People
- Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf (661-714), military governor of the Umayyad caliphate
- Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar (786-833), translated Euclid's Elements into Arabic
- Muslim b. al-Hajjaj, Islamic author of Hadith
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Gold has a price, but people are priceless.”
—Chinese proverb.
“For the people in government, rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“Tony Abbott: I didn’t know you played a saxophone.
Joe Pendleton: Yeah, well, a lot of people don’t know it. Even after they see me playing it they don’t know it.”
—Seton I. Miller (1902–1974)