Nuri (name)

Nuri
Language(s)	Arabic
Origin
Meaning	Arabic for "my light" (نور+ي)

Nuri (also spelled Nouri or Noori, Arabic: نوري‎) is a name which may refer to:

Given name

• Nuri Badran (born 1943), an Iraqi Minister of the Interior
• Nuri Berköz (1889–1975), an Azerbaijani general
• Nuri Boytorun (1908–1988), a Turkish Olympic wrestler
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959), a Turkish filmmaker
• Nuri Demirağ (1886–1957), a Turkish industrialist
• Nuri Killigil (1881–1949), a general in the Ottoman army
• Nuri Kino (born 1965), an Assyrian-Swedish journalist and filmmaker
• Nuri Montsé (1917–1971), a Spanish Argentine film actress
• Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950), the Prime Minister of Iraq
• Nuri Ok (born 1942), a Turkish judge
• Nouri Ouznadji, Algerian footballer
• Nuri as-Said (1888–1958), an Iraqi politician
• Nuri Şahin (born 1988), a Turkish international footballer
• Nuri Şahin (volleyball player) (born 1980), a Turkish volleyball player
• Nuri Sojlliu, a signatories of Albanian Declaration of Independence

Surname

• Abdollah Nouri, Iranian politician
• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, Iranian politician
• Alireza Noori, Iranian politician
• Hossein Noori Hamedani, Iranian ayatollah
• Michael Nouri, Lebanese-American actor
• Mohammad Nouri (footballer), Iranian footballer
• Mohammad Nouri (singer), Iranian singer
• Milad Nouri, Iranian footballer
• Pejman Nouri, Iranian footballer
• Pir Syed Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri, an Islamic saint
• Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (1947–2006), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
• Shahab Sheikh Nuri (1932–1976), a Kurdish politician
• Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, Iranian cleric
• Yochanan ben Nuri, a Tanna of the first and second century CE

See also

• Nuri, an area in Sudan
• Nüri, Estonia

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