Assaf (name)

Assaf is both a masculine given name and a surname. This spelling in English represents two unrelated names, Hebrew אָסָף‎ /(ʔ)aˈsaf/ and Arabic عَسَاف /ʕa.saːf/, both of which can be used as given names and surnames. Notable people with the name include:

Dynasty

• Assaf dynasty, the Turkmen rulers in Mount Lebanon during Mamluk and Ottoman era

People with the given name

• Assaf Amdursky (born 1971), Israeli singer and producer
• Assaf Azo (born 1984), Israeli footballer
• Assaf Bernstein (born 1970), Israeli film writer, director, and producer
• Assaf Cohen (born 1972), American actor
• Assaf Gavron (born 1968), Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician
• Assaf HaRofeh, Hebrew medical writer known as Asaph the Jew
• Assaf Hefetz (born 1944), commissioner of the Israeli Police
• Assaf Inbari (born 1968), Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist
• Assaf Kehati (born 1979), Israeli jazz guitarist, composer, bandleader and educator based in Boston
• Assaf Khalifa (born 1968), Syrian football player
• Assaf Kidron (born 1976), Israeli sculptor
• Assaf Kraus, member of the Israeli indie pop-rock band missFlag
• Assaf Lowengart (born 1998), Israeli baseball player on Team Israel
• Assaf Naor (born 1975), Czech-Israeli mathematician, computer scientist, and professor
• Assaf Abu Rahhal (1955–2010), Lebanese journalist
• Assaf Al-Qarni (born 1984), Saudi Arabian football goalkeeper
• Assaf Ramon (c. 1987/1988 – 2009), Israeli pilot
• Assaf Schuster, Israeli professor of computer science
• Assaf Shaham (born 1983), Israeli artist
• Assaf Shelleg, Israeli-American musicologist and pianist
• Assaf Yaguri (1931–2000), Israeli soldier and politician

People with the surname

• Ami Assaf (1903–1963), Israeli politician
• Joseph Assaf (born 1944), Australian businessman
• Mikhayl Assaf (1887–1970), archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
• Mohammad Assaf (born 1989), Palestinian pop singer
• Rima Assaf (born 1970), Lebanese journalist and anchor
• Roger Assaf, Lebanese playwright
• Roy Assaf (actor) (born 1979), Israeli actor
• Roy Assaf (choreographer) (born 1982), Israeli choreographer
• Roy Assaf (musician) (born 1982), Israeli jazz pianist and composer based in New York
• Samir Assaf (born 1960), Lebanese businessman and chief executive officer of HSBC Global Banking & Markets
• Woodie Assaf (1917−2009), American weatherman
• Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf (born 1949), Minister of State and Former Finance Minister And Forign Minister of Saudi Arabia.

See also

• Assef
• Asaf
• Asif
• Ossoff