Yusuf (name)
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Yusuf is a male Arabic name, meaning "God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....

 increases in piety, power and influence"
, and is the Arabic form of the English name Joseph
Joseph
-Media:* YosepH, album by Luke Vibert* Josef , a Croatian television movie from 2011*Various works based on the life of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible:** Joseph and his Brethren, oratorio by George Frideric Handel...

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The name is given to Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle East and in Arabic speaking countries.

In Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

, the most famous "Yusuf" is the prophet Yusuf in the Quran.

Given name

  • Youssif (burn victim)
    Youssif (burn victim)
    Youssif is an 8-year-old Iraqi boy who was set on fire by unknown masked men outside of his central Baghdad home on January 15, 2007.-Background:...

    , Iraqi torture victim
  • Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph
    Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph
    Yusuf II was Caliph of Morocco from 1213 until his death. Son of the previous caliph, Muhammad an-Nasir, Yusuf assumed the throne following his father's death, at the age of only sixteen years....

    , Almohad caliph
  • Yusuf Balasaghuni, Uyghur scribe
  • Youssouf Bakayoko
    Youssouf Bakayoko
    Youssouf Bakayoko is a politician and diplomat from Cote d'Ivoire. He served in the Ivorian government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 3 January 2006 to March 2010. Since 2010, he has been President of the Independent Electoral Commission , presiding over the 2010 presidential...

    , Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cote d'Ivoire
  • Youssef Aftimus
    Youssef Aftimus
    Youssef Aftimus ; was a Lebanese civil engineer and architect who specialized in Arabo-Mauresque architecture...

     (1866–1952), Lebanese civil engineer and architect
  • Yusuf Dadoo
    Yusuf Dadoo
    Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was a Muslim Indian South African communist and anti-apartheid activist. In his life he was chair of both the South African Indian Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as being a major proponent of cooperation between those organisations and the African...

    , South African communist activist
  • Jusuf Dajić
    Jusuf Dajic
    Jusuf Dajić is a Bosnian football player. He currently plays for Shanghai East Asia in the China League One.Dajić made his debut for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team in a friendly match against the Azerbaijan national football team on June 1, 2008.He was playing for AFC Tubize, in...

    , Bosnian footballer
  • Yusuf Ma Dexin
    Yusuf Ma Dexin
    Yusuf Ma Dexin was a Hui Chinese scholar of Islam from Yunnan, known for his fluency and proficiency in both Arabic and Persian, and for his knowledge of Islam.- Hajj :...

    , Chinese Muslim scholar
  • Yusuf Ekinci
    Yusuf Ekinci
    Yusuf Ekinci was a Turkish-Kurdish liberalist who was involved in the Susurluk scandal.He was born in Lice to Kamil Ekinci ....

    , Turkish lawyer
  • Yousif Ghafari
    Yousif Ghafari
    Yousif Boutrous Ghafari , American businessman of Lebanese birth, owner of architectural firm Ghafari Associates LLC, former United States Ambassador to Slovenia...

    , American businessman
  • Yossef Gutfreund
    Yossef Gutfreund
    Yossef Gutfreund was an Israeli wrestling judge for his country's 1972 Olympic team. He was murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists along with 10 other members of the Israeli team.-Biography:...

     (1932-1972), Israeli wrestling judge
  • Youssouf Hadji
    Youssouf Hadji
    Youssouf Hadji is a Moroccan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder, he currently plays for French club Rennes in Ligue 1.- Career :Hadji started his career at Nancy in Ligue 1 under the guidance of Laszlo Bölöni...

     (born 1980), Moroccan footballer
  • Yusuf Hamied
    Yusuf Hamied
    Yusuf Khwaja Hamied is a leading Indian scientist who serves as chairman of Cipla, a socially conscious generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935....

    , Indian billionaire
  • Yousif Hassan
    Yousif Hassan
    Yousif Hassan is a UAE footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for the Al Wasl FC Club in Dubai.Hassan was transferred to Al Wasl FC from Al-Shaab in summer 2008. And in Winter 2010, he was loaned back to Al Shaab...

    , Emirati footballer
  • Jusuf Hatunić
    Jusuf Hatunić
    Jusuf Hatunić was a Bosnian, SFR Yugoslavia international football player.-Club career:He was a player of Yugoslav First League clubs Sloboda Tuzla and FK Partizan , with short spells in Turkish club Galatasaray and Second Yugoslav League club FK Rad where he ended his playing...

    , Bosnian footballer
  • Youssouf Hersi
    Youssouf Hersi
    Youssouf Hersi is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.-Playing career:Hersi has played in the Netherlands for Ajax, NAC Breda, NEC, Heerenveen, Vitesse, Twente and De Graafschap....

     (born 1982), Dutch soccer player
  • Yusof bin Ishak
    Yusof bin Ishak
    Yusof bin Ishak was an eminent Singaporean politician and the first President of Singapore of Minangkabau descent. His portrait appears on the Singapore Portrait Series currency notes introduced in 1999.-Early life:...

     (1910-1970), first President of Singapore
    President of Singapore
    The President of the Republic of Singapore is Singapore's head of state. In a Westminster parliamentary system, as which Singapore governs itself, the prime minister is the head of the government while the position of president is largely ceremonial. Before 1993, the President of Singapore was...

  • Yusuf Islam, British musician known as Cat Stevens
  • Youssef Karam
    Youssef Karam
    Youssef Beyk Karam , was a Lebanese nationalist leader who led the nationalist effort against the Ottoman Empire occupation.-The Karam family:...

     (1823–1889), Lebanese nationalist leader
  • Yossef Karami
    Yossef Karami
    Yousef Karami is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete who competed in the Men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He is also the 2003 world champion...

     (born 1983), Iranian Taekwondo athlete
  • Yusuf Kurtuluş
    Yusuf Kurtulus
    Yusuf Kurtuluş is a Turkish footballer. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Kayseri Erciyesspor in the TFF First League.-Club career:...

    , Turkish footballer
  • Yousuf Ludhianvi
    Yousuf Ludhianvi
    Maulana Muhammad Yousuf Ludhianvi was a Muslim scholar and Naib Amir of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat. He was born in EsaPur, Ludhiana, Eastern Punjab, India and was martyred in Karachi, Pakistan....

     (1932-2000), Muslim scholar
  • Yusuf Nabi
    Yusuf Nabi
    Yusuf Nabi was a Turkish Divan poet in the court of Mehmet IV. He was famous for "his brilliant lyrics filled with popular sayings and critiques of the age and verses commenorating innumerable important occasions."...

    , Turkish writer
  • Yusuf Öztürk
    Yusuf Öztürk
    Yusuf Öztürk is a Turkish light heavyweight boxer who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Participating in the 30 March–7 April 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Danish town of Vejle, he defeated Zoltán Béres of Hungary and Thomas Ulrich of Germany , ultimately...

    , Turkish boxer
  • Yusuf Öztürk, Turkish footballer
  • Yossef Romano
    Yossef Romano
    Yossef Romano was a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was the second of eleven Israeli team members murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists during that Olympics...

     (1940-1972), Arab weightlifter
  • Yusuf Şimşek
    Yusuf Simsek
    Yusuf Şimşek is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for Kayseri Erciyesspor in the TFF First League.-Fenerbahçe SK:...

    , Turkish footballer
  • Yussef Mohammed Mubarak al Shihri
    Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al Shihri
    -Second annual Administrative Review Board:A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared forYusef M Modaray'ssecond annualAdministrative Review Board,on 12 October 2006.The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention.-Repatriation :...

    , Guantanamo Bay detainee
  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin
    Yusuf ibn Tashfin
    Yusef ibn Tashfin also, Tashafin, or Teshufin; or Yusuf; was a king of the Almoravid empire, he founded the city of Marrakech and led the Muslim forces in the Battle of Zallaqa....

    , king of the Berber Almoravid empire
  • Yusuf Yazici
    Yusuf Yazici
    Dr. Yusuf Yazici is a rheumatologist and a clinical researcher at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and the Director of the Seligman Center for Advanced Therapeutics and the Behcet's Syndrome Evaluation, Treatment...

    , Turkish scientist
  • Yusuf Yilmaz
    Yusuf Yilmaz
    Yusuf Yılmaz is a footballer who plays professionally in Greece for Ethnikos Piraeus. He has previously played for English club Stoke City in their youth Academy as well as his hometown club Hannover 96.-References:...

    , Turkish footballer
  • Yusuf Salman Yusuf
    Yusuf Salman Yusuf
    Fahd , the nom de guerre of Yusuf Salman Yusuf , an ethnic Assyrian and Christian was one of the first Iraqi communist activists and was first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1941 until his death on the gallows in 1949. He is generally credited with a vital role in the party’s rapid...

    , Iraqi communist activist

Surname

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali
    Abdullah Yusuf Ali
    Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, FRSL was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world....

    , South Asian Islamic scholar
  • Hamza Yusuf
    Hamza Yusuf
    Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an Islamic scholar of the Sunni tradition, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is an American convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders,...

    , Islamic scholar
  • Khairuddin Mohamed Yusof
    Khairuddin Mohamed Yusof
    Khairuddin bin Mohamed Yusof is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Malaya. He receives the Emeritus from the university in year 2004 and Darjah Dato` Paduka Cura Simanja Kini which brings the title of "Dato’ Paduka" from Malaysia's state King of Perak in 1998.-Career with University of...

     (born 1939), Professor Emeritus at the University of Malaya
  • Meor Aziddin Yusof
    Meor Aziddin Yusof
    Meor Aziddin Yusof , popularly known as Meor, is an independent Malay language folk singer-songwriter from Malaysia. He has performed since 1984 and has had a major label recording release Pesta Jiwa before deciding to take the independent route and continued his craft as a busker in Kuala Lumpur,...

     (born 1967), independent folk singer-songwriter
  • Mohammad Said bin Yusof
    Mohammad Said bin Yusof
    Yang Berhormat Datuk Mohammad Said bin Yusof was a member of the Malaysian Parliament in the lower house of the Dewan Rakyat, representing the constituency of Jasin in the state of Melaka...

    , member of the Malaysian Parliament
  • Ramzi Yousef
    Ramzi Yousef
    Ramzi Yousef was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot. In 1995, he was arrested at a guest house in Islamabad, by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and United States Diplomatic Security Service, then extradited to the...

     (born 1967), Kuwaiti terrorist
  • Sami Yusuf
    Sami Yusuf
    Sami Yusuf is a British singer-songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist musician of Azeri origin.In 2003 Yusuf released his first album "Al-Mu`allim" at the age of 23, selling over two million copies...

    , British singer-songwriter
  • Isa Yusuf Alptekin, Uyghur politician
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