Awad

Awad or Aouad or Awwad (عوض or at times عوّاد) is an Arabic given name and surname. People with the name include:

Given name

 * of the origin عوّاد
 * Awwad Eid Al-Aradi Al-Balawi, former Director General of Saudi Arabian Border Guards, Ministry of Interior, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 * Awad Hamad al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency
 * Awad Khleifat (born 1945), Jordanian politician

Surname

 * of the origin عوض
 * Gamal Awad, Egyptian squash player
 * Jacqueline Cabaj Awad, Swedish tennis player
 * Krayem Awad, Austrian painter, sculptor and poet
 * Mira Awad, Israeli Arab musician
 * Mohammed Awad (politician), Iraqi politician
 * Mubarak Awad, Palestinian-American psychologist
 * Nihad Awad, American activist
 * Ramzi Aouad, Australian murderer
 * Saad Awad, American mixed martial artist
 * Samer Awad, Syrian footballer
 * Sumaya Awad, Palestinian American writer and activist


 * of the origin عوّاد
 * Ahmed El Aouad, French-Moroccan footballer
 * Awwad Alawwad (born 1972), Saudi politician and government minister
 * Juliet Awwad (born 1951), Jordanian actress and director of Armenian descent
 * Mohamed El Amine Aouad, Algerian

Other uses

 * A Word A Day, Anu Garg