Tamer

'Tamer' is an Arabic given name and surname been used in arabic language 2150 years ago. It means seller or merchandiser of dates in Arabic. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates) in old History, the Tamer gets the dates from dates palm trees and walks long distances to sell it to scattered trips in desert.

Persons

Given name

• Tamer Abdel Hamid (born 1975), Egyptian football player
• Tamer Ashor (born 1984), Egyptian singer and composer
• Tamer Balci (1917–1993), Turkish actor
• Tamer Basar (born 1946), Turkish control theorist
• Tamer Başoğlu, (born 1938) Turkish sculptor
• Tamer Bayoumi (born 1982), Egyptian taekwondo player and Olympian
• Tamer El Said (born 1972), Egyptian film director, producer, and writer
• Tamer El-Sawy (born 1972), Egyptian tennis player
• Tamer Fernandes (born 1974), English football player
• Tamer Hamed (born 1974), Egyptian swimmer and Olympian
• Tamer Hassan (born 1968), English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent
• Tamer Hosny (born 1977), Egyptian singer-songwriter
• Tamer Karadağlı (born 1967), Turkish actor
• Tamer Moustafa (born 1982), Egyptian basketball player
• Tamer Nafar (born 1979), Arab Israeli rap artist
• Tamer Oyguç (born 1966), 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) (born 1976), Turkish football player and coach
• Tamer Tuna (footballer, born 1991) (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 (born 1972), Australian-born rugby league player of Lebanese origin
• Tony Tamer (born 1957), American businessman, founder and Co-CEO of H.I.G. Capital
• Zakaria Tamer (born 1931), Syrian short story writer
• Michel Temer (born 1940), 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