# Salah (name)

Salah (Arabic: صلاح, romanized: Ṣalāḥ, pronounced) is a Biblical and an Arabic given name and family name. Its meaning in the Bible is 'mission', or 'sending', whereas the Arabic meaning is 'righteousness', 'goodness', or 'peace'.

## Given name

* Salah ud-Din (Saladin) Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria who liberated Jerusalem
* Salah (biblical figure), an ancestor of the Israelites according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10
* Salah (dancer), full name Salah Benlemqawanssa, a hip-hop dancer
* Salah Aboud Mahmoud, an Iraqi former officer
* Salah Abdel Sabour, an Egyptian poet, editor, playwright and essayist
* Salah Abdel-Shafi, a Palestinian economist and ambassador
* Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi, a Bahraini held in extrajudicial detention in the United States on suspicion of terrorism
* Salah Abu Seif, an Egyptian film director
* Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, a Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat
* Salah Ali Al-Ghali, a governor of South Darfur
* Salah Amin, an Egyptian footballer
* Salah Assad, an Algerian footballer and sports manager
* Salah Bachir, Canadian philanthropist and businessman
* Salah Bakour, an Algerian footballer
* Salah Al Bandar, a British-Sudanese known for role in revealing the Bandargate scandal in Bahrain
* Salah Bouchekriou, an Algerian handball player and coach
* Salah Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist
* Salah Dessouki, an Egyptian Olympic fencer
* Salah Edin, real name Abid Tounssi, a Dutch Moroccan rapper
* Salah Ezzedine, a Lebanese businessman accused of running a pyramid scheme
* Salah Gaham, an Algerian French concierge who died during the 2005 civil unrest in France, see 2005 French riots#Salah Gaham's death
* Salah Goudjil, an Algerian politician, belonging to the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of the National Liberation Front
* Salah Halabi, Egyptian army officer
* Salah Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi poet, actor and playwright
* Salah Hissou, a Moroccan long-distance runner
* Salah Jadid, a Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970
* Salah Jahin, an Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist
* Salah Khalaf, (aka Abu Iyad), deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a senior official of Fatah
* Salah Larbès, an Algerian international footballer
* Salah Mansour, an Egyptian film actor
* Salah Mohsen, an Egyptian footballer
* Salah Mejri, a Tunisian basketball player
* Salah Nasr, an Egyptian former head of the country's General Intelligence Directorate
* Salah Omar al-Ali, a former Iraqi politician, minister and ambassador
* Salah Qoqaiche, a retired Moroccan long-distance marathon runner
* Salah Ragab, an Egyptian drummer and jazz musician
* Salah Salem, an Egyptian military officer and politician
* Salah Samadi, an Algerian football player
* Salah Shehade, a Palestinian Hamas movement member
* Salah Sid, an Algerian-born British radio broadcaster, producer and voice-over artist
* Salah Soliman, an Egyptian footballer
* Salah Stétié, a Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language
* Salah Suheimat, a Jordanian politician and Member of the Jordanian Parliament
* Salah Taher, an Egyptian painter
* Salah Tarif, a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli Knesset
* Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, a Saudi Arabian forensics officer
* Salah Zulfikar, an Egyptian actor and movie star
* Sallah, a character from Indiana Jones.

## Surname

* Asher Salah, an Israeli historian, specialist and translator in Italian Hebrew literature
* Dana Salah, Jordanian-Palestinian singer and songwriter
* Hussein Ahmed Salah, a Djibouti long distance runner athlete
* Kamal Salah, birth name of Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born Israeli Hebrew author
* Kamal Al Din Salah, an Egyptian diplomat
* Maha Naji Salah, a Yemeni writer and social activist
* Trish Salah, a Lebanese Canadian feminist writer, educator and sociologist
* Raed Salah, a Palestinian leader, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel
* Yiḥyah Salaḥ, known as the Maharitz, an 18th-century Yemenite rabbi, author and scholar

### Football

* Arturo Salah, a Chilean former football player, manager and administrator
* Ibrahim Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Zamalek and Egypt
* Luay Salah, an Iraqi football player, plays for Al-Zawra'a and has played for Iraq
* Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian footballer, plays for Liverpool and Egypt
* Mohamed Salah (footballer, born 1956), an Egyptian football manager and former footballer
* Yassine Salah, a Moroccan footballer

## Other uses

* Ibn al-Salah, a Shafi'i hadith scholar and author