Kurd (name)

Kurd is a masculine German given name and a Kurdish and Baloch/Brahui surname.

Notable people

Given name

• Kurd Lasswitz (1848–1910), a German author
• Kurd Kisshauer (1886–1958), German astronomer
• Kurd Maverick, German DJ
• Kurd Mehmed Pasha (died 1605), Ottoman statesman
• Kurd Peters (1914–1957), German officer
• Kurd von Mosengeil (1884–1906), German physicist
• Kurd von Schlözer (1822–1894), German historian and diplomat
• Kurd von Schöning (1789–1859), Prussian army officer and historian

Surname

• Abdul Aziz Kurd, an early 20th-century Baloch nationalist politician
• Abdulla Kurd (1977–2011), Kurdish militant fighting in Chechnya
• Ahmad Kurd (1949–2020), politician from the Gaza Strip
• Ali Ahmad Kurd (fl. 2007), Pakistani lawyer
• Keça Kurd (1948), Kurdish writer and translator
• Javed Kurd (born 1967), Pakistani-Norwegian music producer.
• Said Pasha Kurd (1834–1907), Ottoman statesman