Kamkar (Persian and Arabic spelling: کامکار ) is a Persian surname. It consists of two binding words ''Kam'', translated to "success" or "luck" and ''Kar'', translated to "work" or "business". The meaning of the surname Kamkar is "Successful" but could also be interpreted to "Successful in his/her actions or career".
Notable people with the surname include:
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Kamkar Companies, a diversified holding company headquartered in New York City
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The Kamkars
The Kamkars (, ) is a Kurdish Iran musical family group of seven brothers and a sister, all from the city of Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdistan province of Iran.
The group has performed numerous concerts around the world, including their per ...
, musical ensemble in Iran
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Mohammad Kamkar,
first Iranian Nuclear Medicine physician. Specialized in Internal medicine, Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine from Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities in United States, and Shiraz University, Shiraz
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Samy Kamkar
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company bas ...
, American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur
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Mariam Kamkar, Professor in Software Engineering and Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden
Mariam Kamkar
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