Samir

Samir (also spelled Sameer, Arabic: سمير‎‎, Samīr, Hindi: Marathi: समीर, Bengali: সামির) Samir is a male given name with two origins, in Arabic and Sanskrit. The Arabic Samir means: jovial or pleasant companion, while the Hindi and Sankrit Sameer mean: air, wind. Variant spellings of the name include, the Indian and Nepali Sameer, and the Bosnian and Turkish Semir.

Given name

• Samir (filmmaker), Samir Jamal al Din / Jamal Aldin, a Swiss film maker of Iraqi origin
• Samir Allioui, Dutch politician
• Samir Badran, Swedish television personality and singer, part of duo Samir & Viktor
• Samir Bannout, Lebanese bodybuilder
• Samir Bekrić, Bosnian footballer
• Samir Geagea, Lebanese politician
• Samir Ghanem, Egyptian comedian
• Samir Fazlagić, Norwegian footballer
• Samir Fazli, Macedonian footballer
• Samir Frangieh, Lebanese politician
• Samir Hadji, Moroccan footballer
• Samir Handanovič, Slovenian footballer
• Samir Karabašić, Bosnian canoeist
• Samir Kassir, Lebanese politician
• Samir Naqqash, Israeli writer
• Samir El-Khadem, Lebanese former Commander of the Lebanese Naval Forces
• Samir Khader, Iraqi journalist
• Samir Mammadov, Azerbaijani boxer
• Samir Mehanović, British film director
• Samir Merzić, Bosnian footballer
• Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel, Yemeni guantanamo detainee
• Samir Nasri, French footballer
• Samir Muratović, Bosnian footballer
• Semir Slomić, Bosnian footballer
• Semir Tuce, Bosnian footballer
• Semir Zeki, British neuroscientist
• Samir Iraoui, Moroccan engineer

Surname

• Ahmed Samir (disambiguation), multiple people
• Mahmoud Samir (footballer), Egyptian footballer
• Mohamed Samir, Egyptian footballer
• Mohammad Samir Hossain, Medical psychologist

See also

• Samira