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Bakhtiyār (meaning "lucky"), alternatively spelt as "Bakhtyar", "Baxtiyar", "Bachtiar", "Bachtyar" and "Bahtiyar", is a Persian masculine given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
editBahtiyar
edit- Bahtiyar Aydın (1946–1993), Turkish general
- Bahtiyar Can Vanlı (born 1962), Turkish-German football coach
Bakhtiyar
edit- Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji, Ghurid general in Bengal under Qutb-ud-din Aibak
- Bakhtiyar Kaki, a 13th-century Sufi
- Bakhtiyar Artayev, a Kazakh boxer
- Bakhtiyar Akhmedov, a Russian wrestler
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, an Azerbaijani poet
- Bakhtiyar Musayev, an Azerbaijani footballer
- Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Russian international lawyer
- Bakhtiyar Tyleganov, a Kazakh boxer
- Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov, a Kazakh footballer
- Baxtiyor Rahimov, an Uzbek Islamist militant
- Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev, an Uzbek football player
- Bakhtiyar ibn Abu-Ja'far, an 11th-century local ruler of Semnan (under Ziyarids)
- 'Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar, a 10th-century Buyid Amir
- Bakhtiyar ibn Hasanuya, a 10th-century Hasanuyid Amir
- Bäxtiär Qanqayıv, an 18th-century Russian colonel (of Tatar origin)
- Bakhtiar Amin, Iraqi Kurdish politician
Bachtiar
edit- Bachtiar Aly, Indonesian Ambassador for Egypt from 2002 to 2005
- Bachtiar Chamsyah, Indonesian politician
- Bachtiar Effendi, Indonesian film actor and director
Bachtyar
edit- Bachtyar Ali, Kurdish-Iraqi novelist and intellectual
Surname
edit- Gulnazar, born Gülnezer Bextiyar, Chinese actress and model of Uyghur origin
- Lailee Bakhtiar, American author and critic
- Laleh Bakhtiar, Iranian-American author, translator and clinical psychologist
- Rudi Bakhtiar, Iranian-American newswoman
- Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran
- Teymur Bakhtiar, Iranian general and head of Savak
- Akmal Bakhtiyarov, a Kazakh footballer