Yakut (name)
# Yakut (name)

Yakut is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

## Given name

* Yakut Khan (before 1672-1733), Indian general who invaded Bombay in 1689
* Yakut al-Hamawi (1179-1229), Syrian slave turned ethnographer & geographer

## Surname

* Jamal ud-Din Yakut (before 1200-1240), Abyssinian slave, close adviser & alleged lover of Razia Sultana, first female monarch of Delhi Sultanate of India
* Mehmet Vasıf Yakut, Turkish Para Taekwondo practitioner
* Şahin Yakut (1979-), Turkish kickboxer
