Famous People with Name Juba

Jubair Ahmed            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Jubair Ahmed: is a First class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh. He made his debut for Rajshahi Division in 2004/05. He also appeared for the team in the following season. A right-handed batsman and right arm fast medium bowler and right-handed bat, he scored 86 against Sylhet Division but surprisingly only played twice in the first class game. His batting proved less successful in his 3 limited over games.

Stephen Juba            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stephen Juba: was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1959, and served as the 37th Mayor of Winnipeg from 1957 to 1977. He was the first Ukrainian Canadian to hold high political office in the city. Juba's first forays into electoral politics were unsuccessful. He ran as an independent candidate in Winnipeg North Centre in the Canadian federal election of June 1949, against rising CCF star Stanley Knowles. He later acknowledged that had no chance of winning, but entered the race "to gain experience" and "to be educated by an expert". He received only 694 votes, finishing a very distant fourth. In the provincial election of November 1949, Juba ran in the riding of Winnipeg Centre as an Independent Liberal, supporting the coalition government of Douglas L. Campbell. He ran for the Winnipeg City Council in 1950 and 1952, and came surprisingly close to winning on the second occasion. He challenged Winnipeg mayor Garnet Coulter later in 1952, and received 28,000 votes to Coulter's 38,000 (CCF candidate Donovan Swailes finished third with 22,000). Juba called for reform of the province's liquor laws during this campaign.

Talha Jubair            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Talha Jubair: is a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 6 ODIs from 2002 to 2004

Ibn Jubayr            Origin/Culture/Country: Valencia

Ibn Jubayr: was an geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.He studied at Granada the Qur'an, hadith, law and literature, and later became secretary to the Almohad governor of that city. During this time he composed many poems. In 1182 he took the decision to perform his duty of pilgrimage to Mecca in order to atone for a sin that he had been compelled to do by the governor of Valencia.