Yakub
Yakub or Yaqub (Arabic: يعقوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb, also transliterated in other ways, including Yaqoob, Yaqoub, Yaqub, and Yakup) is a male given name. It is the Arabic version of Jacob and James. The Arabic form Ya'qūb may be direct from the Hebrew or indirect through Syriac.[1] The name was in use in pre-Islamic Arabia[1] and is a common given name in Arab, Turkish, and Muslim societies. It is also used as a surname. It is common in Polish, Czech and Slovak languages, where it is transliterated as Jakub.
Religious figures
- Yāˈqub ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, prophet of Islam
- Yakub (Nation of Islam) creator the white race according to that belief system
Other people with this given name
Pre-modern times
- Yaqub-Har, pharaoh of ancient Egypt
- Yaqub Beg, Tajik adventurer
- Yakub Çelebi, Ottoman Sehzade, son of Sultan Murad I
- Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari
- Ya'qub ibn Killis, Egyptian vizier
- Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari, Persian leader
- Ya'qub al-Mansur, Almohad caliph
- Yaqūb ibn Tāriq, Persian astronomer and mathematician
Modern times
- Yakub Cemil, Ottoman soldier in the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état
- Yaqub al-Ghusayn, Palestinian leader
- Yakub Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish diplomat
- Yaqub Kareem, Nigerian boxer of the 2000s and 2010s
- Yakub Khan Mehboob Khan, Indian film actor and director
- Yakub Kolas, Belarusian writer
- Yaqub al-Mansur, Sultan of Morocco
- Yakub Memon, Indian terrorist
- Yaqub Mirza, Pakistani businessman
- Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar, former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Yakub Hasan Sait, Indian businessman, freedom-fighter and politician
- Yaqoob Salem Al-Farsi, Omani footballer
- Yaqub Salimov, Tajik politician
- Yaqub Sanu, Egyptian journalist
- Yakub Shevki Pasha, General of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army
People with this surname
- Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Pakistani expatriate businessman based in Dubai
- Atta Yaqub, Scottish model and actor of Pakistani descent
- Chaudhry Yaqoob, Pakistani police officer
- Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore
- Mohammad Yakub, Indian cricketer
- Muhammad Hussein Yacoub, Arab Islamic scholar
- Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, Persian Shia hadith collector
- Roman Yakub, American composer
- Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer
- Salma Yaqoob (born 1971), British political activist
See also
- Yakup, Turkish form of the name
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