Lutfi

Lutfi (also spelled Lotfi or Luthfi, from ), is a male given name and surname meaning "kind" or "gracious". It may refer to:

Given name

Lotfi

• Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017), Azerbaijani electrical engineer
• Lotfi Akalay (1943-2019), Moroccan writer
• Lotfi Nezzar, Algerian businessman

Lutfi, Lütfi

First name

• Lutfi (court official), Ottoman court official
• Lütfi Doğan (politician, born 1930) (1930–2023), theologian and politician
• Lütfi Doğan (politician, born 1927) (1927–2018), Turkish academic, theologian and politician
• Lutfi Haziri (born 1969), Kosovar politician
• Lutfi Lepaja (born 1945), Albanian writer
• Lütfi Pasha (1488-1564), Ottoman statesman
• Lütfi Akadlı (1902–1988), Turkish judge
• Lütfi Arıboğan (born 1961), Turkish basketball player
• Lütfi Elvan (born 1962), Turkish mining engineer, politician and government minister
• Lutfi Kabirova (1932-2013), Tajikistani opera singer

Middle name

• Ömer Lütfi Akad (1916–2011), Turkish film director
• Metin Lütfi Baydar (born 1960), Turkish medical scientist
• Mohammed Lutfi Farhat (born 1945), Libyan politician
• Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu (1900–1978), Turkish politician and journalist
• Ali Lutfi Mahmud (1935–2018), Egyptian politician
• Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti (1876-1924), Egyptian writer
• Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872–1963), Egyptian intellectual

Luthfi

• Muhammad Luthfi bin Yahya (born 1947), Indonesian Shaikh

Surname

• Abdolali Lotfi (1880–1956), Iranian judge and politician
• Amer Husni Lutfi (1956-2018), Syrian politician
• Huda Lutfi (born 1948), Egyptian artist and historian
• Ibtisam Lutfi (born 1950), Saudi Arabian singer
• João Lutfi, known professionally as Sérgio Ricardo (director) (1932–2020), Brazilian film director
• Mohammad-Reza Lotfi (1947–2014), Persian classical musician
• Nadia Lutfi (1938–2020), Egyptian actress
• Saeid Lotfi (footballer, born 1981) (born 1981), Iranian footballer
• Saeid Lotfi (footballer, born 1992) (bon 1992), Iranian footballer
• , former manager of Britney Spears
• Sigrid Lotfi (1921–2014), German-born Iranian translator
• Tariq Lutfi (born 1951), Pakistani footballer

Places

• Lutfi, Iran
• Lotfabad

See also

• Lutfullah, Latif and Latifa, names with a similar origin