Tamraz
Tamraz, also spelled as Tamras (Arabic: تمرز, Syriac: ܬܡܪܙ[1][2]) is a Neo-Aramaic and Lebanese Arabic surname. The surname is most predominantly used by ethnic Assyrians from West Asia. Additionally, there is a plateau (Dhour Tamraz) in Bikfaya, Lebanon named after a branch of the Tamraz family that descend from the village of Tel Keppe in the Nineveh Plains.[3]
Notable people with this surname include:
- Cathy Baron Tamraz (born 1953), Business Wire’s Chairwoman and CEO[4]
- Mar Elia Tamras, Assyrian bishop of Baghdad, Ukraine and Georgia[5]
- Henrik Tamraz (1935–1996), Assyrian from Iran[6] who competed in weightlifting in the Olympics
- Juliana Taimoorazy (born 1973), Assyrian activist and founder of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council[7]
- Nayla Tamraz, Lebanese writer and art critic
- Roger Tamraz (born 1940), American banker and venture capital investor of Assyrian-Lebanese descent
- Victor Bet Tamraz, Assyrian pastor sentenced for Christian activities in Iran[8]
- Mar Yohannan Tamraz, Chaldean Catholic bishop of Kirkuk[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Assyrian classics by Tamraz". www.ishtartv.com. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ↑ N. Shabbas, Julius (1991). "Author - Educator - Mother of Assyrian Folk Dancing" (PDF). Nineveh Magazine. 14 (3): 1.
- ↑ "Tamraz – Family – Netoil Inc Ltd". Archived from the original on September 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ↑ "Business Wire's CEO, Cathy Baron Tamraz, Honored as a "Top Women in PR" Recipient by PR News". www.businesswire.com. 2017-01-23. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ↑ "Elia Isaac Tamrs - Names - Orthodoxia". orthodoxia.ch. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ↑ "کام تلخ در عید نوروز؛روحت شاد دانیل عزیز". خبرآنلاین (in Persian). 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ↑ Snell, Joe (March 21, 2018). "Juliana Taimoorazy builds bridge between Assyrians, non-Assyrians". The Assyrian Journal. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Iranian Christian woman pleads with UN to help family overturn 'false and unjust' spy charges". World Watch Monitor. 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ↑ Wilmshurst, David. (2000). The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318 - 1913. Peeters. p. 180. ISBN 2-87723-503-3. OCLC 247927504.
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