Zaheer (name)

Zaheer is an Urdu male given name and surname, a variant of Arabic Zahir.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Zaheer Abbas (1947–), Pakistani cricketer
 * Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, American film director, writer and producer
 * Zaheer Ahmad (1948–), Pakistani American medical doctor, chief executive of the Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad
 * Zaheer Ali (1981–), Trinidadian cricketer
 * Zaheer-ul-Islam (1956–), former Director-General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
 * Anwar Zaheer Jamali (1951–), Pakistani jurist, 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan
 * Zaheer Khan (1978–), Indian cricketer
 * Zaheer Khan (Pakistani cricketer) (born 1979), Pakistani cricketer
 * Zaheer Maqsood (1985–), Emirati cricketer
 * Zaheer Mohamed (1985–), Guyanese cricketer
 * Syed Zaheer Rizvi (1968–), Pakistani music director and teacher
 * Zaheer Sher (born 1975), English cricketer

Surname

 * Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (1945–1987), Pakistani Islamic theologian, leader of the Ahl-i Hadith movement
 * S. M. Zaheer (1947–), Indian actor
 * Sajjad Zaheer (1905–1973), Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary in both India and Pakistan
 * Syed Ali Zaheer, Indian politician and a minister in the first cabinet formed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
 * Syed Husain Zaheer, Indian chemist, politician, director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
 * Syed Iqbal Zaheer (born 1944), Indian Islamic scholar and writer
 * Zafar Zaheer (born 1974), Bahraini cricketer