Nuri (name)
Appearance
Gender | Male given name (Arabic/Islamic, common in Turkey), male and female given name (Korean, Aramaic,Hebrew), Persian surname |
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Language(s) | Turkish, Arabic, Aramaic, Korean, Persian, Japanese Hebrew |
Origin | |
Meaning | Arabic for "my light" (نوري), Aramaic for "my fire" (ܢܘܪܝ), old Korean for "world" (누리), Persian from Arabic |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Nouri, Noori, Nori, Noory |
Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, Arabic: نوري, Korean: 누리, Syriac: ܢܘܪܝ) 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
- Bae Noo-ri (born 1993), South Korean actress
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