Badawi

In Arabic onomastics ("nisbah"), Al-Badawi denotes a relationship to or from Bedouin areas (consequently "badawi" may sometimes imply rustic). It is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name:
 * Ahmad al-Badawi, a saint in Islam
 * Al-Baydawi, philosopher and mufassir
 * Jamal al-Bedawi, also written Jamal al-Badawi, a contemporary Yemeni accused and convicted of planning the USS Cole Bombing
 * Jamal Badawi, Egyptian-born Canadian professor and author
 * Abdel Hamid Badawi, Egyptian jurist and Foreign Minister
 * Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's fifth prime minister
 * Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher
 * El-Sayyid el-Badawi, Egyptian businessman and the President of Al-Wafd Party
 * Helmy Bahgat Badawi, first chairman of the Suez Canal Authority
 * Mohamed Badawi, Sudanese linguist and publisher, singer and composer
 * Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist, and writer
 * Nadia Badawi, Egyptian-born Australian medical researcher, specialising in cerebral palsy
 * Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabian blogger and prisoner of conscience
 * Samar Badawi, Saudi Arabian human rights activist
 * Zaki Badawi, Muslim scholar
 * Zeinab Badawi, British newsreader and broadcaster
 * Badawi al-Jabal, a Syrian poet

Other:
 * Stage name of Israeli composer Raz Mesinai