Najm al-Din

Najm al-Din (نجم الدين), also transliterated Najm ad-Din, Najmuddin, etc., is a male given name of Arabic origin, formed from Najm and al-Din, meaning "star of the religion". It may refer to:

People

 * Najm al-Din Ayyub (died 1173), Kurdish soldier, father of Saladin
 * Najm al-Din al-Khabushani (1116–1191), Persian Shafi'i jurist
 * Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221), Persian Sufi philosopher
 * Najm al-Din Razi (1177–1256), Persian Sufi philosopher
 * Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub, or just As-Salih Ayyub (c. 1205–1249), Ayyubid ruler of Egypt
 * Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (died 1276), Persian Islamic philosopher and logician of the Shafi`i school
 * Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi (died 1330), Persian physician
 * Najimuddin Ali Khan (1750–1766), Nawab of Bengal
 * Jumeken Najimedenov (1935–1983), Kazakh composer
 * Najmuddin Shaikh (born 1939), Pakistani diplomat
 * Najmaldin Karim (1949-2020), Governor of Kirkuk Province
 * Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar (born 1956), exiled Kurdish politician
 * Najmadin Shukr Rauf (1957–1985), Kurdish soldier
 * Suzan Najm Aldeen (born 1966), Syrian actress
 * Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr (born 1986), Sudanese athlete
 * Najm Eldin Abdullah (born 1987), Sudanese footballer
 * Najmiddin Jalolov (died 2009?), Uzbek Islamic fighter
 * Najmuddin Khan, Pakistani politician

Places

 * Mazraeh-ye Khodaqoli Najam ol Din, village in Iran