Famous People with Name Masud

Masud Ali Khan Minhas            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Masud Ali Khan Minhas: was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as halfback.

Masuda Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masuda Takashi: was an entrepreneur in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui Bussan. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shogyo Shimpo (???????), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.Masuda accompanied Ikeda Nagaoki in the unsuccessful 1863 Second Japanese Embassy to Europe to negotiate the cancellation of the open-port status of Yokohama. On his return he studied English at the Hepburn School (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University).

Masudur Rahman            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Masudur Rahman: is a First class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh. Is sometimes referred to by his nickname Mukul. A right-handed batsman and off break bowler he made his first class debut for Dhaka Metropolis in 2000/01 and played for Barisal Division in 2001/02 and Dhaka Division from 2003/04 to 2004/05. He scored one first class fifty, a knock of 59 against his former team Dhaka Division and took 4 for 102 against Chittagong Division.

Afag Masud            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Afag Masud: is an Azerbaijani writer.Born Afag Masud qizi Valiyeva in Baku, Azerbaijan, she became interested in professional writing in her teenage years. She wrote and published her first novel Gargish ("Curse") in 1978, at the age of 21. In the following years, she published 8 more novels as well as numerous short stories, essays and plays.