Ziya
Ziya is a Turkish male given name of Arabic origin ( Arabic ضياء) with the meaning "shine", "splendor", "size". The transliteration Zia is found predominantly in Arabic-Persian language areas.
Name bearer
middle Ages
- Ziya'-ud-Din Barani (1285 – after 1357), Muslim Indian historian
Ottoman time
- Ziya Pascha (182? –1880), Ottoman author and translator
- Yusuf Ziya Bey (1882–1925), Kurdish politician, member of the first Turkish parliament
First name
- Ziya Alkurt (* 1990), Turkish soccer player
- Ziya Ataman (* 1989), Kurdish-Turkish journalist
- Ziya Aydın (* 1979), Turkish soccer player
- Ziya Doğan (soccer player) (* 1961), Turkish soccer player and coach
- Ziya Erdal (* 1988), Turkish soccer player
- Ziya Güler (* 1952), Turkish lieutenant general
- Ziya Pir (* 1970), Turkish politician
- Ziya Şanal (* 1956), Turkish civil engineer, founding rector of the German-Turkish University in Istanbul
- Ziya Selçuk (* 1961), Turkish psychologist and politician
- Ziya Şengül (* 1944), Turkish soccer player, coach, official and commentator
Intermediate name
- Yusuf Ziya Bahadınlı (* 1927), Turkish writer
- Tarık Ziya Ekinci (* 1925), Kurdish-Turkish medic, politician and author
- Yusuf Ziya Günaydın (* 1949), Turkish politician
- Nazmi Ziya Güran (1881–1937), Ottoman-Turkish impressionist painter
- Yusuf Ziya Özcan (* 1951), Turkish social scientist
- Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil (1866–1945), Turkish writer
stage name
- Ziya Gökalp (1875 / 76–1924), Turkish sociologist, publicist and essayist
Zia
- Ahmad Zia Massoud (* 1956), Afghan politician
- Khaleda Zia (* 1945), Prime Minister of Bangladesh and widow of Zia ur-Rahman
- Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq (1924–1988), President of Pakistan (1978–1988)
- Oscar Zia (* 1996), Swedish singer
- René Zia (* 1991), Austrian soccer player
- Zia Qarizada (1922-2008), Afghan poet and singer
- Ziaur Rahman (1936–1981), known as Zia, President of Bangladesh (1977–1981)
Chinese name
- Ziya is also the transcription of a Chinese name with the same sound: 子牙 (Zǐyá, Chinese for simplified). The most famous bearer is the mythical hero figure Jiang Ziya. The name means "child of ivory".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ziya on www.vornamen-weltweit.de
- ↑ Ziya in the dictionary of names (Turkish)
- ↑ Ziya on www.behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Chinese Outpost [1]