Shukri
Shukri , alternatively Shoukri, Shoukry, Shokri, Choukri, Choucri, Chokri etc., is an Arabic name for males/females meaning 'thankful'. It is the masculine active participle of the Arabic verb شَكَرَ meaning 'to be thankful. The feminine form of the name is Shukriya or Shukria, or Şükriye in Turkish. It can be used as either a given name or surname. A similar Arabic name is Shakir.
Given name
- Choukri Abahnini, pole vault athlete from Tunisia
- Shukri al-Asali, Ottoman parliamentarian and Syrian political activist
- Shukri al-Quwatli, president of Syria from 1943 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1958
- Choucri Atafi, Moroccan Greco-Roman wrestler
- Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician
- Chokri El Ouaer, former Tunisian football goalkeeper
- Shukri Ghanem, former General Secretary of the People's Committee in Libya
- Shukri Hussein Gure, Somali politician
- Shukri Lawrence, Palestinian fashion designer and artist
- Shukri Mustafa, Egyptian Khariji
- Choukri Ouaïl, Algerian footballer
- Shoukry Sarhan, Egyptian actor
- Shukri Rahim, Malaysian cricketer
- Shukri Toefy, Cape Town based film producer
Surname
- Abdel Rahman Shokry, Egyptian poet
- Ahmed Shoukry, Egyptian footballer
- Alawi Shukri, Emirati cricketer
- Andrew Wagih Shoukry, Egyptian professional squash player
- Artin Bey Shoukry, Egyptian Foreign Minister from 1844 to 1850
- Hassan Bey Shukri, co-founded the Muslim National Associations
- Ibrahim Shoukry, Egyptian politician
- Islam Shokry, Egyptian footballer currently playing for Egyptian club "Tersana"
- Javid Shokri, Iranian footballer
- Mahmoud Shokry, chief of staff of the Egyptian Army
- Mamdouh Shoukri, seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of York University
- Mohamed Choukri, Moroccan author and novelist
- Mohammad Shukri , Malaysian cricketer
- Monia Chokri, Canadian actress
- Moustapha Choukri, Moroccan footballer
- Muhammad Shukri, Christian convert who became a missionary by the name of Johannes Avetaranian
- Nancy Shukri, Malaysian politician
- Peter Shoukry, Egyptian-American model and artist
- Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian career diplomat
- Shoukri brothers, Andre Khalef Shoukri and Ihab Shoukri, a pair of Egyptian-Northern Irish loyalist paramilitaries
- Suhaizi Shukri, Malaysian football referee
Middle name
- Emile Shukri Habibi Palestinian/Israeli Arab writer and communist politician
- Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic