Ashraf (name)

Ashraf is an early variant name for Behshahr, Iran.

It is also an Arabic name meaning "most honorable one." Many people have been named Ashraf:
*Ashraf Ansari (born 1983) is working with Octaware Technologies.
*Ashraf Dehghani is a political activist and member of the Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas
*Ashraf Ghani is Afghanistan's finance minister
*Ashraf al-Kurdi was Yasser Arafat's doctor
*Ashraf Rajavi Iranian Woman, activist for freedom in Iran, tortured and killed in Iranian prisons [http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvact.htm]
*Ashraf Jehangir Qazi is a Pakistani diplomat
*Al-Ashraf of Damascus was the Ayyubid sultan of Damascus from 1229 to 1237
*Al-Ashraf of Homs was the Ayyubid sultan of Homs from 1248 to 1263
*Al-Ashraf II was the nominal Ayyubid sultan of Egypt from 1250 to 1254
*al-Ashraf Salah ad-Din Khalil was the Bahrid sultan of Egypt from 1290 to 1293
*al-Ashraf Alah-ad-Din Kujuk was the Bahrid sultan of Egypt from 1341 to 1342
*al-Ashraf Nasir-ad-Din Shaban II was the Bahrid sultan of Egypt from 1363 to 1376
*al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1422 to 1438
*al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Inal was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1453 to 1460
*al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Qait Bay was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1468 to 1496
*Ashraf Mohamed Ben Qaitbay was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1496 to 1497 and 1497 to 1498
*al-Ashraf Janbalat was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1500 to 1501
*al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri was the Burjid sultan of Egypt from 1501 to 1516
*al-Ashraf Tuman Bay was the Burjid sultan of Egypt in 1516
*Ashraf Khan was ruler of Afghanistan from 1725 to 1729
*Ashraf Lutfi was Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries from 1965 to 1966.
*Ashraf Hendricks is a South African football (soccer) player
*Ashraf Marwan, Egyptian businessman
*Ashraf Sadek is working as a Marketing Analyst in Air Liquide Egypt

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*Ashraf