Mahboob

Mahboob (also spelled Mahbub, or Mehboob, from Arabic: مَحبُوب passed to other languages such as Urdu: محبوب‎ is a masculine given name.

Given name

• Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan
• Mehboob (singer), Indian playback singer of Malayalam films
• Maulana Mahboob Alam (1863–1933), founder of the daily Pakistani newspaper Paisa Akhbar
• Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Indian politician
• Mehboob Khan (1907–1964), Indian film director and producer
• Mahbub Ali Khan, Bangladeshi Chief of Naval Staff
• Mahaboob Ben Ali, Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian American businessman
• Mehboob Kotwal, Indian songwriter

• Mehboob Rahi, Indian poet
• Mahboob Shah (born 1938), former Pakistani first-class cricketer and Test cricket umpire
• Mahboob Zahedi (1929–2006), Indian politician who represented the Katwa in West Bengal from 1996 to 2006
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (1929–2008), establishing Newspaper Editor of Khaleej Times

Surname

• Ahmar Mahboob, teacher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney
• Ali Hasan Mahboob (born 1981), Bahraini long-distance runner
• Farhan Mehboob, Pakistani squash player
• Kazi Golam Mahboob, activist of the Language Movement that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan
• Shahid Mahboob (born 1962), former Pakistani cricketer
• Waqar Mehboob, Pakistani squash player

See also

• Mahboob Mansion, palace, named after Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the VIth Nizam, who lived here occasionally
• Mehboob Ki Mehndi, Hindi film
• Mere Mehboob, Indian film
• Mahbubnagar, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Mahbubnagar district, a district in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Mahabubabad, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India