Nazir (name)

Nazir or Nazeer is both a masculine given name and a surname of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Nazeer Abbasi (1953–1980), Sindhi political activist
• Nazeer Akbarabadi (1735–1830), 18th-century Urdu poet
• Nazeer Allie (born 1985), South African footballer
• Nazeer Naji (1942/43–2020), Pakistani journalist
• Nazir Ahmed (disambiguation), multiple people
• Nazir Afzal (born 1962), British solicitor
• Nazir Dekhaiya (1921–1988), Gujarati poet from India
• Nazir Jairazbhoy (1927–2009), professor of music at UCLA
• Nazir Sabir, Pakistani mountaineer
• Nazir Stackhouse (born 2002), American football player

Surname

• Imran Nazir (born 1981), Pakistani cricketer
• Maulvi Nazir (1975–2013), Pakistani Taliban leader
• Prem Nazir (1926–1989), Malayali Indian film actor
• Shaied Nazir (born 1980), convicted of the racially motivated murder of Ross Parker