Daud

Daud (Template:Lang-ar) is a male Arabic given name corresponding to David. The Persian form is Davood. Other variant spellings in the Latin alphabet include Da'ud, Daut, Daoud, Dawud, Davud, and Davut.

People with this given name

• Dawood (circa 1043 BC - 937 BC?), Prophet and Messenger of Allah, and was a righteous King of Israel
• Dawud of Kanem
• Dawda Bah
• Daud Bolad
• Daouda Compaoré
• Daoud Hanania
• Dawood Ibrahim
• Daouda Jabi
• Dawda Jawara
• Daud Kamal, 1935–1987, a Professor of English Literature at University of Peshawar, Pakistan
• Dauda Kamara, a Sierra Leonean politician
• Daouda Kamilou, Nigerian footballer
• David XI of Kartli, King of Kartli, aka Daud Khan, died c. 1579
• Mohammed Daoud Khan, 1909–1978, prime minister and later president of Afghanistan
• Nawab Daud Khan, 15th–16th century Mughul commander and later Nawab of the Carnatic region of south India
• Daud Bandagi Kirmani, 16th-century saint
• Dawud M. Mu'Min, a convicted murderer executed by the State of Virginia in 1997
• Daoud Soumain, died 2008, Chief of Army Staff of Chad
• Daud Khan Undiladze, 17th century Iranian military commander and politician
• Daouda Malam Wanké, 1946 or 1954–2004, military and political leader in Niger
• Dawud Wharnsby, born 1972, Canadian singer-songwriter

People with this surname

• J. B. Dauda
• Muhammed Dawood (disambiguation)
• N. J. Dawood
• Parviz Davoodi
• Siraj Mehfuz Daud (1 January 1931 - 10 May 2010) judge in the high court of Bombay, India
• Sulaiman Daud