// Workers AI · dad joke modeIs Nafisi a good novelist? Na-fis-i bet she is.
Nafisi (Arabic: نفيسي) is an arabic surname, that translates to "precious" (Arabic: نفيسة, nafisa). It is a common arabic surname in Iran and Persian Gulf countries. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abdullah Al-Nafisi (born 1945), Kuwaiti academic and politician
- Ahmad Nafisi (1919–2004), Iranian bureaucrat and mayor of Tehran (1961–1963)
- Amannisa Khan Nafisi, wife of Abdurashid Khan (1526–1560)
- Azar Nafisi (born 1948), Iranian-American writer and academic
- Habib Nafisi (1908–1984), Iranian academic
- Khalid Al-Nafisi (1937–2006), Kuwaiti actor
- Nezhat Nafisi (1920–2003), Iranian politician
- Saeed Nafisi (1895–1966), Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet
- Mirza Ali Akbar Khan Nafisi (1847–1924) Iranian physician and scholar
This page lists people with the surname Nafisi.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.