Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of
Arabic origin meaning "
God increases" (in piety, power and influence).
[From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning " YHWH will increase/add".] It is the Arabic equivalent of the
Hebrew name
Yosef and the
English name
Joseph. It is widely used in many parts of the world by
Arabs of all
Abrahamic religions, including
Middle Eastern Jews,
Arab Christians
Arab Christians ( ar, ﺍَﻟْﻤَﺴِﻴﺤِﻴُّﻮﻥ ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ, translit=al-Masīḥīyyūn al-ʿArab) are ethnic Arabs, Arab nationals, or Arabic-speakers who adhere to Christianity. The number of Arab Christians who l ...
, and
Muslims.
It is also
transliterated in many ways, including Yousef, Yousif, Youssef, Youssif, Yousuf and Yusef.
Given name
Yossef
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Yossef Karami (born 1983), Iranian Taekwondo athlete
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Yossef Romano (1940–1972), Libyan-born Israeli weightlifter (also known as Joseph Romano or Yossi Romano), killed in the 1972 Munich massacre
Youcef
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Youcef Abdi
Youcef Abdi ( Kabyle: Yusef Ɛabdi) (born 7 December 1977) is an Australian athlete who specializes in the 3000 m steeplechase. He changed his allegiance from Algeria
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, image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).s ...
(born 1977), Australian athlete
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Youcef Belaïli, Algerian footballer
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Youcef Ghazali, Algerian footballer
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Youcef Nadarkhani, Iranian sentenced to death for Christian beliefs
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Youcef Touati
Youcef Touati (29 March 1989 – 16 March 2017) was an Algerian professional association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Youth career
Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, Touati began his ...
, Algerian footballer
Yousef
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Yousef El Nasri (born 1979), Spanish long distance runner
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Yousef Beidas (1912–1968), Palestinian Lebanese banker
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Yousef Erakat, Palestinian-American YouTube personality
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Yousef Saanei (born 1937), Iranian cleric and politician
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Yousef Sheikh Al-Eshra, Syrian footballer
Yousif
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Yousif Ghafari, American businessman
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Yousif Hassan, Emirati footballer
Youssef
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Youssef Abdelke, Syrian artist
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Youssef Aftimus (1866–1952), Lebanese civil engineer and architect
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Youssef Bey Karam (1823–1889), Lebanese nationalist leader
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Youssef Chahine (1926–2008), Egyptian film director
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Youssef Hossam (born 1998), Egyptian tennis player
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Youssef Hussein (born 1988), Egyptian comedian
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Youssef Ibrahim
Youssef Ibrahim (born 2 March 1999 in Cairo) is an Egyptian professional squash player. As of July 2022, he was squash rankings, ranked 11 in the world.
Ibrahim currently studies at Princeton University and plays No. 1 for the Princeton Tigers m ...
(born 1999), Egyptian squash player
*Youssef Ibrahim (born 1994), nicknamed
Youssef Obama, Egyptian footballer
Youssif
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Youssif (burn victim), Iraqi torture victim
Youssof
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Youssof Kohzad
Youssof Kohzad (Persian: يوسف كهزاد; also spelled Youssef Kohzad) (born 1935) was an ethnic Tajik writer, painter, playwright, artist, poet, actor, and art consultant from Afghanistan. He has now taken residence in Tracy, California, Un ...
, Afghan American writer and artist
Youssouf
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Youssouf Bakayoko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ivory Coast
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Youssouf Hadji
Youssouf Hadji ( ar, يوسف حجي; born 25 February 1980) is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He notably had three spells for French side AS Nancy, also serving as the team captain, making 378 a ...
(born 1980), Moroccan footballer
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Youssouf Hersi
Youssouf Hersi (born 20 August 1982) is a retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Born in Ethiopia, Hersi represented the Netherlands at youth international level.
Club career
Hersi has played in the Netherlands ...
(born 1982), Dutch soccer player
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Youssouf Mulumbu (born 1987), Congolese footballer
Yousuf
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Mohammad Yousuf (cricketer) (born 1974), Pakistani cricketer
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Dr. Yousuf Memon
Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...
Cancer Surgeon Raipur Chhattigarh India
Yusef
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Yusef of Morocco (''Yusef ben Hassan'', 1882–1927), ruler of Morocco (1912–27)
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Yusef Abdeselam Kaddur
Yusuf ibn Ya'qub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( ar, يوسف ٱبن يعقوب ٱبن إسحاق ٱبن إبراهيم, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʾIsḥāq ibn ʾIbrāhīm, ) is a prophet mentioned in the Quran, and corresponds to Joseph, a person f ...
(born 1989), wrestler from Spain, Brazilian jiu jitsu champion
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Yusef Ahmed (born 1988), Qatari international footballer
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Yusef al-Ayeri (1973–2003), Saudi Arabian terrorist, first leader Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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Yusef Ali Khan (1816–1865), Nawab (1855–1865) in the princely state of Rampur (now in Uttar Pradesyh, India)
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Yusef Greiss
The following is a list of Egyptian music composers.
Pioneers
According to the work of the Egyptian musicologist Samha El-Kholy, the first generation of Egyptians to begin writing in modern Egyptian classical style were born around the turn ...
(1899–1961), Egyptian composer
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Yusef Hawkins
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins, March 19, 1973 – August 23, 1989) was a 16-year-old black teenager from the neighborhood of East New York, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, who was shot to death on August 23, ...
(also Yusuf Hawkins, 1973–1989), American murder victim in Brooklyn, New York City attacked by a racist mob
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Yusef Khan, fictional character in the British television soap opera ''EastEnders''
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Yusef Khan-e Gorji
Yusef Khan-e Gorji (also spelled Yūsof; fa, یوسف خان گرجی; died 1824) was a Qajar dynasty, Qajar Iranian military leader and official of Georgians, Georgian origin. Born in Tbilisi, An influential figure, he founded the Iranian city ...
(died 1824), Iranian military leader
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Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1941), American poet
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Yusef Lateef (1920–2013), American jazz musician
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Yusef Majidzadeh (born 1938), Iranian archaeologist
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Yusef Mishleb (also known as Yosef Mishlev, born 1952), Druze General in the Israel Defense Forces
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Yusef Sozi
''Yusuf Ssozi'' (born 20 December 1981) is a Ugandan-British former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played at club level in the Super League for the London Broncos ( Heritage No. 374) (2000-2001), the Batley Bull ...
(born 1981), Ugandan-British rugby league footballer
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Yusef Urabi (died 1966), Palestinian officer in the Syrian Army in a Palestinian Liberation Army unit and member of Fatah
Yusof
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Yusof Ishak (1910–1970), first President of Singapore
Yussef
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Yussef al-Shihri (1985–2009), Saudi Arabian extrajudicial detainee at Guantanamo Bay
Yussuf
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Yussuf Poulsen (born 1994), Danish footballer
Yusuf
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Yusuf ibn Muhammad, known as Al-Mustanjid, the caliph of Baghdad 1160–1170
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Yusuf Emre Fırat
Yusuf Emre Fırat (born 20 March 2000) is a Turkish Olympian cross-country skier.
Early years
Yusuf Emre Fırat was born in Kars, Turkey on 20 March 2000.
Sports career
Fırat performs cross-country skiing. He is a member of Kars Gençlik Sports ...
(born 2000), Turkish cross-country skier
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Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (1318–54), seventh Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula
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Yusuf II, Almohad ruler (c. 1203–1224), the ruler of Morocco
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Yusuf Abdulla
Yusuf Adam Abdulla (born 17 January 1983) is a retired South African cricketer. He played first-class cricket for the Dolphins cricket team, Dolphins and had previously represented the KwaZulu-Natal cricket team, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa A cr ...
, South African cricketer
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Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf al-Mustanjid, the caliph for the
Mamluk Sultanate (1455–1479)
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Yusuf al-Azma (1883–1920), Syrian War Minister, military officer in the Ottoman Empire
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Yusuf Ali (disambiguation), several people
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Yūsuf Balasaguni, Uyghur scribe
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Yusuf Başer (born 1980), Turkish karateka
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Yusuf Bey (1935–2003), American Muslim and Black Nationalist leader and activist
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Yusuf bin Ahmad al-Kawneyn, Somali Muslim scholar
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Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah (born 1945), Omani politician
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Yusuf Corker (born 1998), American football player
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Yusuf Dadoo, South African communist activist
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Yusuf Dikeç
Yusuf Dikeç (born January 1, 1973 in Taşoluk, Göksun, Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey) is a Turkish sport shooter competing in the pistol events. A retired non-commissioned officer of the Turkish Gendarmerie, the tall athlete at is a memb ...
(born 1983), Turkish sport shooter
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Yusuf Ekinci, Turkish lawyer
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Yusuf Garaad Omar, Somali journalist
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Yusuf Halaçoğlu (born 1949), Turkish historian and politician
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Yusuf Hamied, Indian billionaire
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Yusuf Hamadani (1062–1141), Persian Sufi teacher active in Central Asia
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Yusuf Islam, British musician, formerly known as Cat Stevens
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Yusuf ibn Tashfin (c.1061–1106), King of the Berber Almoravid empire
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Yusuf İsmail
Yusuf İsmail (1857 – July 4, 1898), also known as Youssouf Ishmaelo, was a Turkish professional wrestler who competed in Europe and the United States as Yusuf Ismail the Terrible Turk during the 1890s. During his lifetime, native Turks knew ...
(1857–1898), Turkish wrestler
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Yusuf Karamanli (1766–1838), pasha of the Karamanli dynasty in Tripolitania (modern day province of Libya)
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Yusuf Khatri, Indian master craftsman
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Yusuf Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer
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Yusuf Ma Dexin, Chinese Muslim scholar
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Yusuf Mersin, Turkish footballer
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Yusuf Nabi, Turkish writer
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Yusuf Öztürk (footballer)
Yusuf Öztürk (born 8 February 1979) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for FC Copenhagen in the Danish Superliga during 1999–2000 season, the Fremad Amager in Danish First Division during the 2005–06 seaso ...
, Turkish footballer
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Yusuf Öztürk (boxer), Turkish boxer
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926–2022), Egyptian Islamic theologian, (former) leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood
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Yusuf Salim
Yusuf Salim (1929–31 July 2008), born Joseph Blair, was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Salim was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and began his musical career there at the age of 14 as a pianist with the Ken Murray Sextet. He was hired when ...
(1929–2008), American jazz pianist and composer
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Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi communist activist
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Yusuf Şimşek, Turkish footballer
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Yusuf Taktak (born 1951), Turkish artists
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Yusuf Uçar (born 1987), Turkish paralympic goalball player
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Yusuf Yasin (1888−1962), Syrian-origin Saudi Arabian politician
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Yusuf Yazıcı
Yusuf Yazıcı (born 29 January 1997) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor, on loan from French club Lille, and the Turkey national team.
An academy graduate of Trabzons ...
, Turkish footballer
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Yusuf Yilmaz
Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew lang ...
, Turkish footballer
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Abu Yusuf Al-Turki (also known as, Ümit Yaşar Toprak, c. 1967–2014), Turkish sniper active in the al-Nusra Front
Jusuf
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Jusuf Nurkić
Jusuf Nurkić (; born 23 August 1994), nicknamed "the Bosnian Beast", is a Bosnian professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Standing at tall and weighing 290 lb (132 kg ...
, Bosnian basketball player
Surname
Giousouf
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Cemile Giousouf
Cemile Giousouf ( gr, Τζεμιλέ Γιουσούφ; born 5 May 1978) is a German politician; she was the first ever Muslim member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), serving as Member of the Bundestag for one legislative term from ...
(born 1978), German politician of Turkish ethnicity
Yousaf
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Humza Yousaf
Humza Haroon Yousaf (born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care since 2021. He is the first non-white and first Muslim cabinet minister in the Scottish Government. A member of the Sco ...
(born 1985), Scottish politician
Yousef
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Abd-El-Aziz Yousef
Abd-El-Aziz Safimayo Yousef ( so, Cabdicasiis Yuusuf; born 5 October 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Rivers FC in League1 British Columbia. Born in Saudi Arabia, he represents Somalia internationally.
Early life
Yo ...
(born 1999), Somali footballer
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Farrah Yousef (born 1989), Syrian singer
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Hediya Yousef
Hediya Yousef ( ku, Hediya Yûsif, ar, هدية يوسف) is a Syrian-Kurdish politician who held the office of co-president of the Executive Council of Rojava from 17 March 2016 to 16 July 2018. Yousef is an ethnic Kurd, and served with fellow ...
, Syrian-Kurdish politician
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Mosab Hassan Yousef, Palestinian spy working for Israel
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Ramzi Yousef (born 1968), Pakistani terrorist who organized 1993 World Trade Center bombing
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Rasmea Yousef, Jordanian associate director of the Arab American Action Network
Youssef
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Bassem Youssef (born 1974), Egyptian writer and comedian
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Dhafer Youssef (born 1967), Tunisian singer and oud player
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Maimouna Youssef
Maimouna Youssef is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. She is of Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee and African American heritage. She performs music under the stage name Mumu Fresh.
Musical career
Youssef earned a Grammy nomination for her vocal ...
(stage name: Mumu Fresh), American singer and rapper
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Maya Youssef, Syrian musician
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Mohamed Youssef (born 1986), Libyan basketball player
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Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar
Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar ( ar, محمد يوسف النجار; 11 June 1930 – 10 April 1973), commonly known as Abu Youssef, was a Palestinian militant who was assassinated by Israel over alleged involvement in the 1972 Munich massacre.
Li ...
(also known as Abu Youssef, 1930–1973), Palestinian militant
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Ramy Youssef (born 1980), Egyptian handball player
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Ramy Youssef (born 1991), American actor of Egyptian origin
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Michael Youssef (born 1948), Arab-American clergyman
Yusef
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Anatol Yusef (born 1978), British actor
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Malik Yusef (born 1971), American performing poet and rapper
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Mohammad Yusef the Painter, Persian Safavid dynasty artist
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Molla Yusef (disambiguation) Molla Yusef or Molla Yusof ( fa, ملايوسف), also rendered as Mulla Yusuf, may refer to:
* Molla Yusef, Ardabil
* Molla Yusof, East Azerbaijan
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, several people
Yusof
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Khairuddin Mohamed Yusof (born 1939), Malaysian Professor Emeritus at the University of Malaya
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Meor Aziddin Yusof
Meor Yusof Aziddin Meor Hassan (1967 – 24 December 2021), popularly known as Meor, was a Malaysian folk singer-songwriter in the Malay language.
Life and career
He was born in Beruas, Perak in 1967. He performed from 1984 and had a major labe ...
(born 1967), Malaysian folk singer-songwriter
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Mohammad Said Yusof, member of the Malaysian Parliament
Yusuf
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Abdullah Yusuf Ali, South Asian Islamic scholar
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed ( so, Cabdulaahi Yuusuf Axmed, ar, عبدالله يوسف أحمد; 15 December 1934 – 23 March 2012) was a Somali politician and former colonel in the Somali National Army. He was one of the founders of the Somali ...
, former President of Somalia
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Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1135–1184), second Almohad caliph, reigned in Marrakesh
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Ali Yusuf Kenadid, Somali Sultan of the Sultanate of Hobyo
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Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf, Somali politician
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Hamza Yusuf (born 1958), American Islamic scholar
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Hanna Yusuf (1992–2019), Somali-British journalist and broadcaster
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Isa Yusuf Alptekin, Uyghur politician
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Mohammad Yusuf (politician) (1917–98), prime minister of Afghanistan
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Mohammed Yusuf (Boko Haram) (also known as Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, 1970–2009), Nigerian Muslim sect founder and leader
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Osman Yusuf Kenadid, Somali scholar
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Sami Yusuf (born 1980), British singer-songwriter
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Dr. Yusuf Memon Raipur Chhattigarh India , A Cancer Surgeon
Yussuf
Yusuff
Yussuff
See also
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Joseph (given name)
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Joseph in Islam
Yusuf ibn Ya'qub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ( ar, يوسف ٱبن يعقوب ٱبن إسحاق ٱبن إبراهيم, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʾIsḥāq ibn ʾIbrāhīm, ) is a Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet mentioned in the Quran, and ...
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Yusuf Muhammad (disambiguation) Yusuf Muhammad is a British inventor and engineer
Yusuf Muhammad ( ar, يوسف محمد, link=no), and other variants, may also refer to:
* Youssef Mohamed (basketball) (1927–2001), Egyptian basketball player
* Youssef Mohamad (footballer, born ...
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Hajj Yusef (disambiguation) Hajj Yusef or Haj Yusef or Hajj Yusof ( fa, حاج يوسف) may refer to:
* Haj Yusef-e Olya, East Azerbaijan Province
* Haj Yusef-e Sofla, East Azerbaijan Province
* Hajj Yusef, Markazi
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Arabic name
Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given/ middle/family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout ...
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Turkish name
A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full na ...
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