Osman

Osman is the Persian and Turkish transliteration and derived from the Arabic masculine given name Uthman (Arabic: عُثْمان ‘uthmān) or an English surname. It may refer to:

People

• Osman (name), people with the name and surname
• Osman I (1258–1326), founder of the Ottoman Empire
• Osman II (1604–1622), Ottoman sultan
• Osman III (1699–1757), Ottoman sultan
• Osman I of the Maldives, the Sultan of the Maldives in 1377
• Osman II of the Maldives, the Sultan of Maldives from 1420 to 1421
• Mir Osman Ali Khan, 7th and last Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad

Places

• Osmanabad, a district of Maharashtra, India
• Osmannagar (alternative name for Sultanabad, Karimnagar), village located in Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Osman, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran
• Osman, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Osman, Wisconsin, United States

Fish

• False osman (Schizopygopsis stoliczkai)
• Naked osman (Gymnodiptychus dybowskii)
• Scaly osman (Diptychus maculatus)
• Several species in the genus Oreoleuciscus

Other uses

• Osman (crater), a lunar crater
• Osman (video game), an arcade game by Mitchell Corporation
• House of Osman, an Ottoman dynasty
• A fictional merchant in the role-playing game Skies of Arcadia
• Osman warning, issued by British police etc. to warn someone of a death threat

See also

• All pages with titles containing Osman
• Osmania (disambiguation)
  • Osmania University, university in Hyderabad, India, named after founder Mir Osman Ali Khan
• Osmin, the name of a Turkish character in Mozart's operas Zaide and Die Entführung aus dem Serail
• Osmond (disambiguation)
• Usman (disambiguation)