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Umapati Sivacharya
Umapati Sivacharya (உமாபதி சிவாசாரியர்), also called Umapati Sivam, was a Shaiva Siddhanta theologian, Tamil poet, and temple priest of Chidambaram who composed eight canonical texts, the Siddhanta Ashtaka, active from about 1290 to 1340.
Umar
Umar ibn al-Khattab (عمر بن الخطاب), c. 586–644, second Rashidun caliph (634–644), titled amir al-mu'minin; led conquests of Syria, Persia, Egypt; created diwan, Hijri calendar; assassinated 644.
Umar Akmal (عمر اکمل)
Umar Akmal (عمر اکمل), born 1990 in Lahore, is a Pakistani right-handed batsman, brother of Kamran and Adnan Akmal, who played 16 Tests, 121 ODIs, and 84 T20Is for Pakistan (2009-2019) and received a 2020 PCB corruption ban later cut to 12 months.
Umar al-Rawasi
Umar al-Rawasi (عمر الرواسي), Abu al-Fityan Umar ibn Abd al-Karim, was an 11th-century hadith scholar born in 428 AH who reportedly heard from 3,600 shaykhs.
Umar Ata Bandial
Umar Ata Bandial, 28th Chief Justice of Pakistan (February 2022 to September 16, 2023), former Lahore High Court Chief Justice; his tenure featured the 2022 assembly-restoration ruling, election-delay suo motu, and bench-formation conflicts.
Umar Farooq Zahoor (عمر فاروق ظہور)
Umar Farooq Zahoor (عمر فاروق ظہور), also styled Sheikh Umar Farooq, is a Norwegian-Pakistani Dubai-based businessman, Toshakhana gift buyer in the Imran Khan case, and former Nordea fraud suspect whose case Norway dismissed in 2026.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as the underwear bomber, is a Nigerian who attempted to detonate a bomb aboard Northwest Flight 253 near Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison.
Umar Gul (عمر گل)
Umar Gul (عمر گل) is a Pakistani former cricketer and bowling coach who took 427 wickets for Pakistan from 2003 to 2016 and led the 2007 and 2009 T20 World Cups in wickets.
Umar ibn Abi Rabi'a
Umar ibn Abi Rabi'a (عمر بن أبي ربيعة) was an Arab poet of the Umayyad caliphate, the leading poet of libertine urban love poetry (ghazal).
Umar ibn Abi Salama (companion, son of Abu Salama and Umm Salama)
Umar ibn Abi Salama (عمر بن أبي سلمة) was a companion of Muhammad, son of Abu Salama and Umm Salama, who fought for Ali at the Camel.
Umar ibn Abi Salama (Medinan hadith transmitter, son of Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf)
Umar ibn Abi Salama (عمر بن أبي سلمة) was a Medinan hadith transmitter and judge of Medina, the son of the leading Medinan scholar Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf.
Umar ibn Ali al-Muqaddami
Umar ibn Ali al-Muqaddami (عمر بن علي الثقفي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Basra who died in 190 AH, narrating in both Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
Umar ibn As'ad al-Tanukhi al-Ma'arri
Umar ibn As'ad al-Tanukhi al-Ma'arri (1161–1243) was a Damascene Hanbali jurist and judge, son of chief qadi Wajih al-Din al-Tanukhi, who taught at the Mismariyya college in Damascus and served as qadi of Harran.
Umar ibn Badr al-Kurdi
Umar ibn Badr al-Kurdi (عمر بن بدر الكردي), honorific Diya' al-Din, was a Sunni hadith scholar and Hanafi jurist who died in Damascus in 1225.
Umar ibn Dhar al-Hamdani
Umar ibn Dhar al-Hamdani was a Kufan ascetic, preacher, and hadith transmitter of the second Islamic century, remembered in Sunni biographical dictionaries as qadi of Kufa.
Umar ibn Fahd
Umar ibn Fahd (عمر بن فهد المكي) was a Meccan historian and hadith scholar of the Mamluk period (1409–1480), author of a year-by-year history of Mecca.
Umar ibn Hafs (Abu Hafs al-Kufi)
Umar ibn Hafs (عمر بن حفص, Abu Hafs al-Kufi) was a Kufan hadith scholar, son of the judge Hafs ibn Ghiyath, graded reliable, who died in 222 AH.
Umar ibn Hafsun
Umar ibn Hafsun (عمر بن حفصون), died 918, was a Muwallad rebel who led a forty-year revolt against the Umayyad Emirate of Cordoba from the fortress of Bobastro.
Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari
Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari (عمر بن هبيرة الفزاري) was an Umayyad general and governor of Iraq and Khurasan under the caliph Yazid II, from 720 to 724.
Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit
Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit (عمر بن محمد أقيت) was a Timbuktu jurist of the Sanhaja Aqit family whose descendants held the judgeship for over a century and produced Ahmad Baba.
Umar ibn Rasul
Umar ibn Rasul, also known as al-Mansur Umar I, was the first sultan of the Rasulid dynasty in Yemen, reigning from 1229 until his assassination in 1250.
Umar ibn Sa'd
Umar ibn Sa'd (عمر بن سعد) was an Arab Umayyad commander, son of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, who led the army that killed Husayn ibn Ali at Karbala in 680.
Umar II
Umar II (عمر بن عبد العزيز) was an Umayyad caliph who reigned from 717 to 720, remembered for lifting the jizya from converts and ending the siege of Constantinople.
Umar Johnson
Umar Johnson (Umar Abdullah-Johnson, Umar Ifatunde), American psychologist and Pan-Africanist speaker, Millersville and PCOM PsyD 2012, author of Psycho-Academic Holocaust, founder of the delayed FDMG Academy in Wilmington, Delaware.
Umar Kamani
Umar Kamani, British entrepreneur, co-founded fast-fashion e-tailer PrettyLittleThing with brother Adam in 2012, sold it to Boohoo by 2020 for up to £323.8m, led it as CEO until 2023, returned 2024, and is building a Dubai-based fashion-wellness brand.
Umar Kayam
Umar Kayam (1932–2002) was an Indonesian writer, sociologist, and cultural authority who wrote acclaimed fiction on Javanese society and served under the New Order government.
Umar Khalid
Umar Khalid (उमर ख़ालिद), born 1987, is an Indian activist and JNU historian on the Adivasis of Jharkhand, charged with sedition in the 2016 JNU case and held since September 2020 under the UAPA in the Delhi riots conspiracy case without trial.
Umar Khan
Umar Khan, also known as Amir Umar Khan, was the fourth khan of the Kokand Khanate from about 1810 to 1822 and a poet who wrote under the pen name Amiri.
Umar Makram
Umar Makram (عمر مكرم) was an Egyptian religious and political leader, naqib al-ashraf of Cairo, who installed Muhammad Ali as governor in 1805 and resisted the French and British occupations.
Umar Marvi
Umar Marvi (Sindhi: عمر مارئي) is a Sindhi folk tale in which Marvi, a village girl of the Thar desert, refuses ruler Umar Soomro and is returned to her people.