Sajjad سَجَّاد is agiven name and asurname derived 'to bow down (before God)', shared with the Arabic wordمسجدmasjid 'mosque'.^[1]

Notable people with the name include:

• Imam Sajjad (Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin) (658-712), 4th Imam of Shia Islam
• Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram (1880–1943), Urdu short story writer, travel writer, translator, linguist, essayist, and humorist
• Sajjad Akbar (1961-2024), Pakistani cricketer
• Sajjad Ali (born 1966), Pakistani semi-classical, pop singer, film actor, director and producer
• Sajjad Anoushiravani (born 1984), Iranian weightlifter
• Sajjad Fazel (born 1991), Tanzanian clinical pharmacist, public health researcher, health columnist
• Sajjad Ganjzadeh (born 1992), Iranian karateka
• Sajjad Gul, Pakistani film producer, media mogul
• Sajad Haider (1932-2025), Pakistani fighter pilot
• Sajjad Hussain (cricketer, born 1980) (born 1980), Indian cricketer
• Sajjad Hussain (cricketer, born 1986) (born 1986), Pakistani cricketer
• Sajjad Hussain (composer) (1917-1995), Indian music director
• Sajjad Karim (born 1970), British Asian politician
• Sajjad Gharibi (born 1991), Iranian bodybuilder
• Sajjad Ghani Lone (born 1967), Indian Kashmiri politician, and former Member of the Legislative Assembly
• Sajjad Mardani (born 1988), Iranian taekwondo player
• Sajjad Haider Nadeem (born 1957), Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
• Sajjad Hussain Qureshi (1923–1998), politician, Governor of Punjab 1985-1988
• Sajjad Sadeghi (born 1983), Iranian Political Scientist and political prisoner.
• Sajjad Shar (born 1986), Secretary General of banned organization Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz
• Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973), Urdu writer, Marxist thinker and revolutionary

• Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Pakistani professor, politician and columnist
• Aamer Sajjad (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer
• Razia Sajjad Zaheer (1918–1979), Indian writer in the Urdu language, translator

• Enver Sajjad (1935–2019), Pakistani playwright and fiction writer
• Pervez Sajjad (born 1942), Pakistani cricketer
• Wasim Sajjad (born 1941), Pakistani lawyer, former President of Pakistan

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