Mahboob

Mahbūb Mahboob(also spelled Mahboob, or Mehboob, from Arabic: مَحبُوب, passed to other languages such as Urdu: محبوب is a masculine given name.

Given name

Mahboob

• Maulana Mahboob Alam (1863–1933), founder of the daily Pakistani newspaper Paisa Akhbar
• Mahaboob Ben Ali, Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian American businessman
• Mahboob Shah (born 1938), Pakistani cricketer and Test cricket umpire
• Mahboob Zahedi (1929–2006), Indian politician who represented the Katwa in West Bengal from 1996 to 2006

Mahbub

• Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, the 6th Nizam of Hyderabad Deccan
• Mahbub Ali Khan, Bangladeshi Chief of Naval Staff
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi (1929–2008), establishing newspaper editor of Khaleej Times

Mehboob

• Mehboob (singer), Indian playback singer of Malayalam films
• Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Indian politician
• Mehboob Khan (1907–1964), Indian film director and producer
• Mehboob Kotwal, Indian songwriter
• Mehboob Rahi, Indian poet

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, activist of the Language Movement that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan
• Shahid Mahboob (born 1962), Pakistani cricketer

Mehboob

• Farhan Mehboob, Pakistani squash player
• Waqar Mehboob, 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

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

Habib, and the female equivalent Habiba

Mahbub is the male equivalent of Mahbuba