Omar

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Omar may refer to:

  • Omar, also known as Omar Lye-Fook, a British soul singer and musician
  • Omar (Deus Ex), a fictional group of cyborgs in the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War
  • Omar (surname), a Hindu surname from the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The caste system under which they fall is "vaishya", the same as Gupta, Agarwal, etc. This surname is also found in Muslim communities.

OMAR is an acronym for:

Omar is the name of:

  • Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan
  • Yasin Hassan Omar, a suspect in the attempted 21 July 2005 London bombings
  • Omar Khayyám, a medieval Persian scientist
  • Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, lead guitarist and composer of the Mars Volta
  • Omar Little, a character on the HBO drama The Wire
  • Omar Epps, an American actor
  • Omar Bradley, one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II
  • Omar Mukhtar, leader of the resistance movement against the Italian military occupation of Libya
  • Omar Sharif, an Academy Award nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films.

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