Bashar

Bashar (Arabic: بشار) is a given name, surname, and place name. Bashar may refer to:

Places

 * Bashar, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
 * Bashar, Plateau State, a village in the Wase local Government Area of Plateau State In Nigeria
 * Béchar, the capital city of Béchar Province, Algeria

Given name

 * Bashar Abdullah (born 1977), Kuwaiti footballer
 * Bashar al-Assad (born 1965), President of Syria
 * Bashar Jaafari (born 1956), Syrian diplomat
 * Bashar Barakah Jackson (1999–2020), American rapper
 * Bashar Lulua, Berlin-based Arab orchestra conductor
 * Bashar Masri (born 1961), Palestinian American entrepreneur
 * Bashar Murad (born 1993), Palestinian singer-songwriter
 * Bashar Rahal (born 1974), Bulgarian actor of Lebanese descent
 * Bashar Rasan (born 1996), Iraqi footballer
 * Bashar al-Shatti (born 1982), also known as Basharno, Beesho and Maystro, Kuwaiti singer, songwriter and actor
 * Bashar Shbib (born 1959), Syrian Canadian filmmaker
 * Bashar Srour (born 1972), Syrian footballer
 * Bashar al-Zoubi, Free Syrian Army general
 * Bashar Warda (born 1969), Iraqi Chaldean Catholic cleric and Archbishop

Surname

 * Caresse Bashar (born 1976), Syrian film and TV actress
 * Habibul Bashar (born 1972), Bangladeshi cricketer
 * Khademul Bashar (1935–1976), Bangladeshi air marshal

Title

 * Abul Bashar, Bangladeshi writer
 * Bashshar ibn Burd (714–783) nicknamed "al-Mura'ath", poet in the late Umayyad and the early Abbasid periods
 * Haji Bashar, convicted former Afghan drug lord

Others

 * Bashar language, an alternative name for Yankam language, a moribund Plateau language of Nigeria
 * Bashar (Dune), a fictional military rank in the Dune universe
 * Ya Bashar, studio album by Lebanese recording artist Diana Haddad