# Timur (disambiguation)

Timur was a 14th-century Southern-Central Asian Turkic-Mongolian ruler and warlord also known as Tamerlane (from Timur the Lame or the Persian expression of the same meaning, Timur-e-Lang) in the western world.
Taimur or Timur may also refer to:

## Historical

* Möngke Temür, or Mengu-Timur (d. 1280), khan of the Golden Horde
* Several rulers from the Chinese-Mongol Yuan Dynasty
** Temür Khan (r. 1294–1307), the second ruler of the Yuan dynasty
** Tugh Temür, better known as Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (r. 1328–1332)
** Toghon Temür (r. 1333–1370)
** Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür (r. 1378–1388)
** Yesün Temür (r. 1323–1328)
** Öljei Temür Khan, (r. 1408–1412)
* Köke Temür (died 1375), Yuan dynasty general
* Timur (1336–1405), the Central Asian ruler mentioned above, also known as Tamerlane
* Timur II, real name Neku Siyar (1679–1723), claimant to the Mughal throne
* Bayan Temür (Gongmin, 1330–1374), ruler of Goryeo
* Khan Temir (d. 1637), Budjak Nogais ruler
* Timur Shah Durrani (1748–1793), Afghan ruler

## Modern

* Anwara Taimur (1936–2020), Indian politician, chief minister of Assam
* Nawab Muhammad Taimur Talpur, Pakistani politician
* Taimur Khan Jhagra, Pakistani politician
* Taimur Hussain, a Pakistani professional golfer
* Taimur Ali, a Pakistani First-class cricketer
* Taimur Sultan (cricketer), a Pakistani first-class cricketer
* Taimur Khan (cricketer, born 1991), a Pakistani First-class cricketer
* Taimur Khan (cricketer, born 1975), a Pakistani First-class cricketer
* Danish Taimoor, a Pakistani actor
* Taimur Rahman, a Pakistani singer
* Taimur bin Feisal, 12th Sultan of Oman
* Said bin Taimur, 13th Sultan of Oman
* Temur Babluani (born 1948), Georgian film director
* Teymur Bakhtiar (1914–1970), Iranian army officer
* Timur Beg (1886–1933), Uyghur rebel leader
* Timur Bekmambetov (born 1961), Kazakh film and advertisement director
* Timur Dibirov (born 1983), Russian handball player
* Timur Dzhabrailov (born 1973), Russian footballer
* Timur Faizutdinov (2001–2021), Russian ice hockey defenseman
* Timur Gareev (born 1988), Uzbekistani chess player
* Timur Ibragimov (born 1975), Uzbekistani boxer
* Temur Iakobashvili (born 1967), Georgian politician and diplomat
* Temur Juraev (born 1984), Uzbekistani football player
* Teimour Radjabov (born 1987), Azerbaijani Chess Grandmaster
* Timur Kapadze (born 1981), Uzbekistani footballer
* Temur Ketsbaia (born 1968), Georgian football player and manager
* Timur Kulibayev (born 1966), Kazakh billionaire
* Timur Kuran (born 1954), American economist and political scientist
* Timur Mutsurayev (born 1976), Chechen singer and bard
* Timur Naniev (born 1994), Russian weightlifter
* Timur Pradopo (born 1955), Chief of the Indonesian National Police
* Timur Taymazov (born 1970), Ukrainian weightlifter
* Timur Selçuk (1946–2020), Turkish musician
* Timur Tekkal (born 1981), German rugby union player
* Timur Yanyali (born 1975), Turkish footballer

## Other uses

* Timur (name)
* Tamerlane (poem), 1827 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
* Tamerlane (ship)
* Tamerlane chess
* Tamerlano (Gasparini opera), 1711
* Tamerlano, Handel opera, 1724
* Timur, Iran, village in Ardabil Province, Iran
* Temir komuz, central Asian jaw harp
* Timuri, tribe in Afghanistan and Iran
* Timurite movement, youth volunteer organization in the Soviet Union
* Amur and Timur, tiger and goat friendship in Russian safari park
* Timur, Nepali and Tamil name for the plant Zanthoxylum armatum, "rattan pepper"