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Nu'man (Arabic: نعمان, romanized: Nuʿmān) is an Arabic given name dating to pre-Islamic times, meaning blood or red. Prevailingly, the Islamic given name is most commonly associated to the Arabic word meaning bliss. It is also used with the definite article, النعمان, transliterated an-Nu'man or al-Nu'man. Alternatives spellings include Noman, Nouman, Noumaan, and Numan.It may refer to:

seven of the Ghassanid Kings (327-ca. 600)
Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qays (reigned ca. 390–418), king of the Lakhmids
Al-Nu'man II ibn al-Aswad (reigned 497–503), king of the Lakhmids
Al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Mundhir (active 581-583), king of the Ghassanids
Al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (active (582–ca. 602), king of the Lakhmids
Nouman ibn Muqarrin (died 641), one of the companions of Muhammad
Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zuṭā ibn Marzubān, known as Abū Ḥanīfa (699—767), founder of the Sunni Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
Qadi al-Nu'man (died 974), Isma'ili jurist, official historian of the Fatimid caliphs
Köprülü Numan Pasha (1670-1719), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918), Crimean Tatar politician
Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1909-1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
Yasin Said Numan (born 1948), Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986-1990
Numan Gumaa (1937-2014) Egyptian lawyer and politician
Mohamed Noman Galal (born 1943), Egyptian diplomat and author
Numan Kurtulmuş (born 1959), Turkish politician
Noman Mubashir (born 1974), Pakistani-Norwegian journalist
Noman Bashir, Pakistani admiral
Nomanul Haq (born 1948), Pakistani-American historian
Marwan Abdullah Abdulwahab Noman, Yemeni diplomat
No'man Ashour (1918-1987), Egyptian poet and playwright
Noman Benotman (born 1967), Libyan politician
Noman Masood (born 1968), Pakistani television actor
Noman Ijaz (born 1965), Pakistani television and film actor
Nouman Ali Khan (born 1978), Pakistani-American Muslim speaker

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