Yazid

Yazīd (يزيد, "increasing", "adding more") is an Arabic name and may refer to:

Given name

 * Yazid I (647–683), second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah
 * Yazid II (687–724), Umayyad caliph
 * Yazid III (701–744), Umayyad caliph
 * Yazeed Abulaila (born 1993), Jordanian footballer
 * Yazid Kaïssi (born 1981), French-born Moroccan footballer
 * Yazid Mansouri (born 1978), French-born Algerian footballer
 * Yazid ibn al-Muhallab (672–720), Umayyad governor
 * Yazid of Morocco (1750–1792), Sultan of Morocco
 * Yazid Sabeg (born 1950), French businessman
 * Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan (died 640), brother of the early Umayyad leader Muawiyah I, and companion of Muhammad
 * Yazid Sufaat (born 1964), suspected militant
 * Yazid Zerhouni (born 1937), Algerian politician
 * Zinedine Zidane (Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born 1972), French footballer and manager
 * Yazid bin Abdul Qadir Jawas (born 1963), Indonesian Salafist preacher.
 * Yazid ibn Umar al-Fazari (died 750)
 * Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (died 787)
 * Yazid ibn Abdallah al-Hulwani, Abbasid military governor of Egypt
 * Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani (died c. 801), Abbasid military general and governor
 * Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami, Abbasid military general in Armenia
 * Yazid ibn al-Sa'iq
 * Yazid ibn Jarir al-Qasri
 * Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki
 * Yazid ibn Ziyad
 * Yazid ibn Khalid al-Qasri
 * Yazid ibn Abi Muslim

Surname

 * Abu Yazid (873–947), Kharijite Berber of the Banu Ifran tribe
 * Mhamed Yazid (1923–2003), Algerian independence activist and politician