Riaz (name)
Riyaz ansari(Arabic: رياض) is a Central and South Asian masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin.
Given name
[edit]- Riaz Hassan (1937–2022), Australian academic
- Riyaz Punjabi (1947–2021), professor and vice chancellor at the University of Kashmir
- Riaz Ahsan (1951–2008), Pakistani statistician
- Riyaz Ahmad (1958–2021), Indian politician
- Riaz Shahid (died 1972), Pakistani filmmaker and journalist
- Riaz Bagwan (born 1960), Indian cricketer
- Riaz Poonawala (born 1961), former cricketer
- Riaz Basra (1967–2002), Pakistani militant
- Riaz Farcy (born 1967), Hong Kong cricketer
- Riyaz Khan (born 1960), Indian actor and bodybuilder
- Riaz (actor) (born 1972), Bangladeshi film actor
- Riaz Afridi (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
- Riaz Amin (born 1998), English professional martial artist
- Riyaz Kharrat, Iranian chemical engineer
- Reaz Rahman, Bangladeshi former State Minister of Foreign Affairs
Surname
[edit]- Fahmida Riaz (born 1946), Urdu writer
- Mohammed Riaz (born 1972), Indian field hockey player
- Hussain Riyaz (born 1974), Maldivian sprinter
- Wahab Riaz (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
- Adeeba Riyaz, Kashmiri poet
Arabic-based compound names with Riaz as an element
[edit]- Riaz al-Din, multiple people
- Riazuddin (1930–2013), Pakistani theoretical physicist
- Riazuddin (1958–2019), Pakistani cricket umpire
- Shaikh Riazuddin (born 1971), Indian cricketer
- Hamza Riazuddin (born 1989), British-Pakistani cricketer
- Riyaz Uddin, Indian painter
- Riaz al-Din Ahmad, multiple people
- Riaz al-Hasan
- Mirza Riyaz Ul Hassan Effendi (born 1977)
- Riaz Al Haqq
- A. F. Mohammad Reazul Huq Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician
- Reyazul Haque Raju (born 1965), Indian politician
- Riaz al-Huda
- Riyazul Huda, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Riaz al-Mawla
- Reazul Mowla Rezu (born 1985), Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenplay writer
See also
[edit]- Riaz, municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
- Riaz Gujjar, a 1991 Pakistani film
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