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Bashar (Arabic: بشار) is a given name, surname, and place name. Bashar may refer to:

Places

Bashar, Iran, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
Bashar, Plateau State, a village in the Wase local Government Area of Plateau State In Nigeria
Béchar, the capital city of Béchar Province, Algeria

Bashar Abdullah (born 1977), Kuwaiti footballer
Bashar al-Assad (born 1965), Former president of Syria
Bashar Jaafari (born 1956), Syrian diplomat
Bashar Barakah Jackson (1999–2020), American rapper
Bashar Lulua (born 1963), Berlin-based Arab orchestra conductor
Bashar Masri (born 1961), Palestinian American entrepreneur
Bashar Murad (born 1993), Palestinian singer-songwriter
Bashar Rahal (born 1974), Bulgarian actor of Lebanese descent
Bashar Rasan (born 1996), Iraqi footballer
Bashar al-Shatti (born 1982), also known as Basharno, Beesho and Maystro, Kuwaiti singer, songwriter and actor
Bashar Shbib (born 1959), Syrian Canadian filmmaker
Bashar Srour (born 1972), Syrian footballer
Bashar al-Zoubi, Free Syrian Army general
Bashar Warda (born 1969), Iraqi Chaldean Catholic cleric and Archbishop

Abul Bashar (born 1951), Bangladeshi writer
Bashshar ibn Burd (714–783) nicknamed "al-Mura'ath", poet in the late Umayyad and the early Abbasid periods
Haji Bashar, convicted former Afghan drug lord

Bashar language, an alternative name for Yankam language, a moribund Plateau language of Nigeria
Bashar (Dune), a fictional military rank in the Dune universe
Ya Bashar, studio album by Lebanese recording artist Diana Haddad