Tanvir (also spelled Tanbhir, Tanbheer, Tanveer, Tanweer, or Tanwir) ( ar, تنوير, romanised: ;

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languag ...

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

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: , romanised: ; bn, তানভীর, romanised: ) is a unisex given name and surname, derived from Arabic meaning 'enlightenment', also derived from

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...

and

Punjabi language Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab, Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first lan ...

s in India meaning 'strong in body, brave from body'.

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* Tanveer Ahmed (boxer), Pakistani boxer * Tanveer Ahmed (footballer), Pakistani footballer *

Tanveer Ahmed (psychiatrist) Tanveer Ahmed (born 1975) is a Bangladeshi born Australian psychiatrist, journalist and television presenter. Early life Ahmed was born in Bangladesh in 1975. He and his parents moved to Australia in 1981, and settled in Toongabbie, in the wester ...

, Bangladeshi-Australian psychiatrist and journalist *

Tanvir Ahmed Tanvir Ahmed ( bal, تنويراحمد; born 20 December 1978) is a former Pakistani Test cricketer born in Kuwait. Ahmed is mainly a fast-bowler. He played for Pakistan in a first-class match against Worcestershire in the tour of England in ...

, Pakistani cricketer *

Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed (Urdu: تنویر محمود احمد; died 2022) is a retired air chief of the Pakistan Air Force who was the Chief of the Air Staff from 2006 to 2009. He was succeeded by Rao Qamar Suleman on 18 March 2009.

, Pakistan Air Force officer *

Tanveer Ghani Tanveer Ghani is a British actor. He has appeared in various British television programmes and British films. One of his first roles was in the BBC hospital drama, ''Angels'' (1982). He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Rezaul Kabir ...

, British actor * Tanvir Gill, a news anchor at CNBC *

Tanveer Haider Tanbir Hayder Khan (born 5 December 1991) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He made his first senior appearances in 2010, playing in two first-class matches for Sylhet Division. He later made his List A debut for the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI, pl ...

, Bangladeshi cricketer *

Rana Tanveer Hussain Rana Tanveer Hussain (; born 1 October 1949) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly between 1985 and May 2018. He served as ...

, former Minister in Pakistan * Tanvir Hussain, English terrorist convicted for the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot * Tanvir Islam, Bangladeshi scientist *

Tanveer Ashraf Kaira Tanveer Ashraf Kaira (born August 25, 1960), is a Pakistani politician. He is the former Finance minister of Punjab, Pakistan. He was elected as a Member Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in General Elections 2002. He won again in 2008 as MPA an ...

, Politician *

Tanvir Ahmad Khan Tanvir Ahmad Khan (12 June 1932 – 16 November 2013) was a career diplomat from Pakistan.Tanvir Mehdi Tanvir Mehdi (born November 7, 1972, in Lahore, Punjab), is a former Pakistani cricketer who played one ODI ODI may refer to: * Object Design, Incorporated, a defunct database software company * One Day International, cricket match * Open Data ...

, Pakistani cricketer *

Tanvir Mokammel Tanvir Mokammel (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer. He is the recipient of Ekushey Padak in 2017. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards total ten times for the films ''Nodir Naam Modhumoti'' (1995), '' Chitra Nodir Pare'' ...

, Bangladeshi film director * Tanveer Naqvi, Pakistani general *

Tanvir Sadiq Tanvir Sadiq is the Chief Spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Advisor to the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah. Born in Srinagar into a political family, he did his schooling from Burn Hall School ...

, Indian politician * Tanveer Zaidi.Indian film actor and educationist * Tanvir Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer *

, Bangladeshi cricket umpire *

Tanvir Tareq Syed Md Tanvir Tareq (known as Tanvir Tareq) is a Bangladeshi National Award Winner music composer, director, singer, writer and television anchor.He is Bangladeshi National Award Winner Music Composer, Singer, writer and Tv personality. He is wo ...

, Bangladeshi music composer, director, singer, and television anchor

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Habib Tanvir Habib Tanvir (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009) was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He was the writer of plays such as, ''Agra Bazar'' (1954) and ''Charandas Chor'' (1975). A pio ...

, Indian theatre director *

Nial Tanvir Nial Rahil Tanvir (born 1965) is a British astronomer at the University of Leicester. His research specialisms are the Extragalactic distance scale, Galaxy evolution and Gamma ray bursts. Tanvir has featured in various TV programs, including ''Th ...

, British astronomer *

Shehzad Tanweer Shehzad Tanweer (15 December 1982 – 7 July 2005) was one of four Islamist terrorists who detonated explosives in three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. 56 people were killed ...

, English Islamic terrorist and perpetrator of the

7/7 attacks The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists in London that targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the mor ...

Sohail Tanvir Sohail Tanvir ( ur, ; born 12 December 1984) is a Pakistani cricketer, who has gained considerable international repute for his unorthodox left arm bowling action and particularly for the success it has gained him in the Twenty20 format of the ...

, Pakistani cricketer

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