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Tahar is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:


Surname

* Amor Ben Tahar (born 1969), Tunisian football player * Arcandra Tahar (born 1970), Indonesian politician and government minister * Aymen Tahar (born 1989), Algerian football player * Zoulikha Tahar (born 1992), Algerian feminist, poet, slameuse and self-taught videographer


Given name

* Tahar Allan, Algerian politician *
Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun (; born 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel ''L'Enfant de sable'' ('' The Sand Child''). All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated f ...
(born 1944), Moroccan poet and writer * Tahar Bekri (born 1951), Tunisian poet *
Tahar Djaout Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After unive ...
(1954–1993), Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer * Tahar Douis, Moroccan wrestler of alligators * Tahar El Khalej (born 1968), Moroccan football player * Tahar Haddad (1899–1935), Tunisian author, scholar and reformer * Tahar Lamri, (born 1958), Algerian writer * Tahar Mansouri (born 1965), Tunisian marathon runner *
Tahar Rahim Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film '' A Prophet'', for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He then starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in t ...
(born 1981), French actor *
Tahar Tamsamani Tahar Tamsamani (born 10 September 1980) is a retired Moroccan boxer. He competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 2000. In 2000 he won a bronze medal in the featherweight (57 kg) division, after falling in the ...
(born 1980), boxer from Morocco who participated in three Olympic tournaments *
Tahar Zbiri Tahar Zbiri (; 4 April 1929 – 30 October 2024) was an Algerian military officer, best known for his role in the country's post-independence military and political developments, particularly his involvement in an attempted coup against the gov ...
(1929-2024), Algerian military officer


See also

* Stade Tahar Zoughari, multi-use stadium in Relizane, Algeria *
Taher (name) Taher () (spelled Tahir and Tahar in English and French, Тагир in Russian; Pashto, Urdu and Persian: طاهر,; , ) is a name meaning "pure" or "virtuous". The origin of this name is Arabic. There are several Semitic variations that include ...
, including the name Tahir {{given name, type=both