Enver is both a masculine given name and a surname. In Turkish,

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, Bosnian and Crimean Tatar, it is the transliteration of the Arabic name '' Anwar'', which means "luminous". Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Enver Ablaev (born 1979), Uzbek-born Ukrainian freestyle skier * Enver Adrović (born 1969), Montenegrin retired footballer * Enver Ahmed (1909–1992), Indian cartoonist * Enver Alikhanov (1917–1992), Azerbaijani Soviet minister * Enver Alivodić (born 1984), Serbian footballer * Enver Aliyev (1927–2017), Crimean Tatar cotton farmer and Soviet labor hero *

Enver Altaylı Enver Altaylı (born 1944) is a Turkish academic, writer and former secret agent for the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT). Education and early life He was born in Adana in 1944 to a family of Uzbek refugees, and named after Enve ...

(born 1944), Turkish writer, academic and former secret agent * Enver Balkan (1902–1966), Turkish Olympic fencer * Enver Baig (1948-2023), Pakistani politician and member of the Senate of Pakistan * Enver Brandt (born 1991), South African rugby union player * Enver Bukić (1937–2017), Slovenian chess grandmaster * Enver Cenk Şahin (born 1994), Turkish footballer *

Enver Čolaković Enver Čolaković (27 May 1913 – 18 August 1976) was a Bosnian writer, journalist and translator, best known for his 1944 novel ''The Legend of Ali Pasha''. During the later stages of World War II, he served as a cultural attaché to the Indepen ...

(1913–1976), Bosnian writer and poet * Enver Duran (born 1945), Turkish professor and medical doctor *

Enver Erdogan Enver Erdogan is an Australian politician and Victorian Government Minister. He has been a Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since August 2019, representing Southern Metropolitan R ...

, Australian politician * Enver Faja (1934–2011), Albanian architect and diplomat *

Enver Galim Enver Galim (March 15, 1915, Kazan, Russian Empire – March 2, 1988, New York, US), Tatar writer and journalist, was one of the translators of the Bible into the Tatar language. After graduating from the Institute of the Tatar Language and Lit ...

(1915–1988), Tatar writer and journalist *

Enver Gjokaj Enver Leif Gjokaj ( , born February 12, 1980) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Victor in the science fiction television series '' Dollhouse'', Daniel Sousa in '' Agent Carter'' and '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', and Clark Evans ...

(born 1980), Albanian-American film and television actor *

Enver Hadri Enver Hadri (1941 – 25 February 1990) was a Kosovo Albanian human rights activist. According to an Albanian blog AACL, he was assassinated while he stopped at a traffic light in Brussels, by three Yugoslavs working for State Security Admi ...

(1941–1990), Kosovar Albanian human-rights activist *

Enver Hadžiabdić Enver Hadžiabdić (born 6 November 1945) is a Bosnian former football manager and player, best known for playing for and later managing Željezničar. Hadžiabdić is the only person in Željezničar history to have won league titles both as a ...

(born 1945), Bosnian footballer and manager *

Enver Hadžihasanović Enver Hadžihasanović (7 July 1950 – 16 December 2024) was a Bosnian chief of staff of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a convicted war criminal. Biography Hadžihasanović was born in 1950 in Zvornik, at the time par ...

(1950–2024), Yugoslavian and Bosnian military general and convicted war criminal *

Enver Halilović Enver Halilović is a former ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Russia, Russian Federation. See also * Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Moscow References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Ambassadors of Bosn ...

, Bosnian ambassador *

Enver Hasani Enver Hasani was the president of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo . Biography Hasani was born in Mitrovica, Kosovo. He completed his elementary and middle school programs in Mitrovica, while his law studies were completed at the University of ...

, Kosovar Albanian academic *

Enver Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the Secretary (titl ...

(1908–1985), Albanian politician and leader of the

People's Socialist Republic of Albania The People's Socialist Republic of Albania, () was the Marxist-Leninist state that existed in Albania from 10 January 1946 to the 29 April 1991. Originally founded as the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1976, it was governed by the P ...

from 1946 until his death in 1985 *

Enver Hoxhaj Enver Hoxhaj (born 4 October 1969) is a Kosovar politician. He served as minister for foreign affairs of the Republic of Kosovo and a former leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo. Career Hoxhaj served as a professor at the University of ...

(born 1969), Kosovar politician *

Enver Ibërshimi Enver Ibërshimi (born 30 November 1939 in Elbasan) is an Albanian retired football player who was a one club man, having spent the entirely of his career with Labinoti Elbasan between 1960 and 1973. He scored 92 league goals for the club thro ...

(born 1939), Albanian football player * Enver Idrizi (born 1966), Croat-Albanian karateka * Enver Imamović (born 1940), Bosnian archaeologist and historian * Enver İzmaylov (born 1955), Crimean Tatar jazz musician * Enver Jääger (born 1982), Estonian retired footballer * Enver Ziya Karal (1906–1992), Turkish academic * Enver Kazaz (born 1962), Bosnian writer and intellectual * Enver Koso (born 1966), Bosnian handball player * Enver Lisin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey player * Enver Lugušić (born 1961), Bosnian goalkeeper * Enver Maloku (1954–1999), Kosovar Albanian journalist * Enver Mamedov (1923–2023), Soviet diplomat * Enver Marina (born 1977), Kosovan-Albanian footballer *

Enver Marić Enver Marić (born 16 April 1948) is a Bosnian former professional football goalkeeper and retired football manager. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest goalkeepers from the former Yugoslavia of all time. Club career Marić starte ...

(born 1948), Bosnian footballer and coach *

Enver Mujezinović Enver Mujezinović (born in Foča) was a Bosnian intelligence agent. Yugoslav People's Army He was an officer in the JNA's counter-intelligence service KOS. He was one of the KOS generations that were called "academic of his generation". Mujez ...

, former Yugoslav intelligence agent * Enver Murad (1913–1999), Pakistani former diplomat * Enver Ören (1939–2013), Turkish businessman *

Enver Pasha İsmâil Enver (; ; 23 November 1881 – 4 August 1922), better known as Enver Pasha, was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish people, Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and Istanbul trials of 1919–1920, convicted war criminal who was a p ...

(1881–1922), Ottoman statesman, general and politician * Enver Petrovci (born 1954), Kosovar actor * Enver Redžić (1915–2009), Bosnian historian and cultural observer * Enver Sajjad (1935–2019), Pakistani playwright and fiction writer * Enver Šehović (1967–1993), Bosnian army commander * Enver Sekiraqa (born 1972), Kosovar fugitive * Enver Shehu (1934–2009), Albanian footballer and manager * Enver Sherfedinov (1936–2017), Crimean Tatar musician * Enver Soobzokov (born 1978), Jordanian basketball player * Enver Surty (born 1953), South African politician * Enver Yetiker (1875–1955), Turkish educator * Enver Yıldırım (born 1995), Turkish fencer * Enver Yulgushov (1938–2022), Russian footballer and coach * Enver Gortash, fictional character from the video game ''

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Middle name

* Ali Enver Adakan (born 1977), Turkish retired dinghy sailor *

Hasan Enver Pasha Hasan Enver Pasha, (; 1857, Istanbul – 1929, Istanbul) was an Ottoman Turkish general. Personal life He was the son of Mustafa Celalettin Pasha a Polish convert to Islam, who fled to the Ottoman Empire after a failed Polish uprising agains ...

(1857–1929), Ottoman general

Surname

* Ali Enver (1921–1971), Turkish military pilot * Aslı Enver (born 1984), Turkish actress * Mahpeyker Enver (1917–2000), Ottoman princess * Naciye Enver (1896–1957), Ottoman princess * Türkan Enver (1919–1989), Ottoman princess