Riaz (name)

Riyaz ansari(رياض) is a Central and South Asian masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin.

Given name

 * Riaz Hassan (1937–2022), Australian academic
 * Riyaz Punjabi (1947–2021), professor and vice chancellor at the University of Kashmir
 * Riaz Ahsan (1951–2008), Pakistani statistician
 * Riyaz Ahmad (1958–2021), Indian politician
 * Riaz Shahid (died 1972), Pakistani filmmaker and journalist
 * Riaz Bagwan (born 1960), Indian cricketer
 * Riaz Poonawala (born 1961), former cricketer
 * Riaz Basra (1967–2002), Pakistani militant
 * Riaz Farcy (born 1967), Hong Kong cricketer
 * Riyaz Khan (born 1960), Indian actor and bodybuilder
 * Riaz (actor) (born 1972), Bangladeshi film actor
 * Riaz Afridi (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
 * Riaz Amin (born 1998), English professional martial artist
 * Riyaz Kharrat, Iranian chemical engineer
 * Reaz Rahman, Bangladeshi former State Minister of Foreign Affairs

Surname

 * Fahmida Riaz (born 1946), Urdu writer
 * Mohammed Riaz (born 1972), Indian field hockey player
 * Hussain Riyaz (born 1974), Maldivian sprinter
 * Wahab Riaz (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
 * Adeeba Riyaz, Kashmiri poet

Arabic-based compound names with Riaz as an element

 * Riaz al-Din, multiple people
 * Riazuddin (1930–2013), Pakistani theoretical physicist
 * Riazuddin (1958–2019), Pakistani cricket umpire
 * Shaikh Riazuddin (born 1971), Indian cricketer
 * Hamza Riazuddin (born 1989), British-Pakistani cricketer
 * Riyaz Uddin, Indian painter
 * Riaz al-Din Ahmad, multiple people
 * Riaz al-Hasan
 * Mirza Riyaz Ul Hassan Effendi (born 1977)
 * Riaz Al Haqq
 * A. F. Mohammad Reazul Huq Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician
 * Reyazul Haque Raju (born 1965), Indian politician
 * Riaz al-Huda
 * Riyazul Huda, Bangladeshi cricketer
 * Riaz al-Mawla
 * Reazul Mowla Rezu (born 1985), Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenplay writer