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in Arab, Turkish, and Muslim societies. It is also used as a

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. It is common in Polish, Czech and Slovak languages, where it is transliterated as Jakub. Yakub may also refer to:

Religious figures

* Yāˈqub bin Isḥāq bin Ibrāhīm (Jacob),

prophet of Islam Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets ar ...

Yakub (Nation of Islam) In the beliefs of the Nation of Islam (NOI), Yakub (sometimes spelled Yacub or Yaqub) was a black scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and began the creation of the white race. He is said to have done this through a form of selective breeding whi ...

, creator of the

white race White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as " ...

according to that belief system * Syed Yaqub, a 14th-century Sufi Muslim figure in the Sylhet region *

Yaqub al-Charkhi Yaqub al Charkhi (Persian یعقوب الچرخی) was a Naqshbandi Sheykh and student of Khwaja Sayyid Alauddin Atar. Yaqub Charkhi was born in 762, in a village called Charkh in Logar, Afghanistan AH and died in 851. He was a Sufi master an ...

(1360–1360), Naqshbandi Sheykh and student of Khwaja Baha' al-Din Naqshband

Other people with this given name

Pre-modern times

Ya'qub al-Mansur Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Abd al-Muʾmin al-Manṣūr (; c. 1160 – 23 January 1199 Marrakesh), commonly known as Yaqub al-Mansur () or Moulay Yacoub (), was the third Almohad Caliph. Succeeding his father, al-Mansur reigned from 11 ...

, Almohad ruler Reigned from 1184 to 1199. *''Ya'qub ibn Abdallah al-Mansur'' (b. 760s) was the third son of

al-Mansur Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (; ar, أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور‎; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab Al-Manṣūr (المنصور) w ...

( r. 754–775) from his wife

Fatima Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ( ar, فَاطِمَة ٱبْنَت مُحَمَّد}, 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. Fatima's husband was Ali, th ...

. *

Ya'qub ibn Killis Abu'l-Faraj Ya'qub ibn Yusuf ibn Killis ( ar, يعقوب ابن كلس, Abu’l-Faraj Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Killis, he, יעקוב אבן כיליס), (930 in Baghdad – 991), commonly known simply by his patronymic surname as Ibn Killis, was a ...

(930–991), Egyptian vizier *

Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari , title = Amir of the Saffarid dynasty , image = مجسمه یعقوب لیث در زابل.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = Statue of Ya'qub in Zabol, Iran , reign = 861–879 , coronation = , predecess ...

, Persian leader *

Yakub Çelebi Yakub Çelebi ( – 15 June 1389) was an Ottoman prince and the son of Murad I. Biography He was educated from a young age and was accustomed to administrative and military education. He made a name for himself with his courage, heroism and bene ...

, Ottoman Sehzade, son of Sultan

Murad I Murad I ( ota, مراد اول; tr, I. Murad, Murad-ı Hüdavendigâr (nicknamed ''Hüdavendigâr'', from fa, خداوندگار, translit=Khodāvandgār, lit=the devotee of God – meaning "sovereign" in this context); 29 June 1326 – 15 Jun ...

Yaqub Beg Muhammad Yaqub Bek (محمد یعقوب بیگ; uz, Яъқуб-бек, ''Ya’qub-bek''; ; 182030 May 1877) was a Khanate of Kokand, Khoqandi ruler of Yettishar (Kashgaria) during his invasion of Xinjiang from 1865 to 1877. He held the title o ...

(1820–1877), Tajik adventurer *

Yaqub Ibn as-Sikkit Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb Ibn as-Sikkīt () was a philologist tutor to the son of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil and a great grammarian and scholar of poetry of the al-Kūfah school. He was punished on the orders of the caliph and died between 85 ...

(died 857), philologist tutor, grammarian and scholar of poetry *

Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari () better known as Abu Yusuf ( ar, أبو يوسف, Abū Yūsuf) (d.798) was a student of jurist Abu Hanifa (d.767) who helped spread the influence of the Hanafi school of Islamic law through his writings and the go ...

Yaqub Spata Yaqub Spata or Shpata ( sq, Jakob Bua Shpata) was the last Lord of Arta, ruling from 1414/15 until 1416, with a brief interval when he was evicted by the local population. His rule ended after his capture and execution by Carlo I Tocco, who ...

(died 1416), last Lord of Arta * Yaqub al-Mustamsik was the fifteenth century figurehead caliph of

Mamluk Sultanate The Mamluk Sultanate ( ar, سلطنة المماليك, translit=Salṭanat al-Mamālīk), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz (western Arabia) from the mid-13th to early 16th ...

. *

Yaqub-Har Meruserre Yaqub-Har (other spelling: Yakubher, also known as Yak-Baal) was a pharaoh of Egypt during the 17th or 16th century BCE. As he reigned during Egypt's fragmented Second Intermediate Period, it is difficult to date his reign precisely, an ...

, pharaoh of ancient Egypt * Yaqūb ibn Tāriq, Persian astronomer and mathematician

Modern times

Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar ( ur, ; born January 10, 1947) is a Pakistani politician and current Member of the Senate of Pakistan. He was the Interim president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) in 2017. He succeeded Nawaz Sharif after his ...

, former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan *

Yacoub Al-Mohana Yacoub Yousef Al-Mohana (born March 21, 1975) is a Kuwaiti film and musical director. He had worked musical videos of the Persian Gulf region's popular vocalists such as Rashed Al-Majed, Rahma Mezher and Ali Al Badr. He was noted for his many w ...

(born 1975), Kuwaiti film and musical director *

Yacoub Artin Yacoub Artin (15 April 1842 – 21 January 1919) was an ethnic Armenian educator and scholar working in Egypt. He was of Armenian descent, working for the Ministry of Public Education in 1888. It was noted in a period newspaper that he was one of ...

(1842–1919), ethnic Armenian educator and scholar * Yacoub Makzoume (born 1995), Syrian tennis player * Yacoub Masboungi (born 1948), Lebanese former swimmer * Yacoub Romanos (1935–2011), Lebanese wrestler * Yacoub Sarraf (born 1961), Lebanese politician *

Yacoub Shaheen Yacoub Shaheen ( ar, يعقوب شاهين; born 27 February 1994) is a Palestinian singer from the West Bank city of Bethlehem. He is a Syriac Christian. Shaheen won the TV program ''Arab Idol'', a program with approximately 120 million viewe ...

(born 1994), Palestinian singer * Yacoub Zaiadeen (?–2015), Jordanian politician and surgeon * Yacub Addy (1931–2014), Ghanaian drummer, composer, choreographer and educator *

Yakub Ali Chowdhury Mohammad Yakub Ali Chowdhury (2 November 1888 – 15 December 1940) was a Bengali essayist and journalist. He was noted as one of the few Bengali Muslim literary scholars of his time. Early life Chowdhury was born on 2 November 1888 in the village ...

, Bengali essayist * Yakub Ali, politician *

Yakub Cemil Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état The 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (January 23, 1913), also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte ( tr, Bâb-ı ...

, Ottoman soldier in the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état *

Yakub Guznej Yakub Guznej or Jakub Guzney (born 1892 in the Russian Empire - ?) was a Belarusian socio-political and military leader. He was a member of the Slutsk Defence Action in 1920, and commander of the first company in the First Brigade of the Army for ...

(1892–?), Belarusian socio-political and military leader *

Yakub Hasan Sait Maulana Yakub Hasan Sait or simply Yakub Hasan Sait (1875–1940) was an Indian businessman, freedom-fighter and politician who served as the Minister for Public Works in the Madras presidency from 1937 to 1939. Yakub Hasan Sait was born in Na ...

(1875–1940), Indian businessman, freedom-fighter and politician * Yakub Holovatsky (1814–1888), Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, bibliographer, lexicographer, and poet * Yakub Idrizov (born 1993), Bulgarian footballer * Yakub Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish diplomat * Yakub Khan Mehboob Khan (1904–1958), Indian film actor and director *

Yakub Kolas Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, be, Яку́б Ко́лас, – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich (Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч Міцке́віч, ) was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet a ...

(1882–1956), Belarusian writer *

Yakub Memon Yakub or Yaqub ( ar, يعقوب‎, Yaʿqūb or Ya'kūb , links=no, also transliterated in other ways) is a male given name. It is the Arabic version of Jacob and James. The Arabic form ''Ya'qūb/Ya'kūb'' may be direct from the Hebrew or indirec ...

(1962–2015), Indian terrorist *

Yakub Shah Chak Yakub (Persian: یعقوب, romanized: Yākub, lit. 'supplanter'; Persian pronunciation: :ʔqu:b, born Ya'qūb (Yākūb) Shāh Chak (Persian: یعقوب شاہ چک, Kashmiri: یَعقوب شاہ ژَھک) was the seventh and the last Ch ...

(died 1593), last native ruler of Kashmir * Yakub Shevki Pasha, General of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army * Yaqoob Abdul Baki (born 1979), Omani football referee * Yaqoob Al-Qasmi, Omani footballer * Yaqoob Ali (born 1980), Pakistani-born Irish cricketer * Yaqoob Bizanjo, Pakistani politician * Yaqoob Butt (born 1988), footballer * Yaqoob Juma Al-Mukhaini (born 1982), Omani footballer *

Yaqoob Salem Al-Farsi Yaqoob Salem Saleh Al Farsi ( fa, یعقوب سالم صالح الفارسي; born 18 April 1982) is an Omani footballer who plays for Sur SC. Club career statistics International career Yaqoob was selected for the Oman national football tea ...

(born 1982), Omani footballer * Yaqoob Salem Eid (born 1996), Bahraini sprinter *

Yaqub al-Ghusayn Yaqub al-Ghussein ( ar, يعقوب الغصين, ) (1899-1948) was a Palestinian landowner from Ramla and founder of the Youth Congress Party. He graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. Ghussein was elected president of the first Natio ...

(1899–1947), Palestinian leader *

Yaqub al-Mansur Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Abd al-Muʾmin al-Manṣūr (; c. 1160 – 23 January 1199 Marrakesh), commonly known as Yaqub al-Mansur () or Moulay Yacoub (), was the third Almohad Caliph. Succeeding his father, al-Mansur reigned from 11 ...

, Sultan of Morocco * Yaqub Ali Sharif, politician *

Yaqub Eyyubov Yaqub Abdulla oghlu Eyyubov ( az, Yaqub Eyyubov Abdulla oğlu; born 1945) is an Azerbaijani politician who has been First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan since 2003. Early years Eyyubov was born Baku in 1945. He studied at Azerbaijan Techni ...

(born 1945), Azerbaijani politician * Yaqub Kareem, Nigerian boxer of the 2000s and 2010s * Yaqub Mirza (born 1946), Pakistani businessman *

Yaqub Qureishi Haji Yaqoob Qureshi (born 1 January 1959) is a Former Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government. He is elected former MLA of Bahujan Samaj Party. Biography Haji yaqoob Quraishi was elected from the Meerut seat in 2007 as a UPUDF candidate. After thi ...

, Indian politician *

Yaqub Salimov Yaqub Salimov ( tg, Яъқуб Салимов/ fa, یعقوب سلیموف, russian: Якуб Салимов) served as Minister of the Interior of Tajikistan from December 1993 to 1995 Career Salimov, described as a 'mafia' figure by Olivier R ...

, Tajik politician *

Yaqub Sanu Yaqub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim (Arabic: يَعْقُوب ابْنُ إِسْحَٰق ابْنُ إِبْرَاهِيم, literally: "''Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham''" ar, يَعْقُوب , translit=Yaqub; also later ''Israil'', Arabic: إ ...

(1839–1912), Egyptian journalist

People with this surname

Abdul Razzak Yaqoob Abdul Razzak Yaqoob (7 May 1944 – 21 February 2014) was a Pakistani gold bullion trader who founded ARY Gold in the United Arab Emirates and later ARY Media Group. Early life He was born in Surat, British India to Memon family in 1944 which ...

(1944–2014), Pakistani expatriate businessman based in Dubai *

Ahmad Muin Yaacob On 25 November 2016, at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, Singapore, during a heated argument, Ahmad Muin bin Yaacob, a 23-year-old Malaysian cleaner, killed his 54-year-old supervisor Maimunah binte Awang by stabbing her with a pair of grass cutters an ...

, Malaysian convicted murderer *

Aminata Aboubakar Yacoub Aminata Aboubakar Yacoub (born 22 June 1989 in Epena, Republic of the Congo) is a Republic of the Congo swimmer. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as ...

(born 1989), Republic of the Congo swimmer *

Asif Yaqoob Asif Yaqoob (born 11 November 1973) is a Pakistani cricket umpire. He has officiated in Pakistan Super League. He stood in his first Twenty20 International (T20I) match, between Pakistan and Australia on 26 October 2018. He stood in his first ...

(born 1973), Pakistani cricket umpire * Atta Yaqub (born 1979), Scottish model and actor of Pakistani descent *

Charles Yacoub Charles Yacoub is a Lebanese-Canadian who hijacked a Greyhound Canada, Greyhound bus and drove it to Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1989. The eight-hour hostage taking resulted in no casualties, but was a notable incident of d ...

, Lebanese-Canadian bus hijacker *

Chaudhry Yaqoob Chaudhry Yaqoob is an ex-Inspector General of the Balochistan Police in Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dep ...

, Pakistani police officer *

Gabriel Yacoub Gabriel Yacoub is a French musician, songwriter and visual artist. Biography Yacoub was born in 1952, in Paris, of a Lebanese people, Lebanese father and a French people, French mother. He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group ...

, French musician, songwriter, and visual artist * Hala Al-Abdallah Yacoub (born 1956), Syrian cinematographer and director *

Halimah Yacob Halimah Yacob (Jawi script: ; born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and former lawyer who has been serving as the eighth president of Singapore since 2017. Prior to her presidency, she was the country's Speaker of the Parliament of S ...

(born 1954), President of Singapore *

Joseph Yacoub Joseph Yacoub (born 1944 in Hassaké or Al-Hasakah, Syria) is a historian and political scientist of Assyrian origin. His family moved from Salmas-Urmia, district in Iranian Azerbaijan and took refuge in Georgia (country of Caucasus area) during ...

(born 1944), Syrian professor *

Magdi Yacoub Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub ( ar, د/مجدى حبيب يعقوب ; born 16 November 1935), is an Egyptian retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon ...

(born 1935), Egyptian-British professor * Mirza Yaqoob (born 1974), Bahraini cricketer * Mo Yaqub (born 1994), Scottish footballer * (1937–2011), Tunisian art historian *

Mohammad Yakub This is a list of all cricketers who have played first-class, list A or Twenty20 cricket for Maharashtra cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons. Players in bol ...

, Indian cricketer *

Mohammad Yaqoob Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid (Pashto/, , ; born 1990) is an Afghan Islamic scholar, cleric, and Islamist militant who is the second deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting defense minister. He has been a deputy leader of the Taliban si ...

(born 1990), eldest son of Mullah Mohammed Omar *

Muhammad Hussein Yacoub Muhammad Hussein Yacoub ( ar, محمد حسين يعقوب) is a Salafi

(born 1956), Arab Islamic scholar *

Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Iṣḥāq al Kulaynī ar Rāzī (Persian: ar, أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن يَعْقُوب إِسْحَاق ٱلْكُلَيْنِيّ ٱلرَّازِيّ; c. 250 AH/864 CE � ...

(860s–941), Persian Shia hadith collector * Muhammad Yaqub, a Pakistani banker * Paola Yacoub (born 1966), artist based in Berlin and Beirut *

Rami Yacoub Rami Yacoub (born 17 January 1975), also known by the mononym Rami, is a Swedish record producer and songwriter and former member of the songwriting/production houses Cheiron Studios and Maratone. Yacoub collaborated extensively with Max Martin ...

(born 1975), Swedish-Palestinian record producer and songwriter *

Reham Yacoub Reham Yacoub also known as Riham Yaqoob ( ar, رهام يعقوب عزام) (1991 – 19 August 2020) was an Iraqi human rights advocate and doctor by profession who predominantly campaigned against human rights violations in Iraq and also serv ...

(1991–2020), Iraqi human rights advocate and doctor *

Roman Yakub Roman Yakub (born 1958) is a composer who received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition. In 1991, he moved to the United States, where he earned a master's degre ...

(born 1958), American composer * Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer * Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob (born 1952), Pakistani politician *

Salma Yaqoob Salma Yaqoob (formally Jacob) (born 15 August 1971) is a British political activist and psychotherapist who served as the Leader of the Respect Party from 2005 until 2012, representing the party on Birmingham City Council. She led the Birming ...

(born 1971), British political activist *

Septar Mehmet Yakub Septar Mehmet Yakub (known in Romanian as Septar Mehmet Iacub) (1904–1991) was a Crimean Tatar lawyer, thinker, spiritual leader of Tatars and Turks in Dobruja, Mufti of the Muslim community in Romania. He was a promoter of harmony and peace ...

(1904–1991), Crimean Tatar lawyer, thinker, and spiritual leader * Simon Yacoub (born 1989), Palestinian judoka *

Souheila Yacoub Souheila Yacoub (born 29 June 1992) is a Swiss actress, theatre maker, former rhythmic gymnast, and Miss Suisse Romande 2012 winner. Life and career Yacoub was born in Geneva to a Tunisian father and a Flemish mother. She has a sister. Yacoub a ...

(born 1992), Swiss gymnast and actress *

Talat Yaqoob Talat Yaqoob is a Scottish campaigner, writer and commentator focused on women's equality, race equality and intersectional analysis of policy. Early life and education She was educated at Heriot-Watt University and earned her master's degree ...

, a Scottish campaigner, writer, and commentator * Waleed Yaqub (born 1974), Pakistani cricket umpire

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