Bashar

Bashar (Arabic: بشار) is a given name, surname, and place name. Bashar may refer to:

Places

• Bashar, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
• Bashar, Plateau State, a village in the Wase local Government Area of Plateau State In Nigeria
• Béchar, the capital city of Béchar Province, Algeria

People

Given name

• Bashar Abdullah (born 1977), Kuwaiti footballer
• Bashar al-Assad (born 1965), President of Syria
• Bashar Jaafari (born 1956), Syrian diplomat
• Bashar Barakah Jackson (1999–2020), American rapper
• Bashar Lulua, Berlin-based Arab orchestra conductor
• Bashar Masri (born 1961), Palestinian American entrepreneur
• Bashar Murad (born 1993), Palestinian singer-songwriter
• Bashar Rahal (born 1974), Bulgarian actor of Lebanese descent
• Bashar Rasan (born 1996), Iraqi footballer
• Bashar al-Shatti (born 1982), also known as Basharno, Beesho and Maystro, Kuwaiti singer, songwriter and actor
• Bashar Shbib (born 1959), Syrian Canadian filmmaker
• Bashar Srour (born 1972), Syrian footballer
• Bashar al-Zoubi, Free Syrian Army general
• Bashar Warda (born 1969), Iraqi Chaldean Catholic cleric and Archbishop

Surname

• Caresse Bashar (born 1976), Syrian film and TV actress
• Habibul Bashar (born 1972), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Khademul Bashar (1935–1976), Bangladeshi air marshal

Title

• Abul Bashar, Bangladeshi writer
• Bashshar ibn Burd (714–783) nicknamed "al-Mura'ath", poet in the late Umayyad and the early Abbasid periods
• Haji Bashar, convicted former Afghan drug lord

Others

• Bashar language, an alternative name for Yankam language, a moribund Plateau language of Nigeria
• Bashar (Dune), a fictional military rank in the Dune universe
• Ya Bashar, studio album by Lebanese recording artist Diana Haddad

See also

• Başar, a Turkish male given name and surname
• Basha (disambiguation)