Qahtan (or Kahtan), Qahtani (or Kahtani), and Al-Qahtani (or Al-Kahtani) are Arabic names. They may refer to:
Qahtan (tribe), an Arab tribal confederation in Saudi Arabia Qahtanite or Qahtani, Arabs who originate from the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula, especially from Yemen
Places Al Qahtan, a village in Saudi Arabia, located in the northern part of Al-Namas governorate Al-Qahtaniyah, Raqqa Governorate, a town in Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah Governorate, a town in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria Qahtaniyah, Iraq, an Iraqi town about 100 km (62 mi) from Mosul and a few miles south of Sinjar
People Given name Qahtan al-Attar (born 1950), Iraqi singer Qahtan Chathir Drain (born 1973), Iraqi national footballer Qahtan Khalil (born 1964), Syrian military official Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi (1920–1981) South Yemeni politician, the first President of the People's Republic of South Yemen
Middle name Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi (1953–2021), Yemeni politician
Surname Qahtan Abdul Qader Qahtan (born 1952), Yemeni jurist Riya Qahtan (died 2008), Iraqi Kurdish politician
Al-Qahtani Surname derived from the Qahtanite, Qahtani or Qahtan people from Arabia Abu Maria al-Qahtani (Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Juburi 1976–2024) Iraqi Islamic militant fighting in the Syrian Civil War and a former commander and Shura Council member in Jabhat al-Nusra Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Guantanamo detainee Abdul Atif Al-Qahtani (born 1946), Saudi javelin thrower Attiya Al-Qahtani (born 1953), Saudi middle-distance runner Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani (born 1983), Saudi Arabian footballer Haji Bakr Al-Qahtani (born 1964), Saudi Arabian sprinter Iman al-Qahtani, Saudi journalist and activist Jabir Hasan Muhamed Al Qahtani, Guantanamo detainee Jabran al-Qahtani (born 1977), Guantanamo detainee Khaled Al-Qahtani (born 1985), Kuwaiti footballer Majed Al-Qahtani (born 1990), Saudi footballer Mohammed al-Qahtani (disambiguation), multiple people Nourah al-Qahtani, academic imprisoned for alleged social media activity Osama bin Laden (1957–2011), "bin Laden" is a patronymic, not a hereditary surname. According to one of his sons, Omar, the hereditary surname of Osama bin Laden was āl-Qaḥṭānī, but Osama's father, Mohammed bin Laden, never officially registered the name. Saud al-Qahtani (born 1978), a Saudi Arabian consultant and former royal court advisor, allegedly involved in the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi Sultan Jubran Sultan al-Qahtani, known as Zubayr Al-Rimi (1974–2003), a militant in al-Qaeda's Saudi wing Yasser Al-Qahtani (born 1982), Saudi Arabian footballer
Al-Kahtani Muhammad Jafar Jamal al-Kahtani (born 1973), citizen of Saudi Arabia who was a captive held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Bagram Theater Internment Facility
See also al-Qahtani (disambiguation) Al-Qahtaniyah (disambiguation) Bani Qahtan Castle, castle in the Syrian Coastal Mountains near Lattakia
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