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Ahmed al Maktoum
Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Hasher Al Maktoum is an Emirati sport shooter who won UAE's first Olympic medal, double trap gold, at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Ahmed al-Nami
Ahmed al-Nami (أحمد النعمي) was a Saudi al Qaeda member and one of the four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Ahmed al-Rahawi
Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi, Houthi-appointed prime minister in Sanaa from August 2024 and Supreme Political Council member since 2019, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sanaa on August 28, 2025.
Ahmed al-Raisuni
Ahmed al-Raisuni (Arabic: احمد الريسوني), also spelled Raisuli, was a Moroccan tribal leader and warlord of the Jibala region, famous for kidnapping foreigners including Ion Perdicaris in 1904.
Ahmed al-Raisuni's insurrection
Ahmed al-Raisuni's insurrection was an armed movement led by the sharif Ahmed al-Raisuni (أحمد الريسوني) in northern Morocco against the sultan and Spain from about 1904.
Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (علی احمد) was an Indian and Pakistani novelist, poet, and diplomat, born in Delhi in 1910, who co-founded the Progressive Writers' Association and wrote Twilight in Delhi.
Ahmed Ali Akbar (احمد علی اکبر)
Ahmed Ali Akbar (احمد علی اکبر), Pakistani actor born 1986 in Rawalpindi, star of Parizaad (2021) and Laal Kabootar (2019); Lux Style Award Best Actor 2020, Hum Award winner, also vocalist of band Nafs.
Ahmed Ali Butt
Ahmed Ali Butt (احمد علی بٹ) is a Pakistani musician, actor, and comedian, known for the rap-rock band Entity Paradigm and the Jawani Phir Nahi Ani films.
Ahmed Ali Dadabhai
Ahmed Ali Dadabhai was an Indian-born businessman from Rajasthan who arrived in Bahrain in 1935, founded AM Dadabhai & Sons in Manama, and died in 1996.
Ahmed AlRasheed
Ahmed AlRasheed is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Shawarmer (شاورمر), the shawarma-focused restaurant chain, in 1999, and led it as it grew past 160 branches in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Ahmed Alsamani
Ahmed Alsamani, also rendered Ahmad Alsamani, is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Riyadh grocery delivery platform Nana and served as its Chief Product Officer until 2022.
Ahmed Alshaiba
Ahmed Alshaiba was a Yemeni oud player in New York known for instrumental oud covers of Western pop songs; he died in a car accident in 2022 at 32.
Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif, born Ahmet Hamdi Önal (1927–1991), was a Turkish poet of Kurdish origin whose single collection, Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (1968), remains among Turkey's best-selling poetry books.
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Ben Bella (أحمد بن بلة) was an Algerian revolutionary and statesman who helped found the FLN, became Algeria's first president in 1963, and was overthrown in 1965.
Ahmed Best
Ahmed Best (born 1973) is an American actor best known as the voice and motion-capture performer of Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequels.
Ahmed Bey of Constantine
Ahmed Bey, also known as Hadj Ahmed Bey, was the last independent bey of Constantine in Algeria and a leader of resistance to the French conquest until 1848.
Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum (أحمد بن سعيد آل مكتوم)
Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum (أحمد بن سعيد آل مكتوم) is a Dubai ruling-family sheikh who has led the emirate's aviation sector since 1985 as Chairman of Emirates.
Ahmed bin Sumeyt
Ahmed bin Sumeyt (أحمد بن سُميط) was a Hadrami Alawi sayyid and scholar who served as chief qadi of Zanzibar, appointed in 1883, until his death.
Ahmed Cemal Pasha
Ahmed Cemal Pasha (أحمد جمال باشا) was an Ottoman officer and navy minister who, with Talat and Enver Pasha, led the Ottoman Empire in World War I.
Ahmed Cevad Pasha
Ahmed Cevad Pasha (Kabaağaçlızade Ahmed Cevad Paşa, 1851–1900) was an Ottoman general and grand vizier under Sultan Abdülhamid II from 1891 to 1895 who wrote Ottoman military history.
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (Ahmed Cevdet Paşa; 1822–1895) was an Ottoman statesman, jurist, and historian of the Tanzimat era who led the codification of the Mecelle, the empire's first civil code.
Ahmed Chalabi (أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي)
Ahmed Chalabi, also known as Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi (أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي), was an Iraqi banker and exile politician who lobbied for the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Ahmed Dawood
Ahmed Dawood, also known as Ahmed Daud (احمد داؤد), was a Pakistani industrialist who founded the Dawood Group in Karachi in 1948 and died in 2002.
Ahmed Deedat
Ahmed Hoosen Deedat (1918–2005) was a South African Muslim preacher who, as president of the Islamic Propagation Centre International in Durban, spread Islam through booklets and debates.
Ahmed el Gendy
Ahmed el Gendy (احمد أسامة الجندي), Egyptian modern pentathlete born 2000 in Cairo; Tokyo 2020 silver, Paris 2024 Olympic gold with 1,555-point world record, first African Olympic champion in modern pentathlon, two 2018 Youth Olympic golds.
Ahmed el-Tayeb (أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب)
Ahmed el-Tayeb (أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and Grand Imam of al-Azhar since 2010, appointed by President Hosni Mubarak after serving as Grand Mufti of Egypt.
Ahmed Elmohamady
Ahmed Elmohamady (أحمد المحمدي), born 1987, Egyptian right back; Sunderland, Hull City, Aston Villa 2010-2021; 92 Egypt caps, AFCON winner 2008 and 2010, 2018 World Cup squad.
Ahmed Elsaka
Ahmed Elsaka is an Egyptian immigrant who co-founded The Halal Guys, the New York street-cart business started in 1990 that became an international halal food chain.
Ahmed Essop
Ahmed Essop (1931–2019) was an Indian-born South African short-story writer and novelist whose fiction portrays the Indian community of Fordsburg, Johannesburg, under apartheid.
Ahmed Fagih
Ahmed Fagih (أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه; 1942–2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote about one hundred books, including the acclaimed trilogy Gardens of the Night.