Zaheer (name)
Zaheer is an Urdu male given name and surname, a variant of Arabic Zahir.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Zaheer Hussain, Electrical Engineer
- Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani former cricketer
- Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, American film director, writer and producer
- Zaheer Ahmad, Pakistani American medical doctor, chief executive of the Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad
- Zaheer Ali, Trinidadian former cricketer
- Zaheer-ul-Islam, former Director-General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
- Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Pakistani jurist, 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Zaheer Khan, Indian former cricketer
- Zaheer Khan , Pakistani former cricketer
- Zaheer Maqsood, Emirati cricketer
- Zaheer Mohamed, Guyanese cricketer
- Syed Zaheer Rizvi, Pakistani music director and teacher
- Zaheer Sher, English cricketer
Surname:
- Ehsan Elahi Zaheer, Pakistani Islamic theologian, leader of the Ahl-i Hadith movement
- S. M. Zaheer, Indian actor
- Sajjad Zaheer, Urdu writer, Marxist ideologue and radical revolutionary in both India and Pakistan
- Syed Ali Zaheer, 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
- Syed Iqbal Zaheer, Indian Islamic Scholar and writer
- Zafar Zaheer, Bahraini cricketer
- Khalid Zaheer, Pakistani Islamic scholar, educationist, and television personality.
- Talha Zaheer, Pakistani entrepreneur, sports analyst, film & television writer & director.
