Zaheer (name)

Zaheer (ظہیر) is an Urdu male given name and surname, a variant of Arabic Zahir.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Zaheer Abbas (born 1947), Pakistani cricketer
• Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, American film director, writer and producer
• Zaheer Ahmad (1948–2011), Pakistani American medical doctor, chief executive of the Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad
• Zaheer Ali (born 1981), Trinidadian cricketer
• Zaheer-ul-Islam (born 1956), former Director-General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)
• Anwar Zaheer Jamali (born 1951), Pakistani jurist, 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan
• Zaheer Khan (born 1978), Indian cricketer
• Zaheer Khan (Pakistani cricketer) (born 1979), Pakistani cricketer
• Zaheer Maqsood (born 1985), Emirati cricketer
• Zaheer Mohamed (born 1985), Guyanese cricketer
• Syed Zaheer Rizvi (born 1968), Pakistani music director and teacher
• Zaheer Sher (born 1975), English cricketer

Surname

• Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (1945–1987), Pakistani Islamic theologian, leader of the Ahl-i Hadith movement
• S. M. Zaheer (born 1947), Indian actor
• Sajjad Zaheer (1905–1973), Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary in both India and Pakistan
• Syed Ali Zaheer (1896-1983), Indian politician and a minister in the first cabinet formed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
• Syed Husain Zaheer, Indian chemist, politician, director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
• Syed Iqbal Zaheer (born 1944), Indian Islamic scholar and writer
• Zafar Zaheer (born 1974), Bahraini cricketer

See also

• Zaheer (The Legend of Korra), major recurring character in Nickelodeon's animated television series The Legend of Korra
• Dr. S. Hussain Zaheer Memorial High School
• Zaheera
• Zahir (disambiguation)