Salman (name)

Salman or Salmaan or sal-mahn (Arabic: سَلْمان salmān), also spelt Sulman, Selman or ' is an Arabic male given name meaning "Safe" or "Secure".

Salman

Pronunciation	Arabic: [salˈmaːn] Urdu [səlˈmaːn]
Gender	Male
Origin
Meaning	"Safe" or "Secure"
Region of origin	Arabic

Given name

• Salman the Persian, one of Muhammad's companions
• Salman Nazif Countrey of Bangladesh
• Salman Abedi, terrorist responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017
• Salman Ahmad, Pakistani pop artist and member of the band Junoon
• Selman Akbulut, Turkish mathematician
• Salman Ali, Indian singer
• Salman bin Sultan Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician
• Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• Salman Al-Farij, Saudi Arabian footballer
• Salman Habaka, Israel Defense Forces officer, of Druze-Arab descent
• Salman Irshad, Pakistani cricketer
• Salman Khan, educator
• Salman Khan, Indian film actor
• Salman Khurshid, Indian politician
• Salmaan King, South African footballer
• Salman Mazahiri (1946–2020), Indian Muslim scholar
• Salman Raduyev, Chechen separatist warlord
• Selman Reis, Ottoman admiral
• Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist
• Salman Shah, Bangladeshi film actor
• Salman Shahid, Pakistani actor
• Selman Stërmasi, Albanian footballer
• Salmaan Taseer (1944–2011), Pakistani businessman and politician
• Salman Yusuff Khan, Indian dancer and actor

Surname

• Ali Salman, Bahraini Twelver Shi'a cleric and Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq political society
• Bart Selman, Dutch-American professor of computer science at Cornell University
• David Salman (1936–2010), American legislator known for sponsoring the first bill for use of medical marijuana in New Mexico, U.S., of Jewish descent
• Dulquer Salmaan, Indian Malayalam film actor and playback singer active from 2012
• Hussain Salman, Bahraini footballer
• İlyas Salman, Turkish actor, film director, author, screenwriter and musician
• John Selman (disambiguation)
• Karim Salman (1965–2020), Iraqi footballer
• Saad Salman, Iraqi-French film director
• Marcus Sahlman, Swedish footballer
• Peyman Salmani, Iranian footballer
• Athena Salman, Arizona House of Representatives member
• William A. Sahlman, American professor emeritus at the Harvard Business School.

See also

• Arabic name
• Salmon (given name)
• Salmon (surname)
• Solomon (name)
• Salomon (surname)
• Zalman (name)
• All pages with titles containing Salman