Tamer

Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means Competent soldier in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates).

Persons

Given name

• Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player
• Tamer Ashor (born 1984), Egyptian singer and composer
• Tamer Balci (1917–1993), Turkish actor
• Tamer Basar, Turkish control theorist
• Tamer Başoğlu, (born 1938) Turkish sculptor
• Tamer Bayoumi, Egyptian taekwondo player and Olympian
• Tamer El Said, Egyptian film director, producer, and writer
• Tamer El-Sawy, Egyptian tennis player
• Tamer Fernandes (born 1974), English football player
• Tamer Hamed (born 1974), Egyptian swimmer and Olympian
• Tamer Hassan, English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent
• Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter
• Tamer Karadağlı, Turkish actor
• Tamer Moustafa (born 1982), Egyptian basketball player
• Tamer Nafar, Arab Israeli rap artist
• Tamer Oyguç, Turkish professional basketball player
• Tamer Peker (born 1970), Turkish operatic baritone
• Tamer Şahin (born 1981), Turkish hacker
• Tamer Mohamed Tahoun (born 1977), Egyptian fencer
• Tamer Seckin, American gynecologist and laparoscopic surgeon
• Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1976), Turkish football player and coach
• Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991), Turkish football player
• Tamer Yiğit (born Tamer Özyiğitoğlu in 1942), Turkish actor

Family name

• Chris Tamer (born 1970), American ice hockey player
• Georges Tamer, professor of philology and Arabic and Islamic studies
• Kandy Tamer, Australian-born rugby league player of Lebanese origin
• Tony Tamer, American businessman, founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
• Zakaria Tamer (born 1931), Syrian short story writer
• Michel Temer, or Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, Brazilian politician of Lebanese descent, President of Brazil
• Taleedah Tamer, Saudi Arabian fashion model

Places

• Tamer, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Tamer, Golestan, a village in Golestan Province, Iran
• Tamer, Yazd, a village in Yazd Province, Iran
• Tamer, Btaaboura, a village in Koura, Lebanon

Other uses

• A person involved with lion taming
• Tamer II, custom sail yacht
• TAMER, abbreviation for Training an Agent Manually via Evaluative Reinforcement, framework for transferring knowledge from human experts to automated AI agents.
• Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestinian educational organization