Nasr (name)

Nasr (نصر) is a given name and surname, more common as a surname, in the Arabic language. It may refer to:

Mononym

 * Nasr I, Samanid amir ruled 864–892
 * Nasr II, Samanid amir, ruled 914–943
 * Nasr, Sultan of Granada (1287–1322), in the Nasrid dynasty

Given name

 * Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan (born 1941), Jordanian-Palestinian artist, television interior designer/producer
 * Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010), Egyptian Qur'anic thinker
 * Nasr ibn Sayyar (663–748), Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748
 * Nasr ibn Shabath al-Uqayli, early 9th-century rebel leader in the Jazira
 * Nasr Javed, Kashmiri senior operative of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba
 * Nasr Al-Madhkur, 18th century local governor of what was described by a contemporary account as an "independent state" of Bushire and Bahrain
 * Nasra Ali Abukar (born 2003) Somali female athlete
 * Nasr El Hag Ali, the first vice chancellor of the University of Khartoum

Middle name

 * Alireza Nasr Azadani (born 1985), Iranian taekwondo player

Surname

 * Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr (died 1307), Marinid ruler of Morocco
 * Ali Nasr (1891-1961), Iranian dramatist and playwright
 * Farouk Seif Al Nasr (1922–2009), Egyptian politician
 * Felipe Nasr, Brazilian racing driver
 * Ghassan Nasr, academic and translator
 * Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, Egyptian cleric who was living in asylum in Italy until being allegedly abducted by the CIA
 * Kamila Nasr, Canadian singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Beijing
 * May Nasr, Lebanese singer, musician and microfinancing consultant
 * Mahmoud Nasr, Egyptian cinematographer
 * Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr (born 1953), Egyptian engineering professor, politician and minister
 * Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr, a General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
 * Octavia Nasr, Lebanese-American journalist
 * Ramsey Nasr (born 1974), Dutch-Palestinian author and actor
 * Rasha Nasr (born 1992), Syrian-German politician
 * Said Al Nasr, Syrian Palestinian, convicted in Belgium in 1980 for terrorism
 * Salah Nasr (1920–1982), head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate from 1957 to 1967
 * Saleh Nasr (born 1999), Egyptian football player
 * Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Iranian professor in the department of Islamic studies at George Washington University
 * Suad Nasr (1953–2007), Egyptian stage, television, and film actress
 * Vali Reza Nasr, Iranian-born U.S. academic and scholar teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School
 * Yasman Malek-Nasr (also spelt Yassamin Maleknasr, born 1955), Iranian filmmaker and actress