Munira ( ar, منيرة, meaning ''luminous'', ''bright'', ''shining'') is a female given name and may refer to: *

Munira A. Basrai Munira Adnan Basrai is an American geneticist researching genome stability and cell cycle regulation in yeast and human cancers. She is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute. Education Basrai received a Ph.D. from the Universi ...

, American geneticist * Munira Fakhro, Bahraini academic *

Mounira El Mahdeya Monirah El-Mahdiyyah (born Zakiyyah Hesin Mansur, ar, منيرة المهدية) was an Egyptian singer born in 1885 (she is said to have come from Zagazig, but other sources say Alexandria); she died in 1965. The singer, better known under the n ...

(born 1885), Egyptian singer *

Munira Khalil Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and department chair at the University of Washington. Early life and education Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and Engli ...

, American chemist *

Munírih Khánum Munírih K͟hánum ( fa, ‎; 1847April 28, 1938) was the wife of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, a prominent figure in the Baháʼí Faith. She was entitled the Holy Mother. Her memoirs, first published in 1924, are regarded as one of the first published memo ...

(1847 – 1938), prominent Bahá'í * Munira Mirza (born 1978), British political adviser *

Munira Mosli Munira Ahmed Muhammad Mosli ( ar, منيرة موصلي) (July 1954 – January 2019) was a Saudi Arabian plastic works artist and painter. She worked with the materials copper, natural dyes, palm tree fibre, plants, paper, papyrus, oysters and e ...

(1954–2019), Saudi Arabian plastic arts worker and painter * Munira al-Qubaysi (born 1933), Syrian Sufi *

Monira Rahman Monira Rahman is a Bangladeshi human rights activist. She was born in 1965 in Jessore, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). Due to her movement, acid and petrol attacks on women in Bangladesh has reduced by 40 fold. She has changed laws. She h ...

(born 1966), Bangladeshi activist * Munira Wilson (born 1978), British politician

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