Nuri (name)

Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is a unisex name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Nuri Ja'far (1914–1991), Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education
• Nuri Badran (born 1943), Iraqi politician
• Nuri Berköz (1889–1975), Azerbaijani general
• Nuri Boytorun (1908–1988), Turkish wrestler
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959), Turkish filmmaker
• Nuri Demirağ (1886–1957), Turkish industrialist
• Nuri Killigil (1881–1949), general in the Ottoman army
• Nuri Kino (born 1965), Swedish journalist and filmmaker
• Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950), Prime Minister of Iraq
• Nuri al-Mismari (born 1942), Libyan politician and diplomat
• Nuri Montsé (1917–1971), Argentine actress
• Nuri Ok (1942–2015), Turkish judge
• Nouri Ouznadji (born 1984), Algerian footballer
• Nuri as-Said (1888–1958), Iraqi politician
• Nuri bin Hazaa Al Shalaan (1847–1942), Arab tribe chief
• Nuri Sojliu (1870–1940), signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
• Nuri Şahin (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Nuri Şahin (volleyball player) (born 1980), Turkish volleyball player

Surname

• Abdelhak Nouri (born 1997), Dutch footballer
• Abdollah Nouri, Iranian politician
• Alekhine Nouri, Filipino chess master
• Alexander Nouri (born 1979), Iranian-German football manager
• Alireza Noori, Iranian politician
• George Noory, radio talk show host
• Hossein Nuri, Iranian painter, dramaturge, and filmmaker
• Kat Nouri, Iranian-born American entrepreneur and inventor
• Michael Nouri, Lebanese-American actor
• Milad Nouri (footballer born 1986), Iranian footballer
• Milad Nouri (footballer, born 1993), Iranian footballer
• Mina Nouri (born 1951), Iranian painter
• Mohammad Nouri (footballer), Iranian footballer
• Mohammad Nouri (singer), Iranian singer
• Moshtaque Ahmad Noori, Indian Urdu short story writer and critic
• Parviz Nouri (1938–2026), Iranian movie critic, screenwriter, and director
• Pejman Nouri, Iranian footballer
• Pir Syed Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri, Islamic saint
• Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (1947–2006), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
• Shahab Sheikh Nuri (1932–1976), Kurdish politician
• Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, Iranian cleric
• Süleyman Nuri (1895–1966), Ottoman Russian communist politician
• Vahid Nouri (born 1989), Iranian paralympic judoka
• Vivian Nouri (born 1993), known professionally as NOURI (artist), New Zealand recording artist of Kurdish descent
• Yochanan ben Nuri, Tanna of the first and second century CE

See also

• Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, Iranian politician
• Nuri (disambiguation)
• Noori (disambiguation)