Ghalib (name)

Ghalib (Arabic: غالب ghālib) is an Arabic masculine given name which generally means "to overcome, to defeat", also meaning "successor, victor". It may also be a surname and refer several notable people:

Surname

 * Asadulla Al Galib (born 1998), Bangladeshi cricketer
 * Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic
 * Umar Arteh Ghalib (1930–), Somali politician and former prime minister of Somalia
 * Sharif Ghalib (1961–), current Deputy Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Bern, Switzerland
 * Ghalib (1797–1869) also known as Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan was a famous Urdu poet. His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud-Daula.

Given name

 * Ghālib ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (c.900–981), Andalusi military commander
 * Ghalib Bin Ali (1912–2009), last elected Imam of the Ibadi sect in Oman
 * Ghalib Efendi, former Sharif of Hejaz
 * Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Los Angeles-based novelist
 * Ghaleb Zu'bi (born 1943), Jordanian lawyer and politician

Epithet

 * Al-Ghalib billah also known as Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qadir, was the son of Al-Qadir (r. 991–1031) and elder brother of Al-Qa'im (r. 1031–1075). He was nominated heir in 1001.
 * Al-Ghalib Billah (Arabic: الْغَالِبُ بِالله al-ghālibu billah; "The Victor by the Grace of Allah [God]") or simply Al-Ghalib (Arabic: الْغَالِب al-ghālib), the honorific epithet of founder and Sultan Muhammad I of Granada of the Nasrid Dynasty of Emirate of Granada