Yakut (name) explained

Yakut is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Yakut Khan (before 1672-1733), Indian general who invaded Bombay in 1689
• Yakut al-Hamawi (1179-1229), a Baghdadi former slave of Byzantine Greek ancestry turned Muslim ethnographer & geographer, author of (i.a.) Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān (= ‘Dictionary of Countries’)

Surname

• Jamal ud-Din Yakut (before 1200-1240), 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 (born 2004), Turkish women's footballer
• Şahin Yakut (1979-), Turkish kickboxer