# Ghani

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**Al-Ghani** or **Ghani** (Arabic: الغني) means generous or bountiful in Arabic and is one of the [names of God in Islam](/source/Names_of_God_in_Islam).

**Ghani** may refer to:

## People

### Given name or mononym

- [Ghani Animofoshe](/source/Ghani_Animofoshe) (born 1985), Nigerien footballer
- [Ghani Yalouz](/source/Ghani_Yalouz) (born 1968), French wrestler and Olympian
- [Mullah Ghani](/source/Mullah_Ghani) (died 2014), briefly governor of Nimruz Province, Afghanistan in 1995
- Ghani Khan ([Khan Abdul Ghani Khan](/source/Khan_Abdul_Ghani_Khan), 1914–1996), Pashto language poet

### Surname

- [Abdul Ghani](/source/Abdul_Ghani), a male Muslim given name, including a list of people with the name
- [Ahmed Yasin Ghani](/source/Ahmed_Yasin_Ghani) (born 1991), Iraqi footballer of Kurdish descent
- [Aishah Ghani](/source/Aishah_Ghani) (1923–2013), Malaysian politician and government minister
- Ali Ghani or [Aly Goni](/source/Aly_Goni) (born 1991), Indian actor
- [Ashraf Ghani](/source/Ashraf_Ghani) (Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, born 1949), former president of Afghanistan
- [Cyrus Ghani](/source/Cyrus_Ghani) (1929–2015), Iranian-born academic, lawyer, Iranian studies scholar, and film critic
- [Hassan Ghani](/source/Hassan_Ghani), (born 1985), Scottish broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker
- [Karim Ghani](/source/Karim_Ghani), politician in South-East Asia of Indian origin
- [Nazneen Ghaani](/source/Nazneen_Ghaani) (born 1986), Indian actress
- [Nus Ghani](/source/Nus_Ghani) (born 1972), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP)
- [Owais Ahmed Ghani](/source/Owais_Ahmed_Ghani) (born 1951), former governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
- [Rula Ghani](/source/Rula_Ghani) (born 1948), First Lady of Afghanistan and the wife of Ashraf Ghani
- [Tanveer Ghani](/source/Tanveer_Ghani), British Asian actor
- [Usman Ghani](/source/Usman_Ghani) (born 1996), Afghanistan cricketer
- [Yusof Ghani](/source/Yusof_Ghani) (born 1950), Malaysian painter, sculptor, writer, professor and curator

## Films

- [*Ghani* (2006 film)](/source/Ghani_(2006_film)), or *The Cycle*, a Bangladeshi film
- [*Ghani* (2022 film)](/source/Ghani_(2022_film)), an Indian Telugu-language film

## Other uses

- [Ghani (letter)](/source/Ghani_(letter)), the 26th letter of the three Georgian scripts

## See also

- [Goni (disambiguation)](/source/Goni_(disambiguation)), alternative transcription
- [Banu Ghani](/source/Banu_Ghani), an Arab tribe
- [Ghan (disambiguation)](/source/Ghan_(disambiguation))
- [Afghani (disambiguation)](/source/Afghani_(disambiguation))

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