# Nasser (name)

Nasser (Arabic: ناصر, romanized: Nāṣir, lit. 'granter of victory') is a masculine given name, commonly found in Arabic. Alternative spellings of this name, possibly due to transliteration, include Naser, Nassar, Nasir, Naseer, or Nacer. People with this name may include:

## Given name

* Nassar (born 1958), Tamil actor and director, sometimes spelled Nasser
* Nasser al-Bahri (1972–2015), Al Qaeda militant
* Nasser Beydoun (born 1964/65), American business executive
* Nasser Biria (1958-2025), Iranian Shi'a cleric
* Nasser Eljahori, Yemeni army officer
* Nasser Fahimi (born 1974), political and ideological prisoner from Iran
* Nasser Abu Hamid (1972–2022), Palestinian politician
* Nasser Hussain (born 1968), former England cricket captain
* Nasser Judeh (born 1961) Jordanian politician
* Nasser Kanaani (born 1970), Iranian diplomat
* Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa (born 1987), Bahraini royal (also referred to as Sheikh Nasser or Prince Nasser)
* Nasser Khalili (born 1945), British-Iranian collector, scholar and philanthropist
* Nasser Al-Khelaifi (born 1973), Qatari businessman
* Nasser Minachi (1931–2014), Iranian politician
* Nasser bin Zayed Al Nahyan (died 2008), Emirati royal
* Nasser Ovissi (born 1934) Iranian-born American painter
* Nasser Al Qasabi (born 1961), Saudi Arabian actor
* Nasser Al Saeed (1923–unknown), Saudi Arabian missing dissident since 1979
* Nasser Saidi (born 1950), Lebanese politician and economist
* Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1911–1984), Saudi royal
* Nasser Al-Shamrani (born 1983), Saudi Arabian footballer
* Nasser Sobbi (1924-2018), Iranian-American Mandaean scribe
* Nasser El Sonbaty (1965-2013), German bodybuilder
* Nasser Yeganeh (1921–1993), Iranian jurist and politician

## Middle name/father name

* Abdul Nasser El Hakim (born 1960), Lebanese-born Curaçaoan businessman, politician, minister and a founder of the political party Movement for the Future of Curaçao (MFK)
* Amal Nasser el-Din, (1928-2025), Druze Israeli author and former politician, former MP in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)
* Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli (1977–2011), Yemeni wanted for terrorism by the FBI
* Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari (born 1970), Yemeni who became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI in connection with terrorism
* Fadel Nasser Sarouf, (born Valentin Sarov in 1976), Bulgarian-Qatari weightlifter
* Hussein ibn Nasser (1902–1982), Prime Minister of Jordan from 1963 to 1964
* Hussein Nasser Al-Huraiti (born 1962), Kuwaiti politician and MP in its National Assembly
* Hussein Nasser Walji (1920–2005), Tanzanian politician
* Mansour Nasser al Bihani (died 2011), Yemeni fighter who died in Somalia in 2011
* Mohammed Nasser Ahmed (born 1950), Yemeni major general and government minister

## Surname

* Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser, alleged terrorist from Saudi Arabia
* Amin H. Nasser (born 1960), Saudi Arabian engineer
* Farah Nasser, Canadian journalist
* Fredy Nasser (born 1956), Honduran businessman
* Hana Nasser (born 1991), Israeli football player
* Hanna Nasser (1936–2015), Palestinian politician
* Hanna Nasser (academic) (born 1935), Palestinian academic and political figure
* Jacques Nasser (born 1947), former CEO of Ford Motor Company
* Jorge Nasser (born 1956), Uruguayan musician
* Larry Nassar (born 1963), former US gymnastics osteopathic physician who sexually abused and raped over 70 women in his career
* Latif Nasser (born 1986), American Canadian writer