Bakhtiar (name)
Bakhtiyār, also spelled as Bakhtyar, Baxtiyar, Bachtiar, Bachtyar and Bahtiyar, is a Persian given first name for boys, popular in Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Iraq, Russia, and amongst Parsis, Irani and South Asian and Southeast Asian People.Given name
Bahtiyar
- Bahtiyar Aydın, Turkish general
- Bahtiyar Can Vanlı, Turkish-German football coach
- Bahtiyar Topal, Turkish football manager
Bakhtiyar
- Bakhitiyar Ali III, third in line king of Sylhet
- Bakhtiyar Khalji, military general of Bengal
- Bakhtiyar Kaki, a 13th-century Sufi
- Bakhtiyar Artayev, a Kazakh boxer
- Bakhtiyar Akhmedov, a Russian wrestler
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, an Azerbaijani poet
- Bakhtiyar Musayev, an Azerbaijani footballer
- Bakhtiyar Tyleganov, a Kazakh boxer
- Baxtiyor Rahimov, an Uzbek Islamist militant
- Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev, an Uzbek football player
- Bakhtiyar ibn Abu-Ja'far, an 11th-century local ruler of Semnan
- 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, a 10th-century Buyid Amir
- Bakhtiyar ibn Hasanuya, a 10th-century Hasanuyid Amir
- Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel
- Bakhtiar Amin, Iraqi Kurdish politician
Bachtiar
- Bachtiar Aly, Indonesian Ambassador for Egypt from 2002–2005
- Bachtiar Chamsyah, Indonesian politician
- Bachtiar Effendi, Indonesian film actor and director
Bachtyar
- Bachtyar Ali, Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual
Surname
- Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran
- Ali Asghar Bakhtiar, Iranian architect and archaeologist
- Cuross Bakhtiar, scientist and cosmetic formulator
- Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar, Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin
- Lailee Bakhtiar, American author and critic
- Laleh Bakhtiar, Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist
- Rudi Bakhtiar, Iranian-American newswoman
- Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak
