Nadira

Nadira, Nadirah, or Nodira is a feminine given name of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Nadira (Indian actress) (1932–2006), an Indian actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her roles as a temptress
• Nadira (Pakistani actress) (1968–1995), Pakistani actress in Punjabi and Urdu films
• Nadira Babbar (born 1948), Indian actress and producer
• Nadira Begum (died 2023), Bangladeshi folk singer
• Nadira Banu Begum (1618–1659), Mughal princess
• Nadira Ilana, Malaysian filmmaker
• Nadira Isayeva (born 1979), Russian journalist
• Nadira Yeasmin Jolly, Bangladeshi politician
• Nadira Majumder (born 1953), Bangladeshi writer
• Nadirah McKenith (born 1991), American basketball player
• Nadira Naipaul (born 1953), Pakistani journalist
• Nadira Ait Oumghar (born 1994), Algerian volleyball player
• Nadirah Shakoor, American singer
• Nadira Sultan (born 1956), Indian politician
• Nadirah X, Jamaican hip-hop artist
• Nina Nadira Naharuddin (born 1992), Malaysian singer, actress and TV host
• Nodira (sometimes spelled in Russian as Nadira, 1792–1842), Uzbek writer, wife of Muhammad Umar Khan
• Nodira Akhmedova (born 2005), Kazakhstani taekwondo practitioner
• Nodira Gulova (born 1988), Uzbekistani judoka
• Nodira Nadirjanova (born 1990), Uzbekistani chess player

Fictional characters

• One of the villains in Power Rangers: Time Force
• Nadira, a character in the 2005 novel Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
• Al-Nadirah, character of the Hatra legend

See also

• Nadir (name)