Kadir

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Kadir/Kadeer/Qader/Qadir/Quadeer/Quadir are the primary transliterations of two Arabic male given names (, also spelled Qaadir) and (, also spelled Qadeer). These names are derived from Al-Qaadir, one of the names of God in Islam, meaning "The (All or Most) Capable", using the word قدير meaning "able/competent".

Kadeer

• Kadeer Ali (born 1983), English cricketer

Kadir

Given name

• Kadir Akbulut (born 1960), Turkish footballer and coach
• Kadir Arı (born 1994), Turkish footballer
• Kadir Arslan (born 1977), Turkish volleyball player
• Kadir Bal (born 1966), Turkish bureaucrat, diplomat, and engineer
• Kadir Barría (born 2007), Panamanian footballer
• Kadir Bekmezci (born 1985), Belgian footballer
• Kadir Caidi (born 1990), Italian footballer
• Kadir Çermik (born 1977), Turkish stage, film, television, and voice actor
• Kadir Cin (born 1987), Turkish volleyball player
• Kadir Doğulu (born 1982), Turkish actor
• Kadir Hodžić (born 1994), Bosnia-born Swedish footballer
• Kadir İnanır (born 1949), Turkish film actor and director
• Kadir Irfan, Iraqi basketball player
• Kadir Kamal (born 2000), Turkish wrestler
• Kadir Kasirga (born 1975), Swedish-Kurdish politician
• Kadir Keleş (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Kadir Koçdemir (born 1964), Turkish politician, author and former governor
• Kadir Mısıroğlu (1933–2019), Turkish Islamist writer and conspiracy theorist
• Kadir Nelson (born 1974), African American artist and illustrator
• Kadir Nurman (1933–2013), Turkish restaurateur
• Kadir Özcan (1952–2013), Turkish football player and coach
• Kadir Özkaya (born 1963), Turkish politician
• Kadir Rana (born 1961), Indian politician
• Kadir Seven (born 2003), Turkish footballer
• Kadir Sözen (born 1964), German-Turkish journalist and filmmaker
• Kadir Talabani (born 1986), Iraqi actor
• Kadir Timergazin (1913–1963), Soviet petroleum geologist
• Kadir Topbaş (1945–2021), Turkish architect and former Mayor of Istanbul
• Kadir Yahaya (born 1968), Singaporean footballer

Surname

• Elishay Kadir (born 1987), Israeli basketball player
• Syed Abdul Kadir (born 1948), Singaporean boxer

Qader

• Qader Eshpari (born 1967), Afghan singer

Qadir

• Al-Qadir (947–1031), Caliph of the later Abbasid caliphate ruled from 1st November 991 – 29th November 1031.
• Qadir Bakhsh (1946–2008), Pakistani footballer
• Qadir Bux Bedil (1814–1873), Indian Sufi poet and scholar
• Qadir Berdi, Khan of the Golden Horde
• Qadir Dilan (1930–1999), Iraqi Kurdish singer, songwriter and musician
• Qadir Huseynov (born 1986), Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster
• Qadir Ismail (born 2000), American footballer
• Qadir Magsi (born 1962), Pakistani politician
• Qadir Mandokhail, Pakistani politician
• Qadir Nayel, Pakistani politician
• Qadir Obeidi (born 1947), Iraqi politician
• Qadir Yar (1802–1892), Punjabi poet

Surname

• Abdul Kadir (1952–2018), Guyanese politician, convicted terrorist.
• Abdul Qadir (1944–2014) Afghan communist military officer
• Aron Kader (born 1974), American comedian of Palestinian descent
• Asghar Qadir (born 1946), Pakistani mathematician
• Elishay Kadir (born 1987), Israeli basketball player
• Foued Kadir (born 1983), Algerian footballer
• Ghulam Qadir, (1767–1789) Afghan Rohilla leader
• Kamal Qadir (born 1958), Kurdish activist
• Khandan Kadir (born 1969), Afghan extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Rebiya Kadeer (born 1947), Uyghur businesswoman
• Zahir Qadir (born 1973), Afghan politician
• Zunun Kadir (1911–1989), Uyghur writer

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