Jafar
Jafar ( Arabic جعفر, DMG Ǧaʿfar ), often (English) Jafar , is an Arabic male given name meaning "small river, stream".
Name bearer
- Jafar al-Hajib (* 874, died after 953), slave and chronicler of the Fatimids
- Jafar al-Askari , (1885–1936 in Baghdad) Ottoman officer and Iraqi statesman
- Jafar ibn Abī Tālib (approx. 590–629), companion of the Prophet Mohammed
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'schar al-Balchi ( Albumasaar , approx. 787-886), Persian mathematician
- Jafar Irismetov (* 1976), Uzbek football player
- Jaafar Abdul Karim (* 1981 in Liberia), TV presenter
- Jafar Husayn Khan (* 19 **), north Indian qawwali singer
- al-Mutawakkil 'alā' llāh, Ja'far ibn Mohammed († 861), Abbasid caliph
- Jafar Muhammad an-Numairi (1930–2009), Sudanese politician
- Jafar Panahi (* 1960), Iranian film director and Sakharov Prize winner
- Jafar Pischewari (1893–1947), Iranian-Azerbaijani politician
- Jafar as-Sādiq (approx. 700–765), Imam of the Imamites and Ismailis and founder of a fiqh
- Mohammad Jafar Salmasi (1918-2000), Iranian weightlifter
- Jafar Sharif-Emami (1910–1998), Iranian politician
- Jafar Tuqan (1938–2014), Palestinian-Jordanian architect
- Mir Jafar (1691–1765), first nawab of Bengal
- Said Mohamed Jaffar († 1993), Comorian politician
- Adnan Bin Haji Mohd Jafar , Brunei diplomat
Others
- Jaffar Express , the fastest type of train and brand name of Pakistan Railways
- Jafar is a character on Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Wehr: Arabic dictionary for the written language of the present , 4th, unv. Ed., Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 114
- ↑ Jafar on behindthename.com (English)