Ghazanfar

Ghazanfar

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Lion
Other names
Related names	Gazanfer, Gazanfar, Ghazanfer, Ghaznafar

Ghazanfar (غضنفر) is a masculine given name.

Given name

• Gazanfer Agha (dead in 1603), Ottoman politician
• Gazanfar Akbarov (1917–1944), Azerbaijani Red Army officer
• Gazanfar Khaligov (1898-1981), Azerbaijani painter
• Gazanfar Musabekov (1888–1938), Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman
• Gazanfer Bilge (1924–2008), Turkish sports wrestler
• Gazanfer Özcan (1931–2009), Turkish actor
• Ghazanfar Abbas Cheena (born 1962), Pakistani politician
• Ghazanfar Abbas Shah, Pakistani colonel
• Ghazanfar Ali (born 1978), Pakistani hockey player
• Ghazanfar Ali Khan (1895–1963), Pakistani diplomat
• Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Iranian diplomat
• Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan (born 1945), Gilgit-Baltistani politician
• Nawabzada Gazanfar Ali Gul, Pakistani politician
• Sardar Ghaznafar Ali Khan, Punjabi politician
• Ghazanfar-Jang Bangash Khan, Pashtun Nawab and Governor in the Mughal Empire

Surname

• Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar (born 2007), Afghan cricketer
• Husn Banu Ghazanfar (born 1957), Afghan politician
• Mohammad Ghazanfar (born 1994), Hong Kongese cricketer

See also

• Ghaznafar, former name of Aragats, Aparan, a village in Armenia
• Ghazanfarabad, village in West Azerbaijan
• Ghazanfari, village in Khaf County, Iran
• Ghazanfari Khan Ahmad-e Sofla, village in Basht District, Iran
• Ghazanfarkhani, village in Boyer-Ahmad County, Iran