Yahya (name)
Yahya (Arabic يحيى, DMG Yahya ) is a male first name and a family name.
Origin and Meaning
Yahya is the Arabic name for John the Baptist. The name comes in Arab countries, Pakistan, Turkey, and rare in Kosovo.
Bearers of the name
Mystic
- Yahya ibn Mu'adh al- Razi († 871 ), Persian Sufi
Ruler
- Yahya ibn Khalid, the vizier ( 786-800 ) under Harun ar - Rashid
- Yahya al - Mutali, Caliph of Hammudiden in Córdoba (1021-1023 and 1025-1026)
- Yahya ibn al - Aziz, the ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria (1121-1152)
- Abu Zakariya Yahya I. (1203-1249), ruler of the Hafsids in Ifriqiya (1229-1249)
- Abu Yahya, Sultan of Abdalwadiden in Algeria (1236-1282)
- Yahya al - Watiq II, Caliph of the Hafsids in Tunisia (1277-1279)
- Abu Yahya Abu Bakr, the Sultan Marinids in Morocco (1244-1248)
- Yahya Muhammad Hamid al-Din, King of North Yemen (1904-1948)
- Ahmad ibn Yahya (1895-1962), King of the Zaydi
Family name
- Abdul Hadi Yahya ( born 1985 ), Malaysian football player
- Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (1917-1980), Pakistani General and President
- Faris Yahya (1939-2004), British author and historian
- Latif Yahya (born 1964 ), Iraqi officer
- Rassem Yahya (* 1938), German - Syrian basketball player
- Tahir Yahya (1913-1986), Iraqi Prime Minister
First name
- Yahya Ayyasch (1966-1996), Palestinian member of Hamas
- Yahya Kemal Beyatli (1884-1958), Turkish writer, diplomat and politician
- Yahya Gulay (* 1972), German martial artist and world champion in Thai boxing
- Yahya Hassan (* 1995), Danish writer of Palestinian descent
- Yahya Jammeh (born 1965 ), Gambian President
Pseudonym
- Harun Yahya ( born 1956 ), pseudonym of the Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar and author