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Omar is a given name with various origins:
- Variant of Homer
, from Ancient Greece, meaning security
and promise
.
- Omar
, Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning flourishing, long-lived, eloquent and gifted speaker
. It was particulary common in German culture of popular name Jomar
- variant of Mary and Joseph, and popular among the American Puritans. Now it is more commonly used as a variant of Umar
, from the Islamic culture meaning first born son
, and also a common name in Spanish colonies due to the Arabic influence on Spain.
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People
Sports
- Omer Joldic, is a Bosnian footballer currently playing for FK Olimpik Sarajevo
- Omar Ahmed, a Kenyan boxer
- Gabriel Omar Batistuta, a former international Argentine football player
- Omar Bravo, an international Mexican football player
- Omar Sivori, a former international Argentine and Italian football player
- Sergio Omar Almirón, a former international Argentine football player
- Omar Vizquel, a Major League Baseball shortstop playing for the San Francisco Giants
- Omar Meña, a Cuban track and field sprinter
- Omar Pinzón, a Colombian backstroke swimmer
- Omar Samra, the 1st Egyptian to climb Mount Everest
Music
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, lead guitarist and composer of The Mars Volta and former guitarist of At the Drive-In
- Omar Lye-Fook, a British soul singer and musician, one of the founders of the Neo Soul movement of the 1990's
- Omar Naber, a Slovenian singer
- Don Omar, a Puerto-Rican reggaeton artist
Acting
- Omar Epps, an American actor
- Omar Regan, an American actor and comedian
- Omar Gooding, an American actor
- Omar Benson Miller, an American actor
- Omar Sharif, an Academy Award nominated Egyptian actor
Other
- Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (1967-2009)
- Omar Bradley, one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II
- Omar ibn al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam
- Omar Khayyám, a medieval Persian poet and scientist
- Omar Little, character on the HBO drama The Wire
- Omar Mukhtar, leader of the resistance movement against the Italian military occupation of Libya
- Omar Torrijos, the Commander of the Panamanian National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981
Other uses
- Omar, Sulu, a municipality in the Philippines
- Omar, Mozambique
- Hurricane Omar, a 2008 Atlantic hurricane
- The Omar, a society of cyborgs in the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War
- Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation, a charitable non-governmental organisation
See also
- Umar (disambiguation)
- Omagh
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