Ziyad

Ziyad (زياد; also spelled Ziad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad) is an Arabic given name and surname.

Actors

 * Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television actor and voice actor

Athletes

 * Zeyad Abdulrazak, Kuwaiti hurdler
 * Zeyad Mater, Yemeni judoka
 * Zyad Chaabo, Syrian footballer
 * Ziad Jaziri, Tunisian football striker
 * Ziad Richa, Lebanese skeet shooter
 * Ziad Tlemçani, Tunisian footballer
 * Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender
 * Ziyad al-Kord, Palestinian footballer
 * Ziyad al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer
 * Ziyad al-Johani, Saudi Arabian footballer
 * Zyad Jusić, Dutch football striker

Businessmen

 * Ziad Takieddine Lebanese-French businessman, alleged arms broker
 * Ziad Makkawi, Lebanese American investor
 * Ziyad Cattan, Iraqi Polish businessman, alleged arms dealer
 * Ziad Zanayed investor and financier.

Film directors

 * Ziad Antar, Lebanese filmmaker and photographer
 * Ziad Doueiri, Lebanese film director
 * Ziad Touma, Lebanese Canadian film director

Writers

 * Ziad Majed, Lebanese political researcher
 * Ziyad Marar, Iraqi writer and publisher

Musicians

 * Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator

Poets

 * Ziyād al-Aʿd̲j̲am, poet of the Umayyad period of Persian origin

Politicians

 * Ziad Aboultaif, Canadian politician
 * Ziad Abs, Lebanese politician
 * Ziad Abu Amr Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
 * Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian politician
 * Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, Egyptian politician
 * Ziyad Baroud, Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist
 * Ziad Durrani, Pakistani politician
 * Ziad Makhzoumi, Lebanese British businessman and public speaker
 * Ziyad Sabbagh (born 1960), Syrian politician

Military

 * Ziyad ibn Abihi (622–673), Muslim general and administrator
 * Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Harthi, Abbasid governor of Medina from 750 to 758.
 * Ziad Fahd, Free Syrian Army brigadier general
 * Ziad al-Hariri, Syrian senior officer and defence minister
 * Zijad Subašić, Bosniak military leader in Višegrad during the early stage of the Bosnian War (1992–95)

Other

 * Ziad Abuzayyad, Palestinian lawyer, journalist
 * Ziad Rafiq Beydoun, petroleum geologist and professor
 * Ziad Fazah, Lebanese polyglot
 * Ziad el-Doulatli, Tunisian activist
 * Ziad al-Khasawneh, Jordanian lawyer who headed a team of twenty-two defence lawyers for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
 * Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese terrorist hijacker involved in the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93
 * Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member
 * Zijad Delić, Bosnian Canadian imam, activist, teacher, scholar and public speaker

Surname

 * Howar Ziad, Iraqi politician and ambassador
 * Hussein Ziad, Jordanian footballer
 * Tawfiq Ziad (1929–1994), Palestinian politician well known for his "poetry of protest".