Nasser (name)

Nasser

Romanization	Nāṣir
Gender	masculine
Language(s)	Arabic: ناصر
Origin
Language(s)	Arabic
Meaning	'granter of victory', helper, protector, supporter, victory-maker
Other names
Alternative spelling	Naser, Nassar, Nasir, Naseer, Nacer, Nasr
Related names	Nasrallah, Nasralla, Nasrollah, Nasrullah, Al-Nasrallah, Nasri

Nasser (Arabic: ناصر, romanized: Nāṣir, lit. 'granter of victory') is a masculine given name, commonly found in the Arabic Alternative spellings of this name, possibly due to transliteration include Naser, Nassar, Nasir, Naseer, or Nacer. People with this name may include: Ahmed Naser

Given name

• Nassar (born 1958), Tamil actor and director, sometimes spelled Nasser
• Nasser al-Bahri (1972–2015), Al Qaeda militant
• Nasser Beydoun, American business executive
• Nasser Eljahori, Yemeni army officer
• Nasser Fahimi (born 1974), political and ideological prisoner from Iran
• Nasser Abu Hamid (1972–2022), Palestinian politician
• Nasser Hussain (born 1968), former England cricket captain
• Nasser Judeh (born 1961) Jordanian politician
• Nasser Kanaani (born 1970), Iranian diplomat
• Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa (born 1987), Bahraini royal (also referred to as Sheikh Nasser or Prince Nasser)
• Nasser Khalili (born 1945), British-Iranian collector, scholar and philanthropist
• Nasser Al-Khelaifi (born 1973), Qatari businessman
• Nasser Meftah (born 1995), Qatari football player
• Nasser Minachi (1931–2014), Iranian politician
• Nasser bin Zayed Al Nahyan (died 2008), Emirati royal
• Nasser Al Qasabi (born 1961), Saudi Arabian actor
• Nasser Al Saeed (1923–unknown), Saudi Arabian missing dissident since 1979
• Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1911–1984), Saudi royal
• Nasser Al-Shamrani (born 1983), Saudi Arabian footballer
• Nasser El Sonbaty (1965-2013), German bodybuilder
• Nasser Yeganeh (1921–1993), Iranian jurist and politician

Middle name/father 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, (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 ibn Nasser (1902–1982), Prime Minister of Jordan from 1963 to 1964
• 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
• Amin H. Nasser, Saudi Arabian engineer
• Farah Nasser, Canadian journalist
• Fredy Nasser (born 1956), Honduran businessman
• Hana Nasser (born 1991), Israeli football player
• Hanna Nasser (1936–2015), Palestinian politician
• Hanna Nasser (academic), Palestinian academic and political figure
• Jacques Nasser (born 1947), former CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Jorge Nasser (born 1956), Uruguayan musician
• Larry Nassar (born 1963), former US gymnastics osteopathic physician who sexually abused and raped over 70 women in his career
• Latif Nasser (born 1986), American Canadian writer

See also

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

External links

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