Salama (name)

Salama ( Arabic سلامة, DMG Salāma ) is a male given name of Arabic origin. It means "security, well-being". It is also the Finnish word for "lightning". Both also appear as family names .

Name bearer

First name

• Salama Moussa (1889–1958), man of letters and thinker of the Arab world
• Raouf Salama Moussa (1929–2006), Egyptian bacteriologist and publisher

family name

• Amr Ezzat Salama (* 1951), Egyptian research and university minister
• Fathy Salama (* 1969), Egyptian musician
• Hannu Salama (* 1936), Finnish writer
• Hasan Salama († 1948), Field Commander of the Palestinian Army in the 1948 Palestine War
• Kareem Salama (* 1978), American singer and musician
• Pierre Salama (1917–2009), Algerian classical archaeologist
• Sheikh Mohamed Salamah , Koran reciter from Egypt