Salah (name)

Salah (Arabic: صلاح, Ṣalāḥ, ) is a Biblical and an Arabic given name and family name. Its meaning in the Bible is 'mission', or 'sending', whereas the Arabic meaning is 'righteousness', 'goodness', or 'peace'.

Given name

 * Salah (biblical figure), an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10
 * Salah (dancer), full name Salah Benlemqawanssa, a hip-hop dancer
 * Salah Aboud Mahmoud, an Iraqi former officer
 * Salah Abdel Sabour, an Egyptian poet, editor, playwright and essayist
 * Salah Abdel-Shafi, a Palestinian economist and ambassador
 * Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi, a Bahraini held in extrajudicial detention in the United States on suspicion of terrorism
 * Salah Abu Seif, an Egyptian film director
 * Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, a Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat
 * Salah Ali Al-Ghali, a governor of South Darfur
 * Salah Amin, an Egyptian footballer
 * Salah Assad, an Algerian footballer and sports manager
 * Salah Bachir, Canadian philanthropist and businessman
 * Salah Bakour, an Algerian footballer
 * Salah Al Bandar, a British-Sudanese known for role in revealing the Bandargate scandal in Bahrain
 * Salah Bouchekriou, an Algerian handball player and coach
 * Salah Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist
 * Salah Dessouki, an Egyptian Olympic fencer
 * Salah Edin, real name Abid Tounssi, a Dutch Moroccan rapper
 * Salah Ezzedine, a Lebanese businessman accused of running a pyramid scheme
 * Salah Gaham, an Algerian French concierge who died during the 2005 civil unrest in France, see 2005 French riots
 * Salah Goudjil, an Algerian politician, belonging to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front
 * Salah Halabi, Egyptian army officer
 * Salah Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi poet, actor and playwright
 * Salah Hissou, a Moroccan long-distance runner
 * Salah Jadid, a Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970
 * Salah Jahin, an Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
 * Salah Khalaf, (aka Abu Iyad), deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a senior official of Fatah
 * Salah Larbès, an Algerian international footballer
 * Salah Mansour, an Egyptian film actor
 * Salah Mohsen, an Egyptian footballer
 * Salah Mejri, a Tunisian basketball player
 * Salah Nasr, an Egyptian former head of the country's General Intelligence Directorate
 * Salah Omar al-Ali, a former Iraqi politician, minister and ambassador
 * Salah Qoqaiche, a retired Moroccan long-distance marathon runner
 * Salah Ragab, an Egyptian drummer and jazz musician
 * Salah Salem, an Egyptian military officer and politician
 * Salah Samadi, an Algerian football player
 * Salah Shehade, a Palestinian Hamas movement member
 * Salah Sid, an Algerian-born British radio broadcaster, producer and voice-over artist
 * Salah Soliman, an Egyptian footballer
 * Salah Stétié, a Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language
 * Salah Suheimat, a Jordanian politician and Member of the Jordanian Parliament
 * Salah Taher, an Egyptian painter
 * Salah Tarif, a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli Knesset
 * Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, a Saudi Arabian forensics officer
 * Salah Zulfikar, an Egyptian actor and movie star
 * Sallah, a character from Indiana Jones.

Surname

 * Asher Salah, an Israeli historian, specialist and translator in Italian Hebrew literature
 * Hussein Ahmed Salah, a Djibouti long distance runner athlete
 * Kamal Salah, birth name of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born Israeli Hebrew author
 * Kamal Al Din Salah, an Egyptian diplomat
 * Maha Naji Salah, a Yemeni writer and social activist
 * Trish Salah, a Lebanese Canadian feminist writer, educator and sociologist
 * Raed Salah, a Palestinian leader, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel
 * Yiḥyah Salaḥ, known as the Maharitz, an 18th-century Yemenite rabbi, author and scholar

Football

 * Arturo Salah, a Chilean former football player, manager and administrator
 * Ibrahim Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Zamalek and Egypt
 * Luay Salah, an Iraqi football player, plays for Al-Zawra'a and has played for Iraq
 * Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Liverpool and Egypt
 * Mohamed Salah (footballer, born 1956), an Egyptian football manager and former footballer
 * Yassine Salah, a Moroccan footballer

Other uses

 * Ibn al-Salah, a Shafi'i hadith scholar and author