Noor (name)

Nour

Noor
Pronunciation	[ˈnuːɾ]
Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	light
Other names
Nickname(s)	Nuri

Nur (also spelled Noor, Nor, or Nour, Arabic: نور: Nūr IPA: [nuːr]) is a common Arabic unisex name meaning "light", "The Divine Light". An-Nur, meaning "the light" in Arabic. It can also be feminized as Nura or Noora.

In Norse mythology Nór was the name of the founder king of Norway.

In Dutch and Flemish Noor can be a form of Eleonore cognate to the English name Eleanor, the first bearer of which was Eleanor of Aquitaine and is probably Occitan in origin. Noor is also an Estonian language surname, meaning "young".

Given name

Noor

• Queen Noor of Jordan, former Queen of Jordan
• Noor Alam, Pakistani field hockey player
• Princess Noor bint Asem (born 1982), of the Jordanian Royal Family
• Noor Bukhari, Pakistani actress
• Noor Muhammad Butt, Pakistani nuclear physicist
• Noor Hassanali, former president of Trinidad and Tobago
• Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress
• Noor Inayat Khan, Indian born British SOE agent
• Princess Noor Pahlavi, Iranian princess
• Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
• Noor Islam Dawar, Pakistani Pashtun human rights activist
• Noor Alobeidat

Nour

• Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor
• Nour (Marian Farid Abi Habib), Lebanese actress
• Nour El-Sayed, Egyptian footballer
• Nour Mansour, Lebanese footballer
• Nour Mhanna, Syrian singer
• Nour Ardakani, Lebanese singer and dancer

Nur

Politicians, statesmen, and royalty

• Nur ibn Mujahid (reigned 1550-1567), 16th-century Somali Emir of Harar
• Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman leader of the Habr Yunis clan
• Nur Bekri, high ranked Chinese politician
• Nur Alam, Indonesian governor of South East Sulawesi
• Nur Hassan Wirajuda, former Indonesian minister of foreign affairs
• Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic
• Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress
• Nur Devlet (reigned 1466-1469, 1475-1476), khan of the Crimean Khanate
• Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, first President of Kazakhstan

Intellectuals

• Nur Yalman, Turkish anthropologist
• Cak Nur, the nickname of Nurcholish Madjid, a prominent Indonesian Muslim intellectual
• Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian philosopher, jurist, and musician

Athletes

• Cansu Nur Kaya (born 2000), Turkish women's footballer
• Gamze Nur Yaman (born 1999), Turkish women's footballer
• Nur B. Ali, Pakistani-American racecar driver
• Nur Mustafa Gülen (born 1960), Turkish footballer and coach
• Nur Nurhan Çakmak, Turkish women's footballer
• Büşra Nur Tırıklı (born 1994), Turkish Paralympian discus thrower
• Merve Nur Eroğlu (born 1993), Turkish Paralympic archer
• Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast
• Seda Nur İncik (born 2000), Turkish footballer
• Şeyma Nur Emeksiz Bacaksız, Turkish Para Taekwondo practitioner

Other people

• Nur Fettahoğlu, Turkish German actress
• Nur Sürer, Turkish actress
• Nur Hossain, Bangladeshi activist
• Nur Khan, Pakistan Air Force officer

Surname

• Ayman Nour (born 1964), Egyptian politician
• Mohamed Mohamed Noor (born 1985), a United States police officer, convicted for the killing of Justine Damond
• Mohamed Noor, American biologist and geneticist
• Mohammed Noor (born 1978), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Farah Nur (1862–1932), Somali poet and warrior
• Mariam Nour (born 1936), Lebanese television personality
• Omar Nour (born 1978), Egyptian triathlete
• Sabila Noor, Bangladeshi actress
• Shajal Noor, Bangladeshi actor
• Nur Ahmed Nur (born 1937), Afghan communist
• Rıza Nur (1879–1942), Turkish surgeon
• Viive Noor (born 1955), Estonian illustrator and curator
• Yusuf Haji Nur, Somali politician

Fictional characters

• Nour El Deen Mahmoud Nour El Deen, a fictional character in Malaf Al Mostakbal series
• Nour, the central character in the spiritual Sufi text about the history of fire written by Ahmed El Bedawi; recently retold by Idries Shah
• Nour, young boy in J. M. G. Le Clézio's novel Désert (novel)
• En Sabah Nur (Apocalypse) is a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
• Noor Bauwens, a fictional character in the Belgian online series wtFOCK
• Noor, a fictional female character from the Japanese series Nigoru Hitomi de Nani wo Negau: Highserk Senki

Arabic-based compound names with Nur as an element

• Nurullah, that is Nur Allah, meaning light of God
• Nur al-Din, that is Nur al-Din, meaning light of the religion/faith
• Nur ul-Huda, that is Nur al-Huda, meaning light of the guidance
• Nurul Islam, that is Nur al-Islam, meaning light of Islam
• Nuruzzaman, that is Nur al-Zaman, meaning light of the era
• Abdel Nour, that is Abd an-Nur, meaning servant of the Light
• Nuri, meaning luminous or my light
• Núria is an Arabic Catalan girl's name, meaning light