Noor (name)
Noor is a common Arabic masculine and feminine given name meaning 'light', from the Arabic al-Nur. Feminine-only variants include Noora, Nora, Norah, Noura, and Nura. It is also used as a surname.
Given name
Noor
- Queen Noor of Jordan, Queen of Jordan
- Mohamed Noor bin Shamsuddin, Malaysian actor
- Noor Abuarafeh, Palestinian artist
- Noor Ahmad, Afghan cricketer
- Noor Aishah binti Mohammad Salim, Singaporean activist and scouting leader, spouse of the president
- Noor Alam, Pakistani field hockey player
- Princess Noor bint Asem, member of the Jordanian Royal Family
- Noor Bukhari, Pakistani actress
- Noor Muhammad Butt, Pakistani nuclear physicist
- S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury, Bangladesh Army officer
- Noor Dean, Indo-Fijian lawyer
- Noor Islam Dawar, Pakistani Pashtun human rights activist
- Noor Hassanali, President of Trinidad and Tobago
- Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress
- Noor Inayat Khan, Indian-born British SOE agent
- Noor Askuzaimey Mat Salim, Malaysian boccia player
- Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
- Noor Tagouri, American journalist and activist
- Noor Holsboer,, Dutch field hockey player
- Noor Vidts,, Belgian athlete
Nour
- Nour (Marian Farid Abi Habib), Lebanese actress
- Nour Belkhiria, Tunisian-Canadian actress
- Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor
- Nour El-Sayed, Egyptian footballer
- Nour Mansour, Lebanese footballer
- Nour Mhanna, Syrian singer
- Nour Ardakani, Lebanese singer and dancer
Nur
Politicians, statesmen, and royalty
- Nur ibn Mujahid, 16th-century Somali Emir of Harar
- Sultan Nur Ahmed Aman, leader of the Habr Yunis clan
- Nur Bekri, high-ranking Chinese politician
- Nur Alam, Indonesian governor of South East Sulawesi
- Noer Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian minister of foreign affairs
- Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic
- Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress
- Nur Devlet, khan of the Crimean Khanate
- Nur Matan Abdi, Somali politician and military commander
- Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, first President of Kazakhstan
- Musa Nur Amin, Somali politician
Sportspeople
- Cansu Nur Kaya, Turkish footballer
- Esma Nur Çakmak, Turkish arm wrestler
- Gamze Nur Yaman, Turkish footballer
- Nur B. Ali, Pakistani-American racecar driver
- Nur Banu Özpak, Turkish sport shooter
- Nur Mustafa Gülen, Turkish footballer and coach
- Nur Nurhan Çakmak, Turkish women's footballer
- Büşra Nur Tırıklı, Turkish Paralympian discus thrower
- Merve Nur Eroğlu, Turkish Paralympic archer
- Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast
- Seda Nur İncik, Turkish footballer
- Şeyma Nur Emeksiz Bacaksız, Turkish Para Taekwondo practitioner
- Zeynep Nur Agin, Turkish karateka
- Zeynep Nur Kapaklıkaya, Turkish handballer
Others
- Nur Batur, Turkish journalist
- Nur Fettahoğlu, Turkish German actress
- Nur Sürer, Turkish actress
- Nur Hossain, Bangladeshi activist
- Nur Khan, Pakistan Air Force officer
- Nur Yalman, Turkish anthropologist
- Cak Nur, Indonesian Muslim intellectual
- Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian philosopher, jurist, and musician
Surname
- Ayman Nour, Egyptian politician
- Meraj Khalid Noor, Indian politician
- Mohamed Noor, American biologist and geneticist
- Mohammad Noor, Indonesian politician
- Mohammed Noor, Saudi Arabian footballer
- Muhammad Noor, Indian footballer
- Mudyat Noor, Regent of North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan
- Farah Nur, Somali poet and warrior
- Mariam Nour, Lebanese television personality
- Nur Ahmed Nur, Afghan communist
- Omar Nour, Egyptian triathlete
- Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon
- Sabila Noor, Bangladeshi actress
- Nabela Noor, Bengali-American entrepreneur and online influencer
- Shajal Noor, Bangladeshi actor
- Stephanie Nur, Egyptian actress
- Yusuf Haji Nur, Somali politician
Fictional characters
Noor
- Noor, an older lady who attempts to groom Saroo in Lion
- Noor Pradesh, a fictional female character in the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, first appearing in the fourth entry, A Map of Days
- Noor, the main character and player character in Monument Valley 3
- Noor, one of the nine default skins in ''Minecraft''
Nour
- Nour, young boy in J. M. G. Le Clézio's novel Désert
- Nour El Deen Mahmoud Nour El Deen, a fictional character in Malaf Al Mostakbal series
- Nour, the young Syrian-American protagonist of the novel The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
Nur
- En Sabah Nur, a supervillain appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics
- Nur the Vlogger Fairy, a supporting character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Compound names using ''Nur''
The following names are Arabic-based compound names with Nur as an element:- Nurullah, that is Nur Allah, meaning light of God
- Nurul Alam (disambiguation), that is Nur al-Alam, meaning light of the world
- Nurul Amin (disambiguation), that is Nur al-Amin, meaning light of the trustworthy
- Nur al-Din, that is Nur al-Din, meaning light of the religion/faith
- Nur ul-Hasan, that is Nur al-Hasan, meaning light of Hasan
- *Saiyid Nurul Hasan, Indian historian
- *Quazi Nurul Hasan Sohan, Bangladeshi cricketer
- *Prof. Syed Nurul Hasan College, West Bengal
- Nur ul-Huda, that is Nur al-Huda, meaning light of the guidance
- Nurul Islam, that is Nur al-Islam, meaning light of Islam
- Nurur Rahman, that is Nur al-Rahman, meaning light of the Most Merciful Allah
- *Nurur Rahman, Bangladeshi professor and politician from Comilla
- *Sayyid Mohammad Nurur Rahman Barkati, Shahi Imam of West Bengal
- Nuruzzaman, that is Nur al-Zaman, meaning light of the era
- Abdel Nour, that is Abd an-Nur, meaning servant of the Light
- Nuri, meaning luminous or my light
- Núria, a Catalan girl's name, has been suggested to be related to this name