Nadir is both a surname and a given name that is a variation of

Nader Nader is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin ( ''Nādir'', meaning "rare", "unique") and may refer to: Persons Given name * Nader Shah, former Shah of Iran (Persia) * Nader Ahmadi (born 1986), Iranian football player * Nader ...

. In the Arabic language, it is a boy's name meaning "dear", "scarce" or "precious." (Arabic writing: نادر) Notable people with the name include:

Persons

Given name

Nadir Afonso Nadir Afonso, Order of St. James of the Sword, GOSE (4 December 1920 – 11 December 2013) was a Portuguese Geometric abstract art, geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with L ...

(born 1920), Portuguese painter *

Nadir Belhadj Nadir Belhadj ( ar, نذير بلحاج ; born 18 June 1982) is a professional footballer who plays for Muaither as a left-back. An Algerian international, Belhadj was a former French youth international having played for the French Under-18's ...

(born 1982), footballer *

Nadir Çiftçi Nadir Çiftçi (born 12 February 1992) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a forward for TFF Second League club Karaman FK. In a nomadic career he has played for Portsmouth, Kayserispor, NAC Breda, Dundee United, Celtic, Eskişehir ...

(born 1992), Turkish footballer *

Nadir Godrej Nadir Burjorji Godrej (born 1951) is an Indian chemical engineer, industrialist and member of the Godrej family. He is managing director of Godrej Industries, one of India's biggest businesses, and as chairman of Godrej Agrovet. Background and ...

(born 1951), Indian industrialist * Nadir Kouidri (born 1975), professionally known as Ridan, French singer

Middle name

Mehmet Nadir Ünal Mehmet Nadir Ünal (born 13 January 1993) is a Turkish kickboxer specialized in the K-1 event, and amateur boxer competing in the light heavyweight (-81 kg) division. He is a member of Fenerbahçe Boxing in Istanbul. Ünal was born in ...

(born 1993), Turkish kickboxer and amateur boxer *

Mohammed Nadir Shah Mohammed Nadir Shah (Persian and ps, محمد نادر شاه – born Mohammed Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in November 1933. Previously, he served as Minist ...

(1883–1933), King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933

Surname

Asil Nadir Asil Nadir (born 1 May 1941) is a British Turkish Cypriot businessman, who was chief executive of Polly Peck, which he took over as a small textile company, growing it during the 1980s to become one of the United Kingdom's top 100 FTSE-listed c ...

(born 1941), Turkish Cypriot businessman *

Kerime Nadir Kerime Nadir Azrak (5 February 1917 – 20 March 1984) was a Turkish novelist and author. Life Kerime Nadir was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire on 5 February 1917. Her father was a financial officer Nadir Azrak. She graduated from the French ...

(1917–1984), Turkish writer *

Moyshe Nadir Yitzchak Rayz (1885, Narayiv – 1943, Woodstock), better known by his pen name Moyshe Nadir (Yiddish: משה נאדיר ; also transliterated "Moishe") was an American Yiddish language writer and satirist. Rayz was born in the town of Narayiv, in ...

(1885–1943), American writer and satirist

Fictional character

Zain Nadir ''The Bill'' is a long-running British television police procedural television series, named after a slang term for the police. The characters are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London. Senior ...

, a ''The Bill'' character *

Abed Nadir Abed Gubi Nadir ( ''‘Ābid al-Qūbī Nādir'') is a fictional character on the NBC/Yahoo! Screen sitcom series ''Community'', created by Dan Harmon and portrayed by Danny Pudi. Talkative, literal, and sometimes overly pedantic, Abed is a stu ...

, a ''Community'' character *

Nadir Khan The nadir (, ; ar, نظير, naẓīr, counterpart) is the direction pointing directly ''below'' a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface. The direct ...

, Known as "The Persian" in the

Gaston Leroux Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1 ...

novel ''

The Phantom of the Opera ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierr ...

'', given this name in the 1990 adaptation by Susan Kay, ''

Phantom Phantom may refer to: * Spirit (animating force), the vital principle or animating force within all living things ** Ghost, the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living Aircraft * Boeing Phantom Ray, a stealthy un ...

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