Nuri (name)

Nuri

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

Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, Template:Lang-ar, Template:Lang-ko, Template:Lang-syr) is a name which may refer to:

Given name

• Nuri Ja'far (1914 – 1991), Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education
• NOURI (artist) (born 1993), New Zealand recording artist of Kurdish descent
• Nuri Badran (born 1943), Iraqi politician
• Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author
• Nuri Berköz (1889–1975), Azerbaijani general
• Nuri Boytorun (1908–1988), Turkish 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
• Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950), Prime Minister of Iraq
• Nuri Montsé (1917–1971), Argentine actress
• Nuri Ok (1942–2015), Turkish judge
• Nouri Ouznadji (born 1984), Algerian footballer
• Nuri as-Said (1888–1958), Iraqi politician
• Nuri Sojliu (1870–1940), signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
• Nuri Şahin (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Nuri Şahin (volleyball player) (born 1980), Turkish volleyball player

Surname

• Abdelhak Nouri (born 1997), Dutch footballer
• Abdollah Nouri, Iranian politician
• Alekhine Nouri, Filipino chess master
• Alexander Nouri (born 1979), Iranian-German football manager
• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, Iranian politician
• Alireza Noori, Iranian politician
• George Noory, radio talk show host
• Hossein Nuri, Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker
• Kat Nouri, Iranian-born American entrepreneur and inventor
• Michael Nouri, Lebanese-American actor
• Mina Nouri (born 1951), Iranian painter
• Mohammad Nouri (footballer), Iranian footballer
• Mohammad Nouri (singer), Iranian singer
• Milad Nouri (footballer born 1986), Iranian footballer
• Pejman Nouri, Iranian footballer
• Pir Syed Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri, Islamic saint
• Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (1947–2006), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
• Shahab Sheikh Nuri (1932–1976), Kurdish politician
• Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, Iranian cleric
• Süleyman Nuri (1895–1966), Ottoman Russian communist politician
• Vahid Nouri (born 1989), Iranian paralympic judoka
• Yochanan ben Nuri, Tanna of the first and second century CE

Middle name

• Hossein Noori Hamedani, Iranian ayatollah

See also

• Nuri (disambiguation)