Fazal

Fazal or Fazl (Arabic: فضل) is an Arabic given name meaning grace. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Abul Fazal Muhammad Ahsanuddin Chowdhury or A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1915–2001), the ninth President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
• Abul Fazal (writer) (1903–1983), Bangladeshi author and novelist
• Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551–1602), the vizier of the great Mughal emperor Akbar
• Azra Fazal Peechoho or Azra Peechoho (born 1953), politician and physician in Sindh, Pakistan
• Fazal Akbar (1903–??), sixth Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Fazal Ali (1886–1959), governor of Assam and Orissa, and a judge
• Fazal Ali Qureshi (died 1935), Islamic scholar and the leading Naqshbandi shaikh of colonial India in the early twentieth century
• Fazal Dad Khan (1929–1999), Pakistani politician born in Dagai
• Fazal Dad Khan Dagai (1929–1999), activist of the Pakistan freedom movement
• Fazal Din (1921–1945), Punjabi Muslim recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Fazal Wahid (1858–1937), a Pashtun freedom fighter against the British Raj
• Fazal Haq Khaliqyar (1934–2004), Afghan politician, briefly Chairman of the Council of Ministers
• Fazal Haq Mujahid (born 1954), Mujahideen commander during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
• Fazal Hayat (1974–2018), leader of a banned Pakistani militant group
• Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904–1982), the fifth President of Pakistan
• Fazal Inayat-Khan (1942–1990), also known as Frank Kevlin, son of Hidayat Inayat Khan, grandson of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Fazal Khan, Pakistani lawyer and Pashtun human rights activist
• Fazal Khan Changawi (1868–1938), Punjabi writer of numerous books on Islam
• Fazal Mahmood (1927–2005), Pakistani cricketer
• Fazal Mohammad, citizen of Afghanistan and formerly a Taliban militia commander
• Fazal Nawaz Jung (1894–1964), Hyderabadi politician and financier
• Fazal Niyazai (born 1990), Afghan cricketer
• Fazl ur Rahman (disambiguation), several people
• Fazal Shah, member of National Assembly from Khairpur District, Sindh, Pakistan
• Fazal Shah Sayyad (1827–1890), Punjabi poet known for his qissas (long poems) on tragic romances
• Fazal Sheikh (born 1965), American photographer
• Fazal-e-Haq or Fazle Haq (1928–1991), high-ranking general in the Pakistan Army

Surname

• Ali Fazal (born 1986), Indian actor in movies and on stage
• Anwar Fazal (born 1941), Malaysian grassroots environmental activist
• Faiz Fazal, full name Faiz Yakub Fazal, (born 1985), Indian cricketer
• Mohammed Fazal (1922–2014), Governor of Maharashtra 2002–2004
• Said Fazal Akbar, the first Governor of Kunar province in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001
• Sohail Fazal (born 1967), Pakistani cricketer who played two ODIs in 1989
• Zahid Fazal (born 1973), Pakistani cricketer

See also

• Fazal Ali Commission
• Fazal Katchh
• Fazal Mosque
• Fazal-e-amal
• Tando Fazal
• Faisal (disambiguation)
• Fazuul