Ghalib (Arabic: غالب ghālib) is an Arabic masculine given name which generally means "to overcome, to defeat", also meaning "successor, victor". It may also be a surname and refer several notable people:
Given name Ghālib ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (900–981), Andalusian military commander Ghalib Bin Ali (1912–2009), last elected Imam of the Ibadi sect in Oman Ghalib Efendi, former Sharif of Hejaz Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla (born 1978), Los Angeles-based novelist Ghaleb Zu'bi (born 1943), Jordanian lawyer and politician
Surname Amer Ghalib (born 1979), American politician Asadulla Al Galib (born 1998), Bangladeshi cricketer Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic Umar Arteh Ghalib (1930–2020), Somali politician and former prime minister of Somalia Sharif Ghalib (born 1961), Afghan politician Ghalib (1797–1869), also known as Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, Urdu poet Sohel Hasan Galib (born 1978), Bangladeshi poet
Epithet Al-Ghalib billah also known as Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qadir (992–1019), was the son of Al-Qadir (r. 991–1031) and elder brother of Al-Qa'im (r. 1031–1075). He was nominated heir in 1001. Al-Ghalib Billah (Arabic: الْغَالِبُ بِالله al-ghālibu billah; "The Victor by the Grace of Allah [God]") or simply Al-Ghalib (Arabic: الْغَالِب al-ghālib), the honorific epithet of founder and Sultan Muhammad I of Granada of the Nasrid Dynasty of Emirate of Granada