Anvar
Anvar is a given name and surname. The name comes from Arabic and means "light", like the variant Anwar. Notable persons with the name Anvar include:Persons with the given name
- Anvar Arziyev, Kazakh social activist
- Anvar Berdiev, Uzbek football player
- Anvar Bikzhanov, Russian football coach
- Anvar Gafurov, Uzbek football player
- Anvar Gazimagomedov, Russian football player
- Anvar Ibragimgadzhiyev, Russian football player
- Anvar Ibragimov, Soviet fencer
- Anvar Juraboev, Uzbek journalist, historian and politician
- Anvar Mammadkhanli, writer and screenwriter, script writer, translator and art worker
- Anvar Chingizoglu, Uzbek football player
- Anvar Rakhimov, Uzbek footballer player
- Anvar Sadat, President of Egypt, serving 1970 to 1981
- Anvar Saidenov, Kazakh national bank chairman
- Anvar Soliev, Uzbek football player
- Anvar-qori Tursunov, Uzbek imam
- Anvar Yunusov, Tajik boxer
Persons with the surname
- Cas Anvar, Canadian actor, voice actor, and writer
- Hassan Anvar, Chinese-Uyghur refugee wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- Qasem-e Anvar, Azeri poet and Sufi
