Mahboob

Mahbūb (also spelled Mahboob, or Mehboob, etc., from Arabic: مَحبُوب, passed to other languages such as Urdu: محبوب is a masculine given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Mahboob

• Mahboob Alam (politician) (born 1968), Pakistani politician
• Maulana Mahboob Alam (1863–1933), founder of the daily Pakistani newspaper Paisa Akhbar
• Mahaboob Ben Ali (1927–2009), Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian American businessman
• Mahboob Ali Baig Sahib Bahadur, Indian politician
• Mahboob Hanifi (born 1997), Afghan footballer
• Mahboob Qirvanian (1894–??), Ottoman slave
• Mahboob Rahman Ruhel (born 1970), Bangladeshi politician
• Mahboob Shah (born 1938), Pakistani cricketer and Test cricket umpire
• Mahboob Meena Shah (1934–2020), Indian Sufi saint
• Mahboob Zahedi (1929–2006), Indian politician who represented the Katwa in West Bengal from 1996 to 2006

Mahbub

• Mahbub Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician
• Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi veteran
• Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI (1866–1911), the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan
• Mahbub Ali Khan (1934–1984), Bangladeshi Chief of Naval Staff
• Mahbub Anam (1931–2001), Bangladeshi journalist and writer
• Mahbub Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician
• Mahbubus Samad Chowdhury, Bangladeshi army general
• Mahbub Jamil, Bangladeshi businessman
• Mahbubul Karim (born 1986), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Mahbubul A Khalid, Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, and music composer
• Mahbub Uddin Khokon (born 1956), Bangladeshi politician
• Mahbubur Raschid, Bangladeshi banker
• Mahbubur Rob Sadi (1942–2016), Bangladeshi politician
• Mahbub Hassan Saleh, Bangladeshi diplomat
• Mahbub Talukdar (1942–2022), Bangladeshi poet, writer, and civil servant
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (1929–2008), establishing newspaper editor of Khaleej Times
• Mahbub Uz Zaman, Bangladeshi diplomat

Mehboob

• Mehboob (singer) (1926–1981), Indian playback singer of Malayalam films
• Mehboob Ali, multiple people
• Mehboob Bawa (born 1968), South African actor
• Mehboob Ullah Jan, Pakistani politician and social worker
• Mehboob Khan (1907–1964), Indian film director and producer
• Mehboob Khan (chef) (born 1969), Pakistani chef
• Mehboob Kotwal (born 1961), Indian songwriter
• Mehboob Khan Mirajkar (1868–1965), Indian tabla player
• Mehboob Nausheer (born 1934), Indian cricketer
• Mehboob Rahi, Indian poet
• Mehboob Shah, Pakistani politician
• Mehboob Sher, Pakistani politician

Surname

Mahboob

• Ahmar Mahboob, teacher at the University of Sydney Department of Linguistics
• Ali Hasan Mahboob (born 1981), Bahraini long-distance runner
• Kazi Golam Mahboob (1927–2006), activist of the Language Movement that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan
• Shahid Mahboob (born 1962), Pakistani cricketer

Mehboob

• Farhan Mehboob (born 1988), Pakistani squash player
• Waqar Mehboob (born 1991), Pakistani squash player

See also

Places

• Mahboob Mansion, palace, named after Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the VIth Nizam, who lived here occasionally
• Mahbubnagar, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Mahbubnagar district, a district in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Mahabubabad, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India

Arts and entertainment

• Mehboob Ki Mehndi, Hindi film
• Mere Mehboob, Indian film

Name

• Mahbubul Alam, multiple people
• Mahbubul Haq, multiple people
• Mahbubur Rahman, multiple people

Habib, and the female equivalent Habiba