Yazid
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Yazid is an Arabic name and may refer to:
[edit] Given name
- Yazid I (645–683), second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah
- Yazid II, Umayyad caliph
- Yazid III, Umayyad caliph
- Yazid Kaïssi, French-born Moroccan footballer
- Yazid Mansouri, French-born Algerian footballer
- Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (672–720), Umayyad governor
- Yazid of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco
- Yazid Sabeg, French businessman
- Yazid ibn Abu Sufyan (d. 640), brother of the early Umayyad leader Muawiyah I, and companion of Muhammad
- Yazid Sufaat, a suspected militant
- Yazid Zerhouni, Algerian politician
- Zinedine Zidane (Zinedine ibn Yazid ibn Zidane, born 1972), French international footballer of Algerian descent
[edit] Surname
- Abu Yazid, Kharijite Berber of the Banu Ifran tribe
- Mhamed Yazid, Algerian independence activist and politician
[edit] See also
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