Nasser (name)

Nasser (also spelled Naser, or Nacer, Arabic: ناصر: Nāṣir) is an Arabic masculine given name meaning "granter of victory";^[1] it may refer to:

Nasser is a common mononym of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), the second president of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970.

Given name[]

• Nassar (born 1958), Tamil actor and director, sometimes spelled Nasser
• Nasser Al-Shamrani (born 1983), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Nasser bin Abdulaziz (1911–1984), Saudi royal
• Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa (born 1987), Bahraini royal
• Nasser bin Zayed Al Nahyan (died 2008), Emirati royal
• Nacer Abdellah (born 1966), retired Moroccan footballer
• Nacer Barazite (born 1990), Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent
• Nacer Chadli (born 1989), Belgian footballer of Moroccan descent
• Nasser El Sonbaty (1965-2013) German bodybuilder of Egyptian nas Serbian descent
• Nasser Hussain (born 1968), former England cricket captain
• Nasser Judeh (born 1961) Jordanian politician
• Naser Khader (born 1963), Danish politician
• Nasser D. Khalili (born 1945), British-Iranian collector, scholar and philanthropist
• Abdul-Raof Naser Kher (born 1982), Libyan futsal player
• Naser Maleknia (died 2007), Iranian academic
• Nasser Minachi (1931–2014), Iranian politician
• Naser Mohammadkhani (born 1957), Iranian football striker
• Naser Orić (born 1967), Bosnian military officer
• Nasser Al Saeed (1923–unknown), Saudi Arabian missing dissident since 1979
• Naser Sahiti (* 1966), Kosovan professor and rector of the University Prishtina
• Naser Al Shami (born 1982), Syrian boxer
• Naser Makarem Shirazi (born 1924), Iranian cleric
• Naser Trajković (born 1961), Serbian basketball coach

Middle name[]

• Abdul Nasser El Hakim (born 1960), Lebanese-born Curaçaoan businessman, politician, minister and a founder of the political party Movement for the Future of Curaçao (MFK)
• Amal Nasser el-Din, (alternatively Amal Nasereldeen; born 1928), Druze Israeli author and former politician, former MP in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)
• Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli (1977–2011), Yemeni wanted for terrorism by the FBI
• Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari (born 1970), Yemeni who became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI in connection with terrorism
• Fadel Nasser Sarouf, (born Valentin Sarov in 1976), Bulgarian-Qatari weightlifter
• Hussein Nasser Al-Huraiti, Kuwaiti politician and MP in its National Assembly
• Hussein Nasser Walji (1920–2005), Tanzanian politician
• Mansour Nasser al Bihani, Yemeni fighter who died in Somalia in 2011
• Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, Yemeni major general and government minister

Surname[]

• Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser, alleged terrorist from Saudi Arabia
• Hani Naser, Jordanian musician
• Hussein ibn Nasser (1902–1982), Prime Minister of Jordan from 1963 to 1964
• Jacques Nasser (born 1947), former CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Jorge Nasser (born 1956), Uruguayan musician
• Larry Nassar (born 1963), former US gymnastics doctor who sexually abused and raped over 70 women in his career
• M. A. Naser (1921–2004), Bangladeshi educator
• Sumaya Farhat Naser (born 1948), Palestinian peace activist

See also[]

• Nasser (disambiguation)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser (disambiguation)

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Nasser (given name) at Wikimedia Commons

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