Muawiya (disambiguation)
Mu‘āwīyya or Muawiyah or Muaawiya (معاوية) is a male Arabic given name. It was the name of the first Umayyad Caliph Mu'awiya I (602–680; r. 661–680).
Other notable bearers of this name include:
- Muawiya II (661–684), third Umayyad Caliph (r. 683–684)
- Mu'awiya ibn Hudayj, Umayyad General and Governor
- Mu'awiya ibn Hisham (died 737), Umayyad Prince and General (fl. 725 – c. 737)
- Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya (born in 1941), Prime-Minister, then President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
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