Ibrahim (name)

Ibrahim

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ibraːˈhiːm], Turkish: [ibɾɑˈhim]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Father of Nations and Friend of God
Other names
Alternative spelling	Ebrahim

Ibrahim (Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham. It is a common first name throughout the Muslim world.

Given name

• Ibrahim I (1615–1648), Ottoman sultan
• Ibrahim I of Shirvan, a ruler of Shirvan from the Derbendid dynasty 1382-1417
• Ibrahim Abatcha (1938–1968), Chadian politician
• Ibrahim Abouleish (born 1937), Egyptian scientist
• Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929–2001), Palestinian academic
• Ibrahim Afellay (born 1986), Dutch footballer
• Ebrahim Afshar (died 1748), king of Iran, July - September, 1748
• Brahim Ahmad (1914–2000), Kurdish politician
• Brahim Akın (born 1984), Turkish footballer
• Ebrahim Alkazi (born 1925), Indian theatre director and drama teacher
• Brahim Arat (born 1988), Turkish weightlifter
• Brahim Aydemir (born 1983), Turkish footballer
• Brahim Aydın also known as Cihangirzade İbrahim Bey (1874-1948), Turkish military officer and statesman
• Brahim Ba (born 1973), Senegalese-French footballer
• Brahim Bey (1735–1817), Egyptian Mamluk chieftain of Georgian origin
• Brahim Bilali (born 1965), Kenyan boxer
• Brahim Bölükbaşı (born 1990), Turkish wrestler
• Brahim Ismail Chundrigar (1897–1960), Pakistani politician
• Brahim Fazeel (born 1980), Maldivian footballer
• Ibrahim Ferrer (1927–2005), Afro-Cuban singer
• Ibrahim of Johor (1873–1959), Sultan of Johor, Malaysia
• Ibrahim of Kazan (died 1479), a ruler of Kazan Khanate 1467–1479
• Ibrahim Halidi (born 1954), Prime Minister of Comoros
• Ibrahim Hashem (1878–1958), Jordanian lawyer and politician
• Ibrahim Heski (died 1931), Kurdish politician
• Ibrahim Hussein (disambiguation)
• Ibrahim Kargbo (born 1982), Sierra Leonean footballer
• İbrahim Kaş (born 1986), Turkish footballer
• Ibrahim Maalouf (born 1980), Lebanese jazz musician
• Ibrahim Meraachli (died 2004), Lebanese actor
• Ebrahim Mirzapour (born 1978), Iranian football goalkeeper
• Ibrahim Al-Mudhaf (1852–1928), Kuwaiti politician
• Ibrahim Haneef Muhammad, American voice actor
• Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745), Ottoman diplomat, printer, and polymath
• Ebrahim Nabavi (born 1958), Iranian satirist and writer
• Ibrahim Nagi (1898–1953), Egyptian poet
• Ibrahim Najjar, Lebanese politician
• Ibrahim Nasir (1926–2008), Maldivian politician
• Ibrahim Nasrallah (born 1954), Palestinian poet
• Ibrahim Nooraddeen (died 1892), Sultan of the Maldives
• Ibrahim Orabi (born 1912), Egyptian wrestler
• İbrahim Öztürk (born 1981), German footballer
• Ibrahim Pasha (disambiguation), several pashas named Ibrahim
• Ibrahim Rabimov (born 1987), Tajikistani footballer
• Ebrahim Rasool (born 1962), Premier of the Western Cape province in South Africa
• İbrahim Şahin (footballer) (born 1984), Turkish footballer
• Ibrahim Said (born 1984), Egyptian footballer
• Ibrahim Al-Shahrani (born 1974), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Ibrahim Sidibe, Senegalese footballer
• Ibrahim Sirkeci (born 1972), Turkish management scientist
• İbrahim Tatlıses, Turkish folk singer, of Kurdish origins
• İbrahim Toraman (born 1981), Turkish footballer
• İbrahim Üzülmez (born 1974), Turkish footballer
• Ibrahim ibn al-Walid, Umayyad caliph who ruled for a short time in 744
• Ibrahim Yattara (born 1980), Guinean footballer
• Ibrahim al-Yaziji (died 1906), Lebanese writer

Surname

• Abdullah Brahim (born 1934), South African pianist and composer
• Andrew Brahim (born 1989), English student convicted of "preparing terrorist acts"
• Anwar Brahim (born 1947), Malaysian politician
• Dawood Brahim (born 1955), Indian mobster
• Dion Brahim, (born 1980), a Zimbabwean cricketer
• George Brahim (died 2003), Pakistani Roman Catholic priest
• John Brahim (born 1970), Lebanese Australian nightclub entrepreneur
• Khalil Brahim, Sudanese Islamist
• Moussa Brahim (born 1974), Libyan political figure
• Muhammad Brahim (1911–1989), Bangladeshi physician
• Musa Brahim (born 1979), Bangladeshi mountaineer
• Muzammil Ibrahim (born 1984), Indian model
• Sarimah Brahim (born 1978), Malaysian television host, actress and singer
• Sonallah Brahim (born 1937), Egyptian novelist and short story writer
• Daniel Ibrahim (born 1988), British Environmentalist

Derived names

• Ibragimov (Russian:Ибрагимов), a Russian and Tatar surname
• Ibrahimoğlu, Turkish patronymic, "son of Ibrahim"
• ibn Ibrahim, ben Ibrahim or bin Ibrahim is a Arabic patronymic, or nasab, "son of Ibrahim"
• Ibrahimović, Bosnian, "son of Ibrahim"

See also

• Abraham (name)
• Ibrahima