Farag

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Farag is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Given name[edit]

  • Farag Foda (1946–1992), Egyptian professor, writer, columnist, and human rights activist

Surname[edit]

  • Ahmed Hassan Farag (born 1982), Egyptian footballer
  • Ahmed Samir Farag (born 1986), Egyptian footballer
  • Alfred Farag (1929–2005), eminent Egyptian playwright of the post-1952 Revolution period
  • Ali Farag, (born 1992), professional squash player who represents Egypt
  • Andy Farag, the percussionist for rock band Umphrey's McGee
  • Haiat Farag (born 1987), amateur Egyptian freestyle wrestler who played for the women's middleweight category
  • Ibrahim Farag (born 1990), Egyptian freestyle wrestler
  • Ismael Ali Farag al Bakush, Libyan detainee held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba
  • Mohamad Farag (born 1986), Midfielder or central midfielder or attacking midfielder
  • Mohammed Abdul-Salam Farag (1954–1982), Egyptian radical Islamist and theorist
  • Mohamed Farag Bashmilah, citizen of Yemen, reportedly a subject of the United States' extraordinary rendition program
  • Nagaite Farag on The Apprentice (Irish TV series)
  • Sami Farag (1935–2015), Egyptian lawyer, judge, prosecutor and vice-president of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt
  • Yasser Ibrahim Farag (born 1984), Egyptian athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw events

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