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

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Amor Ben Tahar Amor Ben Taher (; born January 1, 1969) is a retired Tunisian footballer. He played as middle forward. Amor Ben Taher is a former player for the Océano Club de Kerkennah as well as the Club Sportif Sfaxien in 1995 and 1999. He won the Confeder ...

(born 1969), Tunisian football player *

Arcandra Tahar Arcandra Tahar (born 10 October 1970) is an Indonesian politician. He was formerly Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia on the Working Cabinet, replacing Sudirman Said who was dismissed by President Joko Widodo i ...

(born 1970), Indonesian politician and government minister *

Aymen Tahar Aymen Tahar (; born 2 October 1989) is an Algerian professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Greek Super League 2 club AEL. At international level, he has represented the Algeria U20 national team. Club career Playing in E ...

(born 1989), Algerian football player *

Zoulikha Tahar Zoulikha Tahar (Arabic: زوليخة طاهر), also known as Toute Fine, (born 15 August 1992, Oran) is an Algerian feminist, poet, slameuse and self-taught videographer. She is a doctoral student in materials mechanics (University Djillali Liabe ...

(born 1992), Algerian feminist, poet, slameuse and self-taught videographer

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Tahar Allan Tahar Allan was the Algerian minister for posts and telecommunications in the 1992 government of Belaid Abdessalam.Hunter, Brian. (Ed.) (1993) The Statesman's Year-Book 1993-94'. 130th edition. London: Macmillan. p. 81. References Possibly ...

, 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 Tahar Bekri (born 1951) is a Paris-based Tunisian poet and literary critic. Early life Tahar Bekri was born on July 7, 1951, in Gabès, Tunisia. Career Bekri has taught Literature of the Maghreb at Paris 13 University since 1985. He has publishe ...

(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 Tahar Douis is a Moroccan wrestler of alligators known for hypnotizing them and putting his head inside their open jaws. He was born in the 1950s in Marrakech, left home at age 6 to join a group of street performers, and later began performing for ...

, Moroccan wrestler of alligators *

Tahar El Khalej Tahar El Khalej (; born 16 June 1968) is a Moroccan former footballer who played as a defender. Club career Born in Marrakech, El Khalej started at Kawkab Marrakech in 1990, spending four seasons there, helping them win one league title and tw ...

(born 1968), Moroccan football player *

Tahar Haddad Tahar Haddad (; 1899 – December 1935) was a Tunisian author, trade unionist, socialist, scholar and reformer. Haddad was born in Tunis to a family of shopkeepers and studied Islamic law at the Great Mosque of Zitouna from 1911 until his gradua ...

(1899–1935), Tunisian author, scholar and reformer *

Tahar Lamri Tahar Lamri (born 1958 in Algiers) is an Algerian writer. Biography Tahar lived in Libya from 1979 to 1984. He concluded his law studies in international relations and worked as translator for the French embassy in Benghazi. He moved later to Fra ...

, (born 1958), Algerian writer *

Tahar Mansouri Tahar Ben Hassine Mansouri (born 9 January 1965 in Fouchana, Tunis) is a retired Tunisian marathon runner The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road running, road race, but t ...

(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

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