Adham

Adham (أدهم) is an Arabic masculine given name meaning "intensity in the blackness," used to describe shiny black stallions. It's also use as a surname and has slavic origins where it translate to "son of the red earth". With time it became the diminutive of Adam and a city was born out of it in the Adam agglomeration in Saudi Arabia. People with the name include:

Given name

 * Adham Ahmedbaev (born 1966), Uzbek politician
 * Adham Al-Akrad (1974–2020), Syrian rebel leader
 * Adham Alnadish (born 1989), Yemeni Engineer
 * Adham Al-Sqour (born 1994), Jordanian gymnast
 * Adham Baba (born 1962), Malaysian politician
 * Adham Barzani (born 1962), Iraqi politician
 * Adham El Idrissi (born 1997), Dutch footballer
 * Adham El Zabedieh, Lebanese rugby league footballer
 * Adham Hatem Elgamal (born 1998), Egyptian badminton player
 * Adham Faramawy, British artist
 * Adham Fawzy (born 2000), Egyptian chess player
 * Adham Hadiya (born 1985), Israeli footballer
 * Adham Hassoun, detainee in United States custody
 * Adham Hemdan (born 1959), Kuwaiti swimmer
 * Adham Khalid (born 2002), Egyptian footballer
 * Adham Khan (1531–1562), general of Akbar
 * Adham Khanjar, Lebanese Shiite rebel
 * Adham Makhadmeh (born 1986), Jordanian football referee
 * Adham Medhat (born 1975), Egyptian sport shooter
 * Adham Nabulsi (born 1993), Jordanian-Palestinian artist, vocalist, producer, composer, and songwriter
 * Adham Ahmed Saleh (born 1993), Egyptian wrestler
 * Adham Shaikh, Canadian composer
 * Adham Sharara (born 1953), Canadian sports official

Surname

 * Abbas Adham (1885–1969), Iranian physician and politician
 * Adel Adham (1928–1996), Egyptian actor
 * Allen Adham, American businessman
 * Heidy Adham (born 2001), Canadian citizen
 * Ibrahim Adham (born 1954), Syrian software developper
 * Ibrahim ibn Adham, Arab Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
 * Ismail Adham (1911–1940), Egyptian writer
 * Kamal Adham (1929–1999), Turkish-born Saudi intelligence chief and businessman
 * Mohamed Ashour El-Adham (born 1985), Egyptian footballer
 * Shiraz Adham (born 1997), French singer-songwriter

Fictional characters

 * Adham Sabri, the main character in Ragol Al Mostaheel series by Nabil Farouk

Other uses

 * Adham Khan's Tomb, Indian monument
 * Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque, the largest mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanina