Abdel Fattah is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd

Abd (Arabic)

Abd is an Arabic word meaning one who is totally subordinated; a slave or a servant.Abid is a given name meaning "worshipper". It is based on the Arabic word "Ibadah", i.e. worship...

, al-

Al-

is the definite article in the Arabic language; a particle whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite. For example, the word kitāb 'book' can be made definite by prefixing it with al-, resulting in al-kitāb 'the book'...

and Fattah. The name means "servant of the Conqueror", Al-Fattāh being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by e. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Fattah, Fatah, or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

People with this name include:

Males

• Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
  Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha
  Yahya, Pasha Ibrahim was an Egyptian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1923 to 1924....
  
   (1876–1951), Egyptian politician
• Abdelfattah Amr, also known as F. D. Amr Bey
  F. D. Amr Bey
  Abdelfattah Amr , better known as "F.D. Amr Bey" or simply "Amr Bey", was an Egyptian diplomat and squash player. He won the British Open men's title six consecutive times , and is considered the first truly dominant squash player in the sport.-Name:Amr's full legal name in Arabic is Abdelfattah Amr...
  
   (1910–after 1972), Egyptian diplomat and squash player
• Abdul Fattah Ismail
  Abdul Fattah Ismail
  Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Council, head of state of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, and founder, chief ideologue, and first leader of the Yemeni Socialist Party from 21 December 1978 to 21 April 1980.Born in July 1939 in...
  
   (1939–1986), Yemeni politician
• Abdul Fatah Younis
  Abdul Fatah Younis
  Abdul Fatah Younis , sometimes transliterated Fattah Younis or Fattah Younes or Fatah Younes, was a senior military officer in Libya. He held the rank of Major General and the post of Minister of Interior, but resigned on 22 February 2011 to defect to the rebel side in what was to become the 2011...
  
   (1944-2011), Libyan soldier and politician
• Abdelfattah Kilito
  Abdelfattah Kilito
  Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines like Poétique and Studia Islamica...
  
   (born 1945), Moroccan writer
• Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah
  Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah
  Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah is a Dutch actor raised in France who has Moroccan-Yemenite roots. He is usually typecast to play an old Moroccan man, either an imam or a father.He lives in Amsterdam, is married and has a daughter and a son...
  
   (born 1949), Dutch actor
• Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah
  Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah
  Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of classical composers.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1962), Egyptian composer
• Abdulfatah Ahmed
  Abdulfatah Ahmed
  Abdulfatah Ahmed is a Nigerian banker and public servant who was elected Governor of Kwara State in the 26 April 2011 elections, running on the People's Democratic Party platform.-Background:...
  
   (born 1963), Nigerian banker and politician
• Essam Abd El Fatah
  Essam Abd El Fatah
  Essam Abd El Fatah is an Egyptian football referee. Abd El Fatah has been a referee since 2001; his first international game was between Morocco and Sierra Leone in 2003. He was the referee for the match between Australia and Japan in the 2006 FIFA World Cup...
  
   (born 1965), Egyptian football referee
• Mohamed Abdelfatah
  Mohamed Abdelfatah
  Greco-Roman Freestyle wrestlingMohamed Abdelfatah , commonly known by his nickname "Bogy" , is an Egyptian Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.-Career:Abdelfatah represented his country at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics...
  
   (born 1978), Egyptian wrestler
• Hassan Abdel Fattah
  Hassan Abdel Fattah
  Hassan Abdel-Fattah Mahmoud is a Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin, He plays as a Attacking Midfielder for Al-Wahdat, and is a member of the Jordan national football team and has always played as player number 18 of Jordan and number 5 of Al-Wahdat.-International career:Apparently, Hassan...
  
   (born 1982), Jordanian footballer
• Karim Adel Abdel Fatah
  Karim Adel Abdel Fatah
  Karim Adel Abdel Fatah is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays for Ghazl El-Mehalla in the Egyptian Premier League.-Tersana:Abdel Fatah joined Tersana on 28 February 2007...
  
   (born 1982), Egyptian footballer
• Abdul Fattah Al Agha (born 1984), Syrian footballer
• Abdoul-Fatah Mustafa (born 1984), Cameroonian footballer
• Abdul Fatawu Dauda
  Abdul Fatawu Dauda
  Abdul Fatawu Dauda is a Ghanaian football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Ashanti Gold SC.- Career :Dauda began his football career 2004 with Okwawu United and joined in 2006 to Ashanti Gold SC in his hometown Obuasi. He was member of the Ghana Premier League All Star Team 2007...
  
   (born 1985), Ghananian footballer
• Basel Abdoulfattakh
  Basel Abdoulfattakh
  Basel Mansur Abdoulfattakh is a Russian professional association football player. His father is of Syrian descent and his mother Russian. Currently, he plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara. He made his Russian Premier League debut on April 9, 2011 for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara in a game against...
  
   (born 1990), Russian footballer
• Abdoul Fatah (Malagasy politician)
• Alaa Abd El-Fatah
  Alaa Abd El-Fatah
  Alaa Abd El Fattah is an Egyptian blogger, software developer, and political activist. He is known for co-founding the Egyptian blog aggregator "Manalaa" and "Omraneya", the first Arab blog aggregators that did not restrict inclusion based on the content of the blog....
  
  , Egyptian blogger and activist
• Samir Abdel Fattah
  Samir Abdel Fattah
  Samir Abdel Fattah is a Yemeni short story writer, novelist and playwright. He moved to Sanaa in 1982, where he studied economics and business at university. He is known for his short story collections, the first of which, Ranin al-matar, appeared in 2002. He has published two more collections since...
  
  , Yemeni short story writer, novelist and playwright
• Abdolfattah Soltani
  Abdolfattah Soltani
  Abdolfattah Soltani is a well-known Iranian human rights lawyer, and spokesman for the Defenders of Human Rights Center, which was co-founded by the Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi. He has twice been incarcerated in the Islamic Republic of Iran for political offences in 2005 and 2009...
  
  , Iranian human rights lawyer
• Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Adelabu
  Abu-Abdullah Adelabu
  Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Taiye Ejire Adelabu is a West African Muslim scholar, writer, academic, publisher and cleric from Osogbo, capital city of Osun State, Nigeria.Adelabu studied Arabic and Islamic...
  
  , Nigerian scholar of Islamic and Arabic Studies, linguist, jurist and lecturer

Females

• Randa Abdel-Fattah
  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  Randa Abdel-Fattah is an Australian-born writer of Palestinian and Egyptian parentage.-Personal life:Randa Abdel-Fattah is an Australian-born writer of Palestinian and Egyptian parentage. Abdel-Fattah grew up in Melbourne but now lives in Sydney where she is a lawyer. She lives with her husband...
  
   (born 1979), Australian writer
• Kamilia Abdelfattah
  Kamilia Abdelfattah
  Professor Kamilia Ibrahim Abdelfattah is an Egyptian psychologist, and a pioneering Egyptian woman scientist in the field of child psychology and studies:-Academic career:...
  
  , Egyptian psychologist
• Israa Abdel Fatah, (born 1978), Egyptian internet activist and blogger