Noor (name)

Noor (also spelt Nur, Nor, or Nour, نور: ) is a common Arabic feminine and masculine given name meaning "light", from the Arabic al-Nur (النور). Variants include Noora, Nora, Norah, Noura, and Nura It is also used as a surname.

Noor

 * Queen Noor of Jordan (born 1951), former Queen of Jordan
 * Noor Ahmad (born 2005), Afghan cricketer
 * Noor Alam (1929–2003), Pakistani field hockey player
 * Princess Noor bint Asem (born 1982), of the Jordanian Royal Family
 * Noor Bukhari (born 1976), Pakistani actress
 * Noor Muhammad Butt (born 1936), Pakistani nuclear physicist
 * S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury, Bangladesh Army officer
 * Noor Dean (born 1946), Indo-Fijian lawyer
 * Noor Islam Dawar (died 2021), Pakistani Pashtun human rights activist
 * Noor Hassanali (1918–2006), former president of Trinidad and Tobago
 * Noor Jehan (1926–2000), Pakistani singer and actress
 * Noor Inayat Khan (1914–1944), Indian born British SOE agent
 * Princess Noor Pahlavi (born 1992), Iranian princess
 * Noor Sabri (born 1984), Iraqi footballer
 * Noor Tagouri (born 1993), American journalist and activist

Nour

 * Nour (Marian Farid Abi Habib) (born 1977), Lebanese actress
 * Nour El-Sherif (1946–2015), Egyptian actor
 * Nour El-Sayed (born 1984), Egyptian footballer
 * Nour Mansour (born 1989), Lebanese footballer
 * Nour Mhanna, Syrian singer
 * Nour Ardakani (born 2001), Lebanese singer and dancer

Nur
Politicians, statesmen, and royalty
 * Nur ibn Mujahid (reigned 1550-1567), 16th-century Somali Emir of Harar
 * Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman leader of the Habr Yunis clan
 * Nur Bekri, high ranked Chinese politician
 * Nur Alam, Indonesian governor of South East Sulawesi
 * Nur Hassan Wirajuda, former Indonesian minister of foreign affairs
 * Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic
 * Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress
 * Nur Devlet (reigned 1466-1469, 1475-1476), khan of the Crimean Khanate
 * Nur Matan Abdi, Somali politician and military commander
 * Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, first President of Kazakhstan
 * Musa Nur Amin, Somali politician

Intellectuals
 * Nur Yalman, Turkish anthropologist
 * Cak Nur, the nickname of Nurcholish Madjid, a prominent Indonesian Muslim intellectual
 * Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian philosopher, jurist, and musician

Sportspeople
 * Cansu Nur Kaya (born 2000), Turkish footballer
 * Esma Nur Çakmak (born 2004), Turkish arm wrestler
 * Gamze Nur Yaman (born 1999), Turkish footballer
 * Nur B. Ali, Pakistani-American racecar driver
 * Nur Banu Özpak (born 1996), Turkish sport shooter
 * Nur Mustafa Gülen (born 1960), Turkish footballer and coach
 * Nur Nurhan Çakmak, Turkish women's footballer
 * Büşra Nur Tırıklı (born 1994), Turkish Paralympian discus thrower
 * Merve Nur Eroğlu (born 1993), Turkish Paralympic archer
 * Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast
 * Seda Nur İncik (born 2000), Turkish footballer
 * Şeyma Nur Emeksiz Bacaksız, Turkish Para Taekwondo practitioner

Others
 * Nur Batur (born 1952(, Turkish journalist
 * Nur Fettahoğlu, Turkish German actress
 * Nur Sürer, Turkish actress
 * Nur Hossain, Bangladeshi activist
 * Nur Khan, Pakistan Air Force officer

Surname

 * Ayman Nour (born 1964), Egyptian politician
 * Meraj Khalid Noor, Indian politician
 * Mohamed Mohamed Noor (born 1985), a United States police officer, convicted for the killing of Justine Damond
 * Mohamed Noor, American biologist and geneticist
 * Mohammad Noor (1901–1979), Indonesian politician
 * Mohammed Noor (born 1978), Saudi Arabian footballer
 * Farah Nur (1862–1932), Somali poet and warrior
 * Mariam Nour (born 1936), Lebanese television personality
 * Omar Nour (born 1978), Egyptian triathlete
 * Sabila Noor, Bangladeshi actress
 * Shajal Noor, Bangladeshi actor
 * Nur Ahmed Nur (born 1937), Afghan communist
 * Rıza Nur (1879–1942), Turkish surgeon
 * Viive Noor (born 1955), Estonian illustrator and curator
 * Yusuf Haji Nur, Somali politician
 * Yusuf Haji Nur, Somali politician

Noor

 * Noor, an older lady who attempts to groom Saroo in Lion
 * Noor Bauwens, a fictional character in the Belgian online series wtFOCK
 * Noor Pradesh, a fictional female character in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, first appearing in the fourth entry, A Map of Days

Nour

 * Nour, young boy in J. M. G. Le Clézio's novel Désert
 * Nour El Deen Mahmoud Nour El Deen, a fictional character in Malaf Al Mostakbal series

Nur

 * En Sabah Nur, a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics
 * Nur the Vlogger Fairy, a supporting character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise

Arabic-based compound names with Nur as an element

 * Nurullah, that is Nur Allah, meaning light of God
 * Nurul Alam (disambiguation), that is Nur al-Alam, meaning light of the world
 * Nurul Amin (disambiguation), that is Nur al-Amin, meaning light of the trustworthy
 * Nur al-Din, that is Nur al-Din, meaning light of the religion/faith
 * Nur ul-Hasan, that is Nur al-Hasan, meaning light of Hasan
 * Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921–1993), Indian historian
 * Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan (born 1993), Bangladeshi cricketer
 * Prof. Syed Nurul Hasan College, West Bengal
 * Nur ul-Huda, that is Nur al-Huda, meaning light of the guidance
 * Nurul Islam, that is Nur al-Islam, meaning light of Islam
 * Nurur Rahman, that is Nur al-Rahman, meaning light of the Most Merciful Allah
 * Nurur Rahman, Bangladeshi professor and politician from Comilla
 * Sayyid Mohammad Nurur Rahman Barkati, Shahi Imam of West Bengal
 * Nuruzzaman, that is Nur al-Zaman, meaning light of the era
 * Abdel Nour, that is Abd an-Nur, meaning servant of the Light
 * Nuri, meaning luminous or my light
 * Núria, a Catalan girl's name, has been suggested to be related to this name