Kasim
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Kasim is the transliteration of two male given names; and .

The latter name has a diacritic, in the strict transliteration, on the "I", which emphasises the long "I" sound in that name's pronunciation.

Both names are also used as surnames.

The origin of this name comes from the name of the first son of prophet Mohammed.

Given name

  • Kassem G
    Kassem G
    Kassem Gharaibeh is a comedian and actor best known for his online series and . As of August 2011 his YouTube channel has more than 1.6 million subscribers....

    , American comedian
  • Qasim I of Astrakhan
    Qasim I of Astrakhan
    Qasim I Khan was a ruler of Astrakhan Khanate, from the 1470s onwards.He was crowned after the death of his father, Mäxmüd of Astrakhan....

    , Khan of Astrakhan
  • Qasim II of Astrakhan
    Qasim II of Astrakhan
    Qasim II khan was a ruler of Astrakhan Khanate in 1532. He was a son of Big Horde's khan Sayed Akhmad, and a grandson of Akhmat. He occupied Xacitarxan throne with the help of Nogays. He was a supporter of centralization policy. He is known to send a letter to Ottoman sultan Süleyman in 1531/1532....

    , Khan of Astrakhan
  • Kasim Abid, Iraqi film director
  • Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
    Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
    Al-Qāsim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was an important jurist in early Islam. He is considered the fourth in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain of Sufi masters. Naqshbandis also consider him to have passed the chain to his grandson Ja'far as-Sadiq...

    , grandson of the first Muslim caliph
    Caliph
    The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah. It is a transcribed version of the Arabic word   which means "successor" or "representative"...

     Abu Bakr
    Abu Bakr
    Abu Bakr was a senior companion and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ruled over the Rashidun Caliphate from 632-634 CE when he became the first Muslim Caliph following Muhammad's death...

  • Kasim Alibegović
    FK Sloboda Tuzla
    FK Sloboda is a football club from the city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The English translation of the team's name is Football Club Freedom...

    , footballer
  • Qasim Amin
    Qasim Amin
    Qasim Amin born on 1 December 1863 Alexandria died April 22, 1908 Cairo was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University. Qasim Amin was considered by many as the Arab world’s “first feminist”...

    , a jurist most noted as an early advocate of women's rights in Egypt
  • Qasem Anwar
    Qasem Anwar
    Qasem Anwar is an Iranian poet and Sufi. He was born in Sarab, Tabriz.-Poetry:-References:...

    , Iranian poet
  • Kassim Basma
    Kassim Basma
    Kassim Basma is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman and the second leading diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for around 38% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports. Basma was born in Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone. He was born into a family of Lebanese descent...

    , Sierra Leonean businessman
  • Qasem Burhan
    Qasem Burhan
    Qasem Burhan is a Qatari footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Al Gharrafa. He is of Senegalese origin.- International :Burhan is a member of the Qatar national football team...

     (born 1985), Qatari footballer
  • Kasem Chatikavanich
    Kasem Chatikavanich
    Kasem Chatikavanich was the former Governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand and is the current Chairman of Bangkok Mass Transit System Company, the operator of the Bangkok Skytrain. His nephew, Korn Chatikavanich, is a prominent member of the Democrat Party.-References:*...

    , Thai business leader
  • Cassim Chilumpha
    Cassim Chilumpha
    Dr. Cassim Chilumpha is a Malawian politician who was Vice-President of Malawi from June 2004 to May 2009. He is currently a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly....

    , Malawian politician
  • Kassem Daher
    Kassem Daher
    Kassem Daher, born in Bekaa, Lebanon, is a Lebanese-Canadian accused of membership in a number of Islamic militant groups.-Life:At the age of 14, Daher left Lebanon and moved to Columbia - before settling in Leduc, Alberta...

    , Lebanese-Canadian Islamic militant
  • Kasseem Dean, better known by his stage name, Swizz Beatz
    Swizz Beatz
    Kasseem Dean , better known by his stage name, Swizz Beatz, is an American record producer, DJ, rapper and painter. At the age of 17, he gained attention in the hip-hop world through his friendship with rapper DMX. Grady Spivey and rapper Cassidy helped launch his label Full Surface Records...

    , American record producer
  • Kasım Gülek
    Kasim Gülek
    Kasım Gülek was a prominent Turkish statesman credited with being instrumental in entrenching democracy in Turkey by taking politics to the masses.-Biography:...

    , Turkish statesman
  • Kassim Guyazou
    Kassim Guyazou
    Kassim Guyazou is a Togolese football currently playing for Gostaresh Foolad.-Club career:Guyazou previously played for Diósgyőri VTK in the Hungarian National Championship I.-External links:*...

    , Togolese footballer
  • Abdullah Kassim Hanga
    Abdullah Kassim Hanga
    Abdullah Kassim Hanga was Prime Minister of Zanzibar from 12 January 1964 to 27 April 1964.- References :...

    , Zanzibar Prime Minister
  • Qasim ibn Hassan
    Qasim ibn Hassan
    Al-Qasim ibn Hasan was the son of the Shī`a Imām, Hasan ibn Ali, and grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib. He was born in 666, three years before the death of his father....

    , son of the second Shia Imam Hasan
    Hasan ibn Ali
    Al-Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib ‎ is an important figure in Islam, the son of Fatimah the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and of the fourth Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib. Hasan is a member of the Ahl al-Bayt and Ahl al-Kisa...

     and grandson of Muhammad
  • Kassem Ibadulla
    Kassem Ibadulla
    Kassem Ben Khalid Ibadulla is an English born former New Zealand cricketer. Ibadullah was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire, England....

    , New Zealand cricketer
  • Yahya Kassim Issa
    Yahya Kassim Issa
    Yahya Kassim Issa is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania.-Source:* website...

    , Tanzanian politician
  • Qasim Khan
    Qasim khan
    Qasím Khan was the first khan of the Qasim Khanate, a Tatar khanate since 1450s. He was the son of Kazan khan Oluğ Möxämmäd....

    , first khan of the Qasim Khanate
  • Qasim ibn Muhammad
    Qasim ibn Muhammad
    Qasim ibn Muhammad was the son of Muhammad and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid. He died in 605 CE, before his second birthday and is buried in Jannatul Mualla cemetery, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.-Siblings:*Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad*Ibrahim ibn Muhammad...

    , son of Muhammad
    Muhammad
    Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

  • Kassim Osgood
    Kassim Osgood
    Kassim A. Osgood is an American football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2003...

    , American footballer
  • Kassim Ouma
    Kassim Ouma
    Kassim Ouma is a Ugandan boxer. He is currently the NABA middleweight champion.-Early life:Born into poverty, at the age of six he was kidnapped and forced to join the National Resistance Army and consequently did not see his family for five years. Ouma is the 7th of 13 children, which include 7...

    , Ugandan boxer
  • Kasim Reed
    Kasim Reed
    Mohammed Kasim Reed, known as Kasim Reed, is a Democratic politician and the 59th Mayor of Atlanta, who previously represented the 35th District of the Georgia State Senate. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002...

    , Democratic politician and the 59th Mayor of Atlanta
  • Kasim Sulton
    Kasim Sulton
    Kasim Sulton is an American bass guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Best known for his work with Utopia, Sulton sang lead on 1980's "Set Me Free," Utopia's only top 40 hit in the United States...

    , American bass guitarist
  • Qasem Taei
    Qasem Taei
    Grand Ayatollah Qasem Taei is an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja.He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is the author of many Islamic books.-External links:**...

    , Iraqi grand ayatollah
  • Kasım Yıldız
    Kasım Yıldız
    Kasım Yıldız is a Turkish professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for CSO Amnéville....

    , Turkish footballer

Surname

  • Abd al-Karim Qasim Prime Minister of Iraq from July 1958 to February 1963
  • Ashraf Kasem
    Ashraf Kasem
    Ashraf Kassem Raman is a retired Egyptian football player.Kasem played as a defender for Zamalek from 1984 to 1997. He also played for Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia in 1994....

    , Egyptian footballer
  • Casey Kasem
    Casey Kasem
    Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...

    , American radio personality and voice actor
  • Dollah Kassim
    Dollah Kassim
    Dollah Kassim was one of the most famous Singaporean footballers during the 1970s. In 1977, he helped Singapore bring the Malaysia Cup to the country....

    , Singaporean footballer
  • George A. Kasem
    George A. Kasem
    George Albert Kasem was a U.S. Representative from California's 25th congressional district.Born in Drumright, Oklahoma, Kasem graduated from John H...

    , American congressional representative
  • Jean Kasem
    Jean Kasem
    Jean Kasem is an American actress. She is best known for playing Loretta Tortelli, the dim-witted wife of Nick Tortelli on Cheers and the short-lived spinoff The Tortellis...

    , American actress
  • Kerri Kasem
    Kerri Kasem
    Kerri Kasem July 12, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is a radio and television host, actress and covermodel.She is the daughter of the radio host Casey Kasem and his first wife, Linda Myers Kasem, a Republican Party fund raiser.BIOGRAPHY...

    , American radio and television host
  • Leila Qasim, a Kurd
    Kürd
    Kürd or Kyurd or Kyurt may refer to:*Kürd Eldarbəyli, Azerbaijan*Kürd Mahrızlı, Azerbaijan*Kürd, Goychay, Azerbaijan*Kürd, Jalilabad, Azerbaijan*Kürd, Qabala, Azerbaijan*Qurdbayram, Azerbaijan...

    ish activist against the Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

    i Ba'ath party
  • Mehdi Kacem
    Mehdi Kacem
    Mehdi Kacem, also known as Medhi Kacem, is a French-born Algerian football midfielder. He currently plays for JSM Béjaïa in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.-References:...

    , Algerian footballer
  • Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
    Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
    -Biography:Mehdi Belhaj Kacem was born in Paris on April 17, 1973. He lived in Tunisia until he was 13. He was nominated for the Prix Michel Simon Acteurs à l'Écran award for Best Actor for his part in the 2001 film Wild Innocence.-Filmography:...

    , French-Tunisian actor, philosopher, and writer
  • Muhammad bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi
    Muhammad bin Qasim
    Muhammad bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi was a Umayyad general who, at the age of 17, began the conquest of the Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus River for the Umayyad Caliphate. He was born in the city of Taif...

    , Umayyad
    Umayyad
    The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. It was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty, whose name derives from Umayya ibn Abd Shams, the great-grandfather of the first Umayyad caliph. Although the Umayyad family originally came from the...

     general who conquered Sindh
    Sindh
    Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

  • Rafiq Belhaj Kacem
    Rafiq Belhaj Kacem
    Rafiq Belhaj Kacem is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of the Interior under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. During the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests, he was fired by former President Ben Ali.-References:...

    , Tunisian politician

Other uses

  • Kasimov
    Kasimov
    Kasimov is a town in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, which serves as the administrative center of Kasimovsky District . The town is situated on the left bank of the Oka River...

    , town in Ryazan Oblast, Russia
  • Al-Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia
  • Qasim Khanate
    Qasim Khanate
    Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim was a Tatar territorial formation , vassal of Russia, which existed from 1452 till 1681 in the territory of modern Ryazan Oblast in Russia with its capital Kasimov, in the middle stream of the Oka River...

    , Tatar territorial formation
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