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'''Mansour''' ({{lang-langx|ar|منصور}}, '''Manṣūr'''); also spelled '''Mounsor''', '''Monsur''' (Bengali), '''Mansoor''', '''Manser''', '''Mansur''', '''Mansyur''' (Indonesian) or '''Mensur''' (Turkish), is a male Arabic name that means "He who is victorious", from the Arabic root ''[[nasr (disambiguation)|naṣr]]'' (نصر), meaning "victory."
 
The first known bearer of the name was [[Mansur ibn Sarjun]], Byzantine governor of [[Damascus]] in the late 500s and early 600s, who surrendered the city to the MoslemsMuslims in 635.
 
Other people called MansourMansur include, during the [[golden Age of Islam]]:
* [[Al-Mansur]], second [[Abbasid dynasty|Abbasid caliph]] and the founder of [[Baghdad]].
* [[Ismail al-Mansur]], third ruler of the Fatimid dynasty ruled from 946 to 953.
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* [[Mansoor Akhtar]], Pakistani cricketer
* [[Mansoor Amjad]], Pakistani cricketer
* [[Mansoor Delane]], American football player
* [[Mansoor Hekmat]], Iranian political theorist and activist
* [[Mansoor Ijaz]], American commentator and businessman
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* [[Adly Mansour]], Egyptian politianpolitician and acting President in 2014
* [[Adnan Mansour]], Lebanese diplomat and politician
* [[Agnes Mary Mansour]], American political figure and former nun
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* [[Amal Mansour]] (1950–2018), Palestinian-Jordanian author and translator
* [[Amir Mansour]], American professional boxer
* [[Camille Mansour]] (born 1945), Palestinian academic
* [[Eli Mansour]], American rabbi, author/writer
* [[Gueye Mansour]], Senegalese footballer