Malik (name)

Malik
Pronunciation	Arabic: [maː.lɪk] (مَالِك) Arabic: [ma.lɪk] (مَلِك)
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Owner (مَالِك) King (مَلِك)
Other names
Related names	Malik, Melech

Malik or Malick is a given name and surname. It is an anglicization of two different name in Arabic; مَالِك, meaning "Owner", and مَلِك, meaning 'King".

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
• 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 member of the English-Irish boy band One Direction