Anwar (or Anwer, Anwaar, Anouar,

Anvar Anvar is a given name and surname. The name comes from Arabic and means "light", like the variant Anwar (name), Anwar. Notable persons with the name Anvar include: Persons with the given name *Anvar Berdiev (born 1978), Uzbek footballer *Anvar Bikzh ...

, Enver) is the English

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of two

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names commonly used in the

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by both

Arab Christians Arab Christians ( ar, ﺍَﻟْﻤَﺴِﻴﺤِﻴُّﻮﻥ ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ, translit=al-Masīḥīyyūn al-ʿArab) are ethnic Arabs, Arab nationals, or Arabic-speakers who adhere to Christianity. The number of Arab Christians who l ...

and

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

: the male

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''ʼAnwar'' (أنور), meaning "luminous" or the female given name ''ʼAnwār'' (أنوار), meaning "a collection of lights". In Arabic Anwar is also a

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with the meaning of "more enlightened". Both variations may also be encountered as

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, sometimes also with the accompanying "al" (the definite article "the") as in Al Anwar. In Francophone countries, both names are usually transliterated as Anoir, Anouar and Al Anouar with the definite article "al". The name is transliterated in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Turkey as Enver. Notable people with the name Anwar and variants include:

People with the given name

Anwar

Anwar (singer) Anwar Hussain (born 1 February 1949), known popularly by his first name Anwar, is an Indian playback singer who rose to prominence in the Hindi playback industry because of the uncanny resemblance of his voice with that of singer Mohammed Rafi. ...

(born 1949), Indian playback singer *

Anwar Ali (banker) Anwar Ali (1913–5 November 1974) was a Pakistani economist who was the third governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency. He headed the agency from 1958 to his death in 1974. Ali also held several positions at the ministry of finance in Indi ...

(1913–1974), Pakistani economist *

Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki (also spelled al-Aulaqi, al-Awlaqi; ar, أنور العولقي, Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 21 or 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was an American imam who was killed in 2011 in Yemen by a U.S. government drone stri ...

(1971–2011), Yemeni-American imam, al-Qaeda leader *

Anwar El Ghazi Anwar El Ghazi (Arabic: أنور الغازي; Riffian-Berber: ⴰⵏⵡⴰⵔ ⵍⴴⴰⵣⵉ; born 3 May 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger for PSV and the Netherlands national team. He played for Ajax, Lille a ...

(born 1995), Dutch-Moroccan footballer *

Anwar Fazal Anwar Fazal (born 1941 in the village of Sungei Bayor, Perak, Malaysia) is a leading civil society activist in multiverse issues including consumer, health, environment, urban governance, heritage and peace. In 1982, he was awarded the Right Livel ...

(born 1941), Malaysian environmental activist *

Anwar Gargash Anwar Mohammed Gargash ( ar, أنور محمد قرقاش; born 28 March 1959, in Dubai) is an Emirati politician who served as the minister of state for foreign affairs between February 2008 and February 2021. Since February 2021, he serves as a ...

(born 1959), Emirati politician *

Anwar Haddam Anwar Haddam ( ar, أنور هدام) was a leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), an Islamist party in Algeria, and was elected to parliament on a FIS ticket in 1991 - Algeria's first multiparty elections. The dissolution of the FIS by milit ...

, Algerian politician *

Anwar Hussain (actor) Anwar Hussain (11 November 1925 – 1 January 1988) was an Indian actor and producer. He was a popular character actor from the 1940s to 1982 and acted in over 200 Bollywood films. Some of his best known roles are from '' Ab Dilli Dur Nahin'', ...

(1928-1988), Indian film actor *

Anwar Hussain (cricketer) Anwar Hussain Khokhar (16 July 1920 – 9 October 2002) (Urdu:انور حسین کھوکھر) was a member of Pakistan's first Test team in 1952. Born in Lahore, Khokhar was a cousin of another Pakistani cricketer Aslam Khokhar. He played firs ...

(1920–2002), Pakistani cricketer *

Anwar Ibrahim Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12 ...

(born 1947), 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia *

Anwar Jibawi Anwar Jibawi ( ar, أنور جيباوي) is a Palestinian-American internet personality notable for his videos on YouTube, and previously on the Vine app. Jibawi mostly creates comedic content and has over 9.29 million subscribers on YouTube an ...

, American Internet personality *

Anwar Khan (cricketer) Anwar Khan (Urdu: انور خان) (born December 24, 1955, Karachi, Sindh) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1979. He was a bowling all-rounder. He was a match referee in 2008 Pentangular Cup The Pentangular Trophy was ...

(born 1955), Pakistani cricketer *

Anwar Maqsood Anwar Maqsood Hameedi (born 7 September 1939, Urdu:), popularly known as Anwar Maqsood, is a Pakistani scriptwriter, television presenter, satirist, humorist, and infrequent actor. He was well known for his drama write-ups for PTV in the late ...

(born 1940), Pakistani television entertainer *

Anwar Pervez Sir Mohammed Anwar Pervez OBE, HPk ( ur, سر انور پرویز; born 15 March 1935) is a Pakistani-born British billionaire businessman and former bus conductor and driver. He is the founder and chairman of Bestway Group. According to the ...

(born 1935), Pakistan-British businessman *

Anwar Sadat Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 ...

(1918–1981), 3rd President of Egypt *

Anwar Shaikh (critic of Islam) Anirudh Gyan Shikha (1 June 1928 – 25 November 2006; popularly known as Anwar Shaikh) was a British India-born British writer, who spent much of his adult life in Pakistan and United Kingdom, dying in Cardiff, Wales.''The Rushdie Affair: The No ...

(1928–2006), Pakistani-British author * Anwar Shaikh (economist) (born 1945), Pakistani-American economist *

Anwer Sultan Anwer Sultan (born 19 July 1962) is an Indian sport shooter. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Mill ...

(born 1962), Indian sport shooter *

Anwar Siraj Anwar Siraj (born 8 December 1978, in Ethiopia) is retired Ethiopian footballer. Siraj was also a member of the Ethiopia national football team The Ethiopia national football team, nicknamed ''ዋሊያ'', after the Walia, represents Eth ...

(born 1978), Ethiopian football defender *

Anwar Tjokroaminoto Oetarjo Anwar Tjokroaminoto (3 May 1909 – 16 November 1975) was an Indonesian politician and journalist. He served as Minister of Social Affairs for a year in the Wilopo Cabinet, and was the Prime Minister of Pasundan for less than a month dur ...

, Indonesian journalist and politician, former prime minister of Pasundan *

Anwar Wagdi Anwar Wagdi or Wagdy ( ar, أنور وجدي, ; 11 October 1904 – 14 May 1955), born Anwar Wagdi Yehia El Fattal, was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Life Anwar was born in the Cairo district of El Daher, Cairo. His ...

(1904-1955), Egyptian actor and director

Anwaar

Anwaar Ahmad Anwaar Ahmad ( ur, , born 11 June 1947, Multan) is an Urdu short story writer, scholar and academician from Pakistan. Presently, he is serving as the Director General at University of Gujrat's Sialkot Campus.He has been associated with Bahauddi ...

(born 1947), Pakistani Urdu writer

Anwer

Anwer Zahidi Anwer Zahidi ( ur, )(born July 9, 1946) is a Pakistani Urdu author of more than twelve books of poetry, short stories, travelogue and translations. After completing his graduation in science from Punjab University, Anwer Zahidi received a degree o ...

(born 1946), Pakistani Urdu writer

Anouar

Anouar Abdel-Malek Anouar Abdel-Malek (Arabic: أنور عبد الملك), (23 October 1924 – 15 June 2012) was an Egyptian-French political scientist of Copts in Egypt, Coptic descent. He was a pan-Arabist and Marxist.Sayed MahmoudAnouar Abdel-Malek, champion o ...

(1924-2012), Egyptian-French political scientist *

Anouar Ayed Anouar Ayed (born 1978) is a Tunisian handball player. He was born in Moknine, Monastir. He has represented Tunisia at two Olympic Games: 2000 Sidney Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, where the Tunisian team reached the qu ...

(born 1978), Tunisian handball player * Anouar Benmalek (born 1956), Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet * Anouar Ben Naceur (born 1983), Tunisian swimmer *

Anouar Brahem Anouar Brahem ( أنور براهم); born on 20 October 1957) is a Tunisian oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field. Performing primarily for a jazz audience, he combines Arabic classical music, folk music and ...

(born 1957), Tunisian oud player and composer *

Anouar Diba Anouar Diba ( Riffian-Berber: ⴰⵏⵡⴰⵔ ⴷⵉⴱⴰ, born 27 February 1983 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch-Moroccan former footballer. Club career Diba is a forward who was made his debut in professional football during the 2002 ...

(born 1983), Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent *

Anouar Hadouir Anouar Hadouir (born 14 September 1982) is a Dutch former footballer who plays for SV CHC Den Bosch. Career Hadouir was born in 's-Hertogenbosch and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Willem II squad in the 2002–03 s ...

(born 1982), Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent * Anouar Kali (born 1991), Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent

People with the surname

Anwar

Anan Anwar Anan Anwar ( th, อนัน อันวา; born 15 September 1986, in Thailand) is a Thai singer, traceur and actor. He is the fourth child of his Scottish mother and Thai Indonesian father. His older brother Joni Anwar was a member of the m ...

, Thai singer *

Chairil Anwar Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the " 1945 Generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems. Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatr ...

, Indonesian poet *

Desi Anwar Desi Anwar (born 11 December 1962, in Bandung, West Java) is an Indonesian news presenter. She worked for RCTI in Jakarta from 1990 to 1999. She then moved to news web portal Astaga.com before returning to television and joining Indonesia's fir ...

, Indonesian reporter *

Faraz Anwar Faraz Anwar (Urdu: فراز انور; b.15 July 1976) is a Pakistani musician, composer, singer-songwriter, bandleader, and a guitarist who founded the ''Mizraab'', a heavy metal music and hard rock genre band based in Pakistan. His musical act ...

, Pakistani guitarist *

Gabrielle Anwar Gabrielle Anwar is a British and American actress. She is known for her television roles as Sam Black in the second series of ''Press Gang'', as Margaret Tudor in the first season of ''The Tudors'', as Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of '' ...

, English actress *

Gazi Mazharul Anwar Gazi Mazharul Anwar (22 February 1943 – 4 September 2022) was a Bangladeshi film director, producer, lyricist, screenwriter and music director. He earned the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Lyricist a record six times for the films ''T ...

(1943–2022), Bangladeshi film director *

Joko Anwar Joko Anwar (born 3 January 1976) is an Indonesian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he worked as a journalist and film critic. Anwar first rose to prominence for co-writing Nia Dinata's 2003 hit ' ...

, Indonesian film critic and writer *

Joni Anwar Joni Anwar, also known as Joni Raptor (born August 30, 1981), is a Thai singer and actor. Early life and education Anwar was born in Bangkok, to an Indonesian father and a Scottish mother. He graduated from Bangkok Patana School in 2000, after wh ...

, Thai singer *

Rosihan Anwar Rosihan Anwar (10 May 1922 – 14 April 2011) was a renowned Indonesian journalist and author. Rosihan Anwar was born in Kubang Nan Dua, West Sumatra. Rosihan received his early education at HIS and MULO in Padang. He continued his studies at A ...

, Indonesian journalist * Saeed Anwar, former Pakistani cricketer *

Tariq Anwar (film editor) Tariq Anwar (born 21 September 1945) is an Indian-born British-American film editor whose credits include '' Center Stage'', '' The Good Shepherd'', '' Sylvia'', '' Oppenheimer'', and '' American Beauty'', for which he was nominated for an Acad ...

, film editor and father of Gabrielle Anwar *

Tariq Anwar (politician) Tariq Anwar (born 16 January 1951) is an Indian politician as member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He served as the Minister of State of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries between 2012 and 2014. Anwar has been a member of the ...

, Indian politician * Ferris Anwar, Coptic Egyptian-American Cybersecurity Professional

Anwer

* Aiman Anwer (born 1991), Pakistani cricketer *

Khalid Anwer Khalid Anwer (Urdu/ pa, ; born 4 November 1938 in Delhi, British India in a Nobal Arain Family) is a Pakistani lawyer, jurist and constitutional expert who previously served as the federal Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights following h ...

(born 1938), Pakistani jurist * M. Sawkat Anwer, American bioscientist

Fictional characters with the given name

Anwar Kharral Anwar Kharral is a fictional character in the television series '' Skins'' portrayed by Dev Patel. Characterisation Anwar is portrayed as a boy of Pakistani origin. Raised in an Islamic household, Anwar claims to pray five times a day. However, ...

, character in the British drama series ''Skins'' *Anwar Ibrahim, character in the science-fiction novel series '' The Familiar'' by Mark Z. Danielewski *Anwar, a

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children's TV show ''The Ark'' *Suvi Anwar, a character in the science-fiction video game Mass Effect: Andromeda *Anwar, character in the British

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series

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People with the given name

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People with the surname

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Fictional characters with the given name

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