Name Zulqarnain

Arabic name (ذوالقرنين) means - "two-horned; bicornuate; horned sun; having (Zul) horn (Qarnay)". Arabic analogue of the Greek name Alexander.

Zulqarnain - was one of 28 prophet of Allah mentioned in the Qur'an (Adem (Adam), Idris (Enoch), Nuh (Noah), Hud (Eber), Saleh (Methuselah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Lut (Lot), Ismail (Ishmael), Ishaq (Isaac), Yaqub (Jacob), Yusuf (Joseph), Ayub (Job), Shoaib (Jethro), Harun (Aaron), Musa (Moses), Dawud (David), Sulayman (Solomon), Ilyas (Elijah), Elyasa (Elisha), Yunus (Jonah), Dhulkifl (Ezekiel), Zakaria (Zachariah), Yahya (John), Isa (Jesus), Uzair (Ezra), Luqman, (Iskander), Muhammad)

The Qur'an does not state whether or not Zulqarnain was a prophet, but some theologians believe him to be a prophet.