Yakub (Arabic: يعقوب, also transliterated in other ways including Yaqoob, Yaqoub, Yaqub and Yakup) is the Arabic and muslim version of Jacob, a Prophet of Islam (see Jacob in Islam) and hence commonly used as a male given name in Arab, Turkish and Muslim societies. It is also used as a surname. Prophet Yakub was grandson of prophet Ibrahim and son of prophet Ishaq.
Yakub (Nation of Islam) was, according to the Nation of Islam, a black scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and created the white race. This notion has been universally condemned as absurd and racist.
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
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 of Kutchi Memon community
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
Yakup Köse, Turkish journalist
Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, Pakistani expatriate businessman based in Dubai
Chaudhry Yaqoob, ex-Inspector General of the Balochistan Police in Pakistan
Mohammad Yakub, Indian cricketer
Roman Yakub, American composer
Salma Yaqoob (born 1971), the leader of Respect – The Unity Coalition and a Birmingham City Councillor
Muhammad Hussein Yacoub
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
Atta Yaqub
