Salah (, ) 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'.
Hebrew Bible
Arabic/Muslim traditional name
Arabic/Muslim given name
- Salah (dancer), full name Salah Benlemqawanssa, hip-hop dancer
- Salah Aboud Mahmoud, Iraqi former officer
- Salah Abdel Sabour, Egyptian poet, editor, playwright and essayist
- Salah Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian economist and ambassador
- Salah Abdul Rasool Al Blooshi, Bahraini held in extrajudicial detention in the United States on suspicion of terrorism
- Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian film director
- Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat
- Salah Ali Al-Ghali, a governor of South Darfur
- Salah Amin, Egyptian footballer
- Salah Assad, Algerian footballer and sports manager
- Salah Bachir, Canadian philanthropist and businessman
- Salah Bakour, an Algerian footballer
- Salah Al Bandar, British-Sudanese known for role in revealing the Bandargate scandal in Bahrain
- Salah Bouchekriou, Algerian handball player and coach
- Salah Chaoua, Tunisian footballer
- Salah Choudhury, Bangladeshi journalist
- Salah Dessouki, Egyptian Olympic fencer
- Salah Edin, real name Abid Tounssi, a Dutch Moroccan rapper
- Salah Ezzedine, Lebanese businessman accused of running a pyramid scheme
- Salah Gaham, Algerian French concierge who died during the 2005 civil unrest in France, see 2005 French riots#Salah Gaham's death
- Salah Goudjil, 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, Moroccan long-distance runner
- Salah Jadid, Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970
- Salah Jahin, 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, Algerian international footballer
- Salah Mansour, Egyptian film actor
- Salah Mohsen, Egyptian footballer
- Salah Mejri, Tunisian basketball player
- Salah Nasr, Egyptian former head of the country's General Intelligence Directorate
- Salah Omar al-Ali, former Iraqi politician, minister and ambassador
- Salah Qoqaiche, retired Moroccan long-distance marathon runner
- Salah Ragab, Egyptian drummer and jazz musician
- Salah Salem, Egyptian military officer and politician
- Salah Samadi, Algerian football player
- Salah Shehade, Palestinian Hamas movement member
- Salah Sid, Algerian-born British radio broadcaster, producer and voice-over artist
- Salah Soliman, Egyptian footballer
- Salah Stétié, Lebanese writer and poet who writes in the French language
- Salah Suheimat, Jordanian politician and Member of the Jordanian Parliament
- Salah Taher, Egyptian painter
- Salah Tarif, Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Israeli Knesset
- Salah Mohammed Tubaigy, Saudi Arabian forensics officer
- Salah Zulfikar, Egyptian actor and movie star
- Sallah, character from Indiana Jones.
Surname
Arabic/Muslim
- 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
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
Jews
- Asher Salah, an Israeli historian, specialist and translator in Italian Hebrew literature
- Yiḥyah Salaḥ, known as the Maharitz, an 18th-century Yemenite rabbi, author and scholar
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