Yasmin is usually a feminine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...

, sometimes also a surname. Variant forms and spellings include Yasemin, Yasmeen, Yasmina, Yasmine, and Yassmin.

Etymology

''Yasmin'' () is the

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

name for the flowering plant jasmine, from which the English name '' Jasmine'' and the Hebrew name יסמין also derive.

Given name

Yasemin

Yasemin Adar Yasemin Adar (born 6 December 1991) is a Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 76 kg division. 2 times world (2017,2022) and 6 times European (2016,2017,2018,2019,2022,2023) champions. She also won one of the bronze medals in the wome ...

(born 1991), Turkish sport wrestler * Yasemin Begüm Dalgalar (born 1988), Turkish basketballer * Yasemin Bradley, Turkish female physician specialized as nutritionist and dietitian, also a television presenter and writer * Yasemin Can (born 1996), Turkish long-distance runner of Kenyan origin *

Yasemin Çegerek Yasemin Çegerek (born 10 November 1977, in Apeldoorn) is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent. She was an MP for the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) between 18 June 2013 and 23 March 2017. She replaced Désirée Bonis, who left the Hous ...

(born 1977), Dutch politician from Turkish descent *

Yasemin Dalkılıç Yasemin Dalkılıç (born 2 May 1979) is a Turkish female free diver. She holds numerous records in different categories of free diving. Though still in the middle of her career, she is already considered to be one of the all-time greats in the s ...

(born 1979), Turkish free diver * Yasemin Ecem Anagöz (born 1998), Turkish recurve archer *

Yasemin Güler Yasemin Güler (born April 10, 1994) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays in the Turkish Women's Handball Super League for Kastamonu Bld. GSK, and the Turkey national team. The -tall sportswoman plays in the right wing position. Pla ...

(born 1994), Turkish handball player *

Yasemin Horasan Yasemin Horasan (born 1 August 1983) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. She is currently the general manager of the Turkish national team. Career Horasan played in the season 2002–2003 for Beşiktaş J.K. and was elected ...

(born 1983), Turkish basketball player *

Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu (born February 26, 1985), a 5' 7" guard, is a Turkish American women's basketball player at Santa Clara University in California, USA. Her sister, Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu, plays professionally for Turkish club Beşiktaş J.K., ...

, Turkish-American basketball player *

Yasemin Kozanoğlu Yasemin Kozanoğlu (born 7 July 1978) is a Turkish actress and model Biography Yasemin Kozanoğlu was born to businessman Ahmet Kozanoğlu and socialite Ahu Tuğbay.Yasemin Mori Yasemin Aygün Savgı (born 4 March 1982), better known as Yasemin Mori, is a Turkish alternative rock singer. Biography As daughter of military architect father and Edirne-born mother worked as a sales chief on Turkish Airlines, her original ...

(born 1982), Turkish singer * Yasemin Smit (born 1984), Dutch water polo player *

Yasemin Şahin Yasemin Şahin (born June 25, 1988, in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish handballer playing in left wing position. The } tall sportswoman is a member of th Antalya-based club Konyaaltı Bld.SK in the Turkish Super League and the Turkish national t ...

(born 1988), Turkish handball player *

Yasemin Şamdereli Yasemin Şamdereli (born 15 July 1973 in Dortmund, West Germany) is a German actress, screenwriter and film director. Her film '' Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland'' had its U.S. premiere at the Berlin and Beyond Film Festival in San Francisc ...

(born 1973), Turkish-German actress *

Yasemin Saylar Yasemen Saylar (born 7 September 1990) is a Turkish former professional basketball player. Honors * Turkish Women's Basketball League **Runners-up (2): 2007-08, 2009–10 *Turkish Cup **Winners (1): 2009-10 *Turkish Presidents Cup **Winners (1): ...

(born 1990), Turkish basketball player *

Yasemin Ustalar Yasemin Ustalar (later Yasemin Çabuk) is a Turkish female boxer. She was born in Şereflikoçhisar (1975). She won a silver medal in the 63.5 kg category at the 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey ...

, Turkish boxer

Middle name

Özlem Yasemin Taşkın Özlem Yasemin Taşkın (born October 28, 1985) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. She is a five-time Turkish champion in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, and a member of Galatasaray Swimming Team, under h ...

(born 1985), retired Turkish swimmer

Yasmeen

Yasmeen Al Maimani Yasmeen Al Maimani ( ar, ياسمين الميمني) is the first woman from Saudi Arabia to become a commercial airline pilot. She received her commercial pilot license from FAA in 2013, which she converted to Saudi General Authority of Civi ...

Yasmeen Ghauri Yasmeen Ghauri ( ur, {{Nastaliq, ; born March 23, 1971) is a Canadian former model. Early life and career Ghauri was born in Montreal to a German mother and a Pakistani father. Ghauri had a difficult childhood due to being bullied at school by ...

(born 1971), Canadian model *

Yasmeen Godder Yasmeen Godder ( he, יסמין גודר; born 1973), is an Israeli choreographer and dancer. Biography Yasmeen was born and raised until the age of 14 in Jerusalem. As a child, she danced at Professor Hasia Levi-Agron's class, and ballet at Yaakov ...

Yasmeen Hameed Yasmeen Hameed ( ur, ) is a Pakistani Urdu poet, translator and an educator. Career Yasmeen Hameed has more than thirty years of experience in the fields of education, literature and art. She was the Founding Director of Gurmani Centre for Sou ...

, Pakistani Urdu poet *

Yasmeen Hanoosh Yasmeen Hanoosh is an academic, fiction writer, and translator from Iraq. She was born in Basra in 1978. She moved to the United States in 1995, subsequently obtaining a BA, MA and PhD (in Middle Eastern Studies) from the University of Michigan. Th ...

Yasmeen Ismail Yasmeen Ismail (28 March 1950, in Rawalpindi – 18 January 2002, in Karachi) was a Pakistani television actress and theater director.

Yasmeen Khair Yasmeen Khair (born 27 June 1987) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a defender for local Women's League club Shabab Al-Ordon and the Jordan women's national team. She is as well a former Arab gold medalist of the Jordanian National Gymna ...

* Yasmeen Khan (actress) *

Yasmeen Khan (cricketer) Yasmeen Khan (born 7 January 1999) is a Namibian cricketer and a former captain of the women's national cricket team. Currently the vice captain, she plays as a right-handed batter, right-arm medium pace bowler, and occasional wicket-keeper. ...

Yasmeen Lari Yasmeen Lari (born 1941; ur, ) is Pakistan's first female architect. She is best known for her involvement in the intersection of architecture and social justice. Since her official retirement from architectural practice in 2000, her UN-recog ...

(born 1941), Pakistani architect *

Yasmeen Murshed Yasmeen Murshed is a Bangladeshi businesswoman and a former advisor of the caretaker government led by President Iajuddin Ahmed Iajuddin Ahmed (1 February 193110 December 2012) was the President of Bangladesh, serving from 6 September 2002 un ...

* Yasmeen Pir Mohammad Khan * Yasmeen Rehman *

Yasmeen Sami Alamiri Yasmeen Sami Alamiri is an Iraqi American journalist. She currently serves as the digital news editor for PBS NewsHour. Alamiri became a White House correspondent in 2007 for the Saudi Press Agency. In that capacity, Alamiri was the first member o ...

* Yasmeen Sulieman, American singer * Yasmeen Vella * Yasmeen Williams

Yasmin

Yasmin (musician) Yasmin Perry (born 10 March 1993), who performs under the mononym Yasmin, is an English singer, songwriter and DJ. She is signed to record label Levels Entertainment, an imprint of Ministry of Sound and began her singing career in October 2010 w ...

, British DJ and singer-songwriter * Yasmin Abbasey (born 1950), Pakistani judge * Yasmin Abdulaziz (born 1980), Egyptian actress *

Yasmin Aga Khan Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (born December 28, 1949) is a Swiss-born American philanthropist known for raising public awareness of Alzheimer's disease. She is the second child of American movie actress and dancer Rita Hayworth, and the third child ...

(born 1949), American Pakistani philanthropist *

Yasmin Ahmad Yasmin binti Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia fo ...

(1958–2009), Malaysian film director *

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (''née'' Damji; born 10 December 1949) is a British journalist and author, who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim...person". A regular columnist for the ''i '' newspaper and the ''Eveni ...

(born 1949), Ugandan-born British journalist and author *

Yasmin Bannerman Yasmin Bannerman (born 1970) is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in Gloucestershire and attended the Rose Bruford College in London until 1993. She has had roles in television series such as ''Hollyoaks'', ''Cold Feet'', ...

(born 1972), English actress *

Yasmin Benoit Yasmin Benoit (born 10 June 1996) is an English model, activist, and writer. She has promoted the visibility of asexuality, aromanticism, and of LGBTQ+ people of colour and has worked as a lingerie and alternative model. As ''Aislin Magazine'' w ...

(born 1996), English model and activist * Yasmin Bevan, English headteacher * Yasmin Brunet (born 1988), Brazilian model * Yasmin Deliz (born 1987), American reggaetón singer-songwriter, model and actress *

Yasmin Evans Yasmin Evans (born 27 October 1990) is an English television and radio presenter. She is best known for presenting on BBC Radio 1Xtra (2012–2021). She's also known for presenting on CBBC's '' Saturday Mash-Up!'' (2017–2019), Heart Radio (fr ...

(born 1990),British TV and radio presenter *

Yasmin Finney Yasmin Finney (born 30 August 2003) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Elle Argent in the Netflix series '' Heartstopper'' (2022), for which she was nominated for a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting P ...

, British actress and Internet personality * Yasmin K. (born 1986), German pop singer *

Yasmin Kafai Yasmin B. Kafai, Ph.D., is a Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, past president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), and an executive editor of the '' Journal of ...

, German professor * Yasmin Kwadwo (born 1990), German sprint athlete *

Yasmin Le Bon Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh; born 29 October 1964) is an English model. She was one of the highest-earning models during the 1980s and is also known for being the wife of pop star Simon Le Bon. Early life Yasmin Parvaneh was born in Oxford, ...

(born 1964), British fashion model * Yasmin Lee, Brazilian transgendered pornographic film actress * Yasmin Levy (born 1975), Israeli singer-songwriter of Sephardic music *

Yasmin Paige Yasmin, Yasmine, or Yasmina may refer to: People * Yasmin (given name), a feminine given name, and sometimes surname * Yasmin (musician) (born 1993), English singer, songwriter, and DJ * Yasmine (pornographic actress), Yasmine Lafitte, French ac ...

(born 1991), English actress *

Yasmin Qureshi Yasmin Qureshi (born 5 July 1963) is a British Labour Party politician and a barrister practising criminal law. She headed the criminal legal section of the UN Mission in Kosovo and was later appointed Director of the department of Judicial ...

(born 1963), British politician *

Yasmin Ratansi Yasmin Ratansi (born January 4, 1951) is a Canadian politician who represented the Toronto area riding of Don Valley East in the House of Commons from 2004 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2021. She was elected as a Liberal in the 2004 federal el ...

(born 1951), Canadian politician * Yasmin Sardouk (born 2000), Lebanese footballer *

Yasmin Siraj Yasmin Siraj (born July 30, 1996) is an American former figure skater. She is the 2010 U.S. junior silver medalist and competed at the 2013 World Junior Championships. Career Siraj began skating at the age of two, following her sister Layla. ...

(born 1996), American figure skater * Yasmin Warsame (born 1976), Somali-Canadian model * Yasmin Wijnaldum (born 1998), Dutch model *

Yasmin Yusoff Yang Hormat Dato’ Yasmin Yusuff (born 1955), better known by her stage name Yasmin Yusuff, is a former beauty queen, veteran actress and singer in Malaysia. Yasmin is one of the few well-known Malay pageant contestants who won the Miss Univer ...

, Malaysian singer

Yasmina

* Yasmina Azzizi-Kettab (born 1966), retired Algerian heptathlete *

Yasmina Khadra Mohammed Moulessehoul ( ar, محمد مولسهول; born January 10, 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra ( ar, ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algeri ...

(born 1955), Algerian author *

Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 blac ...

(born 1959), French Iranian playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter * Yasmina Siadatan (born 1981), British businesswoman of British and Iranian descent

Yasmine

* Yasmine Allas (born 1967), Somali actress and writer * Yasmine Belmadi (1976–2009), French actor of Algerian origin *

Yasmine Bleeth Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968) is an American actress and model. Her television roles include Caroline Holden on ''Baywatch'', Ryan Fenelli on '' Ryan's Hope'', and LeeAnn Demerest on '' One Life to Live''. Early life and career B ...

(born 1968), American actress * Yasmine Eriksson (born 1989), Swedish politician *

Yasmine Fouad Yasmine Salah El-Din Fouad Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian politician. She has been Minister of Environment in Mostafa Madbouly's ministry since 18 June 2018. She will chair the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh Sharm ...

, Egyptian politician * Yasmine Galenorn, Romantic fiction writer *

Yasmine Hamdan Yasmine Hamdan ( ar, ياسمين حمدان; born 1976) is a Lebanese singer and songwriter, now based in Paris. Biography Hamdan became known with Soapkills, the duo she founded with Zeid Hamdan (no relation) while she was still living in B ...

(born 1976), Lebanese singer * Yasmine Hanani (born 1980), American actress *

Yasmine Kassari Yasmine Kassari (born 3 October 1970) is a Moroccan film director, known for multi-layered diasporic cinema. Kassari moved to Paris as a teenager, where she graduated from high school and enrolled in a medical school. After studying medicine fo ...

(born 1970), Belgian-Moroccan film director *

Yasmine Lafitte Yasmine Lafitte (Arabic: ياسمين لافيت) is a French former pornographic actress who performed under the mononym Yasmine. Life and career Born in an observant Muslim family in Thar Es-Souk, a small village of Morocco, Lafitte moved t ...

(born 1973), Moroccan and French pornographic actress * Yasmine Mahmoudieh, German architect *

Yasmine Naghdi Yasmine Naghdi (born March 25, 1992) is a British ballerina and principal dancer of The Royal Ballet in London. She joined The Royal Ballet in April 2010. In June 2017, she was promoted to the rank of principal ballerina. Early life Naghdi ...

, British ballet dancer *

Yasmine Oudni Yasmine Oudni (born August 2, 1989, in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinat ...

(born 1989), Algerian volleyball player * Yasmine Pahlavi (born 1968), wife of Reza Pahlavi II, Crown Prince of Iran * Yasmine Posio (born 1974), Swedish politician * Yasmine Ryan (ca. 1983–2017) New Zealand journalist * Yasmine Zaki Shahab (born 1946), Indonesian anthropologist

Yassmin

* Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Australian activist * Yassmin Alers, American stage actor

Fictional characters

* Yasmin Green, ''Family Affairs'' character played by Ebony Thomas from 1998 until 2005 * Yasmin, a

Bratz Bratz is an American fashion doll and media franchise created by former Mattel employee Carter Bryant for MGA Entertainment which debuted in 2001. The four original 10-inch (25 cm) dolls were released on May 21, 2001 — Yasmin, Cloe, Jade ...

doll * Yasmin Khan, a companion of the

Thirteenth Doctor The Thirteenth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the fictional protagonist of the BBC science fiction television programme, ''Doctor Who''. She is portrayed by English actress Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to portray the character, st ...

in the BBC series '' Doctor Who'' * Yasamin Madrani, a main character in the animated web-series '' gen:LOCK'' * Yasmina Ait Omar, a recurring character in the Belgian series ''

wtFOCK ''WtFOCK'' (stylised as ''wtFOCK'') is a Belgian teen drama web series broadcast by VIER and VIJF that follows the lives of teenagers in Antwerp. It is an adaption of the popular Norwegian series '' SKAM''. By the end of the first series, around ...

Surname

* Samina Yasmeen, Pakistani professor *

Sabina Yasmin Sabina Yasmin (born 4 September 1953) is a Bangladeshi singer. She is best known as a playback singer in Bengali cinema. She has won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer a record 14 times. She has recorded more than 1 ...

(born 1953), Bangladeshi singer * Farida Yasmin, Bangladeshi journalist * Farida Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer * Nilufar Yasmin, Bangladeshi singer

References

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