List of Famous people named Salman

Salman Betyrovich Raduyev was one of the most important and notorious Chechen separatist field commanders. He operated in the period between 1994 and 1999 and was responsible for Kizlyar hostage taking raid. He was arrested in 2000 and died in Russian penal colony White Swan in 2002.

Salman bin Sultan Al Saud is the former assistant secretary general of the Saudi Arabian National Security Council for intelligence and security affairs as well as the former deputy defense minister. He is a member of House of Saud.

Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, was the ruler of Bahrain from 20 February 1942 until his death in 1961. His title was Hakim of Bahrain. He was succeeded by his son Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa in December 1961.

Salman Akhtar is an Indian-American psychoanalyst practicing in the United States. He is an author and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He was born into a Muslim family in Khairabad, Uttar Pradesh to Jan Nisar Akhtar, a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet, and singer Safia Akhtar, a teacher and writer. He is the brother of veteran poet and film lyricist Javed Akhtar. His son Kabir Akhtar is an American television director and Emmy-nominated editor.

Salman Husaini Nadwi, is an Indian scholar and professor in the Islamic sciences. He is an author of numerous scholarly works in Arabic and Urdu. Salman Nadwi served as the Dean of the Faculty of Dawah at the Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama madrasa in Lucknow.

Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homoud Al-Sabah is the Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs in Kuwait.

Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper Haaretz. In 1940, Schocken moved to the United States, where he founded Schocken Books.

Salman Natour (Arabic: سلمان ناطور‎, 1949-2016) was a Palestinian writer and novelist, Born in Daliyat al-Karmel south of Haifa in 1949, and graduated in his hometown's high school then attained higher education in Jerusalem then in Haifa.