin & Ipin
• Fatima Saleh, suspect in Criminal Minds