Yazid

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

• 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 (1937-2020), 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 ), 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

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

• Yazidis, an ethnoreligious group
• Yezidi (script), a historic Kurdish alphabet
• Yezidi (Unicode block), a Unicode block containing letters of the Yezidi script