Mehr (name)

Mehr (مهر) is a name of Persian origin that may refer to:

Given name or epithet

• Mihrişah Valide Sultan (c. 1745–1805), Genoese consort of Ottoman sultan Mustafa III, and the mother of sultan Selim III
• Emine Mihrişah Sultan (died 1732), French second concubine of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, and the mother of sultan Mustafa III
• Mihrimah Sultan (c. 1522–1578), daughter of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
• Mehr Abdul Haq (1915–1995), Pakistani linguist
• Mehr Chand Mahajan (1889–1967), former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
• Mehr Hassan, Asian American actress, model and classical dancer

Surname

• Mariella Mehr (born 1947), Swiss writer
• Farhang Mehr (born 1923), Zoroastrian scholar and politician
• Haik Hovsepian Mehr (1945–1994), Iranian bishop
• Nathaniel Mehr, British journalist