Mustafa
Mustafa , also Mustafe, Mustapha, Moustafa, Moustapha, Mostafa, Mostapha , is a Muslim male given name of Arabic origin . It also occurs as a family name .
Origin and meaning
Mustafa ( Arabic مصطفى, DMG Muṣṭafā ) is Arabic and means “chosen one”. Mustafa is an epithet of the Islamic prophet Mohammed and therefore very common as a first name in Islamic culture.
Name bearer
First name
People up to the 19th century
- Mustafa I (1592–1639), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1622 to 1623
- Mustafa II. (1664–1704), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703
- Mustafa III. (1717–1774), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774
- Mustafa IV. (1779–1808), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808
- Lala Kara Mustafa Pascha (~ 1500–1580), Ottoman general and grand vizier
- Kara Mustafa Pascha (1634 / 35–1683), Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Commander-in-Chief of the Second Siege of Vienna in 1683
- Mustafa Khaznadar (1817–1878), Tunisian politician
- Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pascha (1637–1691), Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Mustafa Reşid Pascha (1800-1858), Ottoman statesman
People from the 20th century
- Mustafa Abd al-Jalil (* 1952), Libyan politician
- Mustafa Abdel-Latif (* 19 **), Egyptian politician
- Mustafa Akçay (* 1983), Turkish football player
- Mustafa Reşit Akçay (* 1958), Turkish football coach
- Moustapha Akkad (1930-2005), Syrian director and film producer
- Moustapha Alassane (1942–2015), Nigerien film director
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881–1938), founder and president of Turkey
- Mustafa Atici (* 1969), Swiss politician
- Mustafa Balel (* 1945), Turkish writer
- Mustafa Barzani (1903–1979), Iraqi Kurdish politician
- Mustafa Ben Jaafar (* 1940), Tunisian politician
- Mustafa bin Halim (* 1921), Libyan politician
- Mustapha bin Harun (1918–1995), Malaysian politician, Prime Minister of Sabah
- Mustafa Birden (* 1946), Turkish politician
- Mostafa Borudscherdi (* 1962), Iranian clergyman and politician
- Mustafa Bumin (* 1940), Turkish lawyer
- Mustapha Bundu (* 1997), Sierra Leonean football player
- Mustafa Çakmak (1909–1999), Turkish wrestler
- Mustafa Cerić (* 1952), Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Mustafa Chalil (1920–2008), Egyptian politician
- Moustapha Dabo (* 1986), Senegalese soccer player
- Mustafa Dağıstanlı (* 1931), Turkish wrestler
- Mustafa Denizli (* 1949), Turkish football player
- Moustapha Diarra (* 1970), Senegalese athlete
- Mustafa Doğan (* 1976), German football player
- Mustafa Dok (* 1971), German-Turkish director and film producer
- Mustafa Efe (* 1965), Turkish journalist
- Mostafa Elgamel (* 1988), Egyptian hammer thrower
- Moestafa El Kabir (* 1988), Dutch-Moroccan football player
- Mostafa El-Sayed (* 1933), Egyptian chemist
- Mustafa Ertan (1926-2005), Turkish football player and coach
- Mustafa Güngör (* 1978), German-Turkish politician
- Mustafa Güven (1936–2013), Turkish football player
- Mustafa Hadid (* 1988), Afghan football player
- Mustafa Haikal (* 1958), German historian and author
- Moustapha Hima (* 1992), Nigerien boxer
- Mustafa İlker Coşkun (* 1979), Turkish football referee
- Mustafa İzzet (* 1974), Turkish football player
- Mustafa Jagly-Ogly (* 1934), Soviet weightlifter
- Mustafa Keçeli (* 1978), Turkish football player
- Mustafa Kizilcay (* 19 **), German university professor for electrical engineering
- Moustapha Kondé (* 1991), Malian football player
- Mustafa Kruja (1887–1958), Albanian politician
- Mustafa Kučuković (* 1986), German football player
- Mustafa Aziz Mahmoud (1923–1989), Iraqi general
- Mustafa Mohamed (* 1979), Swedish athlete
- Mostafa Moin (* 1951), Iranian politician and doctor
- Mustafa Mujezinović (1954–2019), Bosnian economic manager, diplomat and politician
- Mostafa Mohammad Najar (* 1956), Iranian minister
- Moustapha Niasse (* 1939), Senegalese Prime Minister
- Mustafa Öğretmenoğlu (* 1980), Turkish football referee
- Mustafa Özkan (* 1975), German-Turkish soccer player
- Mustafa Öztürk (* 1973), German politician
- Mustafa Parmak (* 1982), German-Turkish soccer player
- Mustafa Pektemek (* 1988), Turkish football player
- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (* 1959), Iranian clergyman and politician
- Mostafa Seyed Rezaei (* 1984), Iranian road cyclist
- Mustafa Sabri (1869–1954), Ottoman sheikh
- Moustapha Sakanoko (* 1990), Ivorian football player
- Mustafa Ould Salek (1936–2012), Mauritanian politician
- Moustapha Salifou (* 1983), Togolese football player
- Mustafa Sandal (* 1970), Turkish musician
- Mustafa Sert (* 1980), Turkish football player
- Mustafa Shakir (* 1976), American actor
- Mustafa Ruhi Şirin (* 1955), Turkish author
- Mustafa Sait Yazıcıoğlu (* 1949), Turkish politician and theologian
- Mustafa Yıldızdoğan (* 1966), Turkish musician
family name
- Abu Ali Mustafa (1938–2001), Palestinian politician
- Adel Ibrahim Moustafa (* 1930), Egyptian wrestler and referee
- Ahmed Abdo Mustafa (* 1946), Sudanese football player
- Ahmed Mostafa , Egyptian basketball player
- Ali Alifei Moustapha (* 1956), Chadian diplomat and politician
- Arafa Hussein Mustafa (1940–2019), Professor of Semitic Studies
- Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (* 1969), Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
- Celâlzâde Mustafa Çelebi (1490–1567), high administrative officer in the Ottoman Empire
- Domenico Mustafà (1829–1912), Italian singer (castrato)
- Hamza al-Mustapha , Nigerian officer
- Hassan Moustafa (* 1944), Egyptian sports scientist and handball official
- Hischam Talaat Mustafa (* 1959), Egyptian entrepreneur
- Ibrahim Moustafa (1904–1968), Egyptian wrestler
- Imad Moustapha (* 1952), Syrian diplomat
- Isa Mustafa (* 1951), Kosovar politician
- Isaiah Mustafa (* 1974), American actor
- Melton Mustafa (1947-2017), American jazz musician
- Nawschirwan Mustafa (1944-2017), Iraqi Kurdish politician and author
- Neždet Mustafa (* 1962), Macedonian politician
- Raed Mostafa (* 1984), German basketball player
- Riga Mustapha (* 1978), Dutch football player
- Riyadh Al-Mustafa (* 1975), Bahraini marathon runner
- Saheed Mustapha (* 1994), German soccer player
- Sam Ali Mustafa (* 1965), American author and historian
- Ugbad Mustafa (* 2001), Norwegian rapper, known as Musti
Fictional character
- Mustafa Z , Tunisian feature film from 2017