Khalaf is both a given name and a surname.
Notable people
Given name Khalaf al-Bazzar (d. 844), canonical reader of the Qur'an Khalaf I (937–1009), Amir of Sistan Khalaf Al-Enezi (1952–2022), Kuwaiti politician Khalaf Al Salamah (born 1979), Kuwaiti footballer Khalaf al-Ulayyan, Iraqi politician Khalaf Khalafov (born 1959), Azerbaijani politician Khalaf Masa'deh (died 2015), Jordanian lawyer and politician
Surname Abbas Khalaf (died 2013), Iraqi translator Abdulhadi Khalaf (born 1945), Bahrani political activist and academic Ahmad Ibrahim Khalaf (born 1992), Iraqi footballer Farida Khalaf (born 1995), ISIS escapee and author
Hevrin Khalaf (1984–2019), Kurdish-Syrian politician and civil engineer Karim Khalaf (1935–1985), Palestinian politician Khaled Khalaf (born 1983), Kuwaiti footballer Riyadh Khalaf (born 1991), Irish media personality / presenter Rima Khalaf (born 1953), Jordanian UN official Roula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times Salah Khalaf (1933–1991), Palestinian PLO official Samir Khalaf (born 1933), Lebanese sociologist Umayyah ibn Khalaf, contemporary of Muhammad