Marwan

Marwan

Pronunciation	Arabic: [marwaːn]
Gender	Male
Origin
Language(s)	Arabic
Meaning	Solid stone from marou used to make fire in ancient times.

Marwan (also spelled Maruan, Marouane, Merouane, Mervan, or Merwan, Template:Lang-ar) is an Arabic male name. Notable persons with that name include:

Persons with the given name

Marwan

• Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, King of Morocco (1576-1578)
• Marwan, alias of Zulkifli Abdhir, bomb maker and terrorist killed in 2015 in the Philippines
• Marwan I, Umayyad caliph (623-685)
• Marwan II, Umayyad caliph (688-750)
• Marwan (rapper), Danish-Palestinian rapper Mohamed Marwan
• Marwan Ali, Tunisian pop singer
• Marwan Barghouti, leader of the Palestinian group Fatah
• Marwan Charbel, Lebanese general and politician
• Marwan Dudin (1936–2016), Jordanian politician
• Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese politician
• Marwan Hamed, Egyptian film director
• Marwan Khoury, Lebanese artist
• Marwan al-Muasher, Jordanian politician
• Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati hijacker-pilot who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South World Trade Center Tower

Marouane

• Marouane Chamakh, a Moroccan-French footballer
• Marouane Fellaini, a Belgian footballer

Merouane

• Merouane Abdouni, Algerian footballer
• Merouane Anane, Algerian footballer
• Merouane Kial, Algerian footballer
• Merouane Zemmama, Moroccan footballer

Mervan

• Mervan Çelik, Swedish footballer of Kurdish descent

Merwan

• Merwan Rim, French actor and singer-songwriter

Persons with the surname

• Ashraf Marwan, Egyptian businessman
• Asma bint Marwan, a medieval Arabian female poet (7th century)
• Ibn Marwan, chieftain in the Al-Andalus (9th century)
• Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, general in the Al-Andalus (8th/9th century)

Fictional characters

• Habib Marwan, character in the TV drama 24

See also

• Marwanids (990-1085), Kurdish dynasty