Maher
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Maher may refer to:
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an Arabic surname or first name meaning crafty.
[edit] People
[edit] Caste
- Maher (or Mers, Mair, Mihir, Mehr), a Gujarati Hindu warrior caste from India, believed to be one of the Warrior Kshatriya castes who specialise in sword spinning, also Mahers are one of the top castes in hinduism and there is a very large population of them, and there are certain villages in India dedicated to them. For example ratdi, or modhvadia, or sicly.
[edit] First name
- Maher Arar, a Canadian software engineer
- Maher Kemal, a Turkish contractor who was kidnapped and killed in Iraq
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz, artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo, a Japanese naivist composer and musician
- Maher-shalal-hash-baz, longest Biblical name
- Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, an American actor
[edit] Surname
Maher (or Mahar, Meagher), a surname originating in County Tipperary, Ireland.
- Ahmed Maher, foreign minister of Egypt
- Alice Maher, an Irish painter and sculptor
- Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher and former host of Politically Incorrect
- Edwin Maher, a New Zealand-born TV journalist
- George W. Maher, a famous architect
- John W. Maher, member of the South Dakota State House of Representatives
- Patrick Maher, a best-selling American writer
- Richard Maher, TV writter
- Sean Maher, an American actor
- Tom Maher, an Australian basketball coach
- Vincent Maher, an American senior lecturer at Rhodes University New Media Lab
- Matt Maher, an American Christian music artist and composer
[edit] Places
- Maher, Colorado, an unincorporated town in the United States
[edit] Religion
- Maher (god), or Mahrem, an ancient god of Aksumite pantheon
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