Najib or Najeeb ( ar, نجيب) is an Arabic male given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Najib ad-Dawlah Yousafzai (died 1770), Pashtun warrior who fought in the
Third Battle of Panipat
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Najib Amhali (born 1971), Moroccan-born Dutch stand-up comedian and actor
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Najib Ali Choudhury, Bengali Islamic scholar
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Najib Balala (born 1967), Kenyan politician
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Nayib Bukele (born 1981), President of El Salvador
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Najib Daho
Najib Daho (13 January 1959, Larache, Morocco – 29 August 1993, Morocco) was an English Commonwealth lightweight champion, and British super-featherweight champion boxer.
Career
Daho's career is said to have begun when Najib was a child fighti ...
(1959–1993), Moroccan-born English boxer
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Najib-ul-Daula (died 1770), tribal chief in Rohilkhand, India
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Najib Farssane (born 1981), French footballer
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Najib Mikati (born 1955), Prime Minister of Lebanon
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Najib Mohammad Lahassimi (born 1978), Moroccan held in Guantanamo
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Najib Naderi
Najib Naderi ( fa, نجیب نادری; born 22 February 1984) is an Afghan former footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association fo ...
(born 1984), Afghan footballer
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Najib Tun Razak (born 1953), sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia
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Najib-ad-din Samarqandi Najib ad-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar Samarqandi was a 13th-century Persian physician from Samarqand.
Samarqandi died during the Mongol attack on Herat, in Afghanistan, in 1222CE. He was a prolific medical writer and expositor of medica ...
(died 1222), Persian physician
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Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
Abū al-Najīb Abd al-Qādir Suhrawardī ( fa, ابوالنجیب عبدالقادر سهروردی) (1097–1168) was a Sunni PersianQamar al-Huda, ''Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi'', ed. Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: ...
(1097–1168), Persian Sufi
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Ahmad Najib al-Hilali
Ahmed Naguib el-Hilaly (1 October 1891 – December 1958) was an Egyptian lawyer and educator who served as Prime Minister of Egypt twice in 1952.Goldschmidt, Arthur Jr. (2000). ''Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt.'' Lynne Rienner Publishers ...
(1891–1958), Prime Minister of Egypt
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Ahmad Najib Aris, Malaysian convicted murderer and rapist
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Baraa Najib al-Ruba'i, Iraqi politician
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Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i (1904–1983), President of Iraq
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Philippe Najib Boulos (1902–1979), Lebanese lawyer and politician
Najeeb
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Najeeb Ahmed (died 1990), Pakistani student leader
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Najeeb Amar (born 1971, Pakistan-born Hong-Kong cricketer
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Nageeb Arbeely (1861–1904), American Consul to Jerusalem, founder of the newspaper ''Kawkab America''
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Najeeb Jung, Indian academic administrator
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Najeeb Halaby (1915–2003), American businessman and government official
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Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi, Yemeni politician
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Naguib Naguib ( ar, نجيب ''Najib'') is a given and family name in Egyptian Arabic, a variant of the Arabic name Najib. It may refer to the following people:
*Antonios Naguib, Egyptian Catholic patriarch
* David Naguib Pellow, American ethnologist
*Moha ...
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Arabic masculine given names