Nuri (name)

Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, نوري, 누리, ) is a unisex name. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Nuri Ja'far (1914 – 1991), Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education
 * Nuri Badran (born 1943), Iraqi politician
 * Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author
 * Nuri Berköz (1889–1975), Azerbaijani general
 * Nuri Boytorun (1908–1988), Turkish wrestler
 * Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959), Turkish filmmaker
 * Nuri Demirağ (1886–1957), Turkish industrialist
 * Nuri Killigil (1881–1949), general in the Ottoman army
 * Nuri Kino (born 1965), Swedish journalist and filmmaker
 * Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950), Prime Minister of Iraq
 * Nuri Montsé (1917–1971), Argentine actress
 * Nuri Ok (1942–2015), Turkish judge
 * Nouri Ouznadji (born 1984), Algerian footballer
 * Nuri as-Said (1888–1958), Iraqi politician
 * Nuri bin Hazaa Al Shalaan (1847–1942), Arab tribe chief
 * Nuri Sojliu (1870–1940), signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
 * Nuri Şahin (born 1988), Turkish footballer
 * Nuri Şahin (volleyball player) (born 1980), Turkish volleyball player

Surname

 * Abdelhak Nouri (born 1997), Dutch footballer
 * Abdollah Nouri, Iranian politician
 * Alekhine Nouri, Filipino chess master
 * Alexander Nouri (born 1979), Iranian-German football manager
 * Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, Iranian politician
 * Alireza Noori, Iranian politician
 * George Noory, radio talk show host
 * Hossein Nuri, Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker
 * Kat Nouri, Iranian-born American entrepreneur and inventor
 * Michael Nouri, Lebanese-American actor
 * Mina Nouri (born 1951), Iranian painter
 * Mohammad Nouri (footballer), Iranian footballer
 * Mohammad Nouri (singer), Iranian singer
 * Milad Nouri (footballer born 1986), Iranian footballer
 * Pejman Nouri, Iranian footballer
 * Pir Syed Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri, Islamic saint
 * Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (1947–2006), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
 * Shahab Sheikh Nuri (1932–1976), Kurdish politician
 * Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, Iranian cleric
 * Süleyman Nuri (1895–1966), Ottoman Russian communist politician
 * Vahid Nouri (born 1989), Iranian paralympic judoka
 * Vivian Nouri (born 1993), known professionally as NOURI (artist), New Zealand recording artist of Kurdish descent
 * Yochanan ben Nuri, Tanna of the first and second century CE

Middle name

 * Hossein Noori Hamedani, Iranian ayatollah
 * Rasih Nuri İleri (1920–2014), Turkish writer and socialist politician