Yakut (name)
Yakut of Yaqut, sometimes transliterated Yāḳūt or Yācūt, is the Arabic word for ruby. As a personal name, it may refer to:
Given name
- Yakut Khan, Indian general who invaded Bombay in 1689
- Yaqut al-Hamawi, a Baghdadi former slave of Byzantine Greek ancestry turned Muslim ethnographer & geographer
- Yaqut al-Musta'simi, calligrapher and secretary of the last Abbasid caliph
Surname
- Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut, Abyssinian slave, close adviser & alleged lover of Razia Sultana, first female monarch of Delhi Sultanate of India
- Mehmet Vasıf Yakut, Turkish Para Taekwondo practitioner
- Narin Yakut, Turkish women's footballer
- Şahin Yakut, Turkish kickboxer