List of Famous people named Ali

Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, was the caliph between 656 and 661 CE, a trying period in Muslim history, coinciding with the first Muslim civil war. He reigned over the Rashidun empire which extended from Central Asia in the east to North Africa in the west. He became known as both a just and fair ruler. He died in 661.

Ali Mehmet Güneş is a Turkish former professional footballer. Born in West Germany, he represented Turkey at international level.

Alexander "Ali" Marpet is an American football guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL).

Ali Boumendjel was an Algerian revolutionary and lawyer.

Ali Lajami is a professional football player who plays as a defender for Saudi Professional League side Al-Nassr.

Muhammad Ahsan Ali Khan is an American cricketer.

Ali Sami Yen, born Ali Sami Frashëri was an Albanian-Turkish sports official best known as the founder of the Galatasaray Sports Club. After the enactment of law on family names in 1934, he took the surname Yen, which literally means "win" in the Turkish language.

Ali Al-Tantawi is a Syrian jurist, writer, and judge, and he is considered one of the leading figures in Islamic preaching and Arab literature in the twentieth century. He was a writer who wrote in many Arab newspapers for many years, the most important of which was what he wrote in the Egyptian magazine Al-Risala by its owner Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayyat, and he continued to write about it for twenty years from 1933 until it became concealed in 1953. He worked from his youth in primary and secondary education in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon until a year 1940. He left education and entered the judiciary. He was recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 1990 for his services for Islam.

Ali İhsan Arslan is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who has served as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since 7 June 2015. He is the son of İhsan Arslan, the two-term AKP MP from Diyarbakır between 2002 and 2011.

Ali Akbar Moinfar was an Iranian politician and the first oil minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, serving briefly from 1979 to 1980. He later served as a Member of the Parliament of Iran from 1980 to 1984, representing Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat.