Fatah (Arabic: فَتْح fat·ḥ) is an Arabic name and surname, meaning "open, begin, start, commence". A variant of the name is Fattah, also spelt Fattaah (Arabic: فَتَّاح fattāḥ) which denotes the same or similar meaning.
Notable people with the name Fatah include:
- Abdul Fatah Haqqani (died 2011), Afghanistani alleged Taliban activist
- Abdel-Fatah Qudsiyeh (born 1953), deputy director of the Syrian National Security Bureau
- Abdoul Fatah (Malagasy politician) (active 2007)
- Abdoul-Fatah Mustafa (born 1984), Cameroonian footballer
- Abdul Fatah Younis (1944–2011), Libyan senior military officer
- Chopy Fatah (born 1983), Kurdish singer
- Essam Abdel-Fatah (born 1965), Egyptian football referee
- Fatah Ait Saada (born 1978), Algerian artistic gymnast
- Fatah Masoud (born 1989), Libyan futsal goalkeeper.
- Fatah Nsaief (born 1951), Iraqi football goalkeeper
- Fatah Said (born 1986), Moroccan footballer
- Ismail Fatah al-Turk (1934/38 – 2004), Iraqi painter and sculptor
- Karim Adel Abdel Fatah (born 1982), Egyptian footballer
- Mir-Fatah-Agha (AKA Mushthaid, before 1829 – 1892), high-ranking Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric in the Caucasus
- Natasha Fatah (active from 1996), Canadian journalist
- Rebwar Fatah (active from 1982), Kurdish writer and journalist
- Ridzuan Fatah Hasan (born 1981), Singaporean football player
- Tarek Fatah (1949–2023), Canadian writer, broadcaster, secularist and liberal activist
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.