# Anvar

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'''Anvar''' is a given name and surname. The name comes from [Arabic](/source/Arabic) and means "light", like the variant [Anwar](/source/Anwar_(name)). Notable persons with the name Anvar include:
==Persons with the given name==
*[Anvar Berdiev](/source/Anvar_Berdiev) (born 1978), Uzbek footballer
*[Anvar Bikzhanov](/source/Anvar_Bikzhanov) (born 1951), Russian football coach
*[Anvar Gafurov](/source/Anvar_Gafurov) (born 1982), Uzbek footballer
*[Anvar Gazimagomedov](/source/Anvar_Gazimagomedov) (born 1988), Russian footballer
*[Anvar Ibragimgadzhiyev](/source/Anvar_Ibragimgadzhiyev) (born 1991), Russian footballer
* [Anvar Ibragimov](/source/Anvar_Ibragimov) (1965–2023), Soviet Olympic champion fencer
*[Anvar Juraboev](/source/Anvar_Juraboev) (1948–2010), Uzbek journalist, historian and politician
*[Anvar Mammadkhanli](/source/Anvar_Mammadkhanli) (1913–1990), Soviet and Azerbaijani writer and screenwriter, script writer, translator and art worker
*[Anvar Chingizoglu](/source/Anvar_Chingizoglu) (born 1962), Azerbaijani historian, ethnologist and genealogist
*[Anvar Rajabov](/source/Anvar_Rajabov) (born 1988), Uzbek footballer
*[Anvar Sadat](/source/Anvar_Sadat) (1918–1981), President of Egypt, serving 1970 to 1981
*[Anvar Saidenov](/source/Anvar_Saidenov) (born 1960), Kazakh national bank chairman
*[Anvar Soliev](/source/Anvar_Soliev) (born 1978), Uzbek footballer
*[Anvar-qori Tursunov](/source/Anvar-qori_Tursunov), Uzbek imam
*[Anvar Yunusov](/source/Anvar_Yunusov) (born 1987), Tajik boxer

==Persons with the surname==
*[Cas Anvar](/source/Cas_Anvar) (born 1966), Canadian actor, voice actor, and writer
*[Hassan Anvar](/source/Hassan_Anvar) (born 1974), Chinese-Uyghur refugee wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay detention camp 
*[Qasem-e Anvar](/source/Qasem-e_Anvar) (1356–1433), [Sufi](/source/Sufism) mystic, poet, and a leading ''[da'i](/source/da'i)'' (preacher) of the [Safavid order](/source/Safavid_order)
*[Camilla Anvar](/source/Camilla_Anvar) British Uzbek-Uyghur Actress 

==See also==
*[Khvajeh Anvar](/source/Khvajeh_Anvar), a village in Donbaleh Rud-e Shomali Rural District, Dehdez District, Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, Iran
*[Ənvər Məmmədxanlı, Azerbaijan](/source/%C6%8Fnv%C9%99r_M%C9%99mm%C9%99dxanl%C4%B1%2C_Azerbaijan), a village and municipality in the Ujar Rayon of Azerbaijan
*[Andvar](/source/Andvar), a village in Chelav Rural District, in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran
*[Anvard](/source/Anvard), the moatless castle where King Lune of Archenland resides in the fictional land of Narnia
*[Anvari](/source/Anvari) (1126–1189), Persian poet
*[Anvari (surname)](/source/Anvari_(surname))
*[Avar (disambiguation)](/source/Avar_(disambiguation))
*[Anwar (disambiguation)](/source/Anwar_(disambiguation))

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