Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons
Given name
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Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
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Tamer Ashor
Tamer Ashour ( ar, تامر عاشور; also spelt Tamer Ashour or Tamer Ashur, born 2 January 1984) is an Egyptian singer and composer. From 2004 to 2011 he released more than 17 songs and 4 albums. Some of his better-known songs include "Zik ...
(born 1984), Egyptian singer and composer
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Tamer Balci Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons Given name
* Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
* Tamer ...
(1917–1993), Turkish actor
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Tamer Basar, Turkish control theorist
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Tamer Başoğlu
Tamer Başoğlu (born 1938) is a Turkish sculptor.
He was born in 1938 in Nazilli.
Higher education
In 1960 he graduated from the sculpture department of the Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy. With a state scholarship he went to Italy. In 1964 ...
, (born 1938) Turkish sculptor
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Tamer Bayoumi
Tamer Salah Ali Abdu Bayoumi (Arabic Language, Arabic:) (born 12 April 1982) is an Egyptian taekwondo athlete who won a bronze medal in the 58 kg weight class at the Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics after d ...
, Egyptian taekwondo player and Olympian
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Tamer El Said, Egyptian film director, producer, and writer
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Tamer El-Sawy, Egyptian tennis player
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Tamer Fernandes (born 1974), English football player
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Tamer Hamed (born 1974), Egyptian swimmer and Olympian
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Tamer Hassan, English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent
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Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter
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Tamer Karadağlı
Tamer Karadağlı (born 24 May 1967) is a Turkish actor.
Biography
Tamer Karadağlı's family was of Azerbaijanis origin and moved to America a short time after he was born. They returned to Turkey just as he began primary school there. He stud ...
, Turkish actor
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Tamer Moustafa
Tamer Moustafa (born July 5, 1982) is an Egyptian basketball player currently playing for El Geish of the Egyptian Super League. He is a member of the Egypt national basketball team.
Moustafa participated with the Egypt national basketball team a ...
(born 1982), Egyptian basketball player
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Tamer Nafar
Tamer Nafar ( ar, تامر النفار, he, תאמר נפאר; born June 6, 1979) is an Israeli rapper, actor, screenwriter and social activist who identifies as Palestinian. He is the leader and a founding member of DAM, the first Palestini ...
, Arab Israeli rap artist
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Tamer Oyguç, Turkish professional basketball player
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Tamer Peker Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons Given name
* Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
* Tamer ...
(born 1970), Turkish operatic baritone
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Tamer Şahin (born 1981), Turkish hacker
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Tamer Mohamed Tahoun
Tamer Tahoun (born 1 January 1977, Cairo) is an Egyptian foil fencer and one of the head coaches at Star Fencing Academy near Boston, MA.
He was the Egyptian Senior National Champion for 10 years from 1999 to 2008, 5 times African individual g ...
(born 1977), Egyptian fencer
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Tamer Seckin
Tamer Seckin (), MD, FACOG, is a New York City-based gynecologist, laparoscopic surgeon, and specialist in endometriosis. He founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EFA) with Padma Lakshmi in 2009.
Early life and education
Seckin was bo ...
, American gynecologist and laparoscopic surgeon
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Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1976)
Tamer Tuna (born 1 July 1976 in Hanak) is a Turkish football coach and a former player. Currently he is the head coach of Turkish club Bursaspor.
Career
Honours Player honours
;Beşiktaş
*Süper Lig (1): 2002–03
Managerial honours
;Dardane ...
, Turkish football player and coach
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Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991)
Tamer Hakan Tuna (; born 19 October 1991 in England) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently a free agent after a short spell at Kent League side Erith Town.
Career
Tuna, who went to Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar Sc ...
, Turkish football player
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Tamer Yiğit
Tamer Yiğit (born Tamer Özyiğitoğlu in 1942 in Balıkesir) is a Turkish actor. He starred as Ertuğrul Gazi in the history based and adventure series '' Kuruluş: Osman'' (2019). Throughout his acting career Yiğit has been a recipient o ...
(born Tamer Özyiğitoğlu in 1942), Turkish actor
Family name
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Chris Tamer (born 1970), American ice hockey player
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Georges Tamer Georges Nicolas Tamer holds the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Until September 2012, he was professor of Arabic and Islamic studies and the holder of the M.S. Sofia Chair in ...
, professor of philology and Arabic and Islamic studies
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Kandy Tamer
Kandy Tamer is a former Lebanon international rugby league footballer who represented Lebanon at the 2000 World Cup, playing in three matches.
Background
Tamer was born in Tripoli, Lebanon
Playing career
Tamer played one match for the Easter ...
, Australian-born rugby league player of Lebanese origin
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Tony Tamer
Anthony Aouni Tamer (born October 12, 1957) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $48 billion of equity capital under management. ...
, American businessman, founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
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Zakaria Tamer (born 1931), Syrian short story writer
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Michel Temer, or Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, Brazilian politician of Lebanese descent, President of Brazil
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Taleedah Tamer, Saudi Arabian fashion model
Places
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Tamer, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
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Tamer, Golestan
Tamer-e Qarah Quzi ( fa, تمرقره قوزي, also Romanized as Tamer-e Qarah Qūzī; also known as Tamer) is a village in Tamran Rural District, in the Central District of Kalaleh County, Golestan Province, Iran
Iran, officially ...
, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
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Tamer, Yazd
Tamehr ( fa, طامهر, also Romanized as Ţāmehr; also known as Tāmar and Tamer) is a village in Allahabad Rural District, Zarach District, Yazd County, Yazd Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a ...
, a village in Yazd Province, Iran
* Tamer,
Btaaboura Btaaboura ( ar, بتعبورا) is a village in Koura District of Lebanon. The population is Greek Orthodox. A church is being constructed as of June 2011, it is dedicated to St. Elias.
In 1997 and on 21 November 2011, Michel Temer, then Vice Pre ...
, a village in Koura, Lebanon
Other uses
* A person involved with
lion taming
Lion taming is the taming and training of lions, either for protection or for use in entertainment, such as the circus. The term often applies to the taming and display of lions and other big cats such as tigers, leopards, jaguars, black panthe ...
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Tamer II
''Tamer II'', a custom sailing yacht was built by Jongert in Medemblik, the Netherlands. The ship was delivered in 1986 and last refitted in 2015. Peter Sijm designed the exterior and interior. Naval architect was Doug Peterson.
''Tamer II'' of ...
, custom sail yacht
* TAMER, abbreviation for Training an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement, framework for transferring knowledge from human experts to automated AI agents.
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Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestinian educational organization
See also
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