Numan is a surname of multiple origins. It may be a spelling variant of the surname Newman or it may be an Arabic surname نعمان also transliterated as Noman. Notable people with the surname include:Abdul Jabbar Numan (1949–2019), Yemeni Arab visual artist Abdullah Numan, Serbian-Australian academic and Islamic cleric Ahmad Muhammad Numan (1909–1996), twice Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic…