Yasser (also spelled Yaser, Yasir, or Yassir; , ''Yāsir'') is an Arabic male name meaning “to be of ease” or “of wealth”.

Notable people with this given name

Yasir Abdullah Yasir Abdullah (born April 12, 2000) is an American professional American football, football linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals football, Louisvi ...

(born 2000), American gridiron football player *

Yasir ibn Amir Yasir ibn Amir ibn Malik al-Ansi (; sixth/seventh century C.E.) was an early companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is the second martyr in Islam, with the first being his wife, Sumayya. Early life Yasir was originally from the Malik cl ...

(died 615 C.E.) is known in the Islamic traditions as the second person in history to be martyred for having adopted the faith of Islam. *

Yaser Abdel Said Yaser Abdel Said (; born January 27, 1957) is an Egyptian-American convicted murderer. For 12 years, Said evaded arrest for the January 1, 2008, fatal shootings of his two daughters, whose bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, T ...

(born 1957), Egyptian fugitive wanted for the murder of his two daughters *

Yassir Abdul-Mohsen Yassir Abdul-Mohsen Jabur (; born May 27, 1988, in Baghdad, Iraq), is a former Iraqi footballer who played as a right winger. International debut On December 3, 2012, Yassir made his full international debut against Bahrain Bahrain, offic ...

, Iraqi footballer *

Yaser Salem Ali Yaser Salem Salah Ali (; born 5 December 1977) is an Emirati retired footballer who played as a forward for Emirati clubs Al Wahda and Baniyas. He earned 36 caps for the United Arab Emirates national team, scoring 16 goals. Ali scored 10 goals ...

, Emirati footballer *

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...

(1929–2004), Palestinian leader * Yasir Arafat (disambiguation), multiple people *

Yasser al-Azma Yasser al-Azmeh (; born 16 May 1942) is a prominent Syrian writer and actor of television and theater from Damascus. He is a member of the highly notable Al-Azmeh Damascene family with kurdish roots. Al-Azmeh is best known for the popular comed ...

, Syrian writer and actor * Yasser Al-Baadani (born 1986), Yemeni football defender *

Yasser Al Borhamy Yasser Borhami is an Egyptian Salafi Muslim activist and preacher. He is one of the founders of the Salafist Call, a movement that created the Salafist Al Nour Party in 2011. He is also the vice president of the Salafist Call. Borhamy was de ...

(born 1958), Egyptian Muslim activist * Yasser Ibrahim Farag (born 1984), Egyptian shot putter *

Yasser Al-Habib Sheikh Yasser al-Habib (; born 20 January 1979) is a Kuwaiti Shia scholar, and the head of the London-based Mahdi Servants Union, as well as Al-Muhassin mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and the writer of '' The Lady of Heaven''. Al-Habib's w ...

, Shia Muslim Scholar and founder of Fadak TV * Yasser el Halaby, Egyptian squash player *

Yaser Kasim Yaser Safa Kasim Al-Kadefaje (; born 10 May 1991) is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a midfielder. Early life At age 6 Kasim left Iraq with his family to Jordan and after spending a year in Jordan where he experienced his first taste o ...

, Iraqi footballer *

Yasser Khalil Yasser Khalil (born September 28, 1972) is an Egyptian journalist. Biography Since 1996, Yasser Khalil has covered political and cultural affairs in Egypt. He is the founder of the Kbret Network, the first bloggers' network in the Middle East.cit ...

(born 1972), Egyptian journalist *

Yasser Al Mosailem Yasser Abdullah Nasser Al-Mosailem (; born 27 February 1984) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Saudi First Division League club Jeddah. He spent 18 years representing Al-Ahli and the Saudi Arabia national ...

(born 1984), Saudi Arabian professional football player *

Yasser Portuondo Yasser Portuondo (born February 2, 1983) is a male volleyball player from Cuba. He was a member of the Men's National Team that claimed the silver at the 2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games, officially the XIV Pan American Ga ...

(born 1983), Cuban volleyball player *

Yasir Qadhi Yasir Qadhi (formerly known by his kunya Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi) (born January 30, 1975) is a Pakistani American Muslim scholar and theologian. He is dean of The Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center ...

, American Islamic Scholar of Pakistani origin *

Yasser Al-Qahtani Yasser Saeed Mosleh Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani (; born 10 October 1982) is a Saudi Arabian former footballer who played as a forward for Al-Hilal FC in the Saudi Professional League. He was also captain of the Saudi Arabia national team. Club ca ...

(born 1982), Saudi Arabian professional football player * Yassir Raad, Iraqi footballer *

Yasser Abd Rabbo Yasser Abed Rabbo () also known by his '' kunya'', Abu Bashar () (born 1944) is a Palestinian politician and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. Biography Early life and career Born in Jaffa in 1944, ...

(born 1944), Palestinian politician *

Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (; born 1971) is the youngest son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran. Biography In 1989, he graduated from Nikan High School in Tehran, which was funded by a conservative religious group before I ...

(born 1971), Iranian politician *

Yasser Seirawan Yasser Seirawan (; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States Chess Championship, United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess au ...

(born 1960), American chess player *

Yasir Shah Yasir Shah SI (; born 2 May 1986) is an international cricketer from Pakistan. He plays as a bowler, and is the joint-second fastest bowler in the history of Test cricket to take 100 wickets, as well as also being the fastest to pick up 200 wi ...

(born 1986), Pakistani cricketer *

Yaser Shigan Yaser Shigan (born August 17, 1976) is a Syrian boxer, who won the only gold medal for Syria at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain. In the final of the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) he defeated former Romanian ...

, Syrian boxer *

Yassir al-Sirri Yasser Tawfiq Ali El-Sirri (ياسر توفيق علي السري) ( kunya ''Abu Ammar'') is an Egyptian militant connected to the Vanguards of Conquest and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, sentenced to death in the 1998 Returnees from Albania trial. Brac ...

, Egyptian militant *

Yaser Yıldız Yaser Yıldız (born June 1, 1988 in Adapazarı, Turkey) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward for Vanspor. He scored the finishing goal against Bellinzona what ended 2–1 win for Galatasaray in first round UEFA Cup. Career statistic ...

, Turkish footballer *

Yasser Talal Al Zahrani Yasser Talal al Zahrani (September 22, 1984 – June 10, 2006) was a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 93. ...

(1984–2006), Saudi Arabian extra-judicial prisoner of the United States

Notable people with this surname

Ammar ibn Yasir Ammar ibn Yasir (; July 657 C.E.) was a ''Sahabi'' (Companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a commander in the early Muslim conquests. His parents, Sumayya and Yasir ibn Amir, were the first martyrs of the Ummah. Ammar converted to I ...

, one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad *

Hussein Yasser Hussein Yasser Mohamady Abdelrahman (Arabic: حسين ياسر محمدي عبد الرحمن; born 9 January 1984) is a Qatari footballer who plays as a midfielder and winger for Egyptian side Wadi Degla. Personal life Yasser was born in Doh ...

(born 1984), Egyptian-Qatari footballer * Omar Yaser Ismail (born 2005), Palestinian taekwondo athlete *

Ramadan Yasser Ramadan Yasser Abdel Ghaffar (; born July 19, 1980, in Gharbîya el-Saqriya, Al-Wadi Al-Jadid) is a Boxing, boxer from Egypt. Career Yasser won the gold medal in the men's middleweight division at the Boxing at the 1999 All-Africa Games, 1999 ...

(born 1980), Egyptian boxer

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