Yazid

Yazid (Arabic: يزيد‎, "increasing", "adding more") is an Arabic name.

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Yazid may refer to:

Given name

• Yazid I (645–683), second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah
• Yazid II (687–724), Umayyad caliph
• Yazid III (701–744), Umayyad caliph
• Yazid Kaïssi (born 1981), French-born Moroccan footballer
• Yazid Mansouri (born 1978), French-born Algerian footballer
• Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (672–720), Umayyad governor
• Yazid of Morocco (1750–1792), Sultan of Morocco
• Yazid Sabeg (born 1950), French businessman
• Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (d. 640), brother of the early Umayyad leader Muawiyah I, and companion of Muhammad
• Yazid Sufaat (born 1964), suspected militant
• Yazid Zerhouni (born 1937), Algerian politician
• Zinedine Zidane (Zinedine ibn Yazid ibn Zidane, born 1972), French international footballer of Algerian descent

Surname

• Abu Yazid (873–947), Kharijite Berber of the Banu Ifran tribe
• Mhamed Yazid (1923–2003), Algerian independence activist and politician

See also

• Yazidi, a mostly Kurdish-speaking ethnoreligious group