Bakhtiar (name)

Bakhtiyār (meaning "lucky"), alternatively spelt as "Bakhtyar", "Baxtiyar", "Bachtiar", "Bachtyar" and "Bahtiyar", is a Persian masculine given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Bahtiyar

 * Bahtiyar Aydın (1946–1993), Turkish general
 * Bahtiyar Can Vanlı (born 1962), Turkish-German football coach

Bakhtiyar

 * Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji, Ghurid general in Bengal under Qutb-ud-din Aibak
 * Bakhtiyar Kaki, a 13th-century Sufi
 * Bakhtiyar Artayev, a Kazakh boxer
 * Bakhtiyar Akhmedov, a Russian wrestler
 * Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, an Azerbaijani poet
 * Bakhtiyar Musayev, an Azerbaijani footballer
 * Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Russian international lawyer
 * Bakhtiyar Tyleganov, a Kazakh boxer
 * Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov, a Kazakh footballer
 * Baxtiyor Rahimov, an Uzbek Islamist militant
 * Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev, an Uzbek football player
 * Bakhtiyar ibn Abu-Ja'far, an 11th-century local ruler of Semnan (under Ziyarids)
 * 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, a 10th-century Buyid Amir
 * Bakhtiyar ibn Hasanuya, a 10th-century Hasanuyid Amir
 * Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel (of Tatar origin)
 * Bakhtiar Amin, Iraqi Kurdish politician

Bachtiar

 * Bachtiar Aly, Indonesian Ambassador for Egypt from 2002 to 2005
 * Bachtiar Chamsyah, Indonesian politician
 * Bachtiar Effendi, Indonesian film actor and director

Bachtyar

 * Bachtyar Ali, Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual

Surname

 * Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar, Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin
 * Lailee Bakhtiar, American author and critic
 * Laleh Bakhtiar, Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist
 * Rudi Bakhtiar, Iranian-American newswoman
 * Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran
 * Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak
 * Akmal Bakhtiyarov, a Kazakh footballer