Yuhanna Explained
Yuhanna or Youhanna (Arabic: يوحنا) is an Arabic masculine name used by Christians. It is derived from the Syriac masculine given name Yohannan (Classical Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ; "John").
People named Yuhanna include:
People
- Ibrahim ibn Yuhanna (late 10th and early 11th centuries), Byzantine bureaucrat, translator, and author from Antioch
- Saliba ibn Yuhanna (14th century), Syriac Christian author
- Yuhanna al-Armani (1726–1786), Armenian author
- Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu (9th century), Persian or Syriac physician
- Yuhanna Makhluf, Maronite Patriarch from 1608 to 1633
- Michael Yuhanna or Tariq Aziz (1936–2015), Iraqi politician under Saddam Hussein
- Yousef Yuhanna Meletios Macarios III Zaim or Macarius III Ibn al-Za'im, Patriarch of Antioch from 1647 to 1672
- Yuḥannā Al Demashqi or John of Damascus (675–749), Arab Christian monk and saint
- Yuhanna al-Asad or Leo Africanus (1494–1554), Andalusi diplomat and author
- Yuhanna al-Injili or John the Evangelist (1st century), author attributed to the Gospel of John
- Yuhanna Habib, 19th-century founder of the Congregation of the Maronite Lebanese Missionaries or Kreimists
- Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih or Masawaiyh (777–857), Persian or Assyrian Christian physician
- Yuhanna Ibn Sarabiyun or Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Christian physician
- Yuhanna Masawaih al-Mardini or Masawaih al-Mardini (died 1015), Assyrian Christian physician
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