Timur (given name)
Timur is a masculine Turkic and Mongolic given name which literally means iron. It is a cognate of the Turkish name Demir. In Indonesian, timur translates to east, and symbolizes hope by the rising sun.
Timur is also a popular name for boys in post-Soviet states, due in part to its usage in the novel Timur and His Squad by Arkady Gaidar.
Notable people with the given name include:
Rulers
- Timur, Central Asian ruler also known as Tamerlane
- Timur II, real name Neku Siyar, a de facto Mughal emperor
- Timur Shah Durrani, an Afghan ruler
Modern world
- Timur Beg, Uyghur rebel leader
- Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh film and advertisement director
- Timur Bekmansurov, Russian school shooter
- Timur Bilyalov, Russian hockey goaltender
- Timur Dibirov, Russian handball player
- Timur Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer
- Timur Faizutdinov, Russian ice hockey defenseman
- Timur Frunze, Russian fighter pilot
- Timur Gareev, Uzbekistani chess player
- Timur Ibragimov, Uzbekistani boxer
- Timur Kapadze, Uzbekistani footballer
- Timur Kulibayev, Kazakh billionaire
- Timur Kuran, American economist and political scientist
- Timur Mindich, Ukrainian-Israeli entrepreneur and film producer
- Timur Miroshnychenko, a Ukrainian TV presenter
- Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen singer and bard
- Timur Naniev, Russian weightlifter
- Timur Pradopo, Chief of the Indonesian National Police
- Timur Rodriguez, Russian showman, singer, TV and radio personality
- Timur Selçuk, Turkish musician
- Timur Taymazov, Ukrainian weightlifter
- Timur Tekkal, German rugby union footballer
- Timur Yanyali, Turkish footballer
- Timur Yunusov, Russian singer