Modern Given Name
The spelling Mansur is most commonly seen as the Turkic form. While the transliteration Mansoor is typically used by South Asians. Mansur or Mansour is used in Turkic languages, Iranian languages or Arabic, and Mensur is used in the Bosnian language.
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
- Mansour al-Balawi, former Al-Ittihad president
- Mansour Al-Thagafi, Saudi Arabian footballer.
- Mansoor Ahmed, Pakistani hockey player
- Mensur Akgün, Turkish scholar
- Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
- Mansoor Amjad, Pakistani cricketer
- Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian political theorist and activist
- Mansoor Ijaz, American commentator and businessman
- Mansoor Muhammed Ali Qattaa, Saudi Arabian held in detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps
- Mansour (singer), Iranian singer
- Mansour F. Armaly, Palestinian-American physician and researcher
- Mansour Bahrami, Iranian tennis player
- Mensur Bajramović, Bosnian basketball coach
- Mensur Peljto, former Bosnian cruiserweight boxer
- Mansoor Khan, Pakistani film maker
- Mullah Bakht Mohammed, military commander for Afghanistan's Taliban known as Mansoor Dadullah
- Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates
- Mansour Leghaei, Iranian Shia Imam and Founder of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre
- Mansour Matloubi, Iranian professional poker player
- Mansoor Malangi, Pakistani singer
- Mansoor Muftah, Qatari football player
- Mansour Osanlou, Iranian trade union activist
- Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, and producer
- Mansour Seck, Senegalese singer and musician
- Mansour Zalzal, Abbasid musician and composer
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, nawab of Bengal
- Sheikh Mansur, Chechen leader against Catherine the Great's Russia
- Mansur Mozaffarov, Russian Tatar composer and pedagogue
- Mansurul Haq, Pakistani admiral and Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy
- Mensur Kurtisi, Macedonian association football player
- Mansoor Zaman, Pakistani professional squash player
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