Gohar

For the Iranian village, see Gohar, Iran. For the Pakistani village, see Gohar, Pakistan.

Gohar and Gauhar are given names and surnames. Gawhar is a given name. Also, Gohar (Eastern Armenian) Kohar (Western Armenian) or Goar may be transliterations of the Armenian feminine given name Գոհար. Together with a numer of other names, these names are derived from the Persian gōhar (گُوهَر) meaning "gem, jewel" or "essence, substance". Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Goar

• Goar Hlgatian (born 1975), Armenian chess player
• Goar Vartanian (1926–2019), Armenian woman who spied for the Soviet Union together with her husband Gevork Vartanian
• Names of Gohar Gasparyan, Gohar Harutyunyan, and other Armenian persons may also be spelled as Goar

See also: Goar (disambiguation)

Gohar

• Gohar Ali Shah, Pakistani politician from Mardan District, member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly
• Gohar Dashti (born 1980), Iranian photographer and video artist
• Gohar Faiz (born 1986), Pakistani cricketer
• Gohar Gasparyan (1924–2007), Armenian opera singer
• Gohar Gasparyan (television presenter) (born 1985), Armenian television presenter
• Gohar Harutyunyan (model) (born 1979), Armenian model, Miss Armenia
• Gohar HarutyunyanGohar Harutyunyan, Armenian sports shooter
• Gohar Ayub Khan (1937–2023), Pakistani politician
• Gohar Kheirandish (born 1954), Iranian actress
• Gohar Markosjan-Käsper (1949–2015), Armenian-Estonian writer
• Gohar Mamajiwala (1910–1985), Indian singer, actress, producer and studio owner
• Gohar Muradyan (born 1957), Armenian philologist and translator
• Gohar Nabil (born 1973), Egyptian handball player
• Gohar Rasheed (born 1984), Pakistani actor
• Gohar Shah (born 1995), Pakistani cricketer
• Gohar Yenokyan, Armenian politician, M.P.
• Gohar Zaman (born 1979), Pakistani footballer

Gauhar

• Gauhar Ara Begum (1631–1706), Mughal princess, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal
• Gauhar Afroz (born 1965), also known as Gori, Pakistani retired film actress
• Gauhar Ali (born 1989), Pakistani cricketer
• Gauhar Hafeez (born 1999), Pakistani cricketer
• Gauhar Jaan (1873–1930), Indian singer and dancer
• Gauhar Jamil (1925–1980), Bangladeshi dancer born Ganesh Nath
• Gauhar Raza (born 1956), Indian poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker
• Gauhar Rehman (1936–2003), Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician

Gawhar

• Gawhar, third wife of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith religion
• Hajji Gawhar Khanum, first female poet and astronomer of the 19th-century Qajar empire
• Gawhar Shad (died 1457), chief consort of Shah Rukh, ruler of the Timurid Empire

Gowhar

• Gowhar Khanum, Qajar princess and the daughter of Fath-Ali Shah
• Gowhar Qajar (died 1901), Iranian poetess and astronomer of the Qajar era

Surname

Gohar

• Ali Gohar, birth name of Shah Alam II (1728–1806), Mughal emperor
• Ali Gohar (born 1956), Pakistani scholar and restorative justice expert
• Bushra Gohar (born 1961), Pakistani politician and Pashtun human rights activist
• Hamed Gohar (1907–1992), Egyptian oceanographer and biologist
• Nouran Gohar (born 1997), Egyptian squash player

Gauhar

• Altaf Gauhar (1923–2000), Pakistani civil servant, journalist, poet, and writer very close to the country's first military dictator, Ayub Khan
• Madeeha Gauhar (1956–2018), Pakistani actress, playwright and director of social theater, and women's rights activist
• Ranjana Gauhar, Indian classical dancer

See also

• All pages with titles containing Gohar
• Cevahir, Cevher, Dzhokhar, Jauhar, Jawhar, Jawahar, Jawaharlal, al-Jawhari or El-Gohary, Al-Jawhar, Johar, Johari, Johri, Jowhar, Gauhar or Gohar, Gevher, Gevherhan, Govhar, Gowhar, Xhevahir
• Gauahar Khan (born 1983), Indian model and actress