Mansur

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Mansur (Arabic: منصور‎ Manṣūr; also spelled Mansoor, Mansour, or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "victorious by divine aid," literally "blessed by God to be victorious." The name comes from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."

The transliteration "Mansoor" is typically used by South Asians while the spelling "Mensur" is used in South Slavic languages.

[edit] People named Mansur

Notable people named Mansur or similar include

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, an Indian cricketer
• Mansoor Hekmat, an Iranian political theorist and activist
• Mansoor Ijaz, an American commentator and businessman
• Mansoor Muhammed Ali Qattaa, a Saudi Arabian held in detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps
• Mansour (singer), an Iranian singer
• Mansour F. Armaly, a Palestinian-American physician and researcher
• Mansour Bahrami, an Iranian tennis player
• Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates
• Mansour Matloubi, an Iranian professional poker player
• Mansour Osanlou, an Iranian trade union activist
• Mansour Rahbani, a Lebanese composer, musician, and producer
• Mansour Seck, a Senegalese singer and musician
• Mansour Zalzal, an Abbasid musician and composer
• Al-Mansur, the second Abbasid caliph
• Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
• Mansur ad-Din, a sultan of Adal
• Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, a nawab of Bengal
• Sheikh Mansur, a Chechen leader against Catherine the Great's Russia
• Mansur ibn Ilyas, a Timurid physician
• Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
• Mansur Mozaffarov, a Russian Tatar composer and pedagogue
• Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca
• Mansurul Haq, a Pakistani admiral and Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy
• Mensur Kurtisi, a Macedonian association football player
• Mensur Sinanović, an FK Sloboda Tuzla footballer
• Mensur Suljovic, an Austrian darts player
• Mansur John of Damascus, Christian Saint, Father of Chirch

People using it in their patronymic or as a surname include

• Ali Mansur, a prime minister of Iran
• Ahmed Subhy Mansour, an Egyptian cleric
• Belal Mansoor Ali, a Bahraini runner from Kenya
• Gueye Mansour, a Senegalese footballer
• Hasan Mansoor, a Pakistani Sindhi-language writer
• Hassan-Ali Mansur, an Iranian politician and prime minister
• Hussain Mansoor, a Pakistani journalist and writer
• M. A. Mansoor, an Egyptian antiquarian
• Maghfoor Mansoor, a Pakistani native who was a fugitive in the United States
• Mallikarjun Mansur, an Indian classical singer
• Muhammad Mansur Ali, a Bangladeshi politician and prime minister
• Mustafa Mansour, an Egyptian footballer
• Reda Mansour, an Israeli poet, historian and diplomat
• Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, an Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer
• Shadia Mansour, a British born Palestinian singer
• Shoaib Mansoor, a Pakistani film producer, director, writer, lyricist, and composer
• Sliman Mansour, a Palestinian painter
• Ustad Mansur, a Mughal painter

People using it as a nickname include

• Mullah Bakht Mohammed, a military commander for Afghanistan's Taliban known as Mansoor Dadullah
• Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a leader and spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabaab known as Abu Mansur

[edit] Other uses

• Mansour district, an administrative district of Baghdad, named for Al-Mansur
• Mansour neighbourhood, a neighborhood within Mansour district, Baghdad
• 20416 Mansour, a main-belt asteroid

[edit] See also

• Manzur, a similar name common in South and Southeast Asia
• Al Mansurah (disambiguation)
• Mansurah

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