Matar may refer to:
People
Given name
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Matar Coly (born 1984), Senegalese footballer
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Matar Fall
Matar Fall, also known as Martin Fall (born March 18, 1982 in Toulon, France) is a French professional football player currently playing in French league CFA 2 for Sporting Toulon Var
Sporting Club Toulon is a football club from Toulon, Fra ...
(born 1982), French-born Senegalese football
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Matar Sène (born 1970), retired Senegalese freestyle wrestler
Surname
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Agapius II Matar (1736–1812), Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1796 to 1812
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Ahmad Abu Matar (born 1944), Palestinian academic and writer
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Ahmed Matar
Ahmed Matar (Arabic أحمد مطر, born 1954) is a revolutionary Iraqi poet who has been living in exile for decades, most recently in London.
His poetry is very critical of dictatorial Arab rulers, especially the Iraqi rulers, the lack of fr ...
(born 1954), Iraqi poet
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Athanasius V Matar, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1813
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Ghiath Matar (died 2011), Syrian activist
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Hadi Matar (born 1998), suspect of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie
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Hisham Matar (born 1970), American and Libyan author
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Ismail Matar (born 1983), footballer from the United Arab Emirates
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Joseph Matar (born 1935), Lebanese painter and poet
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Maryam Matar
Maryam Mohamed Fatma Matar (, born 1975) is an Emirati geneticist, medical researcher, and radio host, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Matar is the first woman to serve as director-general in the government of Dubai, and is the founder an ...
(born 1975),
Emirati geneticist and medical researcher
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Matar Matar
Matar Ebrahim Ali Matar (also spelled Mattar Mattar; ar, مطر إبراهيم علي مطر; born 3 May 1976) is a Bahraini politician of the Al Wefaq party who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from October 2010 until his resignation in e ...
(born 1976), Bahraini politician of the Al Wefaq party
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Muhammad Afifi Matar
Muhammad Afifi Matar ( ar, محمد عفيفي مطر; 1935 – 28 June 2010), was an Egyptian poet. He was born in the village of Ramalat al-Anjab in the Menoufia region of the Nile Delta. He went to school in Menouf and afterwards moved to Cairo ...
(1935–2010), Egyptian poet
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Nader Matar
Nader Charbel Matar ( ar, نادر شربل مطر, ; born 12 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ansar and the Lebanon national team.
Matar began his senior career in 2008 in Portugal, playing for Sport ...
(born 1992), Lebanese footballer
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Nadia Matar
Nadia Matar (Pikovitch) () (born February 16, 1966 in Antwerp, Belgium, into a non-religious Jewish family) is a right wing activist in Israel. A Yavneh Olami youth leader, she performed aliyah (immigrated) alone at the age of 18 in 1984, while ...
(born 1966), Belgian-born Israeli activist
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Paul Youssef Matar
Paul Youssef Matar (born 1 February 1941 in Naameh, Lebanon) was the former Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut. The archeparchial seat is the city of Beirut, at the Saint George Cathedral.
Life
Paul Youssef Matar was bor ...
(born 1941), current Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut
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Salim Matar, Iraqi nationalist and novelist
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Selim Matar (born 1956), Swiss writer, novelist and sociologist of Iraqi descent
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Yasser Matar
Yasser Matar (Arabic:ياسر مطر) (born 20 September 1985) is a retired Emirati footballer who played as midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, b ...
(born 1985), Emirati footballer.
Other uses
* Matar, another name for the star
Eta Pegasi
Eta Pegasi or η Pegasi, formally named Matar , is a binary star in the constellation of Pegasus. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +2.95, making it the fifth-brightest member of Pegasus. Based upon parallax measurements, th ...
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USS ''Matar'', Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II
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Matar, Kheda
Matar is a large village in Kheda district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The headquarters of the Matar taluka, in the 2011 census it had a population of 15,284.
It was earlier known as ''Matbar,'' meaning a wealthy or prosperous village. This ...
, a village in Gujarat, India
See also
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Mattar, a surname
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