Shams al-Din

Shams al-Din (IPA: /ʃamsaddiːn/) (شمس الدين, lit. "sun of the faith" ) is an Arabic personal name or title.

Notable persons with this name are:

10th–13th century

 * Shams al-Din Altınapa, Seljuk atabeg
 * Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi (c. 945–1000), Arab geographer
 * Shams al-Din Ibn Fallus (1194-1240), Arab Egyptian mathematician
 * Shams al-Din Muhammad bin Ali, or Suzani Samarqandi (died 1166), Persian poet
 * Shams al-Din Ildeniz (died c. 1175), atabeg of Azerbaijan
 * Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muqaddam (fl. 12th century), Zengid governor of Damascus and Ayyubid emir of Baalbek
 * Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (died 1236), Muslim Turkic sultan of Delhi
 * Shamsuddin Sabzwari (died 1247), Sufi missionary in southern Punjab
 * Shams al-Din Muhammad, or Shams Tabrizi (died 1248), Persian Sufi mystic
 * Shams al-Din Lu'lu' al-Amini (died 1251), regent of Aleppo
 * Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Mas'ud (died 1255), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
 * Ajall Shams al-Din Omar (1211–1279), provincial governor of Yunnan
 * Shams al-Dīn Abū Al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khallikān (1211–1282), Iraqi Shafi'i Islamic scholar
 * Shams al-Din Juvayni (died 1285) vizier and sahib-divan under three Mongol Ilkhans
 * Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shahrazuri (died c. 1290), Kurdish physician and historian

14th–17th century

 * Shams al-Din Muhammad (1257–1310), imam of the Nizari Isma'ili community
 * Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (c. 1250 – c. 1310), astronomer and mathematician from Samarkand
 * Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (died 1322), sultan of the Bengali kingdom of Lakhnauti
 * Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Arab geographer
 * Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir (died 1342), ruler of Kashmir
 * Ali Shams al-Din I (died 1348), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
 * Shams al-Din ibn Fazl Allah (died c. 1348), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
 * Khwaja Shams al-Din 'Ali (died c. 1352), leader of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar
 * Shams ud din, or Shams Tabraiz (missionary) (died 1356), Ismaili saint in India
 * Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah (died 1358), sultan of Bengal
 * Shams al-Din Ibn Muflih (died 1361), authority on Hanbali Law
 * Shams ud-Din Amir Kulal (died 1370), tribal head, scholar and religious figure in Turkistan
 * Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili (1320–1380), Syrian astronomer
 * Shams al-Din al-Kirmani (died c. 1385), Sunni scholar
 * Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (1315–1390), Persian lyric poet
 * Ali Shams al-Din II (died 1428), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
 * Shams al-Din al-Fanari (1350–1431), Turkish logician, Islamic theologian, and Islamic legal academic
 * Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (died 1435), ruler of Bengal
 * Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Qutb al-Din (c. 1387 – c. 1438), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
 * Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah (died 1481), ruler of Bengal
 * Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah III (died 1482), sultan of Bahmani
 * Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad (died 1487), sultan of Adal
 * Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah (died 1494), Abyssinian sultan of Bengal
 * Shams al-Din Muhammad (died c. 1494), Mihrabanid malik of Sistan
 * Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi (1428–1497), Egyptian Islamic scholar
 * Mir Shams-ud-Din Araqi (died 1526), Sufi Shi'a missionary in Kashmir
 * Ali Shams al-Din III (died 1527), leader of the Tayyibi Isma'ili community
 * Shamsuddin Muhammad Khan Sur Shah Ghazi (died 1555), Sultan of Bengal
 * Shamsuddin Muhammad Ataga Khan (died 1562), minister in Mughal court
 * Shams al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1596), Egyptian Shafi'i scholar
 * Khawaja Shamsuddin Khawafi (died 1600), minister to Emperor Akbar

18th century–present

 * Shamseddin Amir-Alaei (1900–1994), Iranian politician and diplomat
 * Muhammad Shamsuddeen III (1879–1935), Sultan of the Maldives
 * Şemsettin Günaltay (1883–1961) prime minister of Turkey
 * Şemsettin Mardin, Turkish diplomat
 * Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (1897–1978), Bangladeshi journalist and politician
 * Abu Jafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989), Bangladeshi author and novelist
 * Shamsuddin Ahmed (1920–1971), Bangladeshi surgeon
 * Khwaja Shams-ud-Din (1922–1999), Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
 * Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997), Bangladeshi author and novelist
 * Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935–1996), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
 * Nasri Shamseddine (1927–1983), Lebanese singer and actor
 * A. T. M. Shamsuddin (born 1927), Bangladeshi author
 * Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi (born 1927), patriarch of the Sufi Order of Azeemia
 * Mohammad Mehdi Shamseddine (1936–2001), Lebanese Twelver Shia Islamic scholar
 * Shamsodin Vaezi (born 1936), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja
 * Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin (born 1938), Malaysian politician
 * Samsuddin Ahmed (1945–2020), Bangladeshi politician
 * Shamsuddeen Usman (born 1949), Nigerian politician
 * Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960), Bosnian writer
 * Chettithody Shamshuddin (born 1970), Indian cricket umpire
 * Mohammad Shamsuddin (born 1983), Bangladeshi sprinter
 * Shamsuddin Amiri (born 1985), Afghan footballer
 * Şemseddin Sami Efendi, pen-name of Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer, philosopher and playwright
 * Ashari Samsudin (born 1985), Malaysian footballer
 * Shamsuddin Ahmed (died 2020), Bangladeshi engineer and former MP
 * AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, Bangladeshi Supreme Court judge
 * Shamsuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician