Taleb may refer to:
People
Surname
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Loay Taleb
Louay Taleb (; born August 9, 1975, in Damascus, Syria) is a retired Syrian football (soccer), football player. He ended his career as a player at Al-Wahda SC Damascus, Al-Wahda in 2002 and became one of the assistant coaches there. He moved to A ...
(born 1975), Syrian footballer
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, ...
(born 1960), Lebanese-American writer and statistician
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Nordine Taleb (born 1981), French mixed martial artist
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Oday Taleb (born 1977), Iraqi football goalkeeper
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Sufi Abu Taleb (1925 - 2008), Egyptian politician.
Given name
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Taleb Alrefai (born 1958), Kuwaiti journalist and writer
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Taleb Doraji (born 1937), Iranian Mandaean priest and goldsmith
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Taleb Nematpour (born 1984), Iranian wrestler
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Taleb Tawatha (born 1992), Israeli-Bedouin footballer
Places
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Taleb, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Taleb, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
See also
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Taleb distribution
In economics and finance, a Taleb distribution is the statistical profile of an investment which normally provides a payoff of small positive returns, while carrying a small but significant risk of catastrophic losses. The term was coined by jou ...
, a type of returns profile
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Talib (disambiguation)
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