Murad or Mourad (Arabic: مراد) is an Arabic name. It is also common in Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Turkish, Persian, and Berber as a male given name or surname and is commonly used throughout the Muslim world and Middle East.
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Etymology
It is derived from the Arabic Semitic triliteral root رود (r-w-d). Its Arabic meaning can be translated roughly into wanted, desired, wished for, yearned or goal.
Given name
Ottoman sultans
Murad I (1326–1389), often nicknamed Hüdavendigâr—from Persian: خداوندگار Khodāvandgār —"the devotee of God", the third sultan. Received the name Murad through a play on the Arabic word "murad", which means "wish" or "desire".
Murad II (1404–1451), Ottoman sultan
Murad III (1546–1595), Ottoman sultan
Murad IV (1612–1640), Ottoman sultan
Murad V (1840–1904), Ottoman sultan
Others
Şehzade Murad (1495–1519), Ottoman prince
Murad (1911–1997), Indian actor
Murad Artin (born 1960), Armenian-Swedish politician
Murad Mirza (1570–1599), second son of Mughal Emperor Akbar
Murad Baksh (1624–1661), youngest son of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal
Murad Bey (1750–1801), Egyptian Mamluk chieftain
Murad Hasratyan (1935–2026), Armenian architecture historian
Murad Ismail (born 1961), Indonesian politician
Murad Qureshi (born 1965), British Bangladeshi Labour Party politician
Murad Umakhanov (born 1977), Russian wrestler and Olympian
Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931–2020) German diplomat and author
Murad Khan (disambiguation), multiple people.
Murad Yagizarov (1939–2025), Soviet and Azerbaijani actor
Murad Abdulhadi (born 1971), Ethiopian politician
Mourad the Great, nickname of Hampartsoum Boyadjian (1860–1915), an Armenian fedayee and political activist
Mourad Benachenou, Algerian politician
Mourad Benchellali, French citizen captured and detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps
Surname
Murad
Abdul Hakim Murad (militant) (born 1968), alleged conspirator in the planned attacks called Operation Bojinka
Abdal Hakim Murad (born: Timothy John Winter, 1960) English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar
Adel Murad (1949–2018), Iraqi politician
Ahmad Murad (1943–2004), Bruneian diplomat
Ferid Murad (1936–2023), American physician and pharmacologist
Hadji Murad (1818–1852), Avar military commander
Hilmi Murad (1919–1998), Egyptian politician
Jerry Murad (1918–1996), American recording artist, an Armenian born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1918
Mohammad Murad (born 1976), Kuwaiti wildlife photographer
Murad Ali Murad (born 1960), Afghan Army officer
Nadia Murad (born 1993), Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist
Raza Murad (born 1950), Indian character actor, son of Murad
Sayed Noorullah Murad (born 1979), an Afghan politician, military commander and former deputy minister
Waheed Murad (1938–1983), Pakistani film producer, writer, and actor
Zuhair Murad (born 1971), a Beirut-based Lebanese fashion designer
Other names
Murad Buildings, Construction company of Uzbekistan