Ayoub is the Arabic name of the biblical figure
Job
Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. In the context of economics, work can be seen as the huma ...
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Ayoub or Ayyoub or Ayub or Ayoob and other variants is also a given name and a surname. Eyüp is the Turkish variant of the same name. Ejub is the Bosnian variant of the same name.
Given name
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Ayoub Abdellaoui
Ayoub Abdellaoui (; born 16 February 1993 in Reghaïa, Algiers) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for MC Alger and the Algeria national team. He plays as both a central defender and left-back.
Club career
On 3 January 2018, six mo ...
(born 1993), Algerian footballer
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Ayoub Adouich (born 1996), Moroccan para taekwondo practitioner
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Ayoub Azzi (born 1989), Algerian footballer
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Ayoub Baninosrat (born 1968), Iranian wrestler
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Ayoub Barzani, Kurdish writer and critic
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Ayoub Boukhari (born 1997), Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent
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Ayoub El Kaabi
Ayoub El Kaabi (; born 25 June 1993) is a Moroccan professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker for Super League Greece club Olympiacos F.C., Olympiacos and the Morocco national foo ...
(born 1993), Moroccan footballer
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Ayoub Latrèche (born 1989), Algerian footballer
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Ayoub Odisho (born 1960), Iraqi Assyrian footballer
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Ayoub Ouadrassi (born 1991), Moroccan footballer
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Ayoub Al-Mas (born 1978), Emirati swimmer
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Ayoub Mousavi (born 1995), Iranian weightlifter
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Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh (born 1978), Yemeni citizen held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba
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Ayoub Pourtaghi (born 1973), Iranian amateur boxer
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Ayoub Rachane (born 1988), Moroccan footballer
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Ayoub-Farid Michel Saab (or just Farid Saab) (born 1939), Lebanese banker
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Ayoub Sadni
Ayoub Sadni (born 23 April 1999) is a Moroccan Paralympic athlete specializing in sprints. He represented Morocco at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Career
Sadni represented Morocco at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2 ...
(born 1999), Moroccan Paralympic athlete
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Ayoub Sørensen (born 1988), Danish-Moroccan footballer
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(1884–1951), Lebanese Protestant politician and acting president of Lebanon during the French Mandate of Lebanon from 18 March to 22 July 1943
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Ayoub Zolfagari (born 1959), Iranian footballer
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Ayyoub Allach
Ayyoub Allach (born 28 January 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Araz-Naxçıvan PFK in the Azerbaijan Premier League. Born in Belgium, he has represented Morocco at youth level.
Career
On 6 February 2023, Gabal ...
(born 1998), Belgian-born Moroccan footballer
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Ayub Khan
Mohammad Ayub Khan (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Pakistani military dictator who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 until his resignation on 1969. He was the first native commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army, se ...
(1907-1974), a number of individuals with the name
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Ahmed Ayoub
Ahmed Ayoub (Arabic أحمد أيوب); born (August 5, 1971), is an Egyptian former football striker. He last managed Egyptian Premier League club Haras El-Hodood.
Ayoub was a member in Egypt U-20 squad which participated in 1991 FIFA World ...
(born 1971), Egyptian footballer
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Christine Ayoub
Christine Sykes Williams Ayoub (1922–2024) was a Canadian and American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. A Quaker and descendant of Quakers, she also edited a boo ...
(1922–2024), Canadian-American mathematician
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Elizabeth Ayoub
Elizabeth Ayoub is a Venezuelan singer and actress of Lebanese descent. She performs in Spanish, Arabic, English, and French, though emphasizing the Latino and Arabian music scenes. Her first album, ''Prelude'' (2006), was released via Sony BMG ...
, Venezuelan singer and actress of Lebanese descent
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François Ayoub François Ayoub (born on 11 July 1899 in Aleppo, Syria - died on 2 June 1966) was a Syrian Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus.
Life
On 16 May 1925, Françoise Ayoub was ordain ...
(1899–1966), Syrian Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo
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George Ayoub
George Ayoub (born 23 October 1963) is an Australian professional rugby union referee. He is currently a member of the Super Rugby panel for Television Match Officials (known as TMO), and is a former Test Match referee.
Born in Sydney, Ayoub t ...
(born 1963), Australian professional rugby union referee
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Lucy Ayoub
Lucy Ayoub (; ; born 21 June 1992) is an Israeli television presenter, poet and radio host, formerly of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) and currently working for Keshet Media Group. Ayoub co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest ...
(born 1992), Israeli television presenter, poet and radio host
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M. M. Ayoub
M. M. Ayoub is an Egyptian retired P.W. Horn Professor of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is a pioneer in the field of ergonomics, specifically relating to the application of mechanics to manual material handling.
Ayoub holds ...
, Egyptian Professor
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Mouna Ayoub
Mouna Ayoub () (born 27 February 1957 in Kuwait) is a French socialite and businesswoman of Lebanese origin. Frequently in the media, she is often a guest of the Cannes film festival and makes headlines in French gossip magazines.
Biography
She ...
(born 1957), French socialite and businesswoman of Lebanese origin
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Nawal Ayoub
Miss Colombia (Formally ''Concurso Nacional de Belleza de Colombia'', English: ''"National Beauty Contest of Colombia"'') is the national beauty pageant organization in Colombia.
The current Miss Colombia is Catalina Duque Abréu of Antio ...
, Colombian beauty queen of Lebanese ancestry
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Sam Ayoub, Australian rugby league player-manager
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Samiha Ayoub
Samiha Ayoub (; 8 March 1932 – 3 June 2025) was an Egyptian actress known for her work on stage, in film and on television. In 2015, she received the Nile Award in the Arts, and in the same year, the large hall in the National Theater was name ...
(1932–2025), Egyptian actress
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Serge Ayoub (born 1964), French activist of Lebanese descent associated with the French extreme right
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Souheil Ayoub (1936–2025), Lebanese fencer
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Susanne Ayoub (born 1956), Austrian-Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker
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Wadi Ayoub (1927–1976), Lebanese Greco–Roman style wrestler best known as
Sheik Ali, in Australia and internationally
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Yassin Ayoub (born 1994), Moroccan-Dutch footballer
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Salahuddin Ayyub
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he ...
(1138–1193), Sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty, Liberator of Jerusalem. Kurdish-Syrian(Levant) descent
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Ali Abdullah Ayyoub
Lieutenant General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (; born 28 April 1952) is a Syrian former military officer and politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Syria from 2020 to 2022, and was the Minister of Defense and was personally appointed by ...
(born 1952), Syrian politician, senior Syrian Arab Army officer
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Habib Ayyoub (born 1947), Algerian writer
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Loay Ayyoub
Loay Ayyoub (; born 1993 or 1994) is a Palestinian photojournalist. He studied at Al-Azhar University – Gaza and has worked as a freelance photographer for ''The Washington Post''.
Early life and education
Ayyoub was born in Gaza. Ayyoub stu ...
(born 1993 or 1994)
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Tareq Ayyoub (1968–2003), Palestinian Arab television reporter
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