Salah (Arabic: صَلَاح, Ṣalāḥ, [sˤɑlɑːħ]) is a Biblical and an Arabic given name and family name. Its meaning in the Bible is 'mission', or 'sending', whereas the Arabic meaning is 'righteousness', 'goodness', or 'peace'.[1]
Given name[edit]
- Salah (biblical figure), an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10
- Salah (dancer), full name Salah Benlemqawanssa, a hip-hop dancer
- Salah Aboud Mahmoud, an Iraqi former officer
- Salah Abdel Sabour, an Egyptian poet, editor, playwright and essayist
- Salah Abdel-Shafi, a Palestinian economist and ambassador
- Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi, a Bahraini held in extrajudicial detention in the United States on suspicion of terrorism
- Salah Abu Seif, an Egyptian film director
- Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, a Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat
- Salah Ali Al-Ghali, a governor of South Darfur
- Salah Amin, an Egyptian footballer
- Salah Assad, an Algerian footballer and sports manager
- Salah Bachir, Canadian philanthropist and businessman
- Salah Bakour, an Algerian footballer
- Salah Al Bandar, a British-Sudanese known for role in revealing the Bandargate scandal in Bahrain
- Salah Bouchekriou, an Algerian handball player and coach
- Salah Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist
- Salah Dessouki, an Egyptian Olympic fencer
- Salah Edin, real name Abid Tounssi, a Dutch Moroccan rapper
- Salah Ezzedine, a Lebanese businessman accused of running a pyramid scheme
- Salah Gaham, an Algerian French concierge who died during the 2005 civil unrest in France, see 2005 French riots#Salah Gaham's death
- Salah Goudjil, an Algerian politician, belonging to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front
- Salah Halabi, Egyptian army officer
- Salah Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi poet, actor and playwright
- Salah Hissou, a Moroccan long-distance runner
- Salah Jadid, a Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970
- Salah Jahin, an Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
- Salah Khalaf, (aka Abu Iyad), deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a senior official of Fatah
- Salah Larbès, an Algerian international footballer
- Salah Mansour, an Egyptian film actor
- Salah Mohsen, an Egyptian footballer
- Salah Mejri, a Tunisian basketball player
- Salah Nasr, an Egyptian former head of the country's General Intelligence Directorate
- Salah Omar al-Ali, a former Iraqi politician, minister and ambassador
- Salah Qoqaiche, a retired Moroccan long-distance marathon runner
- Salah Ragab, an Egyptian drummer and jazz musician
- Salah Salem, an Egyptian military officer and politician
- Salah Samadi, an Algerian football player
- Salah Shehade, a Palestinian Hamas movement member
- Salah Sid, an Algerian-born British radio broadcaster, producer and voice-over artist
- Salah Soliman, an Egyptian footballer
- Salah Stétié, a Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language
- Salah Suheimat, a Jordanian politician and Member of the Jordanian Parliament
- Salah Taher, an Egyptian painter
- Salah Tarif, a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli Knesset
- Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, a Saudi Arabian forensics officer
- Salah Zulfikar, an Egyptian actor and movie star
- Sallah, a character from Indiana Jones.
Surname[edit]
- Asher Salah, an Israeli historian, specialist and translator in Italian Hebrew literature
- Hussein Ahmed Salah, a Djibouti long distance runner athlete
- Kamal Salah, birth name of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born Israeli Hebrew author
- Kamal Al Din Salah, an Egyptian diplomat
- Maha Naji Salah, a Yemeni writer and social activist
- Trish Salah, a Lebanese Canadian feminist writer, educator and sociologist
- Raed Salah, a Palestinian leader, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel
- Yiḥyah Salaḥ, known as the Maharitz, an 18th-century Yemenite rabbi, author and scholar
Football[edit]
- Arturo Salah, a Chilean former football player, manager and administrator
- Ibrahim Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Zamalek and Egypt
- Luay Salah, an Iraqi football player, plays for Al-Zawra'a and has played for Iraq
- Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Liverpool and Egypt
- Mohamed Salah (footballer, born 1956), an Egyptian football manager and former footballer
- Yassine Salah, a Moroccan footballer
Other uses[edit]
- Ibn al-Salah, a Shafi'i hadith scholar and author
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