Ragheb

Ragheb or Raghib is an Arabic given name and surname meaning desirous.Notable people with the name include:

• Ragheb Aga (born 1984), Kenyan cricketer
• Raghib Ahsan, politician and member of the Constituent Assembly of India
• Ragheb Alama (born 1962), Lebanese singer, dancer, composer, television personality, philanthropist
• Raghib Allie-Brennan (born 1991), American politician and former political aide
• Raghib al-Alami, the mayor of Gaza City between 1965 and 1970
• Ali Abu Al-Ragheb (born 1946), the 33rd Prime Minister of Jordan
• Al-Raghib al-Isfahani, eleventh-century Muslim scholar of Qur'anic exegesis and the Arabic language
• Raghib al-Nashashibi (1881–1951), CBE (hon), was a wealthy landowner and public figure
• Ragheb Harb (1952–1984), Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric
• Raghib Ismail (born 1969), American retired player of American and Canadian football
• Ragheb Moftah (1898–2001), Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage
• Raghib Pasha (1819–1884), Greek Ottoman politician and Prime Minister of Egypt
• Awad Ragheb (born 1982), retired Jordanian footballer of Palestinian origin
• Mehrnoush Najafi Ragheb (born 1979), Iranian lawyer, Persian blogger, women's rights activist
• Mohamed El-Malky Ragheb (born 1953), Egyptian wrestler
• Mohamed Ragheb (born 1943), Syrian sports shooter
• Khalid Raghib (born 1969), Moroccan former footballer
• Ragheb Sergani, Egyptian professor of urology at Cairo University

See also

• Ragıp, Turkish version of the name
• Raqeeb, 2007 film