Timur (name)
Timur, Temür, Temir or Tömör (Mongolian: Төмөр) is a Turkic and Mongolic name which literally means iron. It is a cognate of the Turkish name Demir.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Historical
- Möngke Temür (d.1280), khan of the Golden Horde
- Several rulers from the Chinese-Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
- Temür Khan (r. 1294–1307), the second ruler of the Yuan dynasty
- Tugh Temür, better known as Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (r. 1328–1332)
- Toghon Temür (r. 1333–1370)
- Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür (r. 1378–1388)
- Yesün Temür (r. 1323–1328)
- Öljei Temür Khan, (r. 1408–1412)
- Köke Temür, a Yuan dynasty general
- Timur (1336–1405), a Central Asian ruler also known as Tamerlane.
- Mengu Timur, The khan of Golden Horde
- Bayan Temür (King Gongmin of Goryeo)
- Khan Temir (d. 1637), a Budjak Nogais ruler
- Timur Shah Durrani (1748–1793), an Afghani ruler
Modern
- Temur Babluani (born 1948), a Georgian film director
- Timur Beg, (d. 1933), a Uyghur rebel leader
- Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh film and advertisement director
- Temur Cholon (1925–1986), Mongolian musician
- Timur Dibirov (born 1983), a Russian handball player
- Timur Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer
- Timur Dzhalolov (born 1993), a Russian football player
- Timur Gareev, Uzbekistani chess player
- Timur Ibragimov, Uzbekistani boxer
- Temur Iakobashvili (born 1967), a Georgian politician and diplomat
- Temur Juraev (born 1984), a Uzbekistani football player
- Timur Kapadze, a Uzbekistani footballer
- Temur Ketsbaia (born 1968), a Georgian football player and manager
- Timur Kuran, American academic
- Timur Mutsurayev (born 1976), Chechen singer and bard
- Timur Taymazov (born 1970), a Ukrainian weightlifter
- Timur Kydyraliev, Kyrgyzstani footballer
- Timur Selçuk, Turkish musician
- Timur Taukenov, Russian footballer
- Timur Tekkal, German rugby union player
- Timur Yanyali, Turkish footballer
Surname
- Daramyn Tömör-Ochir
- Minarti Timur, Chinese-Indonesian badminton player
- Mahmut Temür, (born 1989) a German football player
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