Anwar is the English transliteration of two Arabic names commonly used in the Muslim world: the male given name ''ʼAnwar (أنور), meaning "luminous" or the female given name ''ʼAnwār (أنوار), meaning "a collection of lights." Both names may also be encountered as surnames. In francophone countries, both names are usually transliterated as Anouar. The name is transliterated in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo and Turkey as Enver.

People

Given name:

• Anwar (singer)
  Anwar (singer)
  Anwar Hussain, known more by his first name "Anwar", is a playback singer who rose to prominence in the Hindi playback industry because of the uncanny resemblance of his voice with that of singer Mohammed Rafi.-Early years:...
  
  , Indian playback singer
• Anwar al-Awlaki
  Anwar al-Awlaki
  Anwar al-Awlaki was an American and Yemeni imam who was an engineer and educator by training. According to U.S. government officials, he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda...
  
  , Yemeni-American al-Qaeda leader
• Anouar Brahem
  Anouar Brahem
  Anouar Brahem is an oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field...
  
  , oud player and composer
• Anwar Fazal
  Anwar Fazal
  Anwar Fazal is a grassroots environmental activist. He was trained at the University of Malaya in Economics and Education...
  
  , Malaysian environmental activist
• Anwar Haddam
  Anwar Haddam
  Anwar Haddam was a leader of the Islamic Salvation Front , a Islamist party in Algeria, and was elected to parliament on a FIS ticket in 1991 - Algeria's first multiparty elections...
  
  , leader of the Algerian Islamist Islamic Salvation Front
• Anwar Hussain (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
• Anwar Ibrahim
  Anwar Ibrahim
  Anwar bin Ibrahim is a Malaysian politician who served as Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998. Early in his career, Anwar was a close ally of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad but subsequently emerged as the most prominent critic of Mahathir's government.In 1999, he was sentenced...
  
   (born 1947), Malaysian politician
• Anwar Khan (cricketer), former Pakistani cricketer
• Anwar Maqsood
  Anwar Maqsood
  Anwar Maqsood Hameedi commonly known as Anwar Maqsood Urdu: انور مقصود) is a Pakistani playwright, poet, television host, satirist, humorist, infrequent actor and painter. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over 35 years.-Life and career:Anwar Maqsood studied at the Gulbarga trust...
  
  , Pakistani television entertainer
• Anwar Pervez
  Anwar Pervez
  Sir Anwar Pervez , OBE, Hilal-i-Pakistan, is a businessman in the United Kingdom. He is the founder and Chairman of Bestway Group.-Career:...
  
  , Pakistan-born businessman
• Anwar Sadat
  Anwar Sadat
  Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981...
  
  , third President of Egypt
• Anwar Shaikh
  Anwar Shaikh
  Mohammad Anwar Shaikh was a Punjabi-born Pakistani author residing in Cardiff. He was born into an Islamic Sunni family of Kashmiri ancestry in Gujrat, Punjab. His mother could recite a large part of the Qur'an from memory...
  
  , Punjabi-born Pakistani author
• Anwar Siraj
  Anwar Siraj
  Anwar Siraj is an Ethiopian footballer. He currently plays for Al-Saqr.Siraj is also a former member of the Ethiopia national football team.-External links:...
  
  , Ethiopian football defender
• Anwar Wagdi
  Anwar Wagdi
  Anwar Wagdy was an Egyptian actor, writer, director and producer.-Life:Anwar was born in the Cairo district of El Daher, Cairo. He was of Syrian descent. His father, Yehia Wagdy El-Fattal, immigrated to Egypt from Syria with his family in the 19th century for economic reasons. Anwar's Egyptian...
  
  , Egyptian actor, director
• Anwar Uddin (disambiguation)
• Anwar ul Haq (disambiguation)
• Anouar Diba
  Anouar Diba
  Anouar Diba is a Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent who currently plays for Lekhwiya....
  
  
• Anouar Hadouir
  Anouar Hadouir
  Anouar Hadouir is a Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent. Hadouir is a forward who was born in Den Bosch and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Willem II Tilburg squad in the 2002–03 season. In July 2011 Alemannia Aachen of the German 2. Bundesliga, signed Hadouir on a...
  
  

Surname:

• Chairil Anwar
  Chairil Anwar
  Chairil Anwar was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems....
  
  , Indonesian poet
• Faraz Anwar
  Faraz Anwar
  Faraz Anwar is a Pakistani guitarist, known for his solo instrumental work and his band Mizraab. He has been called "Pakistan's master of progressive rock."- Biography :...
  
  , Pakistani guitarist
• Gabrielle Anwar
  Gabrielle Anwar
  Gabrielle Anwar is an English actress. She is known for her role as Margaret Tudor on The Tudors, for dancing the tango with Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman and for her current role as Fiona Glenanne on USA's Burn Notice.- Early life :...
  
  , English actress
• Joko Anwar
  Joko Anwar
  -Early life:Joko Anwar was born in 3 January 1976 in a poor kampong in Medan, North Sumatera where he grew up watching kung fu movies and horror films. He had also written and directed plays as a student. He went to Institut Teknologi Bandung to study Aerospace Engineering because his family could...
  
  , Indonesian film critic and writer
• Raja Anwar
  Raja Anwar
  Raja Anwar is a Pakistani journalist and writer, and a former PPP political activist.- Personal life :Anwar was born into a Bhakral Rajput family of Darkali Sher Shahi a village, near Kallar Syedan in 1948...
  
  , Pakistani journalist, and minister
• Saeed Anwar
  Saeed Anwar
  Saeed Anwar is a former Pakistani opening batsman. A left-hander, Anwar is most notable for scoring 194 runs against India in Chennai in 1997, then the highest, and now the joint second highest individual score in a One Day International.-Personal life:...
  
  , former Pakistani cricketer
• Taj Anwar
  Taj Anwar
  Taj Anwar is a model, community organizer, philanthropist, political motivator, promoter and a social commentator. She has worked with the FTP Movement, Mothers of Black/Brown Babies, and Crew Love...
  
  , Black nationalist activist
• Tariq Anwar (film editor), film editor and father of Gabrielle Anwar
• Tariq Anwar (politician), Indian politician

Fiction

• Anwar Kharral
  Anwar Kharral
  Anwar Kharral is a fictional character in the television series Skins portrayed by Dev Patel.-Characterization:Anwar is portrayed as a young pick and choose Muslim, Pakistani boy, meaning he chooses which parts of his religion he will practice when convenient and which parts he will not when it is...
  
  , character in the British drama series Skins
• Anwar (2007 film), a 2007 Hindi film
• Anwar (2010 film)
  Anwar (2010 film)
  - External links : * * at Oneindia.in...
  
  , a 2010 Malaylam film

See also

• Anwaruddin (disambiguation)
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a national wildlife refuge in northeastern Alaska, United States. It consists of in the Alaska North Slope region. It is the largest National Wildlife Refuge in the country, slightly larger than the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge...
  
   (abbreviation ANWR is usually pronounced "Anwar")
• Enver (disambiguation)