Marwan
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Marwan is an Arabic male name. It may refer to:
Given name
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I SaadiAbu Marwan Abd al-Malik I SaadiAbu Marwan Abd al-Malik I , often simply Abd al-Malik or Mulay Abdelmalek, was the Saadi Sultan of Morocco from 1576 until his death right after the Battle of Ksar El Kebir against Portugal in 1578.-Saadi Prince:...
, King of Morocco (1576-1578) - Marwan IMarwan IMarwan ibn al-Hakam was the fourth Umayyad Caliph, who took over the dynasty after Muawiya II abdicated in 684. Marwan's ascension pointed to a shift in the lineage of the Umayyad dynasty from descendants of Abu Sufyan to those of Hakam, both of whom were grandsons of Umayya...
, Umayyad caliph (623-685) - Marwan IIMarwan IIMarwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan or Marwan II was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 744 until 750 when he was killed. He was the last Umayyad ruler to rule from Damascus.In A.H. 114 Caliph Hisham appointed Marwan governor of Armenia and Azerbaijan. In A.H...
, Umayyad caliph (688-750) - Marwan (rapper)Marwan (rapper)Mohamed Marwan better known as just Marwan is a Danish-Palestinian rapper. Formerly known as SLP , he also belongs to the Aarhus crew Pimp-A-Lot....
, Danish-Palestinian rapper Mohamed Marwan - Merouane AbdouniMerouane AbdouniMerouane Abdouni is an footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for USM Blida in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2.-Biography:...
, Algerian footballer - Marwan AliMarwan AliMarwan Ali is a Tunisian pop singer, the winner of the Arab Super Star show, a version of the British show Pop Idol.SuperStar is broadcast on Future TV, a Lebanese television station and is the first Idol franchise to feature contestants from multiple countries.Marwan, an 18-year-old student, won...
, Tunisian pop singer - Merouane AnaneMerouane AnaneMerouane Anane is an Algerian footballer. He currently plays for CR Belouizdad in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.-Club career:...
, Algerian footballer - Marwan BarghoutiMarwan BarghoutiMarwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti is a Palestinian political figure. He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second Intifadas. Barghouti at one time supported the peace process, but later became disillusioned, and after 2000 went on to become the main figure behind the Al-Aqsa Intifada in the...
, leader of the Palestinian group Fatah - Mervan CelikMervan CelikMervan Celik is a professional footballer who plays for GAIS as a winger.-Club career:Born in Gothenburg, he played for IF Warta and BK Häcken at youth level before joining GAIS in 2007. "I started as a striker but now I play as an inner midfielder and winger...
, Swedish footballer of Turkish descent - Marouane ChamakhMarouane ChamakhMarouane Chamakh is a French-Moroccan footballer who plays for English club Arsenal in the Premier League and the Moroccan national team as a striker. He is described as a prototypical target man and is noted for his "tall stature" and "excellent heading ability".Chamakh started his career...
, a Moroccan-French footballer - Marouane FellainiMarouane FellainiMarouane Fellaini-Bakkioui is a Belgian footballer who plays for Everton and the Belgium national football team. Fellaini is of Moroccan descent.-Early career:...
, a Belgian footballer - Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese politician
- Marwan HamedMarwan HamedMarwan Hamed is a young Egyptian film director who is the son of author Wahid Hamed and journalist Zeinab Sweidan. His debut was a short film entitled Li Li followed by a major feature film entitled The Yacoubian Building based on a novel by Alaa Al Aswany and starring Adel Imam.He has taken part...
, Egyptian film director - Merouane KialMerouane KialMerouane Kial is an Algerian football player. He currently plays for MC Saïda in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.-Club career:...
, Algerian footballer - Marwan KhouryMarwan KhouryMarwan Khoury is a Lebanese singer, writer, composer and music arranger. His compositions are performed by some of the most famous artists in the Arab World and adapted by many other countries including Turkey...
, Lebanese artist - Marwan al-MuasherMarwan al-MuasherMarwan al-Muasher is a Jordanian diplomat and politician.-Career:After serving as the first Jordanian Ambassador to the State of Israel after the 1994 Peace Treaty, and also as Ambassador to the United States, he had been the foreign minister from January 2002 until October 2004, when he gained...
, Jordanian politician - Merwan RimMerwan RimMourad Merwan Rim , best known as Merwan Rim, is a French actor and singer-songwriter.-Biography:At the age of 17, Merwan Rim started to learn and instruments as an autodidact. Realizing his gift in musical arts, Merwan decided to become a full time musician...
, French actor and singer-songwriter - Marwan al-ShehhiMarwan al-ShehhiMarwan Yousef Mohamed Rashid Lekrab al-Shehhi was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks....
, Emirati hijacker-pilot who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the second World Trade Center tower - Merouane ZemmamaMerouane ZemmamaMerouane Zemmama is a Moroccan football player who currently plays for English Championship club Middlesbrough. Zemmama represented Morocco at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was first capped at full international level in 2008....
, Moroccan footballer
Surname
- Ashraf MarwanAshraf MarwanAshraf Marwan was an Egyptian billionaire and an alleged spy for Israel, or possibly an Egyptian double agent. He was married to Mona Gamal Abdel Nasser, the daughter of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser....
, Egyptian businessman - Asma bint MarwanAsma bint MarwanʻAṣmāʼ bint Marwān was a female member of the Ummayad clan who lived in Medina in 7th century Arabia.The story of her death by command of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, after she bitterly opposed him with poetry and provoked other pagans to commit violence against him, can be found in the sīra...
, a medieval Arabian female poet (7th century) - Ibn MarwanIbn MarwanIbn Marwân , was a Muladi Sufi whose family had come from northern Portugal and settled near Mérida....
, chieftain in the Al-Andalus (9th century) - Ubayd Allah Abu MarwanUbayd Allah Abu MarwanUbayd Allah , known as Abu Marwan , was a general in the service of Emir Abd ar-Rahman II of Córdoba. He was an uncle of the Emir Al-Hakam I....
, general in the Al-Andalus (8th/9th century)
Fictional characters
- Habib Marwan, character in the TV drama 24