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Hafiz or Hafez (Arabic: حافظ , "one who remembers" lit. "keeper") may mean:
- Hafiz (Quran), a term used by Muslims for people who have completely memorized the Qur'an
- Al-Ḥafīẓ, one of the names of God in Islam
- Hafez or Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi, a 14th-century Persian mystic and poet. Sometimes credited as "Hafiz" or "Hafiz of Shiraz"
- Hafiz, a Malaysian singer
- Al-Hafiz (d. 1149), the eleventh Caliph of the Fatimids
- Abdel Halim Hafez (1929–1977), Egyptian singer and actor
- Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000), president of Syria 1971–2000
- Helal Hafiz, Bangladeshi poet
- Suleiman Hafez (born 1941), Jordanian economist and politician
- Hafiz (horse), French Thoroughbred racehorse
- Hafez, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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