Mansur

Mansur (Arabic: منصور‎, Manṣūr; also spelled Mansoor, Mansour, Monsour or Mensur) is a male Arabic name that means "victorious, by the will of God", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."

The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.

Other people called Mansur during the golden Age of Islam include:

• Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
• Ismail al-Mansur, third Caliph of the Fatimids
• Mansur ad-Din of Adal, a sultan of Adal
• Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
• Mansur ibn Ilyas, a Timurid physician
• Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
• Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca