Nuri (name)

Nuri

Gender	Male given name (Arabic/Islamic, common in Turkey), male and female given name (Korean, Aramaic), Persian surname
Language(s)	Arabic, Aramaic, Korean, Persian, Japanese
Origin
Meaning	Arabic for "my light" (نور+ي), Aramaic for "my fire" (ܢܘܪܝ), old Korean for "world"(누리), Persian from Arabic
Other names
Alternative spelling	Nori, Nouri, Noori

Nuri (also spelled Nouri or Noori, Arabic: نوري, Korean: 누리, Syriac: ܢܘܪܝ) is a name which may refer to:

Given name

• Nuri Badran (born 1943), Iraqi Minister of the Interior
• Bae Noo-ri (born 1993), South Korean actress
• Nuri Berköz (1889–1975), Azerbaijani general
• Nuri Boytorun (1908–1988), Turkish Olympic wrestler
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959), Turkish filmmaker
• Nuri Demirağ (1886–1957), Turkish industrialist
• Nuri Killigil (1881–1949), general in the Ottoman army
• Nuri Kino (born 1965), Swedish journalist and filmmaker of Assyrian descent
• Nuri Montsé (1917–1971), Spanish-born Argentine film actress
• Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950), Prime Minister of Iraq
• Nuri Ok (born 1942), Turkish judge
• Nouri Ouznadji, Algerian footballer
• Nuri as-Said (1888–1958), Iraqi politician
• Nuri Şahin (born 1988), Turkish international footballer
• Nuri Şahin (volleyball player) (born 1980), Turkish volleyball player
• Nuri Sojliu (1870–1940), signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence

Surname

• Abdelhak Nouri (born 1997), Dutch footballer
• Abdollah Nouri, Iranian politician
• Alexander Nouri (born 1979), Iranian-German football manager
• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, Iranian politician
• Alireza Noori, Iranian politician
• Hossein Noori Hamedani, Iranian ayatollah
• Hossein Nuri, Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker
• Michael Nouri, Lebanese-American actor
• Mohammad Nouri (footballer), Iranian footballer
• Mohammad Nouri (singer), Iranian singer
• Milad Nouri, Iranian footballer
• Pejman Nouri, Iranian footballer
• Pir Syed Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri, an Islamic saint
• Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (1947–2006), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
• Shahab Sheikh Nuri (1932–1976), a Kurdish politician
• Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, Iranian cleric
• Yochanan ben Nuri, a Tanna of the first and second century CE

See also

• Nuri (disambiguation)