Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons
Given name
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Tamer Abdel Hamid
Tamer Abdel Hamid ( ar, تامر عبد الحميد; born 27 October 1975) is an Egyptian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Career statistics International
International goals
:''Scores and results list Egypt's goa ...
, Egyptian football player
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Tamer Ashor
Tamer Ashour ( ar, تامر عاشور; also spelt Tamer Ashour or Tamer Ashur, born 2 January 1984) is an Egyptian singer and composer. From 2004 to 2011 he released more than 17 songs and 4 albums. Some of his better-known songs include "Zik ...
(born 1984), Egyptian singer and composer
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Tamer Balci Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons Given name
* Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
* Tamer ...
(1917–1993), Turkish actor
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Tamer Basar Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).
Persons Given name
* Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
* Tamer ...
, Turkish control theorist
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Tamer Başoğlu, (born 1938) Turkish sculptor
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Tamer Bayoumi, Egyptian taekwondo player and Olympian
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Tamer El Said, Egyptian film director, producer, and writer
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Tamer El-Sawy, Egyptian tennis player
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Tamer Fernandes (born 1974), English football player
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Tamer Hamed
Tamer Hamed Ali Zinhom Muhammad (also ''Tamer Hamed'', ar, تامر حامد علي زينهم محمد; born February 4, 1974) is an Egyptian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian (1 ...
(born 1974), Egyptian swimmer and Olympian
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Tamer Hassan, English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent
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Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter
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Tamer Karadağlı
Tamer Karadağlı (born 24 May 1967) is a Turkish actor.
Biography
Tamer Karadağlı's family was of Azerbaijanis origin and moved to America a short time after he was born. They returned to Turkey just as he began primary school there. He stud ...
, Turkish actor
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Tamer Moustafa
Tamer Moustafa (born July 5, 1982) is an Egyptian basketball player currently playing for El Geish of the Egyptian Super League. He is a member of the Egypt national basketball team.
Moustafa participated with the Egypt national basketball team ...
(born 1982), Egyptian basketball player
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Tamer Nafar
Tamer Nafar ( ar, تامر النفار, he, תאמר נפאר; born June 6, 1979) is an Israeli rapper, actor, screenwriter and social activist who identifies as Palestinian. He is the leader and a founding member of DAM, the first Palestinia ...
, Arab Israeli rap artist
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Tamer Oyguç, Turkish professional basketball player
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Tamer Peker (born 1970), Turkish operatic baritone
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Tamer Şahin
Tamer Şahin (born August 10, 1981 in İzmir, Turkey) is a Turkish white hat hacker.
Overview
Şahin's interest in computers started when he was 13 years old.
Sahin worked on the philosophy of Ethical Hacking and concentrated on institutionaliz ...
(born 1981), Turkish hacker
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Tamer Mohamed Tahoun (born 1977), Egyptian fencer
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Tamer Seckin
Tamer Seckin (), MD, FACOG, is a New York City-based gynecologist, laparoscopic surgeon, and specialist in endometriosis. He founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EFA) with Padma Lakshmi in 2009.
Early life and education
Seckin was b ...
, American gynecologist and laparoscopic surgeon
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Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1976), Turkish football player and coach
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Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991)
Tamer Hakan Tuna (; born 19 October 1991 in England) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a striker. He is currently a free agent after a short spell at Kent League side Erith Town.
Career
Tuna, who went to Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar Sc ...
, Turkish football player
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Tamer Yiğit
Tamer Yiğit (born Tamer Özyiğitoğlu in 1942 in Balıkesir) is a Turkish actor. He starred as Ertuğrul Gazi in the history based and adventure series '' Kuruluş: Osman'' (2019). Throughout his acting career Yiğit has been a recipient o ...
(born Tamer Özyiğitoğlu in 1942), Turkish actor
Family name
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Chris Tamer (born 1970), American ice hockey player
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Georges Tamer Georges Nicolas Tamer holds the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Until September 2012, he was professor of Arabic and Islamic studies and the holder of the M.S. Sofia Chair in ...
, professor of philology and Arabic and Islamic studies
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Kandy Tamer
Kandy Tamer is a former Lebanon international rugby league footballer who represented Lebanon at the 2000 World Cup, playing in three matches.
Background
Tamer was born in Tripoli, Lebanon
Playing career
Tamer played one match for the Easter ...
, Australian-born rugby league player of Lebanese origin
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Tony Tamer
Anthony Aouni Tamer (born October 12, 1957) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $48 billion of equity capital under management. ...
, American businessman, founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
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Zakaria Tamer
Zakaria Tamer ( ar, زكريا تامر, Zakariyyā Tāmir; born January 2, 1931), also spelled Zakariya Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer.
He is one of the most important and widely read and translated short story writers in the Arab world ...
(born 1931), Syrian short story writer
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Michel Temer
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from off ...
, or Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, Brazilian politician of Lebanese descent, President of Brazil
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Taleedah Tamer
Taleedah Tamer is a Saudi Arabian fashion model. She is the first Saudi Arabian model to walk a couture runway in Paris and the first to be on the cover of an international magazine.
Early life and education
Taleedah Tamer was born and raised i ...
, Saudi Arabian fashion model
Places
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Tamer, Iran
Tamer ( fa, تامر, also Romanized as Tāmer) is a village in Sorkh Qaleh Rural District, in the Central District of Qaleh Ganj County, Kerman Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called P ...
, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
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Tamer, Golestan, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
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Tamer, Yazd
Tamehr ( fa, طامهر, also Romanized as Ţāmehr; also known as Tāmar and Tamer) is a village in Allahabad Rural District, Zarach District, Yazd County, Yazd Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a ...
, a village in Yazd Province, Iran
* Tamer,
Btaaboura Btaaboura ( ar, بتعبورا) is a village in Koura District of Lebanon. The population is Greek Orthodox. A church is being constructed as of June 2011, it is dedicated to St. Elias.
In 1997 and on 21 November 2011, Michel Temer, then Vice Pre ...
, a village in Koura, Lebanon
Other uses
* A person involved with
lion taming
Lion taming is the taming and training of lions, either for protection or for use in entertainment, such as the circus. The term often applies to the taming and display of lions and other big cats such as tigers, leopards, jaguars, black p ...
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Tamer II, custom sail yacht
* TAMER, abbreviation for Training an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement, framework for transferring knowledge from human experts to automated AI agents.
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Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestinian educational organization
See also
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