Mahir

Mahir

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈmaː.hɪr] Turkish: [ˈmɑ.hiɾ]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	skilled, expert

Mahir (also spelled Maher or "Mihir-A", Arabic: ماهر) is an Arabic given name meaning "skilled" or "expert". Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Maher

• Maher Arar, Canadian software engineer
• Maher al-Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and head of the Presidential Guard
• Maher Sabry, Egyptian filmmaker, writer and gay rights activist
• Maher Al Sayed, Syrian football player
• Maher-shalal-hash-baz, son of Biblical prophet Isaiah
• Maher Shalal Hash Baz, artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo, a Japanese naivist composer and musician
• Maher Charif, Palestinian historian and lecturer at the Institut français du Proche-Orient in Syria

Mahir

First name

• Mahir Agva (born 1996), German basketball player
• Mahir Çayan (1946–1972), Turkish communist leader
• Mahir Çağrı (born 1962), Turkish Internet celebrity
• Mahir Halili (born 1975), Albanian footballer
• Mahir Jasem (born 1989), Emirati footballer
• Mahir Muradov (1956–2023), Azerbaijani judge
• Mahir Sağlık (born 1983), Turkish footballer
• Mahir Tomruk (1885–1949), Turkish sculptor
• Mahir Yağcılar (born 1961), Turkish Kosovar politician
• Mahir al-Zubaydi (died 2008), al-Qaeda military commander

Middle name

• Ahmad Maher Pasha (1888–1945), Egyptian politician, Prime Minister of Egypt 1944–1945
• Aly Maher Pasha (1882–1960), Egyptian politician

See also

• Maher (disambiguation)
  • Maher (surname), including the Arabic surname
    • Ahmad Maher (disambiguation), various people
• Mahershala Ali, American actor