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otherusesInfobox given name2| name = Yusuf| image =| image_size =| caption =| pronunciation = IPA-ar|ju?'suf|| gender = Male| nameday =| language =| languageorigin = Arabic language|Arabic | origin =| derivation =| meaning =| variant =| shortform =| petname =| cognate =| anglicisation =| derivative =| seealso = Yusuf (also Romanization of Arabic|transliterated as Jusuf , Yossef , Yousaf , Youcef , Yousef , Youssef , Yousif , Youssif , Youssouf , Yousuf , Yusef , Yuseff , Yusof , or Yussef , lang-ar|????, transl|ar| Yusuf ) is a male Arabic name, meaning " God increases in piety, power and influence" , and is the Arabic equivalent of the English name Joseph .
The name is given to Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle East and in Arabic speaking countries.
In Islam , the most famous "Yusuf" is the prophet Islamic view of Joseph|Yusuf in the Quran.
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Given name
Youssif (burn victim) , Iraqi torture victim
Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph , Almohad caliph
Youcef Abdi , Australian athlete
Youssef Aftimus (1866–1952), Lebanese civil engineer and architect
Yusuf Balasaghuni , Uyghur scribe
Youssouf Bakayoko , Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cote d'Ivoire
Youcef Belaïli , Algerian footballer
Yusuf Dadoo , South African communist activist
Jusuf Dajic , Bosnian footballer
Yusuf Ma Dexin , Chinese Muslim scholar
Yusuf Ekinci , Turkish lawyer
Youcef Ghazali , Algerian footballer
Yousif Ghafari , American businessman
Yossef Gutfreund (1932-1972), Israeli wrestling judge
Youssouf Hadji (born 1980), Moroccan footballer
Yusuf Hamied , Indian billionaire
Yousif Hassan , Emirati footballer
Jusuf Hatunic , Bosnian footballer
Youssouf Hersi (born 1982), Dutch soccer player
Yusof bin Ishak (1910-1970), first President of Singapore
Yusuf Islam , British musician known as Cat Stevens
Youssef Karam (1823–1889), Lebanese nationalist leader
Yossef Karami (born 1983), Iranian Taekwondo athlete
Yusuf Kurtulus , Turkish footballer
Yousuf Ludhianvi (1932-2000), Muslim scholar
Yusuf Nabi , Turkish writer
Yusuf Öztürk , Turkish boxer
Yusuf Öztürk (footballer)|Yusuf Öztürk , Turkish footballer
Yossef Romano (1940-1972), Arab weightlifter
Yusuf Simsek , Turkish footballer
Yussef al-Shihri , Guantanamo Bay detainee
Yusuf ibn Tashfin , king of the Berber Almoravid empire
Youcef Touati , Algerian footballer
Yusuf Yazici , Turkish scientist
Yusuf Yilmaz , Turkish footballer
Yusuf Salman Yusuf , Iraqi communist activist
Surname
Abdullah Yusuf Ali , South Asian Islamic scholar
Hamza Yusuf , Islamic scholar
Khairuddin Mohamed Yusof (born 1939), Professor Emeritus at the University of Malaya
Meor Aziddin Yusof (born 1967), independent folk singer-songwriter
Mohammad Said bin Yusof , member of the Malaysian Parliament
Ramzi Yousef (born 1967), Kuwaiti terrorist
Sami Yusuf , British singer-songwriter
Isa Yusuf Alptekin , Uyghur politician
See also
Joseph
Arabic name
Turkish name
Yusuf Ali
Category:Arabic-language surnames Category:Arabic masculine given names given namesurname|Yusuf Category:Turkish masculine given names
