Alabi (surname)
Alabi is the name of a family Christian Arab originating in Bethlehem, West Bank, (Palestine).[citation needed] According to family tradition, it comes from or originating in Halab, which is Arabic for Aleppo in Syria.[citation needed]
Alabi is also a Yoruba name of West Africa.[citation needed]
- Johannes Alabi (~1743-1820), leader of the Saramaccaans a Maroon village in Suriname
- Anthony Alabi (born 1981), American football player in the National Football League
- Joshua Alabi, Ghanaian academic
- Ralph Alabi (1941-2009), engineer and industrial Nigeria
- Samuel Alabi, Ghanaian footballer
- Solomon Alabi, Nigerian basketball player who belongs to the group of Ourense Club Basketball LEB Gold.
- Anthonia Yetunde Alabi Nigerian female artiste and businesswoman
- Tope Alabi (born 1970), Nigerian musician
- James Alabi, English footballer
See also[]
Categories:
- Surnames
- Arab families
- Yoruba-language surnames