Yakup is a
Turkish given name for males and is a cognate of
Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ...
and
James. People named Yakup include:
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Yakup Ağa
Yakup Ağa ( ota, یعقوب آغا) or Ebu Yusuf Nurullah Yakub ( ota, ابو یوسف نورالله یعقوب), was the father of the Barbarossa Brothers, Oruç and Hızır. A Sipahi of Turkishİsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Er ...
(fl. 1462), Ottoman cavalry knight
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Yakup Bugun (born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Yakup Gör (born 1988), Turkish sport wrestler
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889–1974), Turkish novelist
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Yakup Kılıç (born 1986), Turkish boxer
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Yakup Satar (1898–2008), last Turkish veteran of the First World War
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Yakup Sertkaya (born 1978), Turkish footballer
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Yakup Şener (born 1990), Turkish amateur boxer
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Yakup Şevki Subaşı
Yakup Şevki Subaşı (1876 in Harput – December 20, 1939 in Istanbul), also known as Yakub Shevki Pasha, was a general of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army
The Turkish Land Forces ( tr, Türk Kara Kuvvetleri), or Turkish Army (Turki ...
(1876–1939), general of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army
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Yakup Yıldız (born 1992), Turkish archer
See also
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Yakub
Yakub or Yaqub ( ar, يعقوب, Yaʿqūb or Ya'kūb , links=no, also transliterated in other ways) is a male given name. It is the Arabic version of Jacob and James. The Arabic form ''Ya'qūb/Ya'kūb'' may be direct from the Hebrew or indire ...
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Jacob (name)
Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James, derived from Late Latin ''Iacobus'', from Greek ''Iakobos'', from Hebrew (''Yaʿaqōḇ''), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Reb ...
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Turkish masculine given names