Salman (name)

Salmaan (Arabic: سلمان‎, also transliterated as Salman or Selman) is a male Arabic given name that comes from the triconsonant root S-L-M, which is also the source of many other words such as Salaam and Islam.^{[citation needed]}

Given name[]

• Salman the Persian, one of Muhammad's companions
• Salman of Saudi Arabia, King of Saudi Arabia
• Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain
• Salman Abedi, terrorist responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017
• Salman Ahmad, Pakistani pop artist and member of the band Junoon
• Selman Akbulut, Turkish mathematician
• Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• Salman Al-Farij, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Salman Irshad, Pakistani cricketer
• Salman Khan, Indian Politician
• Salman Khan, educator
• Salman Khan, Indian film actor
• Salman Khurshid, Indian politician
• Salmaan King, South African footballer
• Salman Mazahiri (1946–2020), Indian Muslim scholar
• Salman Raduyev, Chechen separatist warlord
• Selman Reis, Ottoman admiral
• Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist
• Salman bin Sultan Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician
• Salman Shahid, Pakistani actor
• Selman Stërmasi, Albanian footballer
• Salmaan Taseer (1944–2011), Pakistani businessman and politician
• Salman Yusuff Khan, Indian dancer and actor

Surname[]

• Ali Salman, Bahraini Twelver Shi'a cleric and Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq political society
• Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell University
• David Salman (1936–2010), American legislator known for sponsoring the first bill for use of medical marijuana in New Mexico
• Dulquer Salmaan (born 1986), Indian Malayalam film actor and playback singer active from 2012
• Hussain Salman, Bahraini footballer
• İlyas Salman, Turkish actor, film director, author, screenwriter and musician
• John Selman (disambiguation)
• Karim Salman (1965–2020), Iraqi footballer
• Saad Salman, Iraqi-French film director
• Marcus Sahlman, Swedish footballer
• Peyman Salmani, Iranian footballer

See also[]

• Arabic name
• Solomon
• Salomon
• Zalman
• All pages with titles containing Salman

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