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Ahmed Patel
Ahmed Patel (Ahmedbhai Muhamedbhai Patel, 1949–2020) was an Indian National Congress leader from Bharuch, Gujarat: three-term Lok Sabha MP, five-term Rajya Sabha member, and Sonia Gandhi's political secretary 2001–2017 who never held ministerial office.
Ahmed Ramy
Ahmed Ramy, also known as Ahmed Rami, was an Egyptian poet and lyricist, the principal wordsmith of singer Umm Kulthum, for whom he wrote over 100 songs.
Ahmed Rasim
Ahmed Rasim (1865–1932) was an Ottoman and Turkish journalist, writer, and composer who wrote over a hundred books, best known for his Istanbul chronicles Şehir Mektupları.
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (احمد رضا خان بریلوی)
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, known to devotees as A'la Hazrat, was a Hanafi jurist and Sufi master of Bareilly whose rulings founded the Barelvi movement in South Asia.
Ahmed Reşid Efendi
Ahmed Reşid Efendi, also known as Sıdkızade Ahmed Reşid Efendi, was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm, the empire's supreme mufti, from 1822 to 1823.
Ahmed Riza
Ahmed Riza (احمد رضا) was an Ottoman political leader of the Young Turk movement who headed the Committee of Union and Progress and later the Ottoman Senate.
Ahmed Rushdi
Ahmed Rushdi (احمد رشدی) was a Pakistani playback singer, born in 1934 in Hyderabad Deccan, known as the first pop singer of Pakistan and for 'Ko Ko Korina' (1966).
Ahmed S Abdelfattah
Ahmed S Abdelfattah is a protein engineer and electrophysiologist who develops fluorescent voltage and calcium indicators, best known for the Voltron chemigenetic voltage sensor, and has been a Brown University assistant professor since 2021.
Ahmed Saad (أحمد سعد) (singer)
Ahmed Saad (أحمد سعد) is an Egyptian singer and actor known for his emotional pop and upbeat shaabi-style songs. He is one of the most-played artists of the 2020s.
Ahmed Sabbah
Ahmed Sabbah is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Swvl in 2017, served as its chief technology officer until 2021, and founded the neobank Telda.
Ahmed Sékou Touré
Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984) was a Guinean trade unionist and nationalist politician who led Guinea to independence from France in 1958 and served as its first president.
Ahmed Şemseddin Kadizâde
Ahmed Şemseddin Kadizâde (Kadızâde Ahmed Şemseddin Efendi) was an Ottoman Hanafi scholar who served as şeyhülislâm from 1577 to 1580, and whose report against the Istanbul observatory is linked to its demolition in 1580.
Ahmed Shehzad (احمد شہزاد)
Ahmed Shehzad (احمد شہزاد), born 1991 in Lahore, is a Pakistani opening batsman, the first Pakistani with centuries in all three formats, and Pakistan's first T20I centurion; 13 Tests, 81 ODIs, 59 T20Is, banned four months in 2018 for doping.
Ahmed Sher Khan
Ahmed Sher Khan (1912–1967), Bhopal-born Indian field hockey player, gold medalist with India at the 1936 Berlin Olympics under Dhyan Chand; father of 1975 World Cup winner Aslam Sher Khan and later a school hockey coach.
Ahmed Shibrain
Ahmed Shibrain (أحمد شبرين, 1931 – March 2017) was a Sudanese modernist painter and educator who co-founded the Khartoum School in 1960, fusing Arabic calligraphy with abstract art.
Ahmed Shide
Ahmed Shide is an Ethiopian politician and member of the Federal Parliament who has served as Minister of Finance since October 2018, leading the Homegrown Economic Reform program.
Ahmed Tewfik El Madani
Ahmed Tewfik El Madani (أحمد توفيق المدني, 1899–1983) was an Algerian historian, journalist, and statesman who led the Islamic reformist movement in colonial Algeria and later served as a minister.
Ahmed Toufiq
Ahmed Toufiq (أحمد التوفيق), born 1943, is a Moroccan historian, novelist, and manuscript scholar who has been Morocco's Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs since 2002.
Ahmed Vasif Efendi
Ahmed Vasif Efendi (احمد وصيف افندى) was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, and court historiographer who served as the empire's first ambassador to Spain in 1787.
Ahmed Wagueeh
Ahmed Wagueeh is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the fintech company Khazna in 2019 and serves as its chief technology officer, after working at Valeo, Intel, and IBM.
Ahmed Yassin
Ahmed Yassin, also known as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was a paralyzed Gaza preacher who founded Hamas in 1987 and was killed in an Israeli helicopter strike in 2004.
Ahmed Yusuf
Ahmed Yusuf was Sultan of the Geledi Sultanate in southern Somalia from 1848 to 1878, who dominated East African trade and died fighting the Biimaal clan.
Ahmed Zewail (أحمد حسن زويل)
Ahmed Zewail (1946–2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist at Caltech who founded femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions on the femtosecond scale, and won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ahmed Ziwar Pasha
Ahmed Ziwar Pasha (أحمد زيور باشا, 1864–1945) was an Egyptian prime minister who headed a palace-backed cabinet from November 1924, replacing Saad Zaghlul, until the 1926 elections repudiated it.
Ahmed-i Dai
Ahmed-i Dai (احمد داعی) was an Anatolian divan poet and scholar who served the Germiyan and early Ottoman courts, best known for the mesnevi Cheng-name of 1405.
Ahmed, Salma and Zahra Halane
Ahmed, Salma and Zahra Halane: Somali-origin British siblings from Chorlton, Manchester. Twin sisters Salma and Zahra Halane left home aged 16 in June 2014 to join Islamic State in Syria, reportedly married fighters, and were detained in a Syrian camp by 2020; brother Ahmed is a suspected militant.
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, also known as Amdavad, is the largest city of Gujarat, India, on the Sabarmati River. Founded in 1411, it became India's first World Heritage City in 2017.
Ahmedabad–Bhuj Namo Bharat Rapid Rail
The Ahmedabad–Bhuj Namo Bharat Rapid Rail is a fully air-conditioned, unreserved intercity train run by Western Railway between Ahmedabad and Bhuj, inaugurated in September 2024.
Ahmedi
Ahmedi (احمدی), full name Taceddin Ibrahim bin Hizir, was an Anatolian poet who served the Aydinids, Germiyanids, and early Ottoman sultans, and whose Iskendername contains the earliest surviving account of the Ottoman dynasty.
Ahmedin Jemal
Ahmedin Jemal is a cancer epidemiologist and senior vice president at the American Cancer Society, known for national cancer statistics and findings on colorectal and lung cancer in young adults.