Yahya (name)

Template:Infobox given name Yahya (Template:Langx), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name.Template:Efn It is an Arabic form of the Aramaic given name Yohanan (Template:Langx) of John the Baptist in Islam, who is considered a prophet. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world.

The related Biblical name of Jehiah (Template:Langx) has the Arabic form Yaḥiyyā (Template:Langx)., with the exact Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya.

Mononym

• Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arab medical writer known in medieval Europe as Johannes Serapion
• Yahya ibn Khalid (died 806), Vizier of the Barmakids
• Yahya ibn Umar ibn Yahya ibn Husayn ibn Zayd ibn Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali, Alid imam
• Yahya ibn al-Batriq (fl. 796–806), translator of Greek scientific texts
• Yahya ibn Asad (died 855), Samanid ruler of Shash (819–855) and Samarkand (851/852–855)
• Yahya ibn Muhammad (829-863), Idrisid ruler (848–863)
• Yahya ibn Yahya (died 874), sixth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
• Yahya of Antioch (died 1066), 11th-century Syrian chronicler
• Yahya ibn al-Mundhir (died 1036), 11th century ruler of the Taifa of Zaragoza
• Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi, 15th century Persian language writer from the Delhi Sultanate
• Count Alexander of Montenegro (1585–1649), birth name Yahya, son of Sultan Mehmed III, a Christian convert and a pretender to the Ottoman throne
• Yahya bey Dukagjini (1498–1582), Ottoman diwan poet

Given name

• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (born 1986), American actor
• Yahya Al-Shehri (born 1990), Saudi footballer
• Yahya Ayyash (1966–1996), member and chief bombmaker of Hamas
• Yahya Black (born 2002), American football player
• Yahya El Hindi (born 1998), Lebanese footballer
• Yahya Goba, Yemeni-American terrorist suspect arrested and charged as part of the War on Terror together with the other members of the "Lackawanna Six"
• Yahya Golmohammadi (born 1971), Iranian footballer
• Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869–1948), imam of the Zaydis (1904) and king of Yemen (1926)
• Yahya Hassan (1995–2020), Palestinian-Danish poet and political activist
• Yahya Jammeh (born 1965), president of The Gambia
• Yahya Khan (1917–1980), former Chief Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff
• Yahya Mahmassani (born 1935), Lebanese diplomat
• Yahyah Michot (1952–2025), Belgian Islamologist and academic
• Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1958), commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
• Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024), Palestinian politician
• Mirza Yahya Nuri, Subh-i Azal (1831–1912), Persian religious leader of Azali Bábism
• Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917–1979), sixth King of Malaysia
• Yahya ibn Muhammad (829–864), fifth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
• Yahya ibn Yahya (died 866), sixth Idrisid ruler Morocco
• Yahya ibn al-Qasim (died 905), eighth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
• Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar (died 946), ninth Idrisid ruler of Morocco
• Yahya ibn Ibrahim, one of the founders of the Almoravid dynasty
• Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni (died 1056), chieftain of Lamtuna and the first emir of the Almoravids
• Makhdoom Yahya Maneri (died 1323), sufi of the Suhrawardi and the Maner Sharif Khanqa in Maner, Bihar

Surname

• Umm Hakim bint Yahya, wife of caliph Hisham.
• Ahmad bin Yahya (1891–1962), Yemeni imam
• Ali Yahya (1947–2014), Israeli Arab diplomat
• Izz al-Din Yahya (died 1338), 14th-century ruler of Satgaon, Bengal
• Tahir Yahya (1956–2007), Iraqi politician
• Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq (died 1258), Marinid emir at Fez
• Yaghmurasen ibn Zyan (1206-1283), also called Abu Yahya I, first sultan of the Zayyanid dynasty of the Kingdom of Tlemcen
• Abu Hafs Umar bin Yahya (died 1295), Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya
• Abu Yahya Abu Bakr ash-Shahid (died 1309), Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya and a martyr
• Abu Zakariya Yahya (1203-1249), founder and the first sultan of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya
• Yaish Ibn Yahya (died 1196), 10th century, son of poet Hiyya al-Daudi and military leader for king Afonso I of Portugal

See also

• Yahyaabad (disambiguation)