Nuru may refer to:

People

Nuru Awadhi Bafadhili Nuru Awadhi Bafadhili (born November 22, 1952) is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bor ...

(born 1952), Tanzanian politician *

Nuru Bayramov Nuru Bayramov (; born 1963) is a surgeon, a professor and head of first department of surgical diseases in Azerbaijan Medical University. Early life, education and career Nuru Bayramov was born on 17 September 1963 in the Narimanli village of ...

, surgeon and academic *

Nuru Kane Nuru Kane (born Papa Nouroudine Kane) is a Senegalese singer/songwriter who plays guitar, bass and guimbri, a three-stringed bass in the band Bayefall Gnawa. Nuru's debut CD, ''Sigil'', which was released in the UK on March 14, 2006 and the r ...

, Senegalese singer *

Sara Nuru Sara Nuru (born 19 August 1989) is a German fashion model and entrepreneur. She was the winner of the Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 4, fourth cycle of ''Germany's Next Top Model''. Since 2016, Nuru has been running nuruCoffee, a fair trade coff ...

(born 1989), German fashion model of Ethiopian descent *

Mohammed Nuru Mohammed Nuru (born November 15, 1962, England) is an American former civil servant and convicted criminal. He was formerly the Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Works from 2011 until 2020 where he was involved in a corruption sca ...

, American former civil servant

Places

Nuru, Silifke Nuru (sometimes spelled as ''Nuri'') is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silifke, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 506 (2022). Nuru is a neighbourhood in forests. It is situated on Toros Mountains to the west of Göksu ...

, a village in Mersin Province, Turkey *

Qara Nuru Qara Nuru (known as Krasnoselsk until 1992)Президиум Верховного Совета Азербайджанской ССР. "Азербайджанская ССР. Административно-территориальное делен ...

, a village in Saatly District, Azerbaijan

Other uses

Nuru (massage) Nuru () is a type of erotic massage, massage involving full body contact, where both the masseur or masseuse and client are nude and coated with gel, traditionally made from nori seaweed. The practice originated in Japan in the mid-20th century a ...

, a type of erotic massage *

Nuru Energy Nuru Energy is an international social enterprise which is working to address the global problem of energy poverty and climate change in Africa and India. This is through the distribution of affordable LED lamps that are recharged using a simp ...

, a Rwanda-based company *

Nuru International Nuru is a United States is a 501(c)3 created to help marginalized communities in rural areas of Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. The ultimate aim of the program is to help local leaders end extreme poverty in their communities. ...

, an NGO working in Kenya and Ethiopia *

Nuru River The Nuru River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands i ...

, in Papua New Guinea {{Disambiguation, given name