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otherusesInfobox given name2| name = Yusuf| image =| image_size =| caption =| pronunciation = IPA-ar|'ju?suf, 'ju?sif| IPA-arz|'ju?sef|lang| gender = Male| nameday =| language = Arabic| 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|ALA-LC|Yusuf and transl|ar|ALA-LC|Yusif ) 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 Islam , the most famous "Yusuf" is the prophet Islamic view of Joseph|Yusuf in the Quran .
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Given name
Jusuf Dajic , Bosnian footballer
Jusuf Hatunic , Bosnian footballer
Youcef Abdi , Australian athlete
Youcef Bela�li , Algerian footballer
Youcef Ghazali , Algerian footballer
Youcef Nadarkhani , Iranian sentenced to death for Christian beliefs.
Youcef Touati , Algerian footballer
Yousif Ghafari , American businessman
Yousif Hassan , Emirati footballer
Yusof bin Ishak (1910-1970), first President of Singapore
Youssef Aftimus (1866�1952), Lebanese civil engineer and architect
Youssef Karam (1823�1889), Lebanese nationalist leader
Youssif (burn victim) , Iraqi torture victim
Youssouf Bakayoko , Minister for Foreign Affairs of C�te d'Ivoire
Youssouf Hadji (born 1980), Moroccan footballer
Youssouf Hersi (born 1982), Dutch soccer player
Yossef Gutfreund (1932-1972), Israeli wrestling judge
Yossef Karami (born 1983), Iranian Taekwondo athlete
Yossef Romano (1940-1972), Arab weightlifter
Yousuf Ludhianvi (1932-2000), Muslim scholar
Yussef al-Shihri , (1985-2009), Former extrajudicial detainee at Guantanamo Bay
Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph , Almohad caliph
Yusuf Balasaghuni , Uyghur scribe
Yusuf Dadoo , South African communist activist
Yusuf Dike� (born 1983), Turkish sport shooter
Yusuf Ekinci , Turkish lawyer
Yusuf Hamied , Indian billionaire
Yusuf ibn Tashfin , king of the Berber Almoravid empire
Yusuf Islam , British musician known as Cat Stevens
Yusuf Kurtulus , Turkish footballer
Yusuf Ma Dexin , Chinese Muslim scholar
Yusuf Nabi , Turkish writer
Yusuf �zt�rk , Turkish boxer
Yusuf �zt�rk (footballer)|Yusuf �zt�rk , Turkish footballer
Yusuf Salman Yusuf , Iraqi communist activist
Yusuf Simsek , Turkish footballer
Yusuf Yazici , Turkish scientist
Yusuf Yilmaz , Turkish footballer
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
