Musa (name)

Musa is a male name of Semitic origin.

People with the given name

 * Musa al-Hadi, fourth caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (reigned from 785 to 786)
 * 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 (born 1951), Malaysian politician
 * Musa Aydın (born 1980), Turkish footballer
 * Musa Beg, official in Safavid Iran
 * Musa Çağıran (born 1992), Turkish footballer
 * Musa Çelebi, 15th-century Ottoman prince
 * Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet poet and World War II resistance fighter
 * Musa Ćazim Ćatić (1878–1915), Bosnian poet
 * Musa al-Kadhim, seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam
 * Musa McKim (1908–1992), American artist and poet
 * Musa Nizam (born 1990), Turkish footballer
 * Musa Nur Amin, Somali politician
 * Musa ibn Nusayr (640–716), 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 Sor, Yazidi saint
 * Musa Yakub, Bruneian military officer

People with the surname

 * Ahmed Musa (born 1992), Nigerian footballer
 * Antonius Musa, Roman botanist and physician
 * Balkisu Musa (born 1970), Nigerian weightlifter
 * Banū Mūsā, 9th century Persian family of scholars
 * Džanan Musa (born 1999), Bosnian-Herzegovinian basketball player
 * Igor Musa (born 1973), Croatian footballer
 * Isaac Musa (died 2008), Liberian military official and politician
 * Mansa Musa (born 1280), political figure, 10th mansa of the Mali empire (reign 1312–1337)
 * Mírzá Músá (died 1887), surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím, was the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith
 * Quintus Pomponius Musa, first-century Roman banker and moneyer
 * Said Musa (born 1944), Prime Minister of Belize from 1996 to 2008
 * Sunusi Musa (born 1978), Nigerian politician

Derived name
Umm Musa is a female name of Semitic origin. It meaning is mother of Musa.
 * Umm Musa (Jochebed), 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 (r. 908–929).