Yair (name)

Yair (Hebrew: יאיר) is a Hebrew given name. Jair is a variant. It may also be used as a surname. It may refer to:

Given name[]

• Jair or Yair, the father of Mordecai
• Yair Arrechea (born 1980), Colombian footballer
• Yair Bacharach (1639—1702) – Rabbi in Germany
• Yair Davidovitz (born 1945), Israeli Olympic sport shooter
• Yair Golan, general in the Israel Defense Forces
• Yair Kless, Israeli violinist and professor
• Yair Lapid (born 1963), Israeli politician
• Yair Lotan (born 1973), actor
• Yair Michaeli (born 1944), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor
• Yair Netanyahu (born 1991), son of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer
• Yair Pantilat (born 1939), Israeli Olympic runner
• Yair Rodriguez (born 1992), Mexican mixed martial artist
• Yair Rosenblum (1944–96), Israeli composer
• Yair Sprinzak (1911–1999) – Israeli scientist and Member of Knesset
• Yair Tauman, Israeli professor and businessman
• Yair Wertheimer, Israeli tennis player

Surname[]

• Yoram Yair, Israeli general
• Zvi Yair, the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz

Other[]

• Avraham Stern alias Yair, a leader of Lehi

See also[]

• Yahir, Mexican singer
• Ben Yair (surname)
• Jair (name)
• Jairus (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Yair

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