Al-Latif (Al-Laṭīf لطيف, also anglicized as Al-Lateef) is one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "kind". Latif can also be a masculine given name, as short form of Abdul Latif, meaning "servant of the Gentle". Its feminine form is Latifa.
Notable persons
Lateef
- First name
- Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian regional Attorney General Nigeria
- Lateef Crowder Dos Santos, Brazilian-born American actor
- Lateef Elford-Alliyu, English football player
- Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician
- Lateef Kayode, Nigerian boxer
- Lateef the Truthspeaker, American hip hop artist
- Family name
- Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician
Latif
- Given name
- Latif (singer/songwriter), full name Corey Latif Williams, American rhythm and blues singer
- Latif (video game player), full name Abdullatif Alhmili (born 1990), Saudi-American fighting games player
- Latif Afridi, Pakistani lawyer
- Latif Ahmadi, Afghan film director
- Latif Halmat, or Letîf Helmet, Kurdish-Iraqi poet
- Latif Kapadia, Pakistani stage and television actor
- Latif Karimov, Azerbaijani carpet designer
- Latif Khosa, politician, Governor of Punjab
- Latif Nangarhari, Afghan singer
- Latif Rahman, Singaporean football
- Latif Rashid, Iraqi politician and minister
- Latif Safarov, Azerbaijani actor and movie director.
- Latif Salifu, Ghanaian football player
- Latif Yahia, Iraqi author
- Family name
- Aamir Latif, a former governor in Afghanistan
- Ahmed Latif, Afghan film director
- Amar Latif, a blind British entrepreneur, actor, director
- Idris Hasan Latif, former Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force
- Khalid Latif (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
- Khalid Latif (imam), Chaplain (Imam) for the Islamic Center at New York University
- Mohamed Latif, Egyptian football player
- Mojib Latif, German-Pakistani meteorologist and oceanographer
- Muhammed Latif, Iraqi major general and politician
- Muid Latif, Malaysian web designer and digital artist
- Naved Latif, a Pakistani cricketer
- Nazir Latif, Pakistan Air Force officer
- Rashid Latif, Pakistani cricket player
- Rizwan Latif, Pakistani-UAE cricket player
- Shaheed Latif, Hindi film director, writer and producer.
- Shazad Latif, a British television actor