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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