Amer ( ar, عامر Sanskrit: अमेर) is an Arabic and Hindu male name. In Hindu and Sikh scriptures Amer means "one who has a rich and prosperous life".
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Amer Alwan
Amer Alwan (born 1957 in Babylon, Iraq) is an Iraqi French film director. Alwan was forced to shoot his movie Zaman, The Man From The Reeds on videotape, as when Iraq was under severe economic sanctions the United Nations and United States, would ...
, Iraqi French film director
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Amer Đidić, Canadian footballer
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Amer Delić
Amer Delić (; born June 30, 1982) is a Bosnian American former professional tennis player. He is a former captain and member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Davis Cup team.
Delić was born in Tuzla, then in Yugoslavia, now in the northeastern p ...
, Bosnian tennis player
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Aamer Hayat, American Healthcare Executive and Batman
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Amer Jukan, Slovenian footballer
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Amer Osmanagić, Bosnian footballer
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Amer Mohammad Rashid, Iraqi general
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Amer Sabah, Jordanian footballer
Middle name
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Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah
On 6 June 1994, two Japanese tourists were robbed and attacked by two men in their shared room in the Oriental Hotel in Singapore. One of them was brutally assaulted and died, while the other survived. The case, known as the Oriental Hotel murde ...
, Singaporean criminal and prisoner
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Mohamed Amer Al-Malky, Omani athlete
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Musa Amer Obaid
Musa Amer Obaid ( ar, موسى عامر عبيد; born April 18, 1985, in Kenya) is a middle distance runner mainly competing in steeplechase. He was born Moses Kipkirui, but represents Qatar after changing nationality from his birth country Keny ...
, Qatari athlete
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Abdel Hakim Amer
Mohamed Abdel Hakim Amer ( arz, محمد عبد الحكيم عامر, ; 11 December 1919 – 13 September 1967) was an Egyptian military officer and politician. Amer served in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and played a leading role in the mi ...
, Egyptian general
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Ayten Amer, Egyptian actress
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Baser Amer
Baser C. Amer (born September 29, 1992) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Blackwater Bossing of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He plays both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He earned the moniker, The ...
, Filipino basketball player
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Bree Amer
Bree Amer (born 17 August 1982 ) is an Australian television personality.
Biography
Amer was a contestant on ''Big Brother Australia 2004'' from the Gold Coast, in Queensland, and the first housemate of ''Big Brother Australia'' to re-enter t ...
, Australian television personality
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Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer ( ar, غادة عامر, May 22 1963 in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist, much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies re ...
, Egyptian painter
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Kareem Amer
Kareem Nabil Suleiman Amer ( ar, كريم نبيل سليمان عامر, ) (born c. 1984) is an Egyptian Norwegian blogger and former law student. He was arrested by Egyptian authorities for posts on his blog that were considered to be anti-reli ...
, Egyptian blogger
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Nicholas Amer
Nicholas Amer, born Thomas Harold Amer (29 September 1923 – 17 November 2019), was an English stage, film and television actor known for his performances in William Shakespeare's plays. Amer made his professional debut in 1948 playing the par ...
, British actor
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Aamir (given name)
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Arabic masculine given names
Bosniak masculine given names