Timur (disambiguation)

Timur was a 14th-century Southern-Central Asian Turkic-Mongolian ruler and warlord also known as Tamerlane (from Timur the Lame or the Persian expression of the same meaning, Timur-e-Lang) in the western world.

Taimur or Timur may also refer to:

Historical

 * Möngke Temür, or Mengu-Timur (d. 1280), khan of the Golden Horde
 * Several rulers from the Chinese-Mongol Yuan Dynasty
 * Temür Khan (r. 1294–1307), the second ruler of the Yuan dynasty
 * Tugh Temür, better known as Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (r. 1328–1332)
 * Toghon Temür (r. 1333–1370)
 * Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür (r. 1378–1388)
 * Yesün Temür (r. 1323–1328)
 * Öljei Temür Khan, (r. 1408–1412)
 * Köke Temür (died 1375), Yuan dynasty general
 * Timur (1336–1405), the Central Asian ruler mentioned above, also known as Tamerlane
 * Timur II, real name Neku Siyar (1679–1723), claimant to the Mughal throne
 * Bayan Temür (Gongmin, 1330–1374), ruler of Goryeo
 * Khan Temir (d. 1637), Budjak Nogais ruler
 * Timur Shah Durrani (1748–1793), Afghan ruler

Modern

 * Anwara Taimur (1936–2020), Indian politician, chief minister of Assam
 * Nawab Muhammad Taimur Talpur, Pakistani politician
 * Taimur Khan Jhagra, Pakistani politician
 * Taimur Hussain, a Pakistani professional golfer
 * Taimur Ali, a Pakistani First-class cricketer
 * Taimur Sultan (cricketer), a Pakistani first-class cricketer
 * Taimur Khan (cricketer, born 1991), a Pakistani First-class cricketer
 * Taimur Khan (cricketer, born 1975), a Pakistani First-class cricketer
 * Danish Taimoor, a Pakistani actor
 * Taimur Rahman, a Pakistani singer
 * Taimur bin Feisal, 12th Sultan of Oman
 * Said bin Taimur, 13th Sultan of Oman
 * Temur Babluani (born 1948), Georgian film director
 * Teymur Bakhtiar (1914–1970), Iranian army officer
 * Timur Beg (1886–1933), Uyghur rebel leader
 * Timur Bekmambetov (born 1961), Kazakh film and advertisement director
 * Timur Dibirov (born 1983), Russian handball player
 * Timur Dzhabrailov (born 1973), Russian footballer
 * Timur Faizutdinov (2001–2021), Russian ice hockey defenseman
 * Timur Gareev (born 1988), Uzbekistani chess player
 * Timur Ibragimov (born 1975), Uzbekistani boxer
 * Temur Iakobashvili (born 1967), Georgian politician and diplomat
 * Temur Juraev (born 1984), Uzbekistani football player
 * Teimour Radjabov (born 1987), Azerbaijani Chess Grandmaster
 * Timur Kapadze (born 1981), Uzbekistani footballer
 * Temur Ketsbaia (born 1968), Georgian football player and manager
 * Timur Kulibayev (born 1966), Kazakh billionaire
 * Timur Kuran (born 1954), American economist and political scientist
 * Timur Mutsurayev (born 1976), Chechen singer and bard
 * Timur Naniev (born 1994), Russian weightlifter
 * Timur Pradopo (born 1955), Chief of the Indonesian National Police
 * Timur Taymazov (born 1970), Ukrainian weightlifter
 * Timur Selçuk (1946–2020), Turkish musician
 * Timur Tekkal (born 1981), German rugby union player
 * Timur Yanyali (born 1975), Turkish footballer

Other uses

 * Timur (name)
 * Tamerlane (poem), 1827 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Tamerlane (ship)
 * Tamerlane chess
 * Tamerlano (Gasparini opera), 1711
 * Tamerlano, Handel opera, 1724
 * Timur, Iran, village in Ardabil Province, Iran
 * Temir komuz, central Asian jaw harp
 * Timuri, tribe in Afghanistan and Iran
 * Timurite movement, youth volunteer organization in the Soviet Union
 * Amur and Timur, tiger and goat friendship in Russian safari park
 * Timur, Nepali and Tamil name for the plant Zanthoxylum armatum, "rattan pepper"