Nu'man

Nu'man (Arabic: نعمان‎) or Nu'maan is an Arabic given name dating to pre-Islamic times, meaning blood or red. or a man having some special blessing

Prevailingly, the islamic given name is most commonly associated to the Arabic word meaning bliss. It is also used with the definite article, النعمان, transliterated an-Nu'man or al-Nu'man. It may refer to:

• seven of the Ghassanid Kings (327-ca. 600)
• Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qays (reigned ca. 390–418), king of the Lakhmids
• Al-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad (reigned 497–503), king of the Lakhmids
• Al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Mundhir (active 581-583), king of the Ghassanids
• Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (active (582–ca. 602), king of the Lakhmids
• Nouman ibn Muqarrin (died 641), one of the companions of Muhammad
• Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zuṭā ibn Marzubān, known as Abū Ḥanīfa (699—767), founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
• Qadi al-Nu'man (died 974), Isma'ili jurist, official historian of the Fatimid caliphs
• Köprülü Numan Pasha (died 1719), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918), Crimean Tatar politician
• Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1909-1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
• Yasin Said Numan, Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986-1990
• Numan Gumaa (born 1937) Egyptian lawyer and politician
• Mohamed Noman Galal (born 1943), Egyptian diplomat and author
• Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959), Turkish politician
• Noman Mubashir (born 1974), Pakistani-Norwegian journalist
• Noman Bashir, Pakistani admiral
• Nomanul Haq, Pakistani-American historian
• Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman, Yemeni diplomat
• No'man Ashour, Egyptian poet and playwright
• Noman Benotman, Libyan politician
• Noman Masood, Pakistani television actor
• Noman Ijaz, Pakistani television and film actor
• Nouman Ali Khan, Pakistani-American Muslim speaker