Mansur

Mansur
Pronunciation	Arabic: [manˈsˤuːr]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Arabic
Origin
Meaning	'Victory'
Region of origin	Arabia
Other names
Alternative spelling	Mansour, Mansoor
Variant form(s)	Nasir, Nasser, Nasri, Nasrallah, Nasir al-Din Victor, Vincent

Mansur (Arabic: منصور‎‎, Manṣūr; also spelled Munsor, Mansoor, Manser, Mansour, Monsour, Mansyur or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "the one who is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."

The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.

Other people called Mansur during the golden Age of Islam include:

• Ismail al-Mansur, third Caliph of the Fatimids
• Mansur ad-Din of Adal, a sultan of Adal
• Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
• Almanzor, 10th-century ruler of al-Andalus
• Mansur ibn Ilyas, a Timurid physician
• Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
• Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca
• Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids

Imams of Yemen

• Al-Mansur Yahya (d. 976)
• Al-Mansur Abdallah (1166-1217)
• Al-Mansur al-Hasan (1199–1271)
• Al-Mansur an-Nasir (d. 1462)
• Al-Mansur Muhammad, Imam of Yemen (1441-1505)
• Al-Mansur al-Husayn (1669 - 1720)
• Al-Mansur Ali I (1738-1809)
• Al-Mansur Ahmad (d. 1853)
• Al-Mansur Ali II, Imam of Yemen (1812 - 1871)
• Al-Mansur al-Husayn III (d.1888)

Modern given name

The spelling Mansur is most commonly seen as the Turkic form. While the transliteration Mansoor is typically used by South Asians. Mansur or Mansour is used in Turkic languages, Iranian languages or Arabic, and Mensur is used in the Bosnian language.

• Mansur Yavaş Turkish politician and the mayor of Ankara
• Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud Saudi politician
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
• Mansour al-Balawi, former Al-Ittihad president
• Mansour Al-Thagafi, Saudi Arabian footballer.
• Mansoor Ahmed, Pakistani hockey player
• Mensur Akgün, Turkish scholar
• Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
• Mansoor Amjad, Pakistani cricketer
• Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian political theorist and activist
• Mansoor Ijaz, American commentator and businessman
• Mansoor Muhammed Ali Qattaa, Saudi Arabian held in detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps
• Mansour (singer), Iranian singer
• Mansour F. Armaly, Palestinian-American physician and researcher
• Mansour Bahrami, Iranian tennis player
• Mensur Bajramović, Bosnian basketball coach
• Mansoor Khan, Pakistani film maker
• Mensur Kurtiši, Macedonian association football player
• Mullah Bakht Mohammed, military commander for Afghanistan's Taliban known as Mansoor Dadullah
• Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates
• Mansour Leghaei, Iranian Shia Imam and Founder of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre
• Mansour Matloubi, Iranian professional poker player
• Mansoor Malangi, Pakistani singer
• Mansoor Muftah, Qatari football player
• Mansour Osanlou, Iranian trade union activist
• Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, and producer
• Mansour Seck, Senegalese singer and musician
• Almanzo Wilder, American farmer, whose first name is a form of al-Manṣūr.
• Mansour Zalzal, Abbasid musician and composer
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, nawab of Bengal
• Sheikh Mansur, Chechen leader against Catherine the Great's Russia
• Mansur Mozaffarov, Russian Tatar composer and pedagogue
• Mansurul Haq, Pakistani admiral and Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy
• Mansoor Zaman, Pakistani professional squash player
• Mansyur S., Indonesian Dangdut singer

Surname

• Agnes Mary Mansour, American political figure and former nun
• Ghulam Mansoor, Subedar major, Bhopal state
• Misha Mansoor, American musician and founder of the Progressive Metal band Periphery
• M. A. Mansoor, Egyptian antiquarian
• Maghfoor Mansoor, Pakistani native who was a fugitive in the United States
• Adly Mansour, acting President of Egypt
• Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Egyptian cleric
• Belal Mansoor Ali, Bahraini runner from Kenya
• Shoaib Mansoor, Pakistani film producer, director, writer, lyricist, and composer
• Josh Mansour, Australian Rugby League player
• Joyce Mansour, British born Egyptian Surrealist poet who also wrote in French
• Eli Mansour, Syrian-Orthodox Rabbi in Brooklyn
• Gueye Mansour, Senegalese footballer
• Hend Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabian-American artist
• Mustafa Mansour, Egyptian footballer
• Reda Mansour, Israeli poet, historian and diplomat
• Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer
• Richard Monsour, better known as Dick Dale, Lebanese-American guitarist
• Shadia Mansour, British born Palestinian singer
• Sliman Mansour, Palestinian painter
• Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, leader and spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabaab known as Abu Mansur
• Toufik Mansour, mathematician
• Ali Mansur, prime minister of Iran
• Charles H. Mansur, American politician from Missouri
• Hassan-Ali Mansur, Iranian politician and prime minister
• Jossy Mansur, Aruban newspaper editor of Lebanese descent
• Mallikarjun Mansur, Indian classical singer
• Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician and prime minister
• Ustad Mansur, Mughal painter from India

Other uses

• Mansur, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province
• Mansour district, an administrative district of Baghdad, named for Al-Mansur
• Mansour Group, an Egyptian company
• Mansour neighbourhood, a neighborhood within Mansour district, Baghdad
• 20416 Mansour, a main-belt asteroid
• Sidi Mansour (song), a popular Arabic language song from Tunisia.
• Mansour, a CGI series from the United Arab Emirates

See also

• Manzur, an unrelated name found in South and Southeast Asia
• Mansura (disambiguation), a place name occurring in several countries