Talk:Hussein

44th and current President of the United States
I recently made a meme in which I used Barack Hussein Obama's full name on Reddit. One person had objections because I used his middle name Hussein. I decided to search Hussein to see if Obama was listed. I am disappointed that he is not. As a foreign citizen, I don't understand why so many people hesitate to use his middle name. It's just a name. This page contains references to obscure companies that have the name Hussein in their title. I think excluding a US president whose first term is almost over is inconsistent, as he will soon be part of history. The 'recentism' argument is therefore nullified. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is listed under the Delano surname page even though it is only his middle name. The precedent has been set to include US presidents based on their middle name on name pages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano — Preceding unsigned comment added by LeetroyJnkns (talk • contribs) 10:04, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Obama
All the other entries on this list are people who used Hussein as a family name. Do middle names really count? - Keith D. Tyler &para; (AMA) 18:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Keith, middle names count. You wouldn't be trying to hide the fact that B. Hussein Obama's middle name is "Hussein," would you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.95.250.31 (talk) 10:27, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

There's also first names and the title of a missile. I don't see why not, although I'm not going to add a "middle names" section just to stick in Barack Obama.


 * Listing Barack Obama on this list is rather silly, and almost a textbook example of recentism, owing to all the recent press coverage over this. I don't think it's significant at all and should probably be removed. Dr. Cash (talk) 19:47, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, listing Obama amongst a list of people is ridiculous. Enough people have made this point that I'll be bold and change it.
 * The widespread precedent I've seen on other pages is to list a) people whose last name is X, and 2) people who typically go by a single name, e.g. monarchs such as King Hussein of Jordan. Now, Arabic names do follow quite a different model than Western ones, so a different model may be in order.  But listing people here whose given name (ism, اسم) is "Husayn" or "Mohammed" is as completely absurd as listing George W. Bush on George or Bill Clinton on William.


 * On the other hand, I could see a case for the fact that so much attention has been devoted to Obama's middle name that he ought to be linked here. That is, the link is deserved not because his middle name is Hussein, but because that fact that his middle name is Hussein is a major issue in the press.
 * For now I'll leave him off entirely, but please respond if you think otherwise. --Saforrest (talk) 00:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I agree with that, a lot of attention has been made about his middle name and it would make sense that people would come to this article to see if he was on it, or if they just heard Obama's middle name out of context, they would come here just to see who this person is that they heard someone talking about. It certainly SHOULD be added to this article. JayKeaton (talk) 05:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Obama needs to be on here
Many of these people on the list don't have Hussein as a first or last name, and it only comes out like this in Western translations.

Hussein was a name given to him, therefore it is a given name, whether or not it is his middle name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.185.205 (talk) 17:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree. It's only his middle name, and listing it here is only playing to fear-mongering, and Republican-ized politics that goes against WP:NPOV. Dr. Cash (talk) 18:20, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Who's fearmongering? As a Muslim supporter of Obama, me as well as other supporters how are Muslim, are proud that he has this as a middle name, and to ignore it is to downplay that he has a connection to Eastern Africa and Islam. Also, there are others under the list of "given name" whose first name also wasn't Hussein, but was a middle or even second middle name, but they are still on. By this standard, Obama should be on. If you take him off the page, then there are a few others who must be taken off.

Furthermore, if he is taken off, then I guess you agree that President Nixon should be taken off the "Milhous" page, and so forth. We should all be mature enough to admit that this is his middle name, and that there is nothing wrong with it, and that his supporters should stop concealing it as if its a bad thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.185.205 (talk) 22:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If you continue to vandalize the article, you will be banned. Dr. Cash (talk) 02:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Can you at least explain yourself? You are being very unfair. Should we erase Nixon from the Milhous page? While we're at it, lets erase FDR from the Delano page. Look at the history, you're using your authority to clearly bully people when people obviously think it should be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.185.205 (talk) 03:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * If you want to contribute to wikipedia in a productive manner, then get an account. All anonymous IPs are nothing better than vandals, and need to be banned immediately. There's no point to hiding behind your pathetic IP address. Dr. Cash (talk) 05:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Could you please answer the question at hand? Oh wait, you don't have an answer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.185.205 (talk) 05:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Let's keep this on topic. Talk pages are for legitimate discussions of the article, not personal attacks or political debates. Meeples ( talk )( email ) 05:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

The ONLY reason to keep him on here is in the interests of politics, notably those politicians that are running against him. It is fear-mongering, and should not and cannot be tolerated; not to mention that including him on the list is a gross violation of WP:NPOV, especially in the election season. Dr. Cash (talk) 21:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Would you please answer the question instead o frepeating yourself. THere is an overwhelming amount of people who think this should be included, and you have made it a personal commitment to keep it off, while hiding behind false justifications. You sound like Dubya with your false reasoning. Like I asked before, should we then delete all people from the pages of their middle names? If not, then Obama should be included in this list, just as FDR is, just as Clinton is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.185.205 (talk) 04:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, fine. Seeing as how every anonymous IP vandal in the country is going to add him to the page between now and November, fine. He can be there. I don't fucking care anymore. But make sure you keep the list alphabetical; don't add Obama to the first or last listing because that's out of order, and listing him there is drawing more attention to his listing and thereby violating WP:NPOV. Dr. Cash (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I have to concur with the "vandal". I did a quick search and found that both FDR and JFK are listed under people named Delano and Fitzgerald. Barack Obama should be added and seeing as how the election is over I don't see why that should be politics. Now that he has been elected President of the United States he is definately a notable person.PonileExpress (talk) 05:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Will you hear it from me?
If you want to contribute to wikipedia in a productive manner, then get an account. All anonymous IPs are nothing better than vandals, and need to be banned immediately. There's no point to hiding behind your pathetic IP address. Dr. Cash (talk) 05:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I have a wikipedia account and am not "hiding behind an IP address" as you claim. I also agree with this user 100% that Obama should be added to this list of famous "Hussein's". I don't see why you would not include the possible next president of the United States on this page. Obama is not running and hiding from the name, he could have dropped it before the campaign began, but he's comfortable enough in himself to use it, I don't see why you are refusing to use this open-source dictionary like it is meant to be used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkadouri (talk • contribs)


 * The thing is, Nixon and FDR are famous US presidents. Barack Obama is not president, only a candidate. If he becomes president, then it would be appropriate to add him to the list. Note that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not on the Diane page, nor is John McCain on Sidney, yet Bill Clinton is on Jefferson. (I'm sure you could find other notable examples.) Adding Obama on the list now is not so much fear mongering, it just seems inconsistent and unnecessary. -- Kip the Dip (talk) 05:05, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I just looked for another example, and it turns out former presidential candidate John Kerry is listed on Forbes (disambiguation). I suppose it's because "Forbes" is not a widely known and/or usual name to many people, thus making Kerry's middle name notable. By the same logic, I'm now for adding Barack Obama on the Husayn page. -- Kip the Dip (talk) 05:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I think that the last edit to the Obama description was absolutely ridiculous and needed to be re-assessed! Why include that he "inherited it from his "Secular" grandfather, a citizen of Nairobi, Kenya"? That is superfluous information - and such details are NOT meant for this page - sure, on the Barack Obama page, but NOT on this - this is just a LIST of notable Hussein's. I will fight such edits vigorously! Please, comment in this page before making any more changes to the Obama description. -- Dkadouri

Isn't Obama an individual?
Hopefully, in spite of my 'anonymous ip', I won't be treated as a vandal or "pussy" by the above (somehow-never-blocked) disrupter for asking this, but... Isn't Barack Obama an 'individual', not an 'other'? For that matter, can't the same be said about a cricket-player as well? It just seems odd that, when there's a heading for people, and a heading for 'others', two people should be listed under the latter, rather than the former. 209.90.135.5 (talk) 19:46, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I've kind of moved on from this issue long ago, so I'm not worried about it. Whatever changes you wish to make to this page, please, by all means, be bold and do it. But for the love of God, don't dwell on old issues over what somebody said on a damn talk page three effing months ago! Dr. Cash (talk) 15:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * What about continued bad behaviour as recently as yesterday? (You never did address the fact that you, once again, tried looking up personal information to bully someone. Not three months ago. Yesterday. And that's in addition to the insults and false accusations)
 * In any event, I'm going to make the change. I won't complain if someone reverts, though I'd appreciate a reason. :) (On this page though, not on my own talk page. Dynamic IP and all) 209.90.135.215 (talk) 18:03, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone's going to revert you on this, but if someone does, don't be the least bit surprised if they completely ignore you and don't offer a reason. Most users don't deal with anons, simply because we don't know if it's one person we're dealing with, or 20. Plus, someone that isn't serious enough to register for an account probably isn't serious enough to be worthy of wasting time in a discussion. Dr. Cash (talk) 21:14, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of us have been on Wikipedia for years but choose to edit anonymously even despite that commitment. Please don't try to apply generalizations to huge groups, especially when they can be offensive. 71.198.43.182 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 08:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC).

Barack Obama is currently on twice. My culture is English-speaking and my call is that "given names" refer to all names which can be freely chosen for a person by their parents, so he belongs there, unless you want to rename the section. The other section is called "Patronymic". In the English language Patronymic refers to a name someone has because it was his or her father's given name - for example Putin's father was also called Vladimir, so his middle name is automatically Vladimirovich, full name Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, as this is the convention in Russia. I don't know enough about Arab culture to know, but it seems to me that Saddam Hussein's daughter has the name "Hussein" not as a patronymic but as a classic surname. Any patronymic she might have would be related to the word "Saddam". I suggest renaming this section. By the way, those who think IP address edits are illegitimate in general are free to make their views known to higher authorities, because it is technically easy for them to require a login, but wikipedia have not implemented that so far. Until they do, please don't attack IP edits on a page by page basis because they are not against the rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.151.217.141 (talk) 15:29, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Why is the future President's dad listed on here?
Why is BHO I listed on here? He is definately not a notable person.PonileExpress (talk) 05:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ...he isn't? We gave him his own page, which I think I'd call prima facie evidence. Twin Bird (talk) 18:13, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Barrack Obama - is Hussein a given name or surname
There seems to be some dispute over whether Hussein in Barrack Hussein Obama is a given name or a surname. I argue that it goes under surnames, as it is a family name. I have therefore reverted the page back to say this. Please state your reasoning for changing this, before reverting this again.TheFreeloader (talk) 18:18, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


 * It's a middle name, which in the US, is considered part of the given name. I'm not sure if that's true in Kenya (where his father, the first to have the name, was born).  Twin Bird (talk) 18:11, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmm. You might be right. His grandfather had Hussein as first name, not middle name, so it's probably not a family name then. Also, his children aren't called Hussein either.TheFreeloader (talk) 18:29, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, Obama should be here.
I strongly believe the current president and his late father should be on this page. It doesn't violate NPOV. It's their middle name. The fact that there are no other notable people here with it as a middle name is an oversight, and if anyone can think of any others, they should be added as well. It doesn't play into "fear-mongering Republican-ized politics," and frankly, citing that as a concern of whether to list someone's actual, legal name seems a little POV-ish to me, not to mention feeding into anti-Islamic prejudice. Twin Bird (talk) 18:10, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Request move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: rename to Hussein Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC) Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Husayn → Hussein — The new name is the most common form. Google search agrees with me. Pass a Method  talk  18:18, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * This also may affect the location of Abdul Husayn. —  AjaxSmack   18:40, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Support - I started the thread Pass a Method   talk  18:18, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Support. Hussein is the most familiar form in English, and the most frequent in this article! —Tamfang (talk) 00:43, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Support. Any survey of literature would show that "Hussein" is by far the commonest spelling when the name is written in the Roman alphabet. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:20, 8 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Wikipedia is inconsistent on this but the article is about the name itself, not about people named Husayn et al (although a long list is included).  For this usage, Husayn (with it without diacritics) is the more encyclopedic usage being derived from Husayn ibn Ali.  Wikipedia is not a collation of Google search results.  Cf. Muhammad (name) where most of the list entries are not spelt "Muhammad".  —  AjaxSmack   18:40, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Meaning of the name Barack Hussein Obama
While the etymology of the Barack Hussein Obama is essentially correct, names also have implicit cultural meanings. In Arabic and the modern times, while Hussein may mean good, or handsome, it is attributed regularly to those are in leadership and power e.g. Sadaam Hussein, King Hussein of Jordan; in the Saudi family of Arabia (Saudia Arabia) a number of emirs/kings have used the name for decades. The name is, in recent times, has come to mean Prince (similar to the "Good Prince" in literature).

The name Barack is the same name of Mohammed's white horse, he reportedly road into heaven from the city of Jerusalem. Obama is the tribe from which his family is derived. This is very common in nearly all countries, particularly, the European culture. Three names were necessary to distinguish from common names e.g. Smith, Jones, Johnson, etc.

What can we deceiver from this: Perhaps: Barack = Name of White Horse; Hussein = good Prince; Obama = ? That is, "The good Prince who rides on the White Horse of Mohammed. Or the "chosen Prince of Mohammed".

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