Nasr (name)

Nasr

Romanization	Naṣr
Gender	masculine
Language(s)	Arabic: نصر
Origin
Language(s)	Arabic
Meaning	'victory'
Other names
Alternative spelling	Nassr
Related names	Nasrallah, Nasralla, Nasrollah, Nasrullah, Al-Nasrallah

Nasr (Arabic: نصر, romanized: Naṣr, lit. 'victory') is a given name and surname, more common as a surname, in the Arabic language. It may refer to:

Mononym

• Nasr I, Samanid amir ruled 864–892
• Nasr II, Samanid amir, ruled 914–943
• Nasr, Sultan of Granada (1287–1322), in the Nasrid dynasty

Given name

• Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan (born 1941), Jordanian-Palestinian artist, television interior designer/producer
• Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010), Egyptian Qur'anic thinker
• Nasr ibn Sayyar (663–748), Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748
• Nasr ibn Shabath al-Uqayli, early 9th-century rebel leader in the Jazira
• Nasr Javed, Kashmiri senior operative of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba
• Nasr Al-Madhkur, 18th century local governor of what was described by a contemporary account as an "independent state" of Bushire and Bahrain
• Nasra Ali Abukar (born 2003) Somali female athlete
• Nasr El Hag Ali, the first vice chancellor of the University of Khartoum

Middle name

• Alireza Nasr Azadani (born 1985), Iranian taekwondo player

Surname

• Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr (died 1307), Marinid ruler of Morocco
• Ali Nasr (1891-1961), Iranian dramatist and playwright
• Farouk Seif Al Nasr (1922–2009), Egyptian politician
• Felipe Nasr, Brazilian racing driver
• Ghassan Nasr, academic and translator
• Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, Egyptian cleric who was living in asylum in Italy until being allegedly abducted by the CIA
• Kamila Nasr, Canadian singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Beijing
• May Nasr, Lebanese singer, musician and microfinancing consultant
• Mahmoud Nasr, Egyptian cinematographer
• Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr (born 1953), Egyptian engineering professor, politician and minister
• Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr, a General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
• Octavia Nasr, Lebanese-American journalist
• Ramsey Nasr (born 1974), Dutch-Palestinian author and actor
• Rasha Nasr (born 1992), Syrian-German politician
• Said Al Nasr, Syrian Palestinian, convicted in Belgium in 1980 for terrorism
• Salah Nasr (1920–1982), head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate from 1957 to 1967
• Saleh Nasr (born 1999), Egyptian football player
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Iranian professor in the department of Islamic studies at George Washington University
• Suad Nasr (1953–2007), Egyptian stage, television, and film actress
• Vali Reza Nasr, Iranian-born U.S. academic and scholar teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School
• Yasman Malek-Nasr (also spelt Yassamin Maleknasr, born 1955), Iranian filmmaker and actress

See also

• Nasr (disambiguation)
• Naser (disambiguation)
• Nasser (disambiguation)