Yakut is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

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  • Yakut Khan (before 1672-1733), Indian general who invaded Bombay in 1689
  • Yakut al-Hamawi (1179-1229), a Baghdadi former slave of Byzantine Greek ancestry turned Muslim ethnographer & geographer, author of (i.a.) Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān (= ‘Dictionary of Countries’)

Surname

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