Nuri (name)

Nuri
Gender	Male given name (Arabic/Islamic, common in Turkey), male and female given name (Aramaic, Hebrew), Persian surname
Language	Turkish, Arabic, Aramaic, Persian, Japanese, Hebrew
Origin
Meaning	Arabic for "my light" (نوري), Aramaic for "my fire" (ܢܘܪܝ), Persian from Arabic
Other names
Alternative spelling	Nouri, Noori, Nori, Noory

Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, Arabic: نوري, Syriac: ܢܘܪܝ) is a unisex name and a surname. 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 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 al-Mismari (born 1942), Libyan politician and diplomat
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
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
Milad Nouri (footballer born 1986), Iranian footballer
Milad Nouri (footballer, born 1993), Iranian footballer
Mina Nouri (born 1951), Iranian painter
Mohammad Nouri (footballer), Iranian footballer
Mohammad Nouri (singer), Iranian singer
Moshtaque Ahmad Noori, Indian Urdu short story writer and critic
Parviz Nouri (1938–2026), Iranian movie critic, screenwriter, and director
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

Nuri (name)

Given name

Surname

See also