Famous People with Name Timur

Timur Askarovich Kulibayev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Timur Askarovich Kulibayev: is a prominent Kazakh businessman, and son-in-law of Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. He is the former vice-president of KazMunaiGaz, the state-run oil and gas company, and continues to command immense influence throughout the country's hydrocarbon

Timur Bekmambetov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Timur Bekmambetov: is a Russian film and advertisement director of Kazakh descent. Bekmambetov was born in Guryev, then in the Soviet Union's Kazakh SSR, and now known as Atyrau, a city in Kazakhstan.

Timur Taymazov            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Timur Taymazov: is an Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion. He was born in Nogir, North Ossetia. Timur has a younger brother Artur who is also 2004 Olympic Champion in freestyle wrestling.

Timur Mucuraev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Timur Mucuraev: As a youth Timur excelled in karate, winning the championship title of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR at the age of fifteen in 1991, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, capturing the championship title for the Chechen Republic in 1993 and qualifying for the Russian national team.His martial arts career abruptly ended in December 1994, when Russian forces entered Chechnya and effectively started the First Chechen War. Timur then enlisted in the units of the Central Front division in the Chechen resistance, and was seriously wounded in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. During this war Timur would compose and sing songs as a personal hobby.[1]

Timur Gareev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Timur Gareev: a chess International Grandmaster from Uzbekistan. In 2004 he became the youngest-ever chess grandmaster from Asia at age 16. Timur was a part of the University of Texas at Brownsville's Chess Team from August 2005 to August 2006 where he helped the University obtain its first National Championship

Islam Yahyayevich Timurziev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Islam Yahyayevich Timurziev: is a Russian amateur boxer best known to win the European superheavyweight title in 2006. Timurziev started boxing in 1996. He is a skilled offensive fighter with impressive power in both hands but has defensive weaknesses. He won the U-17 European Champi