Lior () is a Jewish
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 ...
. Alternative spellings include Leeor, Leor, and Lyor. A female variant is
Leora.
Lior may refer to the following persons:
Given name
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Lior Arditti (born 1977), Israeli basketball player
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Lior Ashkenazi
Lior Ashkenazi (; born 28 December 1968) is an Israeli actor, voice actor, comedian and television presenter. Regarded as one of the best performers of his generation in Israel, he is recognized for his versatile work across independent films, tel ...
, Israeli actor
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Lior Asulin
Lior Asulin (; 6 October 1980 – 7 October 2023) was an Israeli footballer who played as a striker. He was murdered during the Nova music festival massacre by Hamas militants in the attack which led to the outbreak of the Gaza war.
Career
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, Israeli football player
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Lior Attar, Israeli-born Australian singer-songwriter
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Lior Ben-David, Israeli professional wrestler
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Lior Eliyahu
Lior Eliyahu (; born 9 September 1985) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He is 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) in height and he weighs 105 kg (225 pounds). He plays at the Power forward (basketball), power forward position. He was ...
(born 1985), Israeli basketball player
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Lior Jan, Israeli football (soccer) player
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Lior Lubin
Lior Lubin (; 19 September 1977 – 22 January 2024) was an Israeli professional basketball coach and onetime national team player. He was born in Ramat Gan, Israel. In 2000, he was the Israeli Basketball Premier League Statistical Leaders#Assist ...
(born 1979), Israeli basketball player and coach
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Lior Mor (born 1976), Israeli tennis player
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Lior Narkis
Lior Narkis (; born November 8, 1976, in Holon, Israel) is an Israeli singer.
Biography
Lior Narkis was born in Holon. His father, David Narkis, was of Iraqi-Jewish origin. His mother Hanna Narkis, was of Serbian-Jewish descent and also had Gr ...
, Israeli singer who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
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Lior Perlmutter, member of the Israeli Goa trance group Astral Projection
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Lior Rafaelov, Israeli football (soccer) player
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Lior Raz (born 1971), Israeli actor and screenwriter
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Lior Rosner
Lior Rosner is an Israeli-born film, TV and classical music composer, conductor, and theme branding expert.
Rosner created the theme for ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. He was a nominee for an International Film Music Critics Association nominee a ...
, composer, primarily of the ''
Power Rangers
''Power Rangers'' is an American media franchise created by Haim Saban, Shuki Levy and Shotaro Ishinomori built around a live-action superhero television series, based on the Japanese tokusatsu franchise ''Super Sentai''. It is currently ow ...
'' franchise
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Lior Schleien, Israeli satirist
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Lior Shamriz
Lior Shamriz (born September 13, 1978) is a writer, producer, and film director. They reside in Santa Cruz, California.
Early Life
Shamriz was born to a Jewish-Iraqi mother and a Jewish-Iranian father in Ashkelon, a working-class city in southe ...
, German-Israeli film director
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Lior Suchard
Lior Suchard (, ; born 6 December 1981) is an Israeli mentalist, entrepreneur, businessman, entertainer, performer, and master of ceremonies.
Early life
Suchard was born in Haifa, Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a count ...
, Israeli mentalist
Leor
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Leor Dimant (born 1972), Latvian-American musician
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Leor Weinberger (born 1977), Canadian-born American biologist
Lyor
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Lyor Cohen
Lyor Cohen (born October 3, 1959) is an American music industry executive. He is YouTube's global head of music. He began his career in the 1980s at Rush Management and Def Jam, and later held senior positions at Island Def Jam and Warner M ...
(born 1959), American music industry executive
Surname
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Dov Lior
Dov Lior (; born 30 October 1933) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and political figure part of a far-right, nationalist movement for an ethnic and religious state. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement near the West Ban ...
, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and political figure
* (1905–1989), Israeli statesman, Secretary of the Knesset (1968–1972)
* (born 1953), n Israeli economic journalist, the editor-in-chief of ''
Yedioth Ahronoth
(, ; lit. "Latest News") is an Israeli daily mass market newspaper published in Tel Aviv. Founded in 1939, is Israel's largest paid newspaper by sales and circulation and has been described as "undoubtedly the country's number-one paper." ''
* (1921–1981), Israeli military commander, Military Secretary to the Prime Minister
See also
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Leor Energy, a natural gas company in Texas
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Leora
Notes and references
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