Toponymic surname linked to the Gilan Province in Iran
Other names
Variant form(s)
Gillani, Geelani, Kilani, Al-Zoubi, Jilani
Gilani, Gillani or Geelani is a toponymic surname (nisba) linked to the Gilan Province in Iran. It is also used by people indicating association with the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order Abdul Qadir Gilani. Some members refer to themselves as Kilani, however they maintain the same lineage. The Zoubi's also share the same lineage as the Gilani and the Kilani, owing to their ancestor Ahmad Ali Al Gilani who was later titled Al-Zoubi. Notable people with the surname (or variants) include:
Abdul Qadir Gilani (Arabic: عبد القادر الجيلاني, Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi leader who was the eponym of the...
Gilani, Gillani or Geelani is a toponymic surname (nisba) linked to the Gilan Province in Iran. It is also used by people indicating association with the...
Yusuf Raza Gilani (born 9 June 1952) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012. He is a veteran of...
David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani; June 30, 1960) is an American terrorist. He is currently serving a 35-year sentence in the United States...
Sarwat Gilani (Urdu: ثروت گیلانی; born 22 December 1982) is a Pakistani model, film, television and voice actress. Gilani made her movie debut in Jawani...
Benjamin Gilani is an Indian film, television and stage actor who works in Hindi cinema. Gilani was schooled at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla. He is a postgraduate...
Ameer Gilani is a Pakistani actor and singer who is best known for his portrayal of Hassan Fareed in Hum TV's Sabaat (2020), for which he received a nomination...
Gilani is an officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) currently serving as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Gilani belongs...
Sohrab Gilani (Persian: سحراب گیلانی) (born in 1960 in Shushtar, Khuzestan province) is a principlist representative of Shushtar and Gotvand in the Islamic...
Gilaks (Gilaki: گيلٚکؤن, Persian: گیلکها, romanized: Gilek'ha) are an Iranian ethnic group native to the south of Caspian sea. They form one of the main...
Hashimi. Mubarak Ali Shah Gillani was the eldest son of Pir Maqsood Shah Gilani, having two brothers and four sisters. His family were the historical caretakers...
Haji Gilani was the first person to give Hamid Karzai shelter in the province of Uruzgan, Afghanistan as Karzai launched his anti-Taliban revolt weeks...
Syed Ghulam Moinuddin Gilani commonly known as Baray Lala jee born on Saturday, 22 May 1920 at Golra Sharif, of district Rawalpindi was the Sajjada Nashin...
Ali Musa Gilani is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from October 2022 till August 2023, and from 2012...
الدين ابراهيم كردی سنجانی) (1218 – 1301), titled Sheikh Zahed (or Zahid) Gilani, was an Iranian Grandmaster (murshid-i kamil) of the famed Zahediyeh Sufi...
Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1 October 1892 – 5 June 1956) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar and former Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Osmania University...
Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani (Persian: محمد محمدی گیلانی) (31 August 1929 – 9 July 2014) was a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic...
Bakr al-Jīlī or ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlānī (often simplified as Abdul-Razzaq Gilani) for short, or reverentially as Shaykh ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlānī by Sunni...
Imtiaz Gilani is a Pakistani civil engineer and a vice chancellor of the University of Engineering and Technology (Peshawar), Pakistan from 2004 till 2016...
philosophy with the Ayatollah Hassanzadeh Amoli, Ansari Schirasi, Askari Gilani and Ahmad Beheschti. Thereafter, he completed his Doctorate. "He taught...
Zulfiqar Gilani (Zulfiqar Arshad Gilani) is a Pakistani media journalist, author, researcher and screenwriter. He was born as Syed Zulfiqar Arshad Gilani at...
romanized: al-Ṭarīqa al-Qādiriyya) is a Sufi mystic order (tariqa) named after Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, also transliterated Jilani), who was a Hanbali scholar from...
Labbān, Kūshyār: Kiyā Abū al‐Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al‐Jīlī (Gīlānī)". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers...
Makhdoomzada Syed Asad Murtaza Gilani (19 February 1968 – 24 September 2015) was a Pakistani politician and parliamentarian. He was elected as a member...
PP-211 Multan-I. "Syed Ali Haider Gilani". Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. Retrieved 1 July 2020. "Former PM Gilani's son Zardari abducted in Multan"...
Gilany Hosnani (born 21 August 1957) is a Mauritian table tennis player. He competed in the men's singles and the men's doubles events at the 1988 Summer...
Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from July 2012 to 2013. Previously he had...
nashin) Pir Syed Naseer Uddin Naseer Gilani. The shrine's longest-serving Sajjada nashin was Peer Syed Shah Abdul Haq Gilani, the younger son of Babuji, who...