Sufyan

Sufyan () is an Arabic name.

• Nader Sufyan Abbas (born 1975), Qatari weightlifter
• Abu Sufyan Al-Azdi (1973–2013), Saudi Arabian deputy leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
• Khaled bin Sufyan Al-Hathali (died 625), belonged to the Banu Lahyan tribe at the time of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
• Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (560–652), leader of the Quraish tribe of Mecca
• Muawiyah ibn-abi-Sufyan or Muawiyah I (602–680) established the Umayyad Dynasty of the caliphate
• Sufyan Ben Qumu or Abu Sufian bin Qumu (born 1959), citizen of Libya held in Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
• Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, son of Ḥārith ibn Abd al-Muttalib and a sahaba (companion) and a cousin of Muhammad
• Ramla bint Abi Sufyan (c. 594–666), a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers
• Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), American singer
• Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778), tabi'i Islamic scholar, Hafiz and jurist, founder of the Thawri madhhab
• Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah (725–814), prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca
• Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (died 639), one of the companions of Muhammad
• Yazid Ibn Muawiyah Ibn Abu Sufyan or Yazid I, (647–683), the second Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate
• Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (622-673), Muslim general and administrator and a member of the clan of the Umayyads

See also

• Harf Sufyan District, district of the 'Amran Governorate, Yemen
• Sufan (disambiguation)
• Sufyani
• Sofiane (disambiguation)