Nizar or Nazar or Nezar or Nezzar () may refer to:
Ancient and medieval people
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Nizar ibn Ma'ad
Nizar ibn Ma'add ibn Adnan () was the common ancestor of most of the northern Arab tribes (the Adnanites), according to the Arab genealogical tradition. As a result, the term 'Nizar', or Nizariyya (), has been used as a loosely defined name for ...
, ancestor of Muhammad and most of the Adnanite tribes
*Abu Mansur Nizar
al-Aziz Billah
Abu Mansur Nizar (; 10 May 955 – 14 October 996), known by his regnal name as al-Aziz Billah (), was the fifth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, from 975 to his death in 996. His reign saw the capture of Damascus and the Fatimid expansion into ...
(955–996), fifth Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate
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Nizar ibn al-Mustansir
Abu Mansur Nizar ibn al-Mustansir (; 1045–1095) was a Fatimid dynasty, Fatimid prince, and the oldest son of the eighth Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid caliph and eighteenth Isma'ilism, Isma'ili Imamate in Ismaili doctrine, imam, al-Mustansir Bi ...
(died 1095) Fatimid prince and claimant caliph in 1095
Modern people
Surname
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Jamo Nezzar (born 1966), Algerian bodybuilder
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Khaled Nezzar (born 1937), Algerian general
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Lotfi Nezzar, Algerian businessman
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Salman Nizar (born 1997), Indian cricketer
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Yazin Nizar
Yazin Nizar, also known as Yasin (born February 9, 1990), is an Indian playback singer who works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi language films. Nizar sang the Tamil and Malayalam versions of the Oscar-winning song '' Naatu N ...
(born 1990), Indian playback singer
Given name
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Nizar Al-Adsani
Nizar Mohammed Al-Adsani is a Kuwaiti businessman and former deputy-chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Education
Al-Adsani has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from South Dakota State Univ ...
, Kuwaiti business man
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Nazar Al Baharna (born 1950), Bahraini politician
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Nezar AlSayyad (born 1956), Egyptian-American architect
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Nizar Assaad (born 1948), Syrian-born Canadian construction engineer
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Nizar Baraka (born 1964), Moroccan politician
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Nizar Chaari (born 1977), Tunisian radio and television presenter and producer
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Nizar Dramsy, Malagasy politician
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Nizar Hamdoon (1944–2003), Iraqi politician and diplomat
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Nizar Hamid (born 1988), Sudanese footballer
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Nezar Hindawi (born 1954), Jordanian convicted of attempting to place a bomb on a plane
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Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin (born 1957), Menteri Besar (MB) of the Malaysian state of Perak
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Nizar Khalfan
Nizar Khalfan (born 21 June 1988) is a Tanzanian professional association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Pamba S.C., Pamba.
Career
Early career
Khalfan started playing football in his hometown of Mtwara with a youth team c ...
(born 1988), Tanzanian footballer
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Nizar Knioua (born 1983), Tunisian basketball player
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Nizar Madani (born 1941), Saudi politician
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Nizar Mahrous (born 1963), Syrian football player
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Nizar Ben Nasra (born 1987), Tunisian-Austrian football forward
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Nizar Nayyouf (born 1962), Syrian journalist
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Nizar Niyas (born 1990), Indian first-class cricket player
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Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998), Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
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Nizar Rayan
Nizar Rayan (, , also transliterated Rayyan; 6 March 1959 – 1 January 2009) was a high-ranking Hamas leader who served as a liaison between the Palestinian organization's political leadership and its military wing. Also a professor of Isl ...
(1959–2009), Palestinian Hamas leader
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Nizar Sassi (born 1979), Frenchman detained in Guantanamo
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Yousif Nizar Saleh (born 1994), Kuwaiti squash player
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Nizar Samlal (born 1979), Moroccan canoeman
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Nizar Shafi (born 1989), Indian cinematographer
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Nizar Trabelsi (born 1970), Tunisian football player
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Nizar Wattad, Palestinian/American rapper
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Mohd Nizar Zakaria (born 1969), Malaysian politician
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Nizar Zakka, Lebanese information technology expert
Places
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Gamishli Nazar, village in Iran
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Nizar, Iran, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran
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Nezar, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
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Nijhar, sometimes written as Nizar, tehsil in Tapi district in Gujarat, India
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