Inducted for excellence and/or vibes. Three thousand years of Yousefs, abridged.
Every Yousef, Youssef, Yusuf, Joseph, José and Giuseppe traces the name back to one figure: Joseph, son of Jacob, called Yosef in Hebrew and Yūsuf in Arabic. He is a patr…
Read the full story →Born Steven Demetre Georgiou in London in 1948, he became one of the defining singer-songwriters of the 1970s as Cat Stevens, with songs including "Wild World," "Father a…
Read the full story →Yousuf Karsh was born in 1908 in Mardin, in what is now southeastern Türkiye, to an Armenian family. In 1924, as a teenager, he emigrated to Canada to join an uncle who w…
Read the full story →Youssef En-Nesyri was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1997, and came through the Mohammed VI Football Academy before moving to Spanish football.…
Read the full story →Yusuf Dikeç, born in 1973, is a Turkish sport shooter who competed at several Olympic Games before becoming, almost overnight, one of the most recognised athletes of Pari…
Read the full story →Mohammad Yousuf, born in Lahore in 1974, was one of the most elegant middle-order batters of his era, playing Test and one-day cricket for Pakistan from 1998 to 2010. He …
Read the full story →Youssef Chahine (1926–2008) was born in Alexandria and became the most celebrated director in the history of Egyptian cinema, making more than 40 films over six decades.…
Read the full story →Yousef Erakat, known online as FouseyTube, is a Palestinian-American content creator who rose to prominence in the early 2010s as part of the first big wave of YouTube co…
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