Bakhtiar (name)

Bakhtiyār (Persian: بختیار; lit. lucky), alternatively spelt as "Bakhtyar", "Baxtiyar", "Bachtiar", "Bachtyar" and "Bahtiyar", is a Persian masculine given name and surname. Its feminine form is Bakhtawar. It is formed by a confluence of the elements ‘bakht’ meaning ‘fortune’ or ‘happiness’ and ‘avar’ meaning ‘bringing’ or ‘giving.’ Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Bahtiyar

Bahtiyar Aydın (1946–1993), Turkish general
Bahtiyar Can Vanlı (born 1962), Turkish-German football coach

Bakhtiyar

Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji (1150-1206), Ghurid general in Bengal under Qutb-ud-din Aibak
Bakhtiyar Kaki (1173-1235), a 13th-century Sufi
Bakhtiyar Artayev (born 1983), a Kazakh boxer
Bakhtiyar Akhmedov (born 1987), a Russian wrestler
Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (1925-2009), an Azerbaijani poet
Bakhtiyar Musayev (born 1973), an Azerbaijani footballer
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov (born 1955), Russian international lawyer
Bakhtiyar Tyleganov (born 1976), a Kazakh boxer
Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov (born 1998), a Kazakh footballer
Baxtiyor Rahimov (born 1963), an Uzbek Islamist militant
Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev (born 1978), an Uzbek football player
'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar (943-978), a 10th-century Buyid Amir
Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel (of Tatar origin)
Bakhtiar Amin (born 1959), Iraqi Kurdish politician

Bachtiar

Bachtyar

Bachtyar Ali (born 1960), Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual

Surname

Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar (born 1992), Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin
Abul qasim Bakhtiar (1872-1971), Iranian physician
Lailee Bakhtiar (born 1951), American author and critic
Laleh Bakhtiar (1938-2020), Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist
Rudi Bakhtiar (born 1966), Iranian-American newswoman
Shapour Bakhtiar (1914-1991), Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran
Teymur Bakhtiar (1914-1970), Iranian general and head of Savak