Anvar

Anvar is a given name and surname. The name comes from Arabic and means "light", like the variant Anwar. Notable persons with the name Anvar include:

Persons with the given name

• Anvar Berdiev (born 1978), Uzbek footballer
• Anvar Bikzhanov (born 1951), Russian football coach
• Anvar Gafurov (born 1982), Uzbek footballer
• Anvar Gazimagomedov (born 1988), Russian footballer
• Anvar Ibragimgadzhiyev (born 1991), Russian footballer
• Anvar Ibragimov (1965–2023), Soviet Olympic champion fencer
• Anvar Juraboev (1948–2010), Uzbek journalist, historian and politician
• Anvar Mammadkhanli (1913–1990), Soviet and Azerbaijani writer and screenwriter, script writer, translator and art worker
• Anvar Chingizoglu (born 1962, Azerbaijani historian, ethnologist and genealogist
• Anvar Rajabov (born 1988), Uzbek footballer
• Anvar Sadat (1918–1981), President of Egypt, serving 1970 to 1981
• Anvar Saidenov (born 1960), Kazakh national bank chairman
• Anvar Soliev (born 1978), Uzbek footballer
• Anvar-qori Tursunov, Uzbek imam
• Anvar Yunusov (born 1987), Tajik boxer

Persons with the surname

• Cas Anvar, Canadian actor, voice actor, and writer
• Hassan Anvar, Chinese-Uyghur refugee wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay detention camp
• Qasem-e Anvar (1356–1433), Sufi mystic, poet, and a leading da'i (preacher) of the Safavid order

See also

• Khvajeh Anvar, a village in Donbaleh Rud-e Shomali Rural District, Dehdez District, Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Ənvər Məmmədxanlı, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in the Ujar Rayon of Azerbaijan
• Andvar, a village in Chelav Rural District, in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Anvard, the moatless castle where King Lune of Archenland resides in the fictional land of Narnia
• Anvari (1126–1189), Persian poet
• Anvari (surname)
• Avar (disambiguation)
• Anwar (disambiguation)