Bashir or Basheer (), also gallicized in the form Bachir or Béchir, is a male
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 ...
and 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 ...
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It may refer to:
Mononym
* Al Bachir or Mohammad Al Bachir Gadiaga (born 1998) Senegalese-Taiwanese basketball player.
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Bashir I
The Shihab dynasty (alternatively spelled Chehab; , ALA-LC: ''al-Shihābiyūn'') is an Arab family whose members served as the paramount tax farmers and emirs of Mount Lebanon from the early 18th to mid-19th century, during Ottoman rule (1517– ...
, Lebanese emir of the
Shihab dynasty
The Shihab dynasty (alternatively spelled Chehab; , ALA-LC: ''al-Shihābiyūn'') is an Arab family whose members served as the paramount tax farmers and emirs of Mount Lebanon from the early 18th to mid-19th century, during Ottoman rule (1517– ...
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Bashir Shihab II
Bashir Shihab II (, also spelled Bachir Chehab II; 2 January 1767–1850) was a Lebanese people, Lebanese emir who ruled the Mount Lebanon Emirate, Emirate of Mount Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century. Born to a branch of the Shihab dy ...
(1767–1850), Lebanese emir who ruled Lebanon
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Bashir III
Prince Bashir Chehab III () was a ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate (7th Emir, reigned 1840–1842). After Prince Bashir II was banished from Lebanon, the Ottoman authorities in Asitana (Istanbul) appointed Prince Bashir III from the Chehab fam ...
(1775-1860), ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate (7th Emir, reigned 1840–1842)
Given name
Bachir
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Bachir Gemayel
Bachir Pierre Gemayel (, ; 10 November 1947 – 14 September 1982) was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party, in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982. ...
or Bashīr al-Jimayyel (1947–1982), Lebanese military commander, politician and president-elect
* Bachir Abdelouahab (1897–1978), Algerian politician and medical doctor
* Bachir Ammoury (born 1983), American-born Lebanese basketball player
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Bachir Attar
Bachir Attar (Arabic: بشير عطار, born 1964) is a Moroccan musician and the leader of The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar. He is the son of Hadj Abdesalam Attar, who led the group Master Musicians of Jajouka at the time ...
(born 1964), Moroccan American musician and leader of
The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar
The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar (sometimes written as ...featuring Bachir Attar) are a collective of Jbala Sufi trance musicians, serving as a modern representation of a centuries-old music tradition. The collective includes ...
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* Bachir Bensaddek (born 1972), Canadian television director of Algerian Berber descent
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Bachir Boudjelid
Bachir Boudjelid (born 23 December 1978) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
* 1997–1999 JS Bordj Ménaïel
* 1999–2001 JS Kabylie
* 2001–2003 IRB Khemis El Khechna
* 2003–20 ...
(born 1978), Algerian football player
* Bachir Boumaaza (born 1980), mostly known by the online pseudonym Athene, a Belgian internet personality and Twitch.tv streamer
* Bachir Douadi (born 1953), Algerian football player
* Bachir Moustafa Hammoud (1906–1945), a Lebanese philosopher, poet and Shī‘ah religious leader
* Bachir Mahamat (born 1996), Chadian sprinter
* Bachir Mané (born 1997), Senegalese football player
* Bachir Mecheri (born 1964), Algerian football player
* Bachir Qamari (1951–2021), Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright
* Bachir Sebaâ (born 1949), Algerian football player
* Bachir Yellès (1921–2022), Algerian painter
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Bab Bachir
Bab Bachir () (died 1254) was a slave consort of the last Abbasid dynasty, Abbasid caliph, al-Musta'sim (r. 1242–1258) and mother of Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Musta'sim.
She was a slave bought to the Abbasid harem, Harem by the Caliph and becam ...
(died 1254) was the spouse of last
Abbasid
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (; ) was the third caliphate to succeed the prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 C ...
caliph
al-Musta'sim
Abu Ahmad Abdallah ibn al-Mustansir bi'llah (), better known by his laqab, regnal title Al-Mustaʿṣim bi-llāh (; 1213 – 20 February 1258), was the 37th and last caliph from the Abbasid dynasty ruling from Baghdad. He held the title from 12 ...
Bashir Abdi
Bashir Abdi (born 10 February 1989) is a Belgian Long-distance running, long-distance runner. He won bronze medals in the marathon at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 World Athletics Championships, 2022 Wor ...
(born 1989), Somali-Belgian athlete
* Bashir Ahmed, many persons with the name Bashir Ahmad and Bashir Ahmed
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Bashir Ahmad (mixed martial artist)
Bashir Ahmad (), (born October 12, 1982) is a Pakistani American, Pakistani-American professional mixed martial artist who is known as the "God-father of Mixed Martial Arts Pakistan". He is famous for being the pioneer of mixed martial arts in Pa ...
(born 1982), Pakistani-American professional mixed martial artist
* Bashir Badr (born 1935), Indian poet of Urdu
* Bashir Saleh Bashir (born 1946), former aide of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
* Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim (born 1961), Nigerian politician and businessman
* Bashir Isse, Somali banker and Governor of the Central Bank of Somalia
* Bashir Jehangiri (born 1937), Pakistani judge
* Bashir Levingston (born 1976), Canadian Football League player
* Bashir Maan (1926–2019), Pakistani-Scottish politician, businessman, judge, community worker and writer.
* Bashir Makhtal (born 1977), Canadian citizen held in an Ethiopian prison, where he is accused of terrorism and faces the death penalty
* Bashir Ahmed Qureshi (1959–2012), Sindhi nationalist who served as the leader of Jeay Sindh Qaumi
* Bashir Ali Mohammad (born 1947), Pakistani businessman
* Bashir Ramathan, Ugandan boxer
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Bashir Ramzy
Bashir Ramzy (born 4 May 1979) is a male American long jumper and competes in the 110 metre hurdles.
He won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games.Bashir Safaroglu (1925–1969), Azerbaijani Soviet theater and film actor.
* Bashir Salahuddin (born 1976), American actor, writer and comedian
* Bashir Shah (born 1983), Pakistani-born Danish cricketer
* Bashir Tofa (1947-2022), Nigerian politician
* Bashir Varaev (born 1964), Chechen judoka
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Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf
Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf (, ; 1912–1984), commonly referred to as Haji Bashir,SAMIULLAH, MUHAMMAD. DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH AT SECONDARY LEVEL. Diss. UNIVERSITY OF PUNJAB, 2011. was a Somali politician. He ...
(1912–1984), Somali politician
* Bashir Yussuf (1905-1945), Somali religious leader
Bechir
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Bechir Hadidane
Bechir Hadidane (born August 18, 1984) is a Tunisian basketball player for Ezzahra Sports and the Tunisian national team.
He participated at the AfroBasket 2017
FIBA AfroBasket 2017 was the 29th edition of the AfroBasket, a men's basketball ...
(born 1984), Tunisian basketball player
* Bechir Kiiari (born 1960), Tunisian judoka
* Bechir Mardassi (born 1929), Tunisian cyclist
* Bechir Mogaadi (born 1975), Tunisian football player
* Bechir Tekkari (born 1952), Tunisian politician
Béchir
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Béchir Bouazzat
Béchir Bouazzat (5 October 1908 – 29 December 1944) was a French modern pentathlon, modern pentathlete of Tunisian descent. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was killed during World War II.
References
1908 births
1944 d ...
(1908–1944), French modern pentathlete of Tunisian descent
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (born 8 November 1955 in Saint-Louis, Senegal) is a Senegalese philosopher. His work is focused on the history of logic and mathematics, epistemology, the tradition of philosophy in the Islamic world, identity formation, ...
(born 1955), Senegalese philosopher
* Mirza Bashir Ahmad (1893–1963), an Ahmadiyya scholar and writer
* Nadim Bachir Gemayel (born 1982), Lebanese politician and member of Parliament.
* Aminu Bashir Wali (born 1941), Nigerian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Surname
Bachir
* Jamil Bachir or Bashir (1920–1977), Iraqi Assyrian musician and expert oud player
* Oubi Buchraya Bachir (born 1970), Sahrawi ambassador
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Salah Bachir
Salah Bachir, (born October 3, 1955) is a Canadian business executive, entrepreneur, publisher, art collector, fundraiser, and philanthropist. He created Phamous Characters, a media, production, publishing and sponsorship entity, which he still ...
(born 1955), Canadian patron of the arts, entrepreneur, philanthropist, magazine publisher of Lebanese descent
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Yamina Bachir
Yamina Bachir (20 March 1954 – 3 April 2022) was an Algerian film director and screenwriter. Her film ''Rachida'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. According to Roy Armes, ''Rachida'' is 'the first ...
(born 1954), Algerian film director and screenwriter
Bashir
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Aamir Bashir
Aamir Bashir is an Indian actor, film producer, and Film director, director. He is best known for his role in the thriller film, ''A Wednesday'', which earned him a Star Screen Awards, Screen Award nomination for Star Screen Award for Best Supp ...
Abdul Malik Abdul Bashir
Abdul Malik Abdul Bashir (born 11 January 1968) also known as Abdul Malik, is a Singaporean association football referee. He refereed in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, the first leg of the 2008 AFC Champions League Final. and 2013 AFC Cup Final
Refer ...
(born 1968), Singaporean association football referee
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Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (born 17 August 1938), also known as Abu Bakar Bashir, Abdus Somad, and Ustad Abu ("Teacher Abu") is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid.
He ran the Al-Mukmin boarding school in Ngruki, Central ...
(born 1938), Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council
* Ahmad Bashir (1923–2004), Pakistani writer, journalist, intellectual and film director
* Ahmed Bashir (born 1995), Pakistani cricketer
* Ahmed Mohamed El-Bashir (born 1949), Sudanese football player
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Ala Bashir
Ala Bashir (بالعربية : علاء بشير) is an Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon who has exhibited widely and is noted for his portrayals of the human condition.
Biography
Ala Bashir was born into a Shiite family of the Ju ...
(born 1939), Iraqi painter, sculptor, plastic surgeon and former medical counselor to Saddam Hussein
* Amjad Bashir (born 1952), UK MEP
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Asabe Vilita Bashir
Asabe Vilita Bashir (born 19 February 1965) is a Nigerian politician. She was elected to the Nigerian House of Representatives as a candidate of the ruling party APC in the federal constituency of Gwoza, Chibok and Damboa, Borno State, in th ...
(born 1965), Nigerian politician
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Atif Bashir
Atif Qureshi Bashir (; born 3 April 1985) is a former professional football player who played as a Defender (association football), defender. Born in Germany, he represented the Pakistan national football team, Pakistan national team.
Club car ...
(born 1985), Pakistani German football player
* Bashir Saleh Bashir (born 1946), former aide of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
* Dara Bashir (born 1960), Pakistani cricketer
* Farshad Bashir (born 1988), Dutch politician of Afghan descent
* Halima Bashir, Sudanese human rights activist
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Hassan Bashir
Hassan Naweed Bashir (; born 7 January 1987) is a professional footballer who plays for Brøndby Strand IK. Bashir has played much of his career as a forward, but has been deployed in a variety of attacking roles – as an offensive midfielde ...
(born 1987), Pakistani football player
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Javed Bashir
Javed Bashir ( Punjabi, ; born 8 August 1973) is a Pakistani playback singer who mainly sings classical songs. Javed has sung songs for many Bollywood movies including ''Cocktail'', ''Kahaani'', ''Rush'', ''Bombay Talkies'', '' Bhaag Milkha ...
(born 1973), Pakistani playback singer
* Jonis Bashir (born 1960), Somali-Italian actor and musician
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Marie Bashir
Dame Marie Roslyn Bashir (born 1 December 1930) is the former and second longest-serving Governor of New South Wales. Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, Bashir graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and held various medical positions ...
(born 1930), Governor of New South Wales
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Martin Bashir
Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British former journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's '' Panorama'' programme, for which he gained an interview with Diana, Princess of Wales under fal ...
(born 1963), British journalist
* Mowaia Bashir (born 1986), Sudanese football player
* Muhammad Bashir (disambiguation), several people
* Munir Bashir (1930–1997), Iraqi oud player
* Nas Bashir (born 1969), English football player
* Omar Bashir (musician) (born 1970), Iraqi-Hungarian musician and oud player, son of Munir Bashir and nephew of Jamil Bashir
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Omar al-Bashir
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Head of state of Sudan, Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in 2019 Sudanese c ...
(born 1944), President of Sudan and Sudanese army field marshal
* Palwasha Bashir (born 1987), Pakistani badminton player
* Ruzwana Bashir (born 1983), British businesswoman & activist
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Salman Bashir
Salman Bashir () (born 4 March 1952) is a retired Pakistani diplomat who served in Grade 22 as the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and as the High Commissioner of Pakistan to India.Shahzad Bashir (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
* Shahid Bashir, Pakistan Army engineer and aviator facing court martial
* Shoaib Bashir (born 2003), English cricketer
* Tahseen Bashir (1925–2002), Egyptian diplomat
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Yousef Bashir
Yousef Bashir (born 1989) is a Palestinian-American author and peace activist.
Early life
Bashir was born in and grew up in the Gaza Strip. His father, Khalil Bashir, was the headmaster of the German school in Gaza. Bashir's parents stresse ...
(born 1989), Palestinian-American author and peace activist
Basheer
* David Basheer (born 1966), Australian sports commentator
* Max Basheer (born 1927), former administrator with the South Australian National Football League
* Thalekunnil Basheer (1945-2022), politician from Kerala state, India
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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994), popularly referred to as the Beypore Sultan, was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, a humanist and an Indian independence activist. He was a novelist and short story writer not ...
Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir
Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir (; born December 17, 1962) is a Mauritanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Mauritania from 2018 to 2019, following the resignation of his predecessor, Yahya Ould Hademine, and his government, in late Oc ...
(born 1962), Mauritanian politician and Prime Minister
* Sayed Ali Bechir (born 1982), Qatari football player of Mauritanian descent
* Bichir family, a Mexican acting family of Lebanese descent
Fictional characters
* The title character of ''Bashir Lazhar'', a one-character play by
Évelyne de la Chenelière
Évelyne de la Chenelière (born 1975) is a Canadian writer and actress. She is best known for her plays ''Désordre public'', which won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 2006, and ''Bashir Lazhar'', which was the screenplay ...
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Julian Bashir
Julian Subatoi Bashir, MD is a fictional character from the television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', portrayed by Alexander Siddig. Bashir is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of space station Deep Space Nine and the USS ''Defiant''.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the fourth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwar ...