Maqsud (also spelled Maqsood) (مقصود) is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer Sayed Maqsood Hashemi, Afghan footballer Maqsood Hussain, Pakistani field hockey player Maqsood Rana, Pakistani cricketer Ala Abdel Maqsud Muhammad Salim, citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay Maqsud Shah, Uyghur Khan or Prince of the Kumul Khanate from 1908 to 1930 Maqsud-Ali Tabrizi, Iranian physician Maqsudullah, Bengali Islamic scholar Pakistani masculine given names