Nader is a
masculine given name
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and
surname of
Arabic
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origin ( ''Nādir'', meaning "rare", "unique") and may refer to:
Persons
Given name
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Nader Shah, former
Shah
Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...
of
Iran (Persia)
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
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Nader Ahmadi (born 1986), Iranian football player
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Nader Batmanghelidj (1904–1998), Iranian army general
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Nader al-Dahabi (born 1946), Jordanian politician
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Nader Darehshori, businessman in the United States
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Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta ( fa, نادر انقطاع) (born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian- American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, ...
, Iranian scientist and engineer
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Wael Nader al-Halqi
Wael Nader Al-Halqi ( ar, وائل نادر الحلقي, Wāʾil Nādir al-Ḥalqī; born 4 February 1964) is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2012 to 2016. Previously he was Minister of Health from 2011 to 2012. He was ...
, Syrian politician
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Nader Jahanbani
'' Sepahbod'' Nader Jahanbani ( fa, نادر جهانبانی, Nāder-e Jahānbānī; 16 April 1928–13 March 1979) was an Iranian general, distinguished fighter pilot of Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) and the deputy chief of the IIAF under M ...
, Iranian army officer
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Nader Matar
Nader Charbel Matar ( ar, نادر شربل مطر, ; born 12 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ansar and the Lebanon national team.
Matar began his senior career in 2008 in Portugal, playing for Sport ...
, Lebanese footballer
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Nader El-Sayed
Nader El Sayed ( ar, نادر السيد; born 31 December 1972) is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
He was widely recognized for the first time as goalkeeper for notable Egyptian club El Zamale ...
, Egyptian footballer
Surname
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Abdel Nader
Abdel Nader ( ar, عبد الرحمن نادر; born September 25, 1993) is an Egyptian-American professional basketball player who last played for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for ...
, Egyptian-American basketball player
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Alireza Nader, American academic
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Claire Nader
Claire Nader (born July 18, 1928) is an American social scientist and a sister of Ralph, Laura, and Shafeek Nader.Annie BirdsongRalph Nader's Childhood Roots, Green Party of Ohio
Biography
She is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Ph.D. in p ...
, American social scientist
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George Nader
George Garfield Nader, Jr. (October 19, 1921 – February 4, 2002) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 to 1974, including ''Sins of Jezebel'' (1953), ''Congo Crossing'' (1956), and ''The Female Animal'' ...
, Arab-American actor and uncle of Michael Nader
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George Nader
George Garfield Nader, Jr. (October 19, 1921 – February 4, 2002) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 to 1974, including ''Sins of Jezebel'' (1953), ''Congo Crossing'' (1956), and ''The Female Animal'' ...
, Lebanese-American businessman, lobbyist, and convicted sex offender
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Habib Nasib Nader
Habib Nasib Nader (born 1979) is a British actor. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, having won Best Supporting Actor with a team of six others for operating and voicing the tiger in '' Life of Pi''. They are the first puppeteers to ...
(born 1979), British actor
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Hassan Nader
Hassan Nader ( ar, حسن ناظر; born 8 July 1965) is a Moroccan former footballer who played as a striker.
He spent most of his 21-year senior career in Portugal – amassing Primeira Liga totals of 219 matches and 94 goals – mainly with ...
, retired Moroccan football player
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Laura Nader
Laura Nader (born February 16, 1930) is an American anthropologist. She has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. She was the first woman to receive a tenure-track position in the department. She i ...
, American professor of anthropology
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Michael Nader
Michael Nader (February 19, 1945 – August 23, 2021) was an American actor, known for his roles as Dex Dexter on the ABC primetime soap opera ''Dynasty'' from 1983 to 1989, and Dimitri Marick on the ABC daytime soap opera '' All My Children'' ...
, American actor
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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes.
The son of Lebanese immigrants to the U ...
, American attorney, citizen activist and four time third-party presidential candidate
* Rose Nader, American social activist and mother of Ralph Nader
* Shafeek Nader, community advocate and brother of Ralph Nader
Other uses
* ''Nader'', an Arabic word used in Hadith evaluation, which can be translated to mean "rare" or "unique"
* (also Näder): German surname, meaning Embroidery, embroiderer or tailor
* A slang term for tornadoes
See also
* Nadir (disambiguation)
* Nadir (name)
* Nater (disambiguation), includes a list of people with surname Nater
References
Arabic-language surnames
Arabic masculine given names
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German-language surnames
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