Sharif (also spelled Sherif) is an Arabic word (شريف) meaning "noble", "highborn", or "honourable", traditionally used as a title for the descendants of the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Sharif may also refer to:
Name
- Sherif or Sharif, a proper name (including a list of people with this name)
People
- Mehrshad Sharif (born 1952), Iranian and French chess master
- Mohammed Sharif (social worker), Indian social worker
- Nawaz Sharif (born 1949), Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Omar Sharif (1932–2015), Egyptian film actor
- Raheel Sharif (born 1956), Pakistani retired four-star general and former Chief of Army Staff
- Talal al-Sharif, Jordanian politician both elected and expelled from office in 2013
- Sharif Finch (born 1995), American football player
- Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch
- Sharif family, a Pakistani political family based in Punjab
Villages in Iran
Other uses
See also
- Shareef (disambiguation)
- Mazar-i-Sharif
- Sharifabad (disambiguation)
- Sharifate of Mecca
- Sharifian (disambiguation)
- Sharifism, term used for the rising prominence of the shurafāʾ in early modern Morocco