Ata-ur-Rahman
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Ata-ur-Rahman (Arabic: عطا الرحمن) is a masculine Islamic given name. It is built from the Arabic words Ata, al- and Rahman. The name means "gift of the most merciful", ar-Rahman being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, usually by u. Because the letter r is a sun letter, the letter l of the al- is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written in Arabic and Urdu with letters corresponding to Ata al-Rahman, the usual pronunciation corresponds to Ata ur-Rahman. The transliteration Atta often appears for the first element and Rehman for the last, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Ataurrehman (born 1968), Indian politician
Ataur Rahman (actor) (1941–2026), Bangladeshi theatre actor and director
Ataur Rahman (Gaibandha politician), Bangladeshi politician from Gaibandha-4
Ataur Rahman (poet) (1925–1999), Bangladeshi poet
Ataur Rahman (politician, born 1951) (1951–2017), Bangladeshi Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD politician
Ataur Rahman Bachchu (born 1980), Bangladeshi politician and businessman
Ataur Rahman Khan, multiple people
Ataur Rahman Mazarbhuiya, Indian politician
Ataur Rahman Mazumder (1911–1998), Indian freedom fighter and community leader
Ata-ur-Rehman (cricketer) (born 1975), Pakistani cricketer
Atta-ur-Rahman (chemist) (born 1942), Pakistani organic chemist
Atta-ur-Rehman (politician) (born 1965), Pakistani politician
Atta-Ur-Rehman Chishti, known as Rehman Chishti (born 1978), British politician
Atta ur Rehman Memon, Pakistani electrical engineer
Atiur Rahman (born 1951), Bangladeshi economist
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