Nazir or Nazeer is both a given name and a surname. Occurrences of the name include:
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Nazeer Abbasi (died 1989), Sindhi political activist
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Nazeer Akbarabadi
Nazeer Akbarabadi (born Wali Muhammad; 1735 – 1830) was an 18th-century Indian poet known as "Father of Nazm", who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under the pen name (takhallus) "Nazeer", most remembered for his poems like '' Banjaranama'' ...
, 18th-century Urdu poet
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Nazeer Allie (born 1985), South African footballer
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Nazeer Naji, Pakistani journalist
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Nazir Ahmed (disambiguation)
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Nazir Afzal
Nazir Afzal (born October 1962, Birmingham) is a British solicitor and former prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service.
Afzal spent most of his career in the Crown Prosecution Service, rising to be Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West ...
, (born 1962), British solicitor
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Nazir Jairazbhoy Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy ( hi, नज़ीर अली जैराज़भाई; October 31, 1927 – June 20, 2009) was a professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the founding ...
(1927–2009), professor of music at UCLA
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Nazir Sabir
Nazir Sabir (Urdu: نذیر صابر ) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was born in Hunza. He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world's second highest mountain K2 in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8 ...
, Pakistani mountaineer
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Nazir Dekhaiya (1921-1988), Gujarati poet from India
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Imran Nazir (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer
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Maulvi Nazir
Maulvi Nazir (also Maulvi Nazir Wazir; 1975 – ) was a leading militant of the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan. Nazir's operations were based in Wana.
He was opposed to foreigners exercising influence in Waziristan, including Americans and ...
(1975–2013), Pakistani Taliban leader
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Prem Nazir
Prem Nazir (born Abdul Khader; 7 April 1926 – 16 January 1989) was an Indian actor known as one of Malayalam cinema's definitive leading man, leading men of his generation. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors in the histo ...
(1926–1989), Malayali Indian film actor
* Shaied Nazir (born 1980), convicted of the racially motivated
murder of Ross Parker
Ross Andrew Parker (17 August 198421 September 2001), from Peterborough, England, was a seventeen-year-old white English male murdered in an unprovoked racially motivated crime. He bled to death after being stabbed, beaten with a hammer an ...
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