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Nu'man

Nu'man or Nu'maan is an Arabic given name dating to pre-Islamic times, meaning blood or red. Not to be confused with the close proximity of a similar Arabic word meaning happiness. It is also used with the definite article, , transliterated an-Nu'man or al-Nu'man. It may refer to:

  • seven of the Ghassanid Kings (327-ca. 600)
  • Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qays (reigned ca. 390–418), king of the Lakhmids
  • Al-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad (reigned 497–503), king of the Lakhmids
  • Al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Mundhir (active 581-583), king of the Ghassanids
  • Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (active (582–ca. 602), king of the Lakhmids
  • Nouman ibn Muqarrin (died 641), one of the companions of Muhammad
  • Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zuṭā ibn Marzubān, known as Abū Ḥanīfa (699—767), founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
  • Qadi al-Nu'man (died 974), Isma'ili jurist, official historian of the Fatimid caliphs
  • Köprülü Numan Pasha (died 1719), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
  • Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918), Crimean Tatar politician
  • Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1909-1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
  • Yasin Said Numan, Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986-1990
  • Numan Gumaa (born 1937) Egyptian lawyer and politician
  • Mohamed Noman Galal (born 1943), Egyptian diplomat and author
  • Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959), Turkish politician
  • Noman Mubashir (born 1974), Pakistani-Norwegian journalist
  • Noman Bashir, Pakistani admiral
  • Nomanul Haq, Pakistani-American historian
  • Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman, Yemeni diplomat
  • No'man Ashour, Egyptian poet and playwright
  • Noman Benotman, Libyan politician
  • Noman Masood, Pakistani television actor
  • Noman Ijaz, Pakistani television and film actor
  • Nouman Ali Khan, Pakistani-American Muslim speaker
  • Numan Majeed, Pakistani Researcher