Jafar ( ar, جَعْفَر), meaning in Arabic "small

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...

/rivulet/creek", is a masculine

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given name, common among Muslims especially

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It may also be transliterated Jafar, Jaffar, Jafer, Jaffer, Jafur or, in Egyptian Arabic pronunciation, Gafar. The

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spelling of the name is Cafer, the Azerbaijani Cəfər, the

Bosniak The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, cu ...

Džafer and the

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Xhafer.

Historical persons

Ja'far ibn Abi Talib Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, جعفر بن أبي طالب September 629), also known as Jaʿfar al-Ṭayyār ( ar, جعفر الطيّار, lit=Ja'far the Flyer) was a companion and cousin of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and an older brot ...

(died 629), companion of

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

, older brother of

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

* Jafar ibn Ali, son of Ali and Umm ul-Banin *

Ja'far al-Sadiq Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣādiq ( ar, جعفر بن محمد الصادق; 702 – 765 CE), commonly known as Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (), was an 8th-century Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian.. He was the founder of th ...

(702–765), descendant of Ali, sixth imam of Shia Islam *

Ja'far ibn Yahya Jafar ibn Yahya Barmaki, Jafar al-Barmaki ( fa, جعفر بن یحیی برمکی, ar, جعفر بن يحيى, Jafar bin yaḥyā) (767–803) also called Aba-Fadl, was a Persian vizier of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, succeeding his father ...

(767–803), one of the

Barmakids The Barmakids ( fa, برمکیان ''Barmakiyân''; ar, البرامكة ''al-Barāmikah''Harold Bailey, 1943. "Iranica" BSOAS 11: p. 2. India - Department of Archaeology, and V. S. Mirashi (ed.), ''Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era'' vol ...

, vizier of Caliph

Harun al-Rashid Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi ( ar , أبو جعفر هارون ابن محمد المهدي) or Harun ibn al-Mahdi (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid ( ar, هَارُون الرَشِيد, translit=Hārūn ...

* Ja'far al-Mutawakkil (822–861), the tenth Abbasid caliph * Abu Ma'shar Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Balkhi (787–886), Persian scholar *

Mir Jafar Sayyid Mīr Jaʿfar ʿAlī Khān Bahādur ( – 5 February 1765) was a military general who became the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expan ...

(1691–1765), military commander who betrayed the

Nawab of Bengal The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...

Siraj ud-Daulah Mirza Muhammad Siraj-ud-Daulah ( fa, ; 1733 – 2 July 1757), commonly known as Siraj-ud-Daulah or Siraj ud-Daula, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The end of his reign marked the start of the rule of the East India Company over Beng ...

* Mir Jafar Dasni (died 841), a rebel, who rebelled against Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim *

Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman ( ar, جعفر بن منصور اليمن) was an Isma'ili missionary () and theological writer of the 10th century. Originally born and raised in Yemen, where his father Ibn Hawshab had established the Isma'ili in the ...

(fl. 10th century), Ismaili theologian * Ja'far ibn Fallah (died 971),

Kutama The Kutama ( Berber: ''Ikutamen''; ar, كتامة) was a Berber tribe in northern Algeria classified among the Berber confederation of the Bavares. The Kutama are attested much earlier, in the form ''Koidamousii'' by the Greek geographer Ptolemy. ...

Berber Berber or Berbers may refer to: Ethnic group * Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa * Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages Places * Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile People with the surname * Ady Berber (1913–196 ...

general of the Fatimids *

Ja'far ibn al-Furat Abu'l-Fadl Ja'far ibn al-Fadl ibn al-Furat (; 1001), also called Ibn Hinzaba, like his father before him, was a member of the bureaucratic Banu'l-Furat family from Iraq. A highly educated man renowned for his strict piety and knowledge of traditio ...

(921–1001),

Ikhshidid The Ikhshidid dynasty (, ) was a Turkic mamluk dynasty who ruled Egypt and the Levant from 935 to 969. Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, a Turkic mamluk soldier, was appointed governor by the Abbasid Caliph al-Radi. The dynasty carried the Arabic ti ...

and

Fatimid The Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Fatimids, a dy ...

vizier *

Jafar ibn Ali al-Hadi Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī al-Hādī ()( 226-271 A.H., Common Era, CE – CE), also Defamation, known as Ja'far al-Kadhāb () in Twelver Shi'ism, was the third son of the tenth Shi'a Imam, Ali al-Hadi. He claimed to be an Imam and estab ...

(c.840-c.885), son of the tenth imam of Twelver Shia Islam, Ali al-Hadi,anda founder of the Ja'fariyya sect *

Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Hasani Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Hasani was Sharif of Mecca from the late 960s to the early 970s, and the first Emir belonging to the Musawid dynasty. He was a Hasanid, descendant of the ninth generation from Hasan ibn Ali. According to Ibn Kh ...

(died 876/7), first

Sharif of Mecca The Sharif of Mecca ( ar, شريف مكة, Sharīf Makkah) or Hejaz ( ar, شريف الحجاز, Sharīf al-Ḥijāz, links=no) was the title of the leader of the Sharifate of Mecca, traditional steward of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina and ...

* Ja'far al-Mufawwid, Abbasid prince and heir-apparent of Caliph al-Mu'tamid * Ja'far al-Muqtadir (895-832), the eighteenth Abbasid caliph *

Ja'far ibn Sa'id Ja‘far ibn Sa‘īd ibn Sa‘d ( ar, جعفر بن سعيد بن سعد; d. 1764/1765) was a sharif of the Zayd clan who served as Sharif and Emir of Mecca in August–September 1759. In May 1759 Çeteci Abdullah Pasha, Vali of Damascus and Em ...

(died 1764/5), Sharif of Mecca * Jafar Khan (died 1789), King of Persia

Modern persons

Given name

Jafar

Jafar Alam Jafar Alam is a Bangladeshi politician and the incumbent Member of Bangladesh Parliament from Cox's Bazar-1. Career Alam was elected to Parliament from Cox's Bazar Cox's Bazar (; bn, কক্সবাজার, Kôksbajar; ) is a city ...

, Bangladeshi politician and Member of Parliament * Jafar Alizadeh (born 1956), Iranian wrestler * Jafar Arias (born 1995), Curaçaoan footballer *

Jafar al-Askari Ja'far Pasha al-Askari ( ar, جعفر العسكري; 15 September 1885 – 29 October 1936) served twice as prime minister of Iraq: from 22 November 1923 to 3 August 1924; and from 21 November 1926 to 31 December 1927. Al-Askari served in th ...

(1887–1936), prime minister of Iraq * Jafar Bazri, (born 1987), Iranian footballer * Jafar Bolhari (born 1948), Iranian psychiatrist * Jafar Ebrahimi, Iranian poet *

Jafar al-Hakim Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim (born 1965) is a high-ranking Shiite Ayatollah in Najaf, Iraq. Biography Family Tree Sayyid Jafar al-Hakim is a member of the well known and highly respected Hakim Family of Shiite scholars. Early life Sayyid Jafar al-Ha ...

(born 1965), Shiite Ayatollah in Najaf, Iraq *

Jafar Iqbal Jafar Iqbal ( bn, জাফর ইকবাল; born 27 September 1999) is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who can play on either wings preferably on the left. He currently plays for Dhaka Mohamedan Sporting in the Bangladesh Football Premi ...

, Bangladeshi footballer *

Jafar Irismetov Jafar Irismetov (russian: Джафар Ирисметов) (born 23 August 1976) is a former Uzbekistan footballer and coach. Playing career On 29 December 2012 IFFHS published list of ''The World's most successful Top Division Goal Scorer amon ...

(born 1976), Uzbekistan footballer and coach *

Jafar Jabbarli Jafar Gafar oglu Jabbarly, ( az, Cəfər Qafar oğlu Cabbarlı, 20 March 1899, Khizi – 31 December 1934, Baku) was an Azerbaijani playwright, poet, director and screenwriter. Life After his father's death in 1902, Jabbarli's mother moved to Ba ...

(1899–1934), Azerbaijani playwright, poet, director and screenwriter * Jafar Dhia Jafar (born 1943), Iraqi nuclear physicist * Jafar Khan Jamali (1911–1967), Indian politician, tribal chief and an All-India Muslim League veteran from Balochistan * Jafar Kazemi, Iranian political prisoner sentenced to death and hanged for co-operation with the Iranian opposition group PMOI * Jafar Khan (died 1789), shah of Persia (1785–1789) * Jafar Mokhtarifar, Iranian footballer * Jafar Mondal (born 1999), Indian footballer *

Jafar Panahi Jafar Panâhi ( fa, جعفر پناهی, ; born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an ass ...

(born 1960), Iranian filmmaker * Jafar Salmasi (1918–2000), Iranian weightlifter * Jafar Shafaghat (c.1915–2000), Iranian General officer in the Iranian Pahlavi Army *

Jafar Shahidi , image = Dr Seyed Jafar Shahidi (01).png , image caption = , birth_name = , birth_date = March 21, 1919 , birth_place = Borujerd, Iran , death_date = , death_place = Tehran, Iran , occupation = Distinguished prof ...

(1918–2008), scholar of Persian language and literature and historian of Islam *

Jafar Sharif-Emami Jafar Sharif-Imami ( fa, جعفر شریف‌امامی; 17 June 1912 – 16 June 1998) was an Iranian politician who was prime minister from 1960 to 1961 and again in 1978. He was a cabinet minister, president of the Iranian Senate, president ...

(1910–1998), Prime minister of Iran *

Jafar Shojouni Jafar Shojouni ( fa, جعفر شجونی) was an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who served a member of the Parliament of Iran from 1980 to 1984, representing Karaj. He was a member of Islamic Coalition Party’s Central Council, as ...

, Iranian Shia cleric and politician who served a member of the Parliament of Iran *

Jafar Tabrizi Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī Tabrizi (also known as Farīd al-Dīn and Qeblat al-Kottāb) was a renowned master in calligraphy as well as a poet and scribe in the 15th century. He was noted for being competent in Nastaʿlīq as well as other six classical sc ...

(also known as Farīd al-Dīn and Qeblat al-Kottāb), 15th century master in calligraphy as well as a poet and scribe * Jafar Umar Thalib (1961–2019), Indonesian ulama and Islamic political figure *

Jafar Towfighi Jafar Towfighi (born 19 March 1956) is an Iranian chemical engineer, academic, politician and senior consultant of the ministry of science, research and technology who served as minister of science, research and technology for two terms. First i ...

(born 1956), Iranian engineer and politician * Jafar Zafarani (born 1947), Iranian mathematician

Ja'far

* Ja'far Kashfi, Persian philosopher of 19th century *

Ja'far Pishevari Sayyed Ja'far Pishevari ( fa, سید جعفر پیشه‌وری; 26 ( Azerbaijani: سید جعفر پیشهوری ) August, 1892 – 11 June, 1947) was an Iranian Azerbaijani communist politician who most-notably founded and led the Azerbai ...

(1893-1947), Iranian politician * Ja'afar Touqan (born 1938), Palestinian-Jordanian architect * Tuanku Ja’afar, the tenth

Yang di-Pertuan Agong The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply as the Agong, and unofficially as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The of ...

(King) of

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from 26 April 1994 until 25 April 1999 and the tenth

Yang Di-Pertuan Besar In Malay, Yang di-Pertuan Besar, literally ''"He Who Is Made Chief Ruler"'', is a title given to the head of state in segments of the Malay Archipelago. In Malaysia # Also known as Yamtuan Besar, it is the title of the elected monarch of the stat ...

(Ruler) of

Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan (, Negeri Sembilan Malay: ''Nogoghi Sombilan'', ''Nismilan'') is a state in Malaysia which lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the s ...

Jaffar

Jaffar Idukki Jaffar Idukki is an Indian actor, impressionist, and comedian, who predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema. Started his career with the 2007 film ''Kaiyoppu'', he has acted in about hundred films and has performed in a number of comedy sta ...

, Indian impressionist and actor in Malayalam film *

Jaffer Zaidi Jaffer Zaidi ( ur, ) is a Pakistani musician, singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of semiclassical band Kaavish. Propelled to success with the release of three singles "Bachpan", "Choti Khushiyaan", "T ...

, Pakistani musician and lead vocalist of the Pakistani band Kaavish

Jaffer

* Jaffer Rahimtoola (1870-1914), Indian barrister

Cafer

* Cafer Bater, Turkish politician *

Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez (1877 – January 3, 1958) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army The Turkish Land Forces ( tr, Türk Kara Kuvvetleri), or Turkish Army (Turkish: ), is the main branch of the Turkish Armed ...

, Turkish politician Džafer *

Džafer Kulenović Dr. Džafer Kulenović (17 February 1891 – 3 October 1956), often referred to as Džafer- beg Kulenović, was a Bosnian Muslim and Yugoslav politician who led the Yugoslav Muslim Organization in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was briefly Min ...

(1891–1956), Yugoslav politician who led the Yugoslav Muslim Organization in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was briefly government minister

Gaafar

Gaafar Nimeiry Jaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry (otherwise spelled in English as Jaafar Nimeiry, Gaafar Nimeiry or Ja'far Muhammad Numayri; ar, جعفر محمد النميري; 26 April 192830 May 2009) was a Sudanese politician who served as the president of Sud ...

(1930-2009), President of Sudan

Xhafer

Xhafer Bej Ypi Xhafer bey Ypi ( January 12, 1880, Starje – December 17, 1940) was an Albanian politician. A member of the Ypi dynasty of Albania, he was educated at a university in Istanbul. In 1920–1921 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister o ...

(1880–1940), Albanian politician *

Xhafer Deva Xhafer Deva (21 February 1904 – 25 May 1978) was a Kosovo Albanian politician during World War II. A notable local politician in Kosovo and in Axis-occupied Albania, he took charge of German-occupied Mitrovica and worked with the Germans ...

(1904–1978), Kosovo Albanian politician *

Xhafer Spahiu Xhafer Spahiu (June 5, 1923 – May 19, 1999) was a former Albanian politician of the Albanian Party of Labour (PPSh). He was the only Kosovar Albanian of the higher ranks of the Communist Albania leadership after 1948. Life Spahiu was born in Gj ...

(born 1923), Albanian politician

Middle name

Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (18 February 1927 – 4 January 2017) was an Indian sitar player. Khan received the national awards Padma Shri (1970) and Padma Bhushan (2006) and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1987. Early life Abdul Hali ...

(1927–2017), Indian sitar player *

C. K. Jaffer Sharief Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief (3 November 1933 – 25 November 2018) was an Indian politician. He was one of the senior most Indian National Congress leaders. He was the Railways Minister of the Government of India from 1991 until 1995. Po ...

or Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief (1933–2018), Indian politician *

Mir Jafar Baghirov Mir Jafar Abbas oghlu Baghirov ( az, Мирҹәфәр Аббас оғлу Бағыров, italic=no, Mircəfər Abbas oğlu Bağırov, russian: Мир Джафар Аббасович Багиров; 17 September 1896 – 7 May 1956) was the comm ...

(1896–1956), Azerbaijani communist leader under the Soviet rule * Akif Jafar Hajiyev (1937–2015), Azerbaijani mathematician *

Mufti Jafar Hussain Mufti Jafar Hussan ( ur, مفتی جعفر حسین; 1914 - 29 August 1983) was an Indian, then Pakistani, Shia Islamic scholar. Life His father Hakeem Charagh Deen took his son to his uncle Hakeem Shahab-ul-deen to teach his son the basics o ...

, Pakistani Shia mujtahid and political leader * Seyyed Jafar Kashfi, Iranian calligrapher *

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati Mohammad Jafar Mahallati is an Iranian scholar of Islamic studies and a former diplomat. He is currently serving as the Nancy Schrom Dye Chair in Middle East and North African Studies at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He was Iran's ambassador ...

, Iranian scholar of Islamic studies and a former diplomat *

Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub Dr. Mohammad Jafar Mahjoub ( fa, محمدجعفر محجوب) (23 August 1924 – 17 February 1996) was a prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator and teacher. Life Dr. Mahjoub was born in Tehran in 1924 and gradu ...

(1924-1996), Iranian scholar of Persian literature, essayist, translator and teacher *

Mohammad Jafar Montazeri Mohammad Jafar Montazeri ( fa, محمدجعفر منتظری; born 1949 in Qom) is an Iranian cleric and judge and the current attorney-general of Iran since 1 April 2016. He was previously head of Iran's Administrative Justice Court and Specia ...

(born 1949), Iranian cleric and judge and the current Attorney-General of Iran * Mohammad Jafar Moradi (born 1990), Iranian long distance runner *

Sayed Jafar Naderi Sayed Jafar Naderi (born 1965) is an ethnic Hazara- Ismaili who controlled Baghlan Province of Afghanistan during the early 1990s.Mustafa Jaffer Sabodo, Tanzanian economist, consultant and businessman * Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi (born 1947), Persian writer, literary critic, editor and translator

Surname or patronymic

Jafar * Adnan Jafar (born 1949), Iraqi footballer *

Badr Jafar Badr Jafar (Arabic: بدر حميد جعفر‎) is an Emirati businessperson and philanthropist. Overview He is the Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Enterprises, a conglomerate headquartered in the United Arab Emirates with operations in ...

(born 1979), Emirati business executive * Jafar Dhia Jafar (born 1943), Iraqi nuclear physicist * Majid Jafar (born 1976), UAE businessman *

Mustapha Ben Jafar Mustapha Ben Jafar ( ar, مصطفى بن جعفر) (born 8 December 1940) is a Tunisian politician and medical doctor who was Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia from November 2011 to December 2014. He founded and has led the Democratic ...

(born 1940), Tunisian politician and doctor * Syed Jafar, Indian-American electrical engineer and computer scientist Jaafar *

Onn Jaafar {{Table Oghamletters Onn is the Irish name of the seventeenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, ᚑ, meaning "ash-tree", which is related to Welsh ''onn(en)'', from the root was *''ōs-, *osen'' 'ash'. Its phonetic value is The letter's Bríatharog ...

(1895–1962), Malay politician and a Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Johor in Malaysia, then Malaya *

Raja Jaafar Raja Ja'afar ibni Almarhum Raja Muda Musa is the Raja Muda (crown prince) of Perak Darul Ridzuan since 20 June 2014. Early life and education He was born on 26 September 1941 at Taiping Hospital, Taiping, in then Federated Malay States. Raja ...

Raja Muda (crown prince) of Perak Darul Ridzuan Jaffar *

Said Mohamed Jaffar Prince Said Mohamed Jaffar ( ar, سعيد محمد جعفر), full name Said Mohamed Jaffar El Amjad, (born April 14, 1918 in Comoros, and died October 22, 1993) was the 2nd President of Comoros ''(État comorien)'' from August 1975 until January ...

(1918–1993), president of the State of Comoros Jaffer *

Armaan Jaffer Armaan Jaffer (born 25 October 1998) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Mumbai cricket team. He made news when he broke schools cricket record by scoring 498 for Rizvi Springfield School against IES Raja Shivaji School in the Giles Shield ...

(born 1998), Indian cricketer *

Jameel Jaffer Jameel Jaffer is a human rights and civil liberties attorney and the inaugural director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which was created to defend the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age. The Inst ...

, Canadian human rights and civil liberties attorney *

Melissa Jaffer Melissa Jaffer (born 1 December 1936) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her stage and television roles, but has also appeared in many films. Career Jaffer started her career in theatre productions in the mid 1950s has made many a ...

(born 1936), Australian actress *

Mobina Jaffer Mobina S. B. Jaffer (born August 20, 1949) is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia. Early life and career Born to a Pakistani family living in Africa, Jaffer was educated in England and Canada. She earned a law degree from the Unive ...

(born 1949), Canadian Senator * Mulla Asgarali Jaffer, leader of the Khoja Shia Athnā‘ashariyyah Community * Murtz Jaffer, Canadian celebrity journalist *

Rahim Jaffer Rahim Nizar Jaffer ( ur, رحيم جعفر; born December 15, 1971) is a former Canadian politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2008, representing the Alberta riding of Edmonton—Strathcona as a member of the Con ...

(born 1971), Canadian politician *

Sadaf Jaffer Sadaf F. Jaffer (born February 19, 1983) is an American scholar and elected official who has represented the 16th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since taking office on January 11, 2022. She is a postdoctoral research as ...

(born 1983), American politician and scholar * Sayed Mohammed Jaffer (born 1985), Bahraini footballer *

Wasim Jaffer Wasim Jaffer (born 16 February 1978) is an Indian retired professional cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off-break bowler. He is currently the highest run-scorer in Ranji Trophy cricket, surpassing Am ...

(born 1978), Indian cricketer Džaferović *

Vanja Džaferović Vanja Džaferović (born 19 March 1983) is a Croatian actor, TV personality and former footballer. Early life Džaferović was born in Bosanski Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and moved with his family in his childhood to Croatia due to the Bos ...

(born 1983), Croat-Bosnian footballer Gaafar * Ahmed Gaafar (born 1985), Egyptian footballer * Farouk Gaafar (born 1952), Egyptian footballer * Mostafa Gaafar (born 1981), Egyptian footballer

Derived names

; Umm Ja'far *

Zubaidah bint Ja'far Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur () (died 26 Jumada I 216 AH / 10 July 831 CE) was the best known of the Abbasid princesses, and the wife and double cousin of Harun al-Rashid. She is particularly remembered for the series of wells, reservoirs ...

, (died 831) also known as ''Umm Ja'far'' was an Arab

Abbasid The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib ...

princess, wife of caliph

(r. 786–809) and mother of caliph

al-Amin Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid ( ar, أبو موسى محمد بن هارون الرشيد, Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd; April 787 – 24/25 September 813), better known by his laqab of Al-Amin ( ar, الأمين, al-Amī ...

( r. 809–813) * Umm Ja'far Shuja, (died 861) was the mother of Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil *

Shaghab Shaghab () (died 933) was the mother of the eighteenth Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir (), and wielded a considerable influence over state affairs during the reign of her son. She was commonly referred to only as Umm al-Muqtadir (mother of al-Muqtadir) ...

, (died 933) also known as Umm Ja'far was the mother of 10th-century Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir

Fictional characters

*Jaffar, a character in ''The Thief of Bagdad'' (1940 film) **

Jafar (Disney) Jafar is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Walt Disney Pictures' 31st animated feature film ''Aladdin'' (1992). He is voiced by American actor Jonathan Freeman, who also portrayed the character in the Broadway musical adaptatio ...

, the main antagonist (inspired by the character in ''The Thief of Bagdad'') in the 1992 Disney animated film ''Aladdin'', its first sequel, ''The Return of Jafar'', and its 2019 live-action remake ***Jafar, one of the primary antagonists in '' Once Upon a Time in Wonderland'', based on the ''Aladdin'' character ***Ja'far, the main protagonist in the musical ''Twisted'', based on the ''Aladdin'' character **Jaffar, a character in ''

Prince of Persia ''Prince of Persia'' is a video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner. It is built around a series of action-adventure games focused on various incarnations of the eponymous Prince, set in ancient and medieval Persia. The first two games i ...

'', inspired by the character in ''The Thief of Bagdad'' *Jaffar, a character in the video game '' Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade'' *Ja'far, a character in the manga '' Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic'' *Zafar, a character in the television show

Aladdin - Naam Toh Suna Hoga Aladdin ( ; ar, علاء الدين, ', , ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'' (''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of ...

inspired from the character of the grand vizir in Disney's ''Aladdin''

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