Bakhtiar (name)
Bakhtiyār, alternatively spelt as "Bakhtyar", "Baxtiyar", "Bachtiar", "Bachtyar" and "Bahtiyar", is a Persian masculine given name and surname. Its feminine form is Bakhtawar. It is formed by a confluence of the elements ‘bakht’ meaning ‘fortune’ or ‘happiness’ and ‘avar’ meaning ‘bringing’ or ‘giving.’ Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Bahtiyar
- Bahtiyar Aydın, Turkish general
- Bahtiyar Can Vanlı, Turkish-German football coach
Bakhtiyar
- Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji, Ghurid general in Bengal under Qutb-ud-din Aibak
- Bakhtiyar Kaki, a 13th-century Sufi
- Bakhtiyar Artayev, a Kazakh boxer
- Bakhtiyar Akhmedov, a Russian wrestler
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, an Azerbaijani poet
- Bakhtiyar Musayev, an Azerbaijani footballer
- Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Russian international lawyer
- Bakhtiyar Tyleganov, a Kazakh boxer
- Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov, a Kazakh footballer
- Baxtiyor Rahimov, an Uzbek Islamist militant
- Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev, an Uzbek football player
- 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, a 10th-century Buyid Amir
- Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel
- Bakhtiar Amin, Iraqi Kurdish politician
Bachtyar
- Bachtyar Ali, Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual
Surname
- Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar, Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin
- Abul qasim Bakhtiar, Iranian physician
- Lailee Bakhtiar, American author and critic
- Laleh Bakhtiar, Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist
- Rudi Bakhtiar, Iranian-American newswoman
- Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran
- Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak