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).

See also

• Musa of Parthia, queen of Parthia c. 2 BC – AD 4
• Musa, a character from Winx Club
• All pages with titles containing Musa
• Moussa
• Musah (name)

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