# Shukri

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**Shukri** (Arabic: شكري) (Turkish: *Şükrü*), alternatively **Shoukri**, **Shoukry**, **Shokri**, **Choukri**, **Choucri**, **Chokri** etc., is an [Arabic](/source/Arabic_language) name for males/females meaning 'thankful'. It is the masculine active participle of the Arabic verb شَكَرَ meaning 'to be thankful. The feminine form of the name is [Shukriya](/source/Shukriya_(disambiguation)) or Shukria (شكريّة), or *Şükriye* in Turkish. It can be used as either a given name or surname. A similar Arabic name is [Shakir](/source/Shakir) (Feminine form: [Shakira](/source/Shakira_(disambiguation))).

## Given name

- [Choukri Abahnini](/source/Choukri_Abahnini) (born 1960), pole vault athlete from Tunisia
- [Shukri al-Asali](/source/Shukri_al-Asali) (1868–1916), Ottoman parliamentarian and Syrian political activist
- [Shukri al-Quwatli](/source/Shukri_al-Quwatli) (1891–1967), president of Syria from 1943 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1958
- [Choucri Atafi](/source/Choucri_Atafi) (born 1981), Moroccan Greco-Roman wrestler
- [Chokri Belaid](/source/Chokri_Belaid) (1964-2013), Tunisian lawyer and politician
- [Chokri El Ouaer](/source/Chokri_El_Ouaer) (born 1966), former Tunisian football goalkeeper
- [Shukri Ghanem](/source/Shukri_Ghanem) (born 1942), former General Secretary of the People's Committee in Libya
- [Shukri Hussein Gure](/source/Shukri_Hussein_Gure) (born 1978), Somali politician
- [Shukri Lawrence](/source/Shukri_Lawrence), Palestinian fashion designer and artist
- [Shukri Mustafa](/source/Shukri_Mustafa), Egyptian Khariji
- [Choukri Ouaïl](/source/Choukri_Oua%C3%AFl), Algerian footballer
- [Shoukry Sarhan](/source/Shoukry_Sarhan) (1925-1997), Egyptian actor
- [Shukri Rahim](/source/Shukri_Rahim), Malaysian cricketer
- [Shukri Toefy](/source/Shukri_Toefy) (born 1984), Cape Town based film producer

## Surname

- [Abdel Rahman Shokry](/source/Abdel_Rahman_Shokry), Egyptian poet
- [Ahmed Shoukry](/source/Ahmed_Shoukry), Egyptian footballer
- [Alawi Shukri](/source/Alawi_Shukri), Emirati cricketer
- [Andrew Wagih Shoukry](/source/Andrew_Wagih_Shoukry) (born 1990), Egyptian professional squash player
- [Artin Bey Shoukry](/source/Artin_Bey_Shoukry), Egyptian Foreign Minister from 1844 to 1850
- [Hassan Bey Shukri](/source/Hassan_Bey_Shukri), co-founded the Muslim National Associations (MNA)
- [Ibrahim Shoukry](/source/Ibrahim_Shoukry) (1916–2008), Egyptian politician
- [Islam Shokry](/source/Islam_Shokry), Egyptian footballer currently playing for Egyptian club "Tersana"
- [Javid Shokri](/source/Javid_Shokri), Iranian footballer
- [Mahmoud Shokry](/source/Mahmoud_Shokry), chief of staff of the Egyptian Army
- [Mamdouh Shoukri](/source/Mamdouh_Shoukri), seventh President and Vice-Chancellor of York University
- [Mohamed Choukri](/source/Mohamed_Choukri) (1935-2003), Moroccan author and novelist
- [Mohammad Shukri (cricketer)](/source/Mohammad_Shukri_(cricketer)) (born 1986), Malaysian cricketer
- [Monia Chokri](/source/Monia_Chokri) (born 1982), Canadian actress
- [Moustapha Choukri](/source/Moustapha_Choukri) (1945-1980), Moroccan footballer
- [Muhammad Shukri](/source/Muhammad_Shukri_Effendi) (1861-1919), Christian convert who became a missionary by the name of Johannes Avetaranian
- [Nancy Shukri](/source/Nancy_Shukri), Malaysian politician
- [Peter Shoukry](/source/Peter_Shoukry) (born 1986), Egyptian-American model and artist
- [Sameh Shoukry](/source/Sameh_Shoukry) (born 1952), Egyptian career diplomat
- [Shoukri brothers](/source/Shoukri_brothers), Andre Khalef Shoukri and Ihab Shoukri, a pair of Egyptian-Northern Irish loyalist paramilitaries
- [Suhaizi Shukri](/source/Suhaizi_Shukri) (born 1979), Malaysian football referee

## Middle name

- [Emile Shukri Habibi](/source/Emile_Habibi) (1922 - 1996) Palestinian/Israeli Arab writer and communist politician
- [Ezzedine Choukri Fishere](/source/Ezzedine_Choukri_Fishere) (born 1966), Egyptian novelist, diplomat and academic

## See also

- [Shukri, Sudan](/source/Shukri,_Sudan), a village
- [Shokri Kola](/source/Shokri_Kola), a village in Iran

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