Zia

Zia
Gender:	Female and male
Origin:	Arabic
Meaning:	"light"

Zia (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya , Dia or Diya, Template:Lang-Persian) is a name of Persian origin.

People

First element of compound name

• Ziauddin (disambiguation)
• Ziaur Rahman (disambiguation)

Given name

• Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929–1990), popularly known as Z. M. Dagar, Indian musician
• Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi Shiite leader
• Zia Inayat-Khan, (aka Pir Zia), spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International
• Zia Mahmood, (born 1946), Pakistani contract bridge player
• Zia McCabe, (born 1975), American musician and founding member of The Dandy Warhols
• Zia Mian, Pakistani physicist and nuclear expert
• Zia Mody, Indian legal consultant and businesswoman
• Zia Mohyeddin (born 1933), Pakistani actor
• Zia Ul Shah, citizen of Pakistan held by the United States in Guantanamo
• Ziya Tong, Canadian television host
• Anastasia de Torby (1892–1977), also known as Lady Zia Wernher, Russian aristocrat.
• Park Ji-a (born 1972), South Korean actress

Surname

• Caleb K. Zia, Chinese American educator
• Helen Zia (born 1952), American journalist
• Junaid Zia (born 1983), Pakistani cricketer
• Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan
• Sameer Zia (born 1981), sportsman from the United Arab Emirates

Other uses

• Applebay Zia, motor glider
• The Zia people, a tribe in New Mexico, United States
• The Zia people (Papua New Guinea), a tribe in Papua New Guinea
  • The Zia language of Papua New Guinea
• Zia (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus
• Zia International Airport, Bangladesh, now Shahjalal International Airport
• Zhukovsky International Airport, an airport in Russia with the IATA identifier of ZIA.
• Zamboanga International Airport, Philippines
• Zia (novel), the sequel to Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Zia, a character in the animated television series The Mysterious Cities of Gold
• A character in The Red Pyramid (novel)
• Zia, a small village on the Greek island of Kos
• Zia, the Italian word for aunt
• Zia is the main character in the independent movie Wristcutters: A Love Story.
• Zia (band)
• Zia (singer), the stage name of South Korean singer Baek Ji Hye.
• Zia, a character in the video game Bastion

See also

• Tzia or Zia (Greek: Τζια), an alternative name for Kea (island), Cyclades, Greece
• Ziya, the Turkish spelling of the Arabic name
• Sia (disambiguation)