Bakhtiyār (meaning "lucky"), alternatively spelt as "Bakhtyar", "Baxtiyar", "Bachtiar", "Bachtyar" and "Bahtiyar", is a Persian masculine given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

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Bahtiyar

Bahtiyar Aydın Bahtiyar Aydın (194622 October 1993) was a Turkish general. He was a regional commander in the Turkish Gendarmerie in Lice, Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey when he was assassinated by a sniper using a Kanas rifle. Officially a victim of the ...

(1946-1993), Turkish general *

Bahtiyar Can Vanlı Bahtiyar Can Vanlı (born June 1962 in Adana) is a German-Turkish football coach. Can Vanlı participated in the 2002 World Cup in Korea / Japan and at the Confederations Cup in France in 2003 as assistant of Şenol Güneş Şenol Güneş, T. ...

(born 1962), Turkish-German football coach

Bakhtiyar

Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī, (Pashto :اختيار الدين محمد بختيار غلزۍ, fa, اختیارالدین محمد بختیار خلجی, bn, ইখতিয়ারউদ্দীন মুহম্মদ � ...

, Ghurid general in India under Qutb-ud-din Aibak *

Bakhtiyar Kaki ''Quṭb al-Aqṭāb'' Khwājā Sayyid Muḥammad Bakhtiyār al-Ḥusaynī, Quṭb al-Dīn Bakhtiyār Kākī ( ur, ) (born 1173 – died 1235) was a Muslim Sufism, Sufi mystic, saint and scholar of the Chishti Order from Delhi, India. He w ...

, a 13th-century Sufi *

Bakhtiyar Artayev Bakhtiyar Garifollauly Artayev ( kk, Бақтияр Ғарифоллаұлы Артаев, ''Baqtiiar Ğarifollaūly Artaev''; born 14 March 1983) is a Kazakh amateur boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He w ...

, a Kazakh boxer *

Bakhtiyar Akhmedov Bakhtiyar Shakhabutdinovich Akhmedov (russian: Бахтияр Шахабутдинович Ахмедов, kum, Ахмедланы Багьтияр Шагьабутдинны уланы; born 5 August 1987 in Buynaksk, Dagestan) is a Russian wre ...

, a Russian wrestler *

Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh Bakhtiyar Mahmud oghlu Vahabzadeh (; August 16, 1925 – February 13, 2009) was an Azerbaijani poet, dramatist, lyricist and translator as well as a college professor and politician. He is often regarded as one of the greatest contemporary ...

, an Azerbaijani poet * Bakhtiyar Musayev, an Azerbaijani footballer *

Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov (russian: Бахтияр Раисович Тузмухамедов; born March 30, 1955) is a Russian international lawyer, who served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda until its closure ...

, Russian international lawyer *

Bakhtiyar Tyleganov Bakhtiyar Kuanyshuly Tolegenov ( kk, Бақтияр Қуанышұлы Төлегенов; born January 5, 1976) is a retired boxer from Kazakhstan, who competed for his native country in the Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg) division at th ...

, a Kazakh boxer *

Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov Bakhtiyar Batyrzhanuly Zaynutdinov ( kk, Бақтияр Батыржанұлы Зайнутдинов, Baqtiiar Batyrjanūly Zainutdinov; born 2 April 1998) is a Kazakh professional footballer who plays for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş and the Kaz ...

, a Kazakh footballer * Baxtiyor Rahimov, an Uzbek Islamist militant *

Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev (born 7 March 1978 in Andijan, USSR (now Uzbekistan) is a former Uzbek football and player. He is currently the manager of Andijan. Career He played the most time of his career for FK Andijan and is considered as one of ...

, an Uzbek football player * Bakhtiyar ibn Abu-Ja'far, an 11th-century local ruler of Semnan (under Ziyarids) * 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, a 10th-century

Buyid The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...

Amir * Bakhtiyar ibn Hasanuya, a 10th-century Hasanuyid Amir * Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel (of Tatar origin) *

Bakhtiar Amin Bakhtiar Amin (born 1959) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician who was the Human Rights Minister in the Iraqi Interim Government from June 2004 to May 2005. Background Amin was born in Kirkuk. He went to university in Sweden and the Sorbonne in Fr ...

, Iraqi Kurdish politician

Bachtiar

* Bachtiar Aly, Indonesian Ambassador for Egypt from 2002–2005 * Bachtiar Chamsyah, Indonesian politician *

Bachtiar Effendi Bachtiar Effendi (also spelled Bachtiar Effendy; after 1903 – 1 April 1976) was an Indonesian film actor and director who also served as a cultural critic. Beginning his film career in 1930, he made several works for Tan's Film before join ...

, Indonesian film actor and director

Bachtyar

Bachtyar Ali Bachtyar Ali Muhammed (; ckb, بەختیار عەلی; born 1960), is a Kurds, Kurdish novelist, intellectual, literary critic, essayist, and poet. Ali started out as a poet and essayist, but has established himself as an influential novelist ...

, Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual

Surname

* Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar, Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin *

Lailee Bakhtiar Lailee Inez Bakhtiar (née McNair, formerly van Dillen; born June 10, 1951), is an American poet and novelist. Published in 2021, ''Esther Entering Your Destiny'' is the author's new non-fiction book about the historical and Biblical figure of ''E ...

, American author and critic *

Laleh Bakhtiar Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (born Mary Nell Bakhtiar; July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and clinical psychologist. Bakhtiar was the first American woman to translate the Quran i ...

, Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist *

Rudi Bakhtiar Rudabeh Bakhtiar ( fa, رودابه بختیار, born 21 June 1966), better known as Rudi Bakhtiar, is an Iranian-American journalist and television producer. She is a producer for Reuters in Washington, D.C. She is best known for anchoring '' ...

, Iranian-American newswoman *

Shapour Bakhtiar Shapour Bakhtiar ( fa, شاپور بختیار, ; 26 June 19146 August 1991) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Iran under the Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. In the words of historian Abbas Milani: "more than once in ...

, Iranian politician and

Prime Minister of Iran The Prime Minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century. It began in 1906 during the Qajar dynasty and into the start of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1923 and into the 1979 Iranian Revolution ...

Teymur Bakhtiar Teymur Bakhtiar ( fa, تیمور بختیار; 1914 – 12 August 1970) was an Iranian general and the founder and head of SAVAK from 1956 to 1961 when he was dismissed by the Shah. In 1970, SAVAK agents assassinated him in Iraq. He was an as ...

, Iranian general and head of

Savak SAVAK ( fa, ساواک, abbreviation for ''Sâzemân-e Ettelâ'ât va Amniat-e Kešvar'', ) was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. SAVAK operated from 1957 until prime ...

* Akmal Bakhtiyarov, a Kazakh footballer {{given name, type=both Persian masculine given names Persian-language surnames