List of Famous people named Syed

Syed Waseem Rizvi is a former chairman of the Shia Central Board of Waqf in Uttar Pradesh. He is the producer of the Bollywood film Ram Ki Janmabhoomi. He is a supporter of Narendra Modi and Bhartiya Janta Party.

Syed Saddiq bin Syed Abdul Rahman is a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. He has also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Muar since May 2018. He later co-founded the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (MUDA) in September 2020. He was the youngest-serving Minister and youngest to take office at the age of 25 and second youngest MP after P. Prabakaran in the history of Malaysia.

Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian diplomat from 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and served as India's permanent representative at the United Nations at New York from January 2016 to April 2020. He had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015 and was Indian representative at IAEA from 2006 to 2011.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani was a pro pakistan separatist leader in Jammu and Kashmir. He was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. The hardliner Islamist leader served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987. He quit the Hurriyat in June 2020..

Syed Ali Raza Abidi was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018.

Syed Modi (1962–1988), born as Syed Mehdi Hassan Zaidi, was an Indian badminton singles player. He was eight-time National Badminton champion (1980–87). His most notable achievement at the international badminton circuit came in the form of men's singles title at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. He also won three other international titles, namely Austrian International and USSR International, both of which were European Badminton Circuit tournaments.

Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani played cricket for India and Karnataka as a wicket-keeper. In 2016, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in India.

Syed Shahnawaz Hussain is an Indian politician, national spokesperson and CEC member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since January 2021, he is a member of the Bihar Legislative Council. He is the former Minister of Textiles and Aviation in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Hussain was inducted as a cabinet minister in the Nitish Kumar ministry in February 2021.

Syed Mustafa Kamal is a Pakistani politician who is founder and current chairman of Pak Sarzameen Party. He was the senator in the Senate of Pakistan and served as the mayor of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah Jillani is a Pakistani politician who served as the elected Chief Minister of Sindh for three terms. His last two terms combined, a total of eight years, makes him the longest serving Chief Minister of Sindh. He is Sindh President of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and an elected Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) from PS-220 (Khairpur-1).