Gul (name)

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Template:Infobox given name Gul is a common name in Persian[1] (Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "lang".), Pashto (ګل Gwal) and Turkish (Script error: No such module "Lang".) languages, meaning rose.[2] Gul is used as a family name in Europe, Central and South Asia.

It is also a Nordic given name, used in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian languages as a short form of Guðólfr (Godwulf).[3]

The name is also an abbreviation used in the medieval and early modern periods for William (derived from French Guillaume), for example in the signature "Gul: Ebor" for William Dawes, Archbishop of York.[4]

Given name

Males

Females

  • Gül Gölge (born 1981), Turkish model and actress
  • Gul Panag (born 1979), Indian Bollywood actress
  • Gul Panra (born 1989), Pakistani Pashto singer
  • Gul Rukhsar, Pakistani Pashto Singer
  • Gulalai Wazir, Pashtun Politician
  • Gulalai Ismael, Human Rights Activist
  • Gul Wareenah, a common pashtun girl name

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Surname

Notable people with the surname Gul or Gül include:

  • Abdullah Gül (born 1950), Turkish politician and 11th President of Turkey
  • Aftab Gul (born 1946), Pakistani cricketer
  • Ajab Gul (born 1984), Pakistani actor-turned-director
  • Amir Gul (born 1986), Pakistani footballer
  • Awal Gul, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
  • Dawd Gul, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
  • Fahim Gul (born 1956), Pakistani squash player
  • Faruk Gül, Turkish American economist
  • Gerardus Gul (1847–1920), Dutch bishop of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
  • Hamid Gul (1936–2015), former Director General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
  • Khi Ali Gul, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
  • Meirchion Gul, 5th-century king of Rheged (modern-day northern England)
  • Mohammad Gul, Afghan prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
  • Roman Gul (1896–1986), Russian émigré writer
  • Sahar Gul (born 1998), Afghan child bride tortured by her husband's family
  • Sajjad Gul, Pakistani CEO
  • Şifanur Gül (born 1997), Turkish actress
  • Shabnum Gul (born 1963), Pakistani writer
  • Umar Gul (born 1982), Pakistani cricketer
  • Yekta Yılmaz Gül (born 1978), Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler

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See also

References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Francis Joseph Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary: gulScript error: No such module "Unsubst". (Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago)
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ Deeds of Londesborough and area: Lease for years MD239/35, 1 Jul 1715. The National Archives, UK. Retrieved 19 November 2010

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