Shawkat

Shawkat (also spelled Shaukat, Shawqat, Shavkat, or Şevket, Arabic: شوكت‎) is a masculine Arabic given name, it is also used as a surname. It may refer to:

People

• Alia Shawkat, American actress best known from her role in the television series Arrested Development
• Assef Shawqat, head of Syria's military intelligence
• Naji Shawkat, Iraqi politician and cabinet member who served briefly as prime minister (Nov 3, 1932-Mar 18, 1933)
• Shawkat Ali, leader of Language Movement in Bangladesh
• Shawkat Ali, politician and deputy speaker of Bangladesh
• Shawkat Ali, novelist from Bangladesh
• Shawkat Osman, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer
• Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, vice-President of the International Court of Justice
• Shaukat Dukanwala, UAE cricketer
• Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Shaukat Hameed Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and former director of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
• Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, Indian director and producer
• Maulana Shaukat Ali, Indian Muslim nationalist
• Major General Shaukat Sultan, former Pakistani director general of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR)
• Shaukat Hayat Khan, a prominent Muslim league worker and supporter of Pakistan Movement
• Sardar Shaukat Hussein Khan Mazari, Pakistani politician

Institutions

• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, a cancer research hospital and cancer research institute in Pakistan