Jamal

Jamal
Jamaal (/) is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "beauty", and a surname. It is used in the Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and predominantly Muslim countries in South Asia. It is also used amongst African Americans and some Turkic peoples in Russia.
In Egypt, the name is pronounced and as such is normally transliterated Gamal. Tunisians and Somalis may spell it Jamel or Jamal. Algerians spell it Djamel. Somalis mainly spell this name as Jamaal. In Turkish, the name is transliterated as Cemal, in Albanian as Xhemal (though not to be confused with Shamil), and in Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian as Džemal or Ćemo.
Notable people with the given name Jamal (and other spelling variants)
Jamal Abro (1924–2004), Pakistani Sindhi writer
Jamal Adams (born 1995), American football player
Jamal Agnew (born 1995), American football player
Jamal Anderson (born 1972), American football player
Moses Michael Levi Barrow (born Jamal Michael Barrow; 1978), better known by his stage name Shyne, Belizean rapper and politician
Jammal Brown (born 1981), American football offensive tackle
Jamal Carter (born 1994), American football player
Jamal Crawford (born 1980), American basketball player
Jamal Dajani (born 1957), Palestinian-American journalist, producer and writer
Jamal Edwards (1990–2022), British entrepreneur
Jamal El-Haj (born 1960), Swedish politician
Jamal Fyfield (born 1989), English footballer
Jamal Greene (fl. 1990s–2020s), American legal scholar and Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Jamal Al Hajj (born 1971), Lebanese footballer
Jamal Hamdan (born 1958), Lebanese actor and voice actor
Jamal Idris (born 1990), Australian rugby player
Jamal Khashoggi, a US-Saudi man murdered in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey
Jamal Khwaja (1926–2020), Indian philosopher
Jamal Lewis (American football) (born 1979), American football player
Jamal Lewis (footballer) (born 1998), Northern Irish footballer
Jammal Lord (born 1981), American football player
Jamal Malyar, Pakistani politician, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Jamal Mashburn (born 1972), American basketball player
Jamal Mayers (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player
Jamal Mohamed (born 1984), Kenyan footballer
Jamal Murray (born 1997), Canadian basketball player
Jamal Musiala (born 2003), footballer
Jamal Mustafa, American wrestler (better known by the ring name Mustafa Saed)
Jamal Nebez (1933–2018), Kurdish linguist and mathematician
Jamal Peters (born 1996), American football player
Jamal Phillips (born 1979), American rapper, member of Illegal and Def Squad
Jamal Robinson (born 1973), American basketball player
Jamal Robinson (American football) (born 1993), American football player
Jammal Shahin (born 1988), English footballer
Jamal Williams (born 1976), American football player
Jamal Woolard (born 1975), American entertainer
Jamal Zougam (born 1973), 2004 Madrid train bombings suspect
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), Egyptian revolutionary, one of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
Jamal, stage name of Eddie Fatu or Umaga (wrestler) (1973–2009), Samoan wrestler
Notable people with the surname Jamal (and other spelling variants)
Surname
Ahmad Jamal (1930–2023), American jazz pianist and composer
Ahmed Jamal (born 1988), Pakistani cricketer
Amir H. Jamal (1922–1995), former Tanzanian Minister of Finance
Ammar Jemal (born 1987), Tunisian footballer
Jules Jammal (born 1932-1956), Syrian military officer
Khan Jamal (1946-2022), American musician
Maher Jamal, Syrian politician
Noel Jammal (born 1990), Lebanese race car driver
Razane Jammal (born 1987), Lebanese actress
Sophie Jamal (born 1966), Canadian scientific fraudster
Fictional characters
Jamal Lyon, one of the main protagonists of the Fox show Empire
Jamal Malik, protagonist in the film Slumdog Millionaire
Jamal Jenkins, main character in the PBS show Ghostwriter (TV series)
Jamal Grant, main character in the NBC show City Guys
Jamal Al-Fayeed, main antagonist of the FX show Tyrant (TV series)
Jamal Wallace, main character of the film Finding Forrester
Jamal, a supporting character in the video game Sonic Unleashed
Jamaal, a main character in the Herb and Jamaal comic strip
See also
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook, 1954), American convict
Jamal ad-Din (disambiguation)
Jamaal
Jamahl
Jamali (given name)
Djamel
References
External links
Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names