Timur (name)
Timur, Temür, Temir or Tömör is a Turkic and Mongolic 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.
Notable people with the name include:Given name
Historical
- Möngke Temür, khan of the Golden Horde
- Several rulers from the Chinese-Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
- * Temür Khan, the second ruler of the Yuan dynasty
- * Tugh Temür, better known as Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan
- * Toghon Temür
- * Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür
- * Yesün Temür
- * Öljei Temür Khan,
- Köke Temür, a Yuan dynasty general
- Timur, a Central Asian ruler also known as Tamerlane.
- Bayan Temür
- Khan Temir, a Budjak Nogais ruler
- Timur Shah Durrani, an Afghani ruler
Modern
- Temur Babluani, a Georgian film director
- Timur Beg,, a Uyghur rebel leader
- Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh film and advertisement director
- Timur Dibirov, a Russian handball player
- Timur Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer
- Timur Gareev, Uzbekistani chess player
- Timur Ibragimov, Uzbekistani boxer
- Temur Iakobashvili, a Georgian politician and diplomat
- Temur Juraev, a Uzbekistani football player
- Timur Kapadze, a Uzbekistani footballer
- Temur Ketsbaia, a Georgian football player and manager
- Timur Kuran, American academic
- Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen singer and bard
- Timur Taymazov, a Ukrainian weightlifter
- Timur Kydyraliev, Kyrgyzstani footballer
- Teimour Radjabov, an Azerbaijani chess player
- Timur Selçuk, Turkish musician
- Timur Tekkal, German rugby union player
- Timur Yanyali, Turkish footballer
Surname
- Bar Timor, Israeli basketball player
- Cemile Timur, Turkish former women's football player, referee and current team manager
- Daramyn Tömör-Ochir
- Minarti Timur, Chinese-Indonesian badminton player
- Mahmut Temür, a German football player
