Timur was a 14th-century Southern-Central Asian Turkic-Mongolian ruler and warlord also known as Tamerlane (from Timur the Lame or the Persian expression of the same meaning, Timur-e-Lang) in the western world.
Taimur or Timur may also refer to:
Historical
- Möngke Temür, or Mengu-Timur (d. 1280), khan of the Golden Horde
- Several rulers from the Chinese-Mongol Yuan Dynasty
- Temür Khan (r. 1294–1307), the second ruler of the Yuan dynasty
- Tugh Temür, better known as Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (r. 1328–1332)
- Toghon Temür (r. 1333–1370)
- Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür (r. 1378–1388)
- Yesün Temür (r. 1323–1328)
- Öljei Temür Khan, (r. 1408–1412)
- Köke Temür (died 1375), Yuan dynasty general
- Timur (1336–1405), the Central Asian ruler mentioned above, also known as Tamerlane
- Timur II, real name Neku Siyar (1679–1723), claimant to the Mughal throne
- Bayan Temür (Gongmin, 1330–1374), ruler of Goryeo
- Khan Temir (d. 1637), Budjak Nogais ruler
- Timur Shah Durrani (1748–1793), Afghan ruler
Modern
- Anwara Taimur (1936–2020), Indian politician, chief minister of Assam
- Nawab Muhammad Taimur Talpur, Pakistani politician
- Taimur Khan Jhagra, Pakistani politician
- Taimur Hussain, a Pakistani professional golfer
- Taimur Ali, a Pakistani First-class cricketer
- Taimur Sultan (cricketer), a Pakistani first-class cricketer
- Taimur Khan (cricketer, born 1991), a Pakistani First-class cricketer
- Taimur Khan (cricketer, born 1975), a Pakistani First-class cricketer
- Danish Taimoor, a Pakistani actor
- Taimur Rahman, a Pakistani singer
- Taimur bin Feisal, 12th Sultan of Oman
- Said bin Taimur, 13th Sultan of Oman
- Temur Babluani (born 1948), Georgian film director
- Teymur Bakhtiar (1914–1970), Iranian army officer
- Timur Beg (1886–1933), Uyghur rebel leader
- Timur Bekmambetov (born 1961), Kazakh film and advertisement director
- Timur Dibirov (born 1983), Russian handball player
- Timur Dzhabrailov (born 1973), Russian footballer
- Timur Faizutdinov (2001–2021), Russian ice hockey defenseman
- Timur Gareev (born 1988), Uzbekistani chess player
- Timur Ibragimov (born 1975), Uzbekistani boxer
- Temur Iakobashvili (born 1967), Georgian politician and diplomat
- Temur Juraev (born 1984), Uzbekistani football player
- Teimour Radjabov (born 1987), Azerbaijani Chess Grandmaster
- Timur Kapadze (born 1981), Uzbekistani footballer
- Temur Ketsbaia (born 1968), Georgian football player and manager
- Timur Kulibayev (born 1966), Kazakh billionaire
- Timur Kuran (born 1954), American economist and political scientist
- Timur Mutsurayev (born 1976), Chechen singer and bard
- Timur Naniev (born 1994), Russian weightlifter
- Timur Pradopo (born 1955), Chief of the Indonesian National Police
- Timur Taymazov (born 1970), Ukrainian weightlifter
- Timur Selçuk (1946–2020), Turkish musician
- Timur Tekkal (born 1981), German rugby union player
- Timur Yanyali (born 1975), Turkish footballer
Other uses
- Timur (name)
- Tamerlane (poem), 1827 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
- Tamerlane (ship)
- Tamerlane chess
- Tamerlano (Gasparini opera), 1711
- Tamerlano, Handel opera, 1724
- Timur, Iran, village in Ardabil Province, Iran
- Temir komuz, central Asian jaw harp
- Timuri, tribe in Afghanistan and Iran
- Timurite movement, youth volunteer organization in the Soviet Union
- Amur and Timur, tiger and goat friendship in Russian safari park
- Timur, Nepali and Tamil name for the plant Zanthoxylum armatum, "rattan pepper"
See also
- Timurid (disambiguation)
- Demir (disambiguation), alternative spelling
- Timor (disambiguation)
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