Najm al-Din

Najm al-Din (Arabic: نجم الدين, romanized: Najm al-Dīn, lit. 'Star of the Faith'), also transliterated Najm ad-Din, Najmuddin, etc., is a male given name of Arabic origin. It may refer to:

• Najm al-Din Ayyub (died 1173), Kurdish soldier, father of Saladin
• Umara al-Yamani (1121–1174), Yemeni poet and historian
• Najm al-Din al-Khabushani (1116–1191), Persian Shafi'i jurist
• Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221), Persian Sufi philosopher
• Najm al-Din Razi (1177–1256), Persian Sufi philosopher
• Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub, or just As-Salih Ayyub (1205–1249), Ayyubid ruler of Egypt
• Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī (died 1276), Persian Islamic philosopher and logician of the Shafi`i school
• Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi (died 1330), Persian physician
• Najimuddin Ali Khan (1750–1766), Nawab of Bengal
• Najmuddin of Gotzo (1859–1925), North Caucasian religious, military and political anticommunist leader
• Jumeken Najimedenov (1935–1983), Kazakh composer
• Najmuddin Shaikh (1939-2025), Pakistani diplomat
• Najmaldin Karim (1949–2020), Governor of Kirkuk Province
• Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar (born 1956), exiled Kurdish politician
• Najmadin Shukr Rauf (1957–1985), Kurdish soldier
• Suzan Najm Aldeen (born 1966), Syrian actress
• Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr (born 1986), Sudanese athlete
• Najm Eldin Abdullah (born 1987), Sudanese footballer
• Najmiddin Jalolov (1972-2009), Uzbek Islamic fighter
• Najmuddin Khan, Pakistani politician

• Mazraeh-ye Khodaqoli Najam ol Din, village in Iran

• Necmettin

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