People mentioned in the Qur’an
From Sentinel Apologetics…
The Quran makes mention of 32 people, and all of them are defined as “prophets” without distinguishing between them. Among these names there are only 6 people that can NOT be clearly identified in the Bible. Nevertheless, the remaining 26 people come mostly from the Pentateuch. Thus, here’s a list statistically aligned from most referred in the Quran:
- Jesus (130 times)
- Moses (130 times)
- Abraham (69 times)
- Mary (11 times by name and 34 times as “mother” of Jesus)
- Noah (43 times)
- Adam (25 times)
- Lot (25 times)
- Aaron (20 times)
- Isaac (17 times)
- Solomon (17 times)
- David (16 times)
- Jacob (16 times)
- Ishmael (12 times)
- Jonah (4 times; the Arabic form Yūnus is taken from the LXX form Iōnas rather than the Hebrew Yōnāh)
- Job (4 times)
- Elijah (2 times)
- Elisha (1 time)
- Saul (1 time; Surah 2:247-249 is erroneously fused with Gideon’s story from Judges 7:4-7)
- Joseph (mentioned only as the name for Surah 12)
- John the Baptist
- Zechariah. – Shu‘ayb (Jethro)
- Idris (Enoch)
- Hūd (Eber)
- Dhū ’l-Kifl (Ezekiel)
- Luqmān (a figure whose origin is in Nubia, Sudan, or Ethiopia)
- Ṣāliḥ (believed to have prophesied to the Arabian tribe of Thamūd)
- Al-Khadir (one of the cave dwellers in Surah 18)
- Dhū ’l -Qarnayn (Alexander the Great).