Kalai () is a surname and a given name of multiple origins.
It may be a surname of Sephardic Jewish origins. As such, it is derived from Arabic Qal'a, 'fortress', which may also be the name of a populated place. Therefore "Kalai" ('Kala' +'i') literally means "someone from Qal'a". Variations of the surname include Alkalai, Alqali, Elqali, Elkali, Elkalay.ALKALAY Origin of surname
Notable people with the name include:
Surname Adam Tauman Kalai, American computer scientist Biswajit Kalai, Indian politician Ehud Kalai, prominent American game theorist and mathematical economist Gil Kalai (born 1955), Henry and Manya Noskwith Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jawed Kalai, French footballer Hanoch Kalai (1910–1979), member of Irgun and Lehi and an expert on the Hebrew language Iosif Kalai (born 1980), Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity Leslie Kalai (born 1984), Papua New Guinean footballer who is a goalkeeper Mordecai Kalai, 17th-century Ottoman rabbi, preacher and teacher Yael Tauman Kalai, Israeli-American cryptographer Yousef el Kalai, Morocco-born Portuguese long-distance runner
Given name Kalai Mathee (born 1959) Malaysian microbiologist Kalai Riadh (born 1968), Tunisian boxer Kalai Strode
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