Timur (name)

Timur, Temür, Temir or Tömör (Mongolian: Төмөр) is a Turkic and Mongolic name which literally means iron. It is a cognate of the Turkish name Demir. In Indonesian, timur translates to east, and symbolizes hope by the rising sun.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Historical

• Möngke Temür (d.1280), khan of the Golden Horde
• Several rulers from the Chinese-Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
  • Temür Khan (r. 1294–1307), the second ruler of the Yuan dynasty
  • Tugh Temür, better known as Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (r. 1328–1332)
  • Toghon Temür (r. 1333–1370)
  • Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür (r. 1378–1388)
  • Yesün Temür (r. 1323–1328)
  • Öljei Temür Khan, (r. 1408–1412)
• Köke Temür, a Yuan dynasty general
• Timur (1336–1405), a Central Asian ruler also known as Tamerlane.
• Bayan Temür (King Gongmin of Goryeo)
• Khan Temir (d. 1637), a Budjak Nogais ruler
• Timur Shah Durrani (1748–1793), an Afghani ruler

Modern

• Temur Babluani (born 1948), a Georgian film director
• Timur Beg, (d. 1933), a Uyghur rebel leader
• Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh film and advertisement director
• Timur Dibirov (born 1983), a Russian handball player
• Timur Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer
• Timur Gareev, Uzbekistani chess player
• Timur Ibragimov, Uzbekistani boxer
• Temur Iakobashvili (born 1967), a Georgian politician and diplomat
• Temur Juraev (born 1984), a Uzbekistani football player
• Timur Kapadze, a Uzbekistani footballer
• Temur Ketsbaia (born 1968), a Georgian football player and manager
• Timur Kuran, American academic
• Timur Mutsurayev (born 1976), Chechen singer and bard
• Timur Taymazov (born 1970), a Ukrainian weightlifter
• Timur Kydyraliev, Kyrgyzstani footballer
• Teimour Radjabov (born 1987), an Azerbaijani chess player
• Timur Selçuk, Turkish musician
• Timur Tekkal, German rugby union player
• Timur Yanyali, Turkish footballer

Surname

• Bar Timor (born 1992), Israeli basketball player
• Cemile Timur (born 1988), Turkish former women's football player, referee and current team manager
• Daramyn Tömör-Ochir
• Minarti Timur, Chinese-Indonesian badminton player
• Mahmut Temür, (born 1989) a German football player