Mahboob

Mahboob (also spelled Mahbub, or Mehboob, from Arabic: مَحبُوب passed to other languages such as Template:Lang-ur is a masculine given name.

Given name

• Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan.
• Mehboob (singer), Indian playback singer of Malayalam films.
• Maulana Mahboob Alam (1863–1933), founder of the daily Pakistani newspaper Paisa Akhbar.
• Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Indian politician.
• Mehboob Khan (1907–1964), Indian film director and producer.
• Mahbub Ali Khan, Bangladeshi Chief of Naval Staff.
• Mahaboob Ben Ali, Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian American businessman.
• Mehboob Kotwal, Indian songwriter.

• Mehboob Rahi, Indian poet.
• Mahboob Shah (born 1938), former Pakistani first-class cricketer and Test cricket umpire.
• Mahboob Zahedi (1929–2006), Indian politician who represented the Katwa in West Bengal from 1996 to 2006.
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (1929–2008), establishing Newspaper Editor of Khaleej Times.

Surname

• Ahmar Mahboob, teacher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.
• Ali Hasan Mahboob (born 1981), Bahraini long-distance runner.
• Farhan Mehboob, Pakistani squash player.
• Kazi Golam Mahboob, activist of the Language Movement that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan.
• Shahid Mahboob (born 1962), former Pakistani cricketer.
• Waqar Mehboob, Pakistani squash player.

See also

• Mahboob Mansion, palace, named after Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the VIth Nizam, who lived here occasionally.
• Mehboob Ki Mehndi, Hindi film.
• Mere Mehboob, Indian film.
• Mahbubnagar, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Mahbubnagar district, a district in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Mahabubabad, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India.