Amir (name)

Amir (also spelled Ameer or Emir; Arabic: اَمير; Urdu: عامر; Persian: امير; Hebrew: אמיר) is a multinational and multilingual masculine name.

The name comes from the same root as the word emir.

In Arabic the name means prince. The word originally meant "Commander (of army)". It later became a title given to a ruler's son, and hence "prince".

In Hebrew, when spelt אמיר the name means crown (treetop). When spelt עמיר the name means a small sheaf or bundle (of grain, usually wheat or barley) ^[1]

Given name[]

Notable persons with the name include:

• Al-Amir bi-Ahkami l-Lah, tenth Fatimid Caliph and recognised as the 20th imam by the Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a sect
• Amir Abdur-Rahim (born 1981), American basketball coach
• Amir Khosrow Afshar (born 1919, date of death unknown), Iranian diplomat
• Amir Bageria (born 2000), Canadian actor
• Amir Bagheri, Iranian chess grandmaster
• Amir Bell (born 1996), American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
• Amir Blumenfeld (born 1983), American-Israeli comedian/actor
• Ameer Bux Bhutto, Pakistani politician
• Amir Celestin, American basketball player
• Amir Coffey (born 1997), American basketball player
• Amir Derakh, American musician
• Amir Eshel (born 1959), Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force
• Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah and currently a peace and human rights activist living in Germany
• Amir Gal-Or (born 1962), Israeli businessman and the managing partner of Infinity Group
• Amir Ganiel, former Israeli swimming champion and record holder in swimming
• Amir Ghalenoei, Iranian football coach and former player
• Amir Haddad (born 1984), Israeli French singer and songwriter
• Amir Hamed, Uruguayan writer and translator of Lebanese descent
• Amir Hasheaami, Iranian footballer
• Amir Mirza Hekmati, alleged American CIA operative
• Amir Hinton (born 1997), American basketball player
• Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Iranian economist and politician
• Amir Johnson, American basketball player
• Amir Kabir, aka Mirza Taghi Khan Amir-Nezam, Atabak and Amir-e Nezam; chief minister to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (Shah of Persia)
• Amir Karić, Bosnian-Slovenian footballer
• Amir Reza Khadem, Iranian wrestler
• Amir Khan, Hindustani classical vocalist
• Amir Khan, British boxer
• Amir Khusrow, Indian musician, scholar and poet
• Amir Kror Suri, aka Jahan Pahlawan, Pashtun national history figure and a governor of Mandesh in Ghor
• Amir Mohebbian, Iranian politician, journalist and political analyst
• Amir Mohebi, Iranian footballer
• Amir Mokri, Iranian cinematographer
• Amir Muchtari (born 1972), Israeli basketball player
• Amir Nachumi (born 1945), Israeli Air Force general
• Amir Naderi, Iranian film director
• Amir Ohana (born 1976), Israeli politician
• Amir Peretz (born 1952), Moroccan-born Israeli politician
• Amir Hossein Rabii (died 9 April 1979), Iranian Air Force commander
• Amir Sadollah, American mixed martial artist
• Amir Slama, Brazilian fashion designer
• Amir Spahić, Bosnian footballer
• Amir Vahedi (1961–2010), Iranian-born American professional poker player
• Amir Wilson, British actor
• Ameer Ali, Australian economist and community leader
• Ameer Sultan, Tamil film director
• Ameer Vann (born 1996), former member of boy band Brockhampton
• Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, Iraqi journalist

Fictional characters:

• Amir, the protagonist in The Kite Runner
• Amir Kazim, a character in A Wedding (Noces), a 2016 film

Middle name[]

• Mohammad Amir Khatam (1920–1975), commander of the Iranian air force
• Tengku Amir Hamzah (1911–1946), Indonesian poet

Surname[]

• Eldad Amir (born 1961), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
• Eli Amir (born 1937), Israeli writer
• Menashe Amir, an Iranian-born Israeli Persian-language broadcaster
• Mohammad Amir, Pakistani cricketer banned for spot-fixing
• Nina Amir, Israeli Olympic sports sailor
• Yigal Amir, assassin of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin

See also[]

• All pages with titles beginning with Amir
• All pages with titles containing Amir
• Amir (disambiguation)
• Amiri (surname)
• Emir (disambiguation)
• Emir (name)
• Amira (name), female version
• Aamir (disambiguation)
• Mirza
• Almir (given name)

References[]

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