Munir

Munir (also spelled Moneer, Monir, Mounir, or Muneer, Arabic: منير‎‎, meaning lightsome, bright, luminous) is a masculine Arabic given name, it may refer to:

Given name

• Muneer Ahmad, American professor of law
• Munir Akram, Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations from 2002 to 2008
• Munir al-Rayyes (1901-1992), was a prominent Syrian newspaper editor and writer
• Monir Amerkhous, Moroccan known for holding the Moroccan national record in Rubik's Cube
• Munir Awad, citizen of Sweden who has fallen under suspicion of an association with terrorism
• Muneer Ahmed Badini, Pakistani writer
• Munir Bashir, Assyrian musician
• Münir Ertegün, Turkish politician
• Muneer Fareed, American scholar
• Munir El Haddadi, Spanish footballer at Valencia CF
• Mounir El Hamdaoui, Dutch-Moroccan footballer
• Monir Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer and former head of Pakistan's nuclear power and deterrence program
• Mounir Maasri, Lebanese actor
• Mounir El Motassadeq, Moroccan al-Qaeda member
• Mounir Mourad, Egyptian artist
• Munir Bin Naseer, citizen of Pakistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
• Munir Niazi, Urdu poet
• Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour, Egyptian politician
• Münir Özkul, Turkish cinema and theatre actor
• Munir Ahmad Rashid, Pakistani mathematician, and nuclear scientist
• Muneer Sait, Indian field hockey goalkeeper
• Münir Nurettin Selçuk, Turkish classical musician and tenor singer
• Munir Said Thalib, Indonesian activist
• Mounir Yemmouni, French middle distance runner
• Mounir Zeghdoud, Algerian footballer
• Munir Sadiq Chaudhry, Pakistani Lawyer, philosopher

Surname

• Mazhar Munir, British television actor
• Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer
• Muhammad Munir, Pakistani judge
• Qusay Munir, Iraqi footballer

See also

• Munira