Musa (name)
Musa is an Arabic male name and cognate for "Moses".
Given name
- Musa al-Hadi, fourth caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
- Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi, 8th-century Abbasid governor
- Musa ibn Musa al-Hadi, an Abbasid prince and son of Al-Hadi
- Musa Aman, Malaysian politician
- Musa Aydın, Turkish footballer
- Musa Beg, official in Safavid Iran
- Musa Bility, Liberian politician and businessman
- Musa Çağıran, Turkish footballer
- Musa Çelebi, 15th-century Ottoman prince
- Musa Cälil, Soviet poet and World War II resistance fighter
- Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Bosnian poet
- Musa al-Kadhim, seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam
- Musa McKim, American artist and poet
- Musa Nizam, Turkish footballer
- Musa Nur Amin, Somali politician
- Musa ibn Nusayr, Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads, Viceroy of North Africa since 698; invaded Spain in 711
- Mūsā ibn Shākir, Persian engineer and astronomer
- Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi, leader of the muwallad Banu Qasi clan's
- Musa Hitam, Malaysian politician; former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Musa I of Mali, Mansa of the Mali Empire between 1312 and 1337
- Musa Jatta, Gambian footballer
- Musa Sor, Yazidi saint
- Musa Yakub, Bruneian military officer
Surname
- Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
- Antonius Musa, Roman botanist and physician
- Balkisu Musa, Nigerian weightlifter
- Banū Mūsā, 9th century Persian family of scholars
- Džanan Musa, Bosnian-Herzegovinian basketball player
- Igor Musa, Croatian footballer
- Isaac Musa, Liberian military official and politician
- Mansa Musa, political figure, 10th mansa of the Mali empire
- Mírzá Músá, surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím, was the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith
- Murjanatu Musa, Nigerian basketball player
- Quintus Pomponius Musa, first-century Roman banker and moneyer
- Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize from 1996 to 2008
- Sunusi Musa, Nigerian politician
Derived name
Umm Musa is a female name of Semitic origin. Its meaning is mother of Musa.- Umm Musa, mother of prophet Musa.
- Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari also known as Umm Musa, was the wife of Caliph al-Mansur.
- Umm Musa al-Hashimiyya, was a Qahramana courtier of the caliph's harem during the reign of Caliph al-Muqtadir.