List of Famous people named Abu

Musa ibn Abī Saʿīd ʿUt̲h̲mān ibn Yag̲h̲murāsan, known as Abu Hammu I, was the fourth Zayyanid Sultan of the Kingdom of Tlemcen. He was proclaimed on 21 S̲h̲awwāl 707/15 April 1308 after the death of his brother Abu-I Zayyan I, which took place in 1308, ruling until 1318, the year of his assassination at the hands of his son Abu Tashufin I, who ascended the throne.

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās al-Baghdadi (923–1023) also known as Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī was an Arab or Persian and one of the most influential intellectuals and thinkers of the 10th century. Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī described him as "the philosopher of litterateurs and the litterateur of philosophers." However, he was neglected and ignored by the historians of his era. This neglect continued until Yāqūt wrote his book Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ, which contained a biographical outline of at-Tawḥīdī, relying primarily on what al-Tawḥīdī had written about himself.

Abu Osman Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi war hero and freedom fighter. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, he served as the commander of Sector 8 of the Bangladesh Forces that covered the present-day Kushtia, Jashore, Khulna, Barishal, Faridpur and Patuakhali regions.

Abu al-Walid was a Saudi Arabian of the Ghamd tribe who fought as a "mujahid" volunteer in Central Asia, the Balkans, and the North Caucasus. He was killed in April 2004 in Chechnya by the Russian federal forces.

Abu Faris Abdallah, nicknamed al-Wathiq Billah (1564–1608) was a ruler of the Saadi dynasty. He was one of the three sons of Ahmad al-Mansur and reigned in different parts of the country (1603–1608), the South, Marrakesh and Fez. He especially fought his brother Zidan Abu Maali.

Abu Said Uthman I, or "Othmane Ibn Yaghmoracen", or in Algerian arabic, ruled the Zenata Berber Kingdom of Tlemcen in Medieval Algeria from 1283 to 1303.

Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad was the eponymous founder of the Abbadid dynasty; he was the first independent Muslim ruler of Seville in Al-Andalus, dying in 1042.

Sultan Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir or better known as Pangeran Ratu was the ruler of Banten in Northwest Java, Indonesia, and was the first ruler anywhere on the island of Java to take the title of sultan, which he took in 1638, under the Arabic name Abu al-Mafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir. This set a precedent for Sultan Agung of Mataram soon afterwards to take the title himself.