Tamer

Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means Competent soldier in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).

Given name

 * Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
 * Tamer Ashor (born 1984), Egyptian singer and composer
 * Tamer Balci (1917–1993), Turkish actor
 * Tamer Basar, Turkish control theorist
 * Tamer Başoğlu, (born 1938) Turkish sculptor
 * Tamer Bayoumi, Egyptian taekwondo player and Olympian
 * Tamer El Said, Egyptian film director, producer, and writer
 * Tamer El-Sawy, Egyptian tennis player
 * Tamer Fernandes (born 1974), English football player
 * Tamer Hamed (born 1974), Egyptian swimmer and Olympian
 * Tamer Hassan, English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent
 * Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter
 * Tamer Karadağlı, Turkish actor
 * Tamer Moustafa (born 1982), Egyptian basketball player
 * Tamer Nafar, Arab Israeli rap artist
 * Tamer Oyguç, Turkish professional basketball player
 * Tamer Peker (born 1970), Turkish operatic baritone
 * Tamer Şahin (born 1981), Turkish hacker
 * Tamer Mohamed Tahoun (born 1977), Egyptian fencer
 * Tamer Seckin, American gynecologist and laparoscopic surgeon
 * Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1976), Turkish football player and coach
 * Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991), Turkish football player
 * Tamer Yiğit (born Tamer Özyiğitoğlu in 1942), Turkish actor

Family name

 * Chris Tamer (born 1970), American ice hockey player
 * Georges Tamer, professor of philology and Arabic and Islamic studies
 * Kandy Tamer, Australian-born rugby league player of Lebanese origin
 * Tony Tamer, American businessman, founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
 * Zakaria Tamer (born 1931), Syrian short story writer
 * Michel Temer, or Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, Brazilian politician of Lebanese descent, President of Brazil
 * Taleedah Tamer, Saudi Arabian fashion model

Places

 * Tamer, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
 * Tamer, Golestan, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
 * Tamer, Yazd, a village in Yazd Province, Iran
 * Tamer, Btaaboura, a village in Koura, Lebanon

Other uses

 * A person involved with lion taming
 * Tamer II, custom sail yacht
 * TAMER, abbreviation for Training an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement, framework for transferring knowledge from human experts to automated AI agents.
 * Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestinian educational organization