Ghulam

For other uses, seeGhulam (disambiguation).

"Gholam" redirects here. For the village in Iran, seeGholam, Iran.

Ghulam(Arabic:غلام,ALA-LC:ghulām) is an Arabic word meaningservant,assistant,boy,oryouth.It is used to describe young servants in paradise. It is also used to refer to slave-soldiers in theAbbasid,Ottoman,Safavidand to a lesser extent,Mughal empires,as described in the articleGhilman,which is the plural form of the word.

It is traditionally used as the first element of compounded Muslim male given names, meaningservant of...,mostly inPersian(where it is pronouncedGholâm) and inUrdu.In both Persian and Urdu, the particleal-is not used withghulam(unlike compounds formed withʿabd;e.g.Gholammohammad,Gholamhoseyn,Gholamali... andAbd al-Muhammad,Abd al-Husayn,Abd al-Ali...). Since the 20th century,Ghulamhas also been used as an independent given name and surname.

People with the given name (not in compound)

• Mohammad Golam Shahi Alam(born 1952), Bangladeshi academic and surgeon
• Golam Ambia(born 1966), Bangladeshi sprinter
• Ghulam Bombaywala,Pakistani-American restaurateur
• Golam Mabud Chowdhury(born 1984), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Golam Wahed Choudhury(1926–1997), Bangladeshi diplomat and political scientist
• Golam Habib Dulal(born 1943), Bangladeshi politician
• Mirza Ghulam Hafiz(1920–2000), Bangladeshi statesman and philanthropist
• Golam Hasnayen(1929–2021), Bangladeshi lawyer and activist
• Golam Kabir(born 1988), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Golam Kabir (academic),vice-chancellor ofSheikh Hasina University
• Golam Helal Morshed Khan,Bangladeshi major general
• R. A. M. Golam Muktadir(died 2020), former Director General ofBangladesh Rifles
• Ghulam Murshid(1940-2024), Bangladeshi author, scholar and journalist
• A. F. Golam Osmani(1933–2009), Indo-Bengali politician
• Mia Golam Parwar(born 1959), Bangladeshi politician
• Arbab Ghulam Rahim(born 1957), Pakistani politician
• Ghulam Raziq(1932-1989), Pakistani hurdler
• Golam Shabbir Sattar(born 1962), Bangladeshi vice-chancellor of theUniversity of Rajshahi
• Ghulam Arieff Tipoo(1931–2024), Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal
• Golam Sabur Tulu(1953–2013), Bangladeshi politician
• Ghulam Yazdani(1885–1962), Hyderabadi archaeologist
• Golam Yazdani(1917–2009), former cabinet minister of West Bengal

People with the surname

• Nabil Gholam(born 1962), Lebanese architect
• Jassim Ghulam Al-Hamd(born 1979), Iraqi footballer
• Ali Gholam(born 1981), Iranian footballer
• Sara Ghulam(born 1989), Canadian model
• Saleem Golam,Mauritian jockey

List of compounded given names with first partGhulam

• Ghulam Abbas
• Ghulam Ahmad,also Ghulam Ahmed
• Ghulam Akbar
• Ghulam Ali
• Ghulam Azam(1922–2014), Bangladeshi politician
• Ghulam Dastagir
• Ghulam Farid
• Ghulam Faruq
• Ghulam Ghawth
• Ghulam Hassan
• Ghulam Haider
• Ghulam Hussainalso Gholam Hossein etc.
• Ghulam Ishaq, notably borne by
  • Ghulam Ishaq Khan(1915–2006), President of Pakistan
• Ghulam Jilani
• Ghulam Kibria
• Ghulam Mansur, notably borne by
  • Ghulam Mansoor(born 1812), Subedar-Major at Bhopal State in 1867
• Ghulam Mohammad,also Ghulam Mohammed, Ghulam Muhammad etc., notably borne by
  • Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt(1878–1960), Pakistani wrestler known as "The Great Gama"
• Ghulam Mawla
• Ghulam Mohiuddin,also other spellings
• Ghulam Murtaza
• Ghulam Murshid
• Ghulam Mustafa
• Ghulam Nabi,notably borne by
  • Ghulam Nabi Azad(born 1949) Indian politician
• Ghulam Qadir
• Ghulam Rabbani
• Ghulam Rahman
• Ghulam Rasul,also Ghulam Rasool
• Gholam Reza,notably borne by
  • Gholam Reza Pahlavi
• Ghulam Samdani
• Ghulam Sadiq
• Ghulam Sarwar

See also

• Ghilman,young servants in paradise or slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, Safavid and to a lesser extent, Mughal empires
• Ghulam Khan,town in North Waziristan, Pakistan
• Bauria Golam Khalek Academy,secondary school in Sandwip, Bangladesh
• Abd (Arabic)
• Qul (Turkic)