Anvar is a given name and surname. The name comes from Arabic and means "light", like the variant Anwar. Notable persons with the name Anvar include:
Persons with the given name
- Anvar Berdiev (born 1978), Uzbek footballer
- Anvar Bikzhanov (born 1951), Russian football coach
- Anvar Gafurov (born 1982), Uzbek footballer
- Anvar Gazimagomedov (born 1988), Russian footballer
- Anvar Ibragimgadzhiyev (born 1991), Russian footballer
- Anvar Ibragimov (1965–2023), Soviet Olympic champion fencer
- Anvar Juraboev (1948–2010), Uzbek journalist, historian and politician
- Anvar Mammadkhanli (1913–1990), Soviet and Azerbaijani writer and screenwriter, script writer, translator and art worker
- Anvar Chingizoglu (born 1962, Azerbaijani historian, ethnologist and genealogist
- Anvar Rajabov (born 1988), Uzbek footballer
- Anvar Sadat (1918–1981), President of Egypt, serving 1970 to 1981
- Anvar Saidenov (born 1960), Kazakh national bank chairman
- Anvar Soliev (born 1978), Uzbek footballer
- Anvar-qori Tursunov, Uzbek imam
- Anvar Yunusov (born 1987), Tajik boxer
Persons with the surname
- Cas Anvar, Canadian actor, voice actor, and writer
- Hassan Anvar, Chinese-Uyghur refugee wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- Qasem-e Anvar (1356–1433), Sufi mystic, poet, and a leading da'i (preacher) of the Safavid order
See also
- Khvajeh Anvar, a village in Donbaleh Rud-e Shomali Rural District, Dehdez District, Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Ənvər Məmmədxanlı, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in the Ujar Rayon of Azerbaijan
- Andvar, a village in Chelav Rural District, in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran
- Anvard, the moatless castle where King Lune of Archenland resides in the fictional land of Narnia
- Anvari (1126–1189), Persian poet
- Anvari (surname)
- Avar (disambiguation)
- Anwar (disambiguation)
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