Yazīd ( ar, يزيد, links=no, "increasing", "adding more") is an Arabic name and may refer to:

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* Yazid I (647–683), second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah * Yazid II (687–724), Umayyad caliph * Yazid III (701–744), Umayyad caliph *

Yazid Kaïssi Yazid Kaïssi ( ar, يزيد قيسي; born 16 May 1981) is a French-Moroccan former professional footballer. He last played for Feignies Aulnoye. Club career A youth prospect of Lens, Kaïssi played for the reserve team and was a finalist in ...

(born 1981), French-born Moroccan footballer *

Yazid Mansouri Yazid Mansouri ( ar, يزيد منصوري, Yazīd Manṣūrī) (born 25 February 1978) is a former footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in France, he represented Algeria at international level, gaining 67 caps over ten years. Club care ...

(born 1978), French-born Algerian footballer * Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (672–720), Umayyad governor * Yazid of Morocco (1750–1792), Sultan of Morocco * Yazid Sabeg (born 1950), French businessman *

Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Umayya ( ar, يزيد بن أبي سفيان بن حرب بن أمية, Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya; died 639) was a leading Arab Muslim commander in the conquest of Syria from 634 until his de ...

(died 640), brother of the early Umayyad leader Muawiyah I, and companion of Muhammad *

Yazid Sufaat Yazid Sufaat (born 20 January 1964), also known as Yazud bin Sufaat or Yazid Shufaat, is a Malaysian member of the extremist Islamist terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah from shortly after its foundation in 1993 until his arrest by Malaysian ...

(born 1964), suspected militant *

Yazid Zerhouni Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni ( ar, نورالدين يزيد زرهوني) (1937 – 18 December 2020) was the interior minister of Algeria. He was born in Tunis. In 2000, he was hospitalized in Algeria, Algiers with an undisclosed condition. ...

(born 1937), Algerian politician *

Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the most ...

(Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born 1972), French footballer and manager *

Yazid ibn Umar al-Fazari Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari ( ar, يَزِيد بن عُمَر بن هُبَيْرَة الْفَزارِيّ , Yazīd ibn ʿUmar ibn Hubayra al-Fazārī; died 750) was the last Umayyad governor of Iraq. A son of former governor Umar ibn ...

(died 750) *

Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi ( ar, يزيد بن حاتم المهلبي) (died March 13, 787) was a member of the Muhallabid family who served as the governor of Adharbayjan, Egypt (762–769) and Ifriqiya (771–787) for the Abbasid Caliphate. ...

(died 787) *

Yazid ibn Abdallah al-Hulwani Yazid ibn Abdallah ibn Dinar al-Hulwani (also called al-Turki)Gordon, p. 109 ( ar, يزيد بن عبد الله التركي) was the military governor (''wālī al-jaysh'') of Egypt for the Abbasid Caliphate from 856 to 867.Kennedy, p. 85 He was t ...

(), Abbasid military governor of Egypt *

Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani ( ar, يزيد بن مزيد الشيباني, Yazīd ibn Mazyad al-Shaybānī; died 801) was an Arab general and governor who served the Abbasid Caliphate. Biography Yazid was member of the Shayban tribe, dominant ...

(died ), Abbasid military general and governor *

Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami or Yazid ibn Usayd ibn Zafir al-Sulami () was an Arab general and governor in the service of the early Abbasid Caliphate. He was active mostly in the Caliphate's northwestern frontier region, serving as governor ...

(), Abbasid military general in Armenia *

Yazid ibn al-Sa'iq Abū Qays Yazīd ibn ʿAmr ibn Khuwaylid ibn Nufayl ibn ʿAmr ibn Kilāb, commonly known as Yazid ibn al-Sa'iq, was a chieftain, warrior, and poet of the Amr branch of the Banu Kilab, the leading clan of the Banu Amir, one of the major Arab tribes i ...

Yazid ibn Jarir al-Qasri Yazid ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri ( ar, يزيد بن جرير بن يزيد بن خالد بن عبد الله القسري) was a provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate, serving as governor of the Yemen from 812 t ...

* Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki * Yazid ibn Ziyad *

Yazid ibn Khalid al-Qasri Yazid ibn Khalid al-Qasri () was a son of the famed Khalid al-Qasri, the longtime (724–738) governor of Iraq for the Umayyads. Due to his father's imprisonment, torture, and death at the hands of al-Walid II's governor of Iraq, Yusuf ibn Umar ...

Yazid ibn Abi Muslim Yazid ibn Abi Muslim () was the Umayyad governor of Ifriqiya from 720 until his assassination in 721. Yazid ibn Abi Muslim was from the Arab tribe of Thaqif. He served in the administration of Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the Umayyad governor of Wasit (I ...

Surname

* Abu Yazid (873–947), Kharijite Berber of the Banu Ifran tribe * Mhamed Yazid (1923–2003), Algerian independence activist and politician

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