Marwan (name)
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Marwan is an Arabic name. People with this name include:
- ʿAṣmāʾ bint Marwān, a medieval Arabian female poet
- Marwan I or Marwan ibn Hakam (623-685), Umayyad caliph
- Marwan II or Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan (688-750), Umayyad caliph
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, King of Morocco of the Saadi Dynasty (1576-1578)
- Marwan Barghouti, a controversial leader of the Palestinian group Fatah, currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison
- Marwan al-Muasher, a politician and current deputy prime minister of Jordan
- Dr. Marwan Kishek, a famous Palestinian/Canadian Artist and Civil Engineer, with an online gallery since 1996 displaying his oil paintings on Christian religious themes and landscapes from the Holy Land.
- Habib Marwan, a major character from the fourth season of the TV drama 24.