Mansur (Arabic: منصور, Manṣūr; also spelled Munsor, Mansoor, Manser, Mansour, Monsour, Mansyur or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "the one who is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."
The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.
Other people called Mansur during the golden Age of Islam include:
Ismail al-Mansur, third Caliph of the Fatimids
Mansur ad-Din of Adal, a sultan of Adal
Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
Almanzor, 10th-century ruler of al-Andalus
Mansur ibn Ilyas, a Timurid physician
Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca
Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
Al-Mansur Yahya (d. 976)
Al-Mansur Abdallah (1166-1217)
Al-Mansur al-Hasan (1199–1271)
Al-Mansur an-Nasir (d. 1462)
Al-Mansur Muhammad, Imam of Yemen (1441-1505)
Al-Mansur al-Husayn (1669 - 1720)
Al-Mansur Ali I (1738-1809)
Al-Mansur Ahmad (d. 1853)
Al-Mansur Ali II, Imam of Yemen (1812 - 1871)
Al-Mansur al-Husayn III (d.1888)
The spelling Mansur is most commonly seen as the Turkic form. While the transliteration Mansoor is typically used by South Asians. Mansur or Mansour is used in Turkic languages, Iranian languages or Arabic, and Mensur is used in the Bosnian language.
Mansur Yavaş Turkish politician and the mayor of Ankara
Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud Saudi politician
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
Mansour al-Balawi, former Al-Ittihad president
Mansour Al-Thagafi, Saudi Arabian footballer.
Mansoor Ahmed, Pakistani hockey player
Mensur Akgün, Turkish scholar
Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
Mansoor Amjad, Pakistani cricketer
Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian political theorist and activist
Mansoor Ijaz, American commentator and businessman
Mansoor Muhammed Ali Qattaa, Saudi Arabian held in detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps
Mansour (singer), Iranian singer
Mansour F. Armaly, Palestinian-American physician and researcher
Mansour Bahrami, Iranian tennis player
Mensur Bajramović, Bosnian basketball coach
Mansoor Khan, Pakistani film maker
Mensur Kurtiši, Macedonian association football player
Mullah Bakht Mohammed, military commander for Afghanistan's Taliban known as Mansoor Dadullah
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates
Mansour Leghaei, Iranian Shia Imam and Founder of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre
Mansour Matloubi, Iranian professional poker player
Mansoor Muftah, Qatari football player
Mansour Osanlou, Iranian trade union activist
Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, and producer
Mansour Seck, Senegalese singer and musician
Almanzo Wilder, American farmer, whose first name is a form of al-Manṣūr.
Mansour Zalzal, Abbasid musician and composer
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, nawab of Bengal
Sheikh Mansur, Chechen leader against Catherine the Great's Russia
Mansur Mozaffarov, Russian Tatar composer and pedagogue
Mansurul Haq, Pakistani admiral and Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy
Mansoor Zaman, Pakistani professional squash player
Mansyur S., Indonesian Dangdut singer
Agnes Mary Mansour, American political figure and former nun
Ghulam Mansoor, Subedar major, Bhopal state
Misha Mansoor, American musician and founder of the Progressive Metal band Periphery
M. A. Mansoor, Egyptian antiquarian
Maghfoor Mansoor, Pakistani native who was a fugitive in the United States
Adly Mansour, acting President of Egypt
Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Egyptian cleric
Belal Mansoor Ali, Bahraini runner from Kenya
Shoaib Mansoor, Pakistani film producer, director, writer, lyricist, and composer
Josh Mansour, Australian Rugby League player
Joyce Mansour, British born Egyptian Surrealist poet who also wrote in French
Gueye Mansour, Senegalese footballer
Hend Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabian-American artist
Nishat Monsur, British-Bangladeshi singer-songwriter
Mustafa Mansour, Egyptian footballer
Reda Mansour, Israeli poet, historian and diplomat
Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour, Egyptian street gang leader and serial killer
Richard Monsour, better known as Dick Dale, Lebanese-American guitarist
Shadia Mansour, British born Palestinian singer
Sliman Mansour, Palestinian painter
Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, leader and spokesman for Somalia's al-Shabaab known as Abu Mansur
Toufik Mansour, mathematician
Ali Mansur, prime minister of Iran
Hassan-Ali Mansur, Iranian politician and prime minister
Jossy Mansur, Aruban newspaper editor of Lebanese descent
Mallikarjun Mansur, Indian classical singer
Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician and prime minister
Ustad Mansur, Mughal painter from India
