Riaz (name)

Riaz (Arabic: رياض) is a Central and South Asian masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin.

Given name

• Riaz Hassan (1937–2022), Australian academic
• Riyaz Punjabi (1947–2021), professor and vice chancellor at the University of Kashmir
• Riaz Ahsan (1951–2008), Pakistani statistician
• Riyaz Ahmad (1958–2021), Indian politician
• Riaz Shahid (died 1972), Pakistani filmmaker and journalist
• Riaz Bagwan (born 1960), Indian cricketer
• Riaz Poonawala (born 1961), former cricketer
• Riaz Basra (1967–2002), Pakistani militant
• Riaz Farcy (born 1967), Hong Kong cricketer
• Riyaz Khan (born 1960), Indian actor and bodybuilder
• Riaz (actor) (born 1972), Bangladeshi film actor
• Riaz Afridi (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
• Riaz Amin (born 1998), English professional martial artist
• Riyaz Kharrat, Iranian chemical engineer
• Reaz Rahman, Bangladeshi former State Minister of Foreign Affairs

Surname

• Fahmida Riaz (born 1946), Urdu writer
• Mohammed Riaz (born 1972), Indian field hockey player
• Hussain Riyaz (born 1974), Maldivian sprinter
• Wahab Riaz (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer
• Adeeba Riyaz, Kashmiri poet

Arabic-based compound names with Riaz as an element

• Riaz al-Din, multiple people
  • Riazuddin (1930–2013), Pakistani theoretical physicist
  • Riazuddin (1958–2019), Pakistani cricket umpire
  • Shaikh Riazuddin (born 1971), Indian cricketer
  • Hamza Riazuddin (born 1989), British-Pakistani cricketer
  • Riyaz Uddin, Indian painter
  • Riaz al-Din Ahmad, multiple people
• Riaz al-Hasan
  • Mirza Riyaz Ul Hassan Effendi (born 1977)
• Riaz Al Haqq
  • A. F. Mohammad Reazul Huq Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician
  • Reyazul Haque Raju (born 1965), Indian politician
• Riaz al-Huda
  • Riyazul Huda, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Riaz al-Mawla
  • Reazul Mowla Rezu (born 1985), Bangladeshi film director, producer and screenplay writer

See also

• Riaz, municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
• Riaz Gujjar, a 1991 Pakistani film