Karim
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Karim is a common given and surname of Arabic
origin.
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
origin.
Given name
- Kareem AmerKareem AmerAbdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman Amer is an Egyptian blogger and former law student. He was arrested by Egyptian authorities for posts on his that were considered to be anti-religious and insulting to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
, Egyptian blogger - Kareem KellyKareem KellyKareem Kelly is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
, Canadian footballer - Kareem RushKareem RushKareem Lamar Rush is an American former professional basketball player who last played at shooting guard with the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers...
, American basketball player - Karim BagheriKarim BagheriKarim Bagheri is a retired professional Iranian player, most notably playing for Persepolis in the Iran Pro League. He was known as a two-footed midfielder and is famous for his powerful and thundering long range shots and free kicks.-Early years:...
, Iranian footballer - Karim BangouraKarim BangouraKarim Bangoura was a Guinean diplomat.Born into a notable Susu family in Coyah in the mid 1920s, Bangoura was originally a school teacher and was an important member of the African Bloc of Guinea. Until 1958 he was a representative to the French Union...
, Guinean diplomat - Karim BenounesKarim BenounesKarim Benounes is an Algerian international footballer. He currently plays for Vasas SC in the Hungarian National Championship I....
, Algerian footballer - Karim BenzemaKarim BenzemaKarim Benzema is a French international footballer who currently plays for Real Madrid in the Spanish La Liga. He primarily plays as a striker whose influence can extend out to the wings and is known for his technical ability, powerful style of play, and vast goal-scoring ability...
, French footballer - Karim BoudiafKarim BoudiafKarim Boudiaf is an Algerian footballer. He currently plays for Lekhwiya SC in the Qatar Stars League. He can play as a central defender and as a defensive midfielder.-Club career:...
, Algerian footballer - Karim DahouKarim DahouKarim Dahou is a French football midfielder currently playing for French Championnat National side Nîmes Olympique.His previous clubs include Olympique Marseille and FC Lorient....
, Moroccan footballer - Karim HagguiKarim HagguiKarim Haggui is a Tunisian football defender. He currently plays for Hannover 96.- Early career :Haggui started his career in 1998 with AS Kasserine in his home town, eventually moving to Etoile du Sahel two years later and starting his professional career there in 2003...
, Tunisian footballer - Karim GarciaKarim GarcíaGustavo Karim García Aguayo is an outfielder with the Hanhwa Eagles of the Korean Baseball Organization. García bats and throws left-handed, and has been nicknamed "The Latino Bambino."-Early years:...
, baseball player for the Philadelphia PhilliesPhiladelphia PhilliesThe Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League... - Karim KerkarKarim KerkarKarim Kerkar is an Algerian international footballer who currently plays for Ajman Club in the UAE Football League.-Personal:Kerkar was born to a family of Algerian immigrants in the town of Givors in France...
, Algerian footballer - Karim MatmourKarim MatmourKarim Matmour is an Algerian professional footballer. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for German 2. Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Algerian national team.-Club career:...
, Algerian footballer - Karim Maroc, Algerian footballer
- Karim DjeballiKarim DjeballiKarim Djellabi is an Algerian-French football midfielder. He currently plays for Angers SCO in the French Ligue 2. Despite having been formed as a left-winger, he plays mainly as left-back.-External links:* *...
, French footballer - Karim AzizouKarim AzizouKarim Azizou is a Moroccan football right back. He currently plays for Maghreb Fez.Azizou signed a three year contract with Triestina in summer 2005....
, Moroccan footballer - Karim TulaganovKarim TulaganovKarim Tulaganov is an Uzbek boxer. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Light Middleweight category, together with Yermakhan Ibraimov of Kazakhstan.-Amateur career:...
, Uzbek boxer and Olympic medalist - Karim SaidiKarim SaidiKarim Saïdi is a Tunisian football player who currently plays for Belgian club Lierse SK.When Karim was 10 years old he joined Club Africain, one of the major clubs in Tunisia. He made his debut in the Tunisian national team against Morocco in 2003...
, Tunisian footballer - Karim ZianiKarim ZianiKarim Koceila Yanis Ziani is an Algerian professional footballer. He currently plays as a creative midfielder for the Qatari club Al-Jaish on loan from German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg, and for the Algerian national team...
, Algerian footballer - Karim Khan Zand, Persian soldier
- Kerim KerimovKerim KerimovLieutenant-General Kerim Aliyevich Kerimov was an Azerbaijani-Soviet/Russian aerospace engineer and a renowned rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program. Despite his prominent role, his identity was kept a...
, Azerbaijani rocket scientist - Kareem Abdul-JabbarKareem Abdul-JabbarKareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season...
, American former basketball player - Kareem McKenzieKareem McKenzieKareem Michael McKenzie is a player for the New York Giants of the National Football League.McKenzie played only two years of high school football at Willingboro High School in Willingboro Township, New Jersey....
, American football player - Kareem Dennis, aka LowkeyLowkeyKareem Dennis is a musician and political activist of English and Iraqi descent, better known by his stage name Lowkey. He first became known through a series of mixtapes he released before he was 18, before taking a hiatus from the music business...
, British musician - Karim PrinceKarim Prince-Roles:*General Hospital *Self Medicated *CSI: Miami *They Shoot Divas, Don't They? *Family Law *How to Make a Monster *FreakyLinks*Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
, American actor - Karim Abdel AzizKarim Abdel AzizKarim Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian actor. He is the son of director Mohammad Abdul Aziz and nephew of film director Omar Abdel Aziz, while his aunt is the actress Samira Muhsin...
, Egyption actor - Karim HaddadKarim HaddadKarim Haddad Composer of contemporary music Born on January 22, 1962 in Dar-el Mraisseh, Beirut, Lebanon.-Education:He achieved his first musical studies at the National Conservatory of Beirut. He received B.A. of Philosophy and literature at the American University of Beirut.He left his war torn...
, composer of contemporary music - Karim PakradouniKarim PakradouniKarim Pakradouni , born in Beirut on August 18, 1944 to an Armenian Orthodox father and Maronite Catholic mother, is a Lebanese Christian attorney and politician. He has been a leading figure in the Kataeb Party since 1968 when he became head of its student wing...
, Lebanese-Maronite Christian attorney - Karim Masimov, Prime Minister of KazakhstanKazakhstanKazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
- Prince Karim Aga KhanAga Khan IVPrince Karim, Aga Khan IV, NPk, NI, KBE, CC, GCC, GCIH, GCM is the 49th and current Imam of the Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili Muslims. He has held this position under the title of Aga Khan since July 11, 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan...
current ImāmImamAn imam is an Islamic leadership position, often the worship leader of a mosque and the Muslim community. Similar to spiritual leaders, the imam is the one who leads Islamic worship services. More often, the community turns to the mosque imam if they have a religious question...
of the Shia Imami Ismaili MuslimMuslimA Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
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Surname
- Aasif KarimAasif KarimAasif Yusuf Karim was a Kenyan cricketer. Of Indian ancestry, Karim made a reputation for himself as a useful lower-order batsman but predominantly as a left-arm spinner, frequently said to be one of the best outside the Test-playing nations...
, Kenyan cricketer - Afsir KarimAfsir KarimMajor General Afsir Karim, is a retired Indian Army general and military scholar who has authored several books on strategic affairs & military studies. He is a graduate of the Defense Services Staff College, Wellington and the National Defence College....
, Indian Army general and military scholar - Jawed KarimJawed KarimJawed Karim is a Bangladeshi German American technologist and co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube...
, co-founder of YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.... - Mahmoud KarimMahmoud KarimMahmoud el Karim was a squash player from Egypt. He won the British Open men's title four consecutive times from 1947-1950.-Playing career:...
, Egyptian professional squash player - Mohammed KarimMohammed KarimMohammed Karim was an Egyptian film director, writer, and producer. Karim brought Faten Hamama to fame in the movie Yawm Said. His 1946 film Dunia was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. -External links:...
, Egyptian film director - Rashid KarimRashid Karim-Novels:*Uttam Purush *Prasanno Pashan *Amar Jato Glani *Prem Ekti Lal Golap *Sadharan Loker Kahini...
, Bangladeshi novelist - Saba KarimSaba KarimSaba Karim is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.Karim has a long history with professional cricket, having started his career in 1982–83 immediately after finishing his schooling from St. Xavier's High School, Patna...
, Indian cricketer - Sajjad KarimSajjad KarimSajjad Haider Karim also known as Saj is a Member of the European Parliament for North West England.Karim was the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2004. He was re-elected in June 2009.-Early life:...
, Member of the European Parliament
Fictional characters
- Karim familyKarim familyThe Karims are a fictional family that appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 1987 and 1990.-Creation and development:The Muslim Karim family were introduced as the owners of the soap's grocery store, the First til Last, following the departure of the character Naima Jeffery in 1987,...
- Kareem SaidKareem SaidKareem Saïd is a character played by British actor Eamonn Walker on the American television show Oz.-Character overview:Prisoner #97S444. Convicted June 6, 1997 - Arson in the second degree. Sentence: 18 years, eligible for parole in five...
, a Muslim prisoner in the T.V. series OzOz (TV series)Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons... - Karim, a fictional character in the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's RequiemEternal Darkness: Sanity's RequiemEternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a psychological horror action-adventure video game released for the Nintendo GameCube. Developed by Canadian developer Silicon Knights and originally planned for the Nintendo 64, it was first released and published by Nintendo on June 24, 2002 in North America...
Other uses
- Karim (record label)Karim (record label)Karim was an Italian record label active from 1960 to 1966, when it closed.-History:The Karim label was started in 1960 by Giovanni Fischietti and Gaetano Purvilenti. From the start it was a S.p.A., making 45s and LPs...
- Karim Hotel, DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
See also
- Abdul KarimAbdul KarimAbdul Karim is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Karim. The name means "servant of the most Generous", Al-Karīm being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.The letter a of the al-...
, Arabic theophoric name - Karimov, Russianized surname
- Kerimov, Russianized surname