Malik (name)

Malik, Malick or Malík is a given name and surname. It can be an Anglicization of two different Arabic names: مَالِك, meaning "Owner", and مَلِك, meaning 'King". It is also of unrelated West Slavic origin from the Polish word "mały" meaning "small" and found in Czech and Slovak names such as Malík.^[1]

Given name

• Imam Malik ibn Anas (ca. 711–795), Islamic scholar of jurisprudence
• Malick Badiane (born 1984), Senegalese basketball player
• El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Muslim title for Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) (1925–1965), African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist
• Malick Mane (born 1988), Senegalese football player
• Malik Saad (1959–2007), Pakistani police officer
• Malick Sidibé (1935 or 1936–2016), Malian photographer
• Malick Sy (1855–1922), Senegalese Sufi leader
• Malik Kafur (died 1316), first Hindu (later converted to Islam) and prominent military general of Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khilji

Surname

• Charles Malik (1906–1987), Lebanese philosopher and diplomat
• Fredmund Malik (born 1944), Austrian economist and management thinker and -practitioner
• Jan Malík (born 1992), Czech football player
• Jitendra Malik (born 1960), computer vision researcher
• Kenan Malik (born 1960), Indian-born English writer, lecturer and broadcaster
• Keshav Malik (born 1924), Indian poet, critic, art scholar and curator
• Marek Malík (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player
• Peter Malick (born 1951), American musician
• Saleem Malik (born 1963), Pakistani cricketer
• Sally Malik, a fictional character in the television series Being Human
• Štefan Malík (born 1966), Slovak racewalker
• Terrence Malick (born 1943), American director
• Veena Malik (born 1984), Pakistani actress
• Wendie Malick (born 1950), American actress and fashion model
• Yakov Malik (1906–1980), Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations (1948–1952, 1968–1976)
• Zayn Malik (born 1993), English singer and former member of the English-Irish boy band One Direction

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