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Uthman (Arabic: عثمان; Transliteration: Othman, Osman, Usman, Ozman) is a male Arabic given name meaning "baby bustard."[1] It is popular as a male given name among Sunnis.
The following people share this name:
- Uthman ibn Affan, third caliph of Muslims;
- Osman Đikić, was a Bosniak poet, and dramatist
- Uthman Abu Qahafa was Abu Bakr's father
- Uthman ibn Ali, brother of Abbas, was among the List of casualties at the Battle of Karbala
- Uthman al-Asghar, was one of the sons of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Uthman al-Akbar, was one of the sons of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Uthman ibn Naissa, was a Berber Wāli of Narbonne and effective Muslim governor of Septimania.
- Osman I
- Uthman I, a Marinid caliph
- Usman dan Fodio, African leader also known as Shehu Uthman Dan Fuduye
- Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, a Yemeni who is in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay
- Usman Afzaal, is an English cricketer
- Usman Khawaja is an Australian cricketer
- Osman Nuri Paşa, was an Ottoman Turkish field marshal
- Osman Pazvantoğlu, was a Bosnian Ottoman soldier, governor and rebel against Ottoman rule
- Topal Osman Pasha, was a Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire
- Al-Aziz Uthman, was the second son of Saladin and the second Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt
- Ibn al-Salah, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith specialist
- Othman Saat, was a former Chief Minister of the state of Johor in Malaysia.
- Aziz M. Osman is a Malaysian actor and director.
- Azalina Othman Said was a Tourism Minister of Malaysia
- Alisher Usmanov, a Russian based billionaire of Uzbek origin
- Ospan Batyr, a Kazakh freedom fighter in Xinjiang
- Osman Ahmed Osman, was a famous and influential Egyptian engineer, contractor, entrepreneur, and politician.
- Osman Jama Ali, is a Somali politician.
- Osman Ali Atto, is a Somali warlord
- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, was a Somali politician and the country's first President
- Osman Yusuf Kenadid, was a Somali poet and ruler.
- Osman Baydemir, a Turkish politician, lawyer and human rights activist in east Turkey, of Kurdish origin.
- Ousmane N'Doye, is a Senegalese football player.
- Ousmane Dabo, is a French football midfielder who currently plays for S.S. Lazio.
- Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2004 to 2007.
- Ousmane Sembène, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.
- Ousmane Sanou, is a Burkina Faso football player
- Ousman Jallow, is a Gambian football striker
- Ousmane Traoré, is a Burkinabé football player
- Ousmane Zongo, was a Burkinabè arts trader living in New York City.
- Ousmane Viera, is an Ivorian football player
- Ousmane Tanor Dieng, is the First Secretary of the Socialist Party of Senegal.
- Ousmane N'Gom Camara, is a Guinean football player
- Tuanku Sultan Otteman II, was a former Sultan of Deli
- Kara Yülük Osman, was a late 14th and early 15th century leader of the Turkmen tribal federation of Ak Koyunlu.
- Muhammad Osman Said, was Prime Minister of Libya from 17 October 1960-19 March 1963.
- Mahamane Ousmane, was the first democratically elected President of Niger.
- Osman Ahmed was a Somali ruler, and the fifth Sultan of the Gobroon Dynasty
- Osman I of the Maldives was the Sultan of the Maldives during 1377
- Osman II of the Maldives was the Sultan of Maldives from 1420-1421
- Uthman ibn Ali (Bey of Tunis) was the sixth leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia briefly in 1814.
- Ousmane Ngom is a Senegalese politician
- Osman Ertuğ served as the de facto ambassador of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the U.S.A. from 2002 to 2007
- Osman Türkay was a Turkish Cypriot poet and was a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
- Semir Osmanagić is a Bosnian author and contractor in metalworking residing in Houston
- Abdul Ghani Othman is the current Menteri Besar of the state of Johor in Malaysia
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See also
Categories:- Arabic masculine given names
- Arabic-language surnames
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