Salah ad-Din (name)

Salah ad-Din (), Salahu’d-Din, Ṣalāḥ ud-Dīn, Salah ed-Din and other variant spellings, is an Arabic name that means The Righteousness of the Faith.

It commonly refers to An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب), known as Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

Other notable people with the name, or known by the name, include (listed by nationality):

Middle East and Africa

Algeria

• Salaheddine Mokdad Saidi (born 1978), volleyball player

Central African Republic

• Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996), military ruler, briefly known as Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa

Egypt

• Al-Ashraf Khalil (Al-Ashraf Salāh ad-DÄ«n Khalil issalahuddinbn QalawÅ«n) (died 1293), Mamluk sultan
• Salah Nasr (Salah ad-Din Nasr, 1920–1982), head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate
• Salah Jahin (Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy, 1930–1986), writer and cartoonist
• Salah al-Deen Hafez (1938–2008), writer and journalist
• Walid Salah El-Din (born 1971), footballer
• Mohamed Salah (football manager) (Mohamed Salah El-Din) (born 1958), footballer

Ethiopia

• Saladin Said (born 1988), footballer
• Saladin Bargicho (born 1994), footballer

Iraq

• Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (1889–1945), Iraqi Army officer and Arab nationalist
• Salaheddine Bahaaeddin (born 1950), Kurdish-Iraqi politician
• Salah Al-Deen Siamand (born 1981), Kurdish-Iraqi footballer

Jordan

• Salah Suheimat (Salah al-Din Attallah Suheimat, 1914–1966), politician

Morocco

• Salaheddine Mezouar (born 1953), politician
• Salaheddine Bassir (born 1972), footballer
• Salahiddine Khlifi (born 1979), footballer
• Salaheddine Aqqal (born 1984), footballer
• Salaheddine Sbaï (born 1985), footballer
• Salaheddine Saidi (born 1987), footballer
• Salah Eddine Mraouni (born 1992), cyclist
• Salahiddine Khlifi (born 1979), footballer

Sudan

• Ghazi Salah al-Din al-Atabani (born 1951), politician

Syria

• An-Nasir Yusuf (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn al-Aziz ibn al-Zahir ibn Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shazy 1228–1260), Ayyubid Emir and Sultan
• Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912–1980), politician

Yemen

• Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din (1338–1391), imam of Yemen

Asia

Afghanistan

• Salahuddin Rabbani (born 1971), politician

Bangladesh

• Salahuddin (film director) (1926–2003)
• A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed (1924–2014), historian
• Gazi Salahuddin (born 1984), cricketer
• Kazi Salahuddin (born 1953), footballer
• Sheikh Salahuddin (1969–2013), cricketer
• Salauddin Ahmed (born 1967), a contemporary architect
• Salahuddin Ahmad (1947/48–2025), lawyer and Attorney General 2008–2009
• Salahuddin Ahmed (governor) (born 1949), economist and governor of the Bangladesh Bank 2005–2009
• Salahuddin Ahmed Mukti (born 1973), Bangladeshi politician
• Saleh Uddin (born 1954), architect, professor, author and artist
• Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury (1949–2015), politician
• Mohammad Salahuddin (born 1973/74), cricket coach
• Md Saleh Uddin (born 1952), professor

Brunei

• Sallehuddin Damit (born 1973), footballer

India

• Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi (1931–2008), politician
• Sayeed Salahudeen (Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah, born 1946), a Kashmir separatist militant

Indonesia

• Salahuddin of Aceh (died 1548), sultan
• Salahudin (born 1970) (born 1970), footballer and football manager
• Salahuddin Wahid (1942-2020), Islamic scholar and politician

Malaysia

• Raja Lumu (Salehuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Daeng Chelak, 1705–1778), Sultan of Selangor
• Salahuddin of Selangor (Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, 1926–2001), head of state of Malaysia and Sultan of Selangor
• Sallehuddin of Kedah (Al Aminul Karim Sultan Sallehuddin ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, born 1942), Sultan of Kedah
• Salahuddin Ayub (1961–2023), politician
• Abang Muhammad Salahuddin (1921–2022), governor of Sarawak
• Izuan Salahuddin (born 1991), footballer

Maldives

• Husain Salahuddin (1881–1948), writer and scholar

Pakistan

• Salahuddin Mian (1938–2006), ceramic artist
• Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi, politician and Ameer of Bahawalpur from 1988
• Salahuddin (cricketer) (born 1947), cricketer
• Salahuddin (cricketer, born 1998) (born 1998)
• Salahuddin (wrestler) (Muhammad Salah-ud-din, born 1948)
• Salahuddin Toofani (1948–2008), actor and comedian
• Ghazi Salahuddin (born 1939), journalist and scholar
• Qazi Salahuddin (born 1942), field hockey player
• Adil Salahuddin (born 1939), stamp designer
• Yousuf Salahuddin (born 1951), philanthropist and politician
• Salahuddin Khan Mehsud, police officer
• Salahuddin Panhwar (born 1966), judge
• Salahuddin Tirmizi (born 1943), politician
• Usman Salahuddin (born 1990), cricketer
• Mooroo (Taimoor Salahuddin, fl. from 2011), rapper and musician
• Masood Salahuddin (1915–2006), cricket umpire
• Salahuddin Khan, politician
• Shaikh Salahuddin, politician and National Assembly member 2008–2013 and 2018–
• Sheikh Salahuddin (politician) (born 1956)
• Nawabzada Farid Salahuddin, politician

Thailand

• Salahudin Awae (born 1983), footballer

Europe

• Louis Saladin, 17th-century French composer
• Olivier Saladin (born 1952), a French actor
• Charles Saladin (1878–1942), French inventor of Saladin box
• Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877–1934), German chess master of Polish origins
• Lorenz Saladin (1896–1936), Swiss mountain-climber, journalist, photographer and traveler
• William Stewart Ross (1844–1906), Scottish writer who used the pseudonym "Saladin"

Americas

• Bashir Salahuddin (born 1976), actor, writer and comedian
• Bernard Saladin D'Anglure (1936–2025), Canadian anthropologist and ethnographer
• Dawud Salahuddin (born 1950), American Muslim assassin
• Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad, imam
• Saladin Martin (born 1956), American footballer
• Saladin Ahmed (born 1975), comic book and fantasy writer
• Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, religious writer
• Saladin K. Patterson, television writer and producer

See also

• Saladin (disambiguation), for other uses including fictional characters
• Selahattin, the Turkish version of the name
• Salahuddin Ahmed (disambiguation)