Imad

Given name

Imād ad-Dīn Muhammad bin Qasim (695–715), Umayyad Caliphate general

Imad Abbas (1975–2004), Palestinian military commander

Imad Abullah Sarah (born 1968), Syrian politician

Imad Baba (born 1974), American soccer player

Imad Feghaly, Lebanese actor and voice actor

Emad Hajjaj (born 1967), Jordanian political cartoonist

Imad Hawari (born 1979), Lebanese journalist, actor

Emad al-Janabi (born 1965), Iraqi blacksmith

Imad Khalili (born 1987), Swedish footballer

Imad Khamis (born 1961), Syrian politician

Imad Kotbi (born 1978), Moroccan radio presenter

Imad Mohammad Alatiqi (1956–2025), Kuwaiti oil scientist and politician

Emad Mohammed (born 1982), Iraqi footballer

Emad Mostaque (born 1983), founder of Stability AI

Imad Rahman, Pakistani American fiction writer

Imad Rami (born 1963), Syrian Nasheed singer

Imad Wasim (born 1988), Pakistani international cricketer

Imed

Imed Abdelnabbi (born 1957), Egyptian chess player

Imed Louati (born 1993), Tunisian footballer

Imed Memmich (born 1966), Tunisian scholar and politician

Imed Meniaoui (born 1983), Tunisian footballer

Imed Mhedhebi (born 1976), Tunisian footballer

Imed Trabelsi (born 1974), Tunisian businessman and politician

Imed Ben Younes (born 1974), Tunisian former football player and current coach

Surname

Mitra Emad, American anthropologist

Parvis Emad (1935–2023), American philosopher and professor emeritus of Philosophy at DePaul University

Family origin

The Imad family is named for al-Amadiyyah, near Mosul in northern Iraq and, like the Jumblatt family, is thought to be of Kurdish origin.

Some unconfirmed sources allege that the roots of Family Imad ancestors are associated with those of Imad ad-Din Zengi (1087; † 1146), who was in turn the Atabeg of Mosul from 1127 to his death in 1146.

Imad as a family name also indicates descent from the originally Druze feudal family Al-Imad in the Chouf region of Mount Lebanon.