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Bor is both a
surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
and a
given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. Notable people with this name include:


Surname

* Andy Bor (born 1963), Australian ski coach and sighted guide for visually impaired skiers *
Barna Bor Barna Bor (born 12 December 1986) is a Hungarian retired judoka. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he lost in the last 32 to Islam El Shehaby. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he beat Luuk Verbij ...
(born 1968), Hungarian judoka and Olympics competitor * Dávid Bor (born 1994), Hungarian footballer * Dekel Bor, Israeli jazz guitarist and composer * Eleanor Bor (1898–1957), British travel writer; wife of Norman Bor * Guy Thornton Bor ( Max Adrian; 1903–1973), Irish actor and singer * Hilda Bor (1910–1993), British classical pianist * Hillary Bor (born 1989), Kenyan-born American track and field athlete * Jamtsyn Bor (born 1958), Mongolian wrestler * Jan Bor (1886–1943), Czech theater director and playwright * Katalin Bor (born 1990), Hungarian swimmer and Olympics competitor * Matej Bor ( Vladimir Pavšič; 1913–1993), Slovene poet, translator, playwright, journalist, and partisan * Milan Bor (1936–1998), Czechoslovakian-born German sound engineer * Modesta Bor (1926–1998), Venezuelan composer * Nathan Bor (1913–1972), American boxer and Olympic medalist *
Norman Bor Norman Loftus Bor Order of the Indian Empire, CIE OBE FRSE Fellow of the Linnean Society, FLS Indian National Science Academy, FNI (2 May 1893 – 22 December 1972) was an Irish botanist. He was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society in ...
(1893–1972), Irish Botanist; husband of Eleanor Bor * Paulus Bor ('1601–1669), Dutch painter * Pieter Bor (1559–1635), Dutch writer and historian * Vane Bor ( Stevan Živadinović; 1908–1993), Serbian artist * Walter Bor (1916–1999), Austrian-born British urban planner and architect * Zsolt Bor (born 1949), Hungarian physicist


Given name

* Bor Pavlovčič (born 1998), Slovenian ski jumper * Bor-ming Jahn (1940–2016), Taiwanese-born French geochemist * Bor S. Luh (1916–2001), Chinese-born American food scientist and educator * Hui Chak Bor (born 1968), Hong Kong cyclist and Olympics competitor * Li Yiu-bor (1909–1976), Hong Kong teacher, publisher, politician, and religious leader


See also

* Bór (disambiguation) *
BOR (disambiguation) Bor may refer to: Places Populated places * Bor (Tachov District), a town in Plzeň Region, Czech Republic * Bor, Petnjica, Montenegro * Bor, Russia, the name of many inhabited localities in Russia * Bor District, a district in Serbia ** Bor, Se ...
* Bors (disambiguation) *
Bors Bors (; ) is the name of two knights in Arthurian legend, an elder and a younger. The two first appear in the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail romance prose cycle. Bors the Elder is the King of Gaunnes (Gannes/Gaunes/Ganis) during the early period ...
, the elder and the younger, legendary Arthurian knights {{given name, type=both