Mansour (Arabic: منصور, Manṣūr); also spelled Mounsor, Monsur (Bengali), Mansoor, Manser, Mansur, Mansyur (Indonesian) or Mensur (Turkish), is a male Arabic name that means "He who is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory."

The first known bearer of the name was Mansur ibn Sarjun, Byzantine governor of Damascus in the late 500s and early 600s, who surrendered the city to the Moslems in 635.

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

• Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.
• Ismail al-Mansur, third ruler of the Fatimid dynasty ruled from 946 to 953.
• Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persian mystic, writer, and teacher of Sufism
• Almanzor, 10th-century ruler of al-Andalus
• Mansur ibn Ilyas, Timurid physician
• Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan), a khan of Moghulistan
• Mansur Shah of Malacca, a sultan of Malacca
• Mansur I of Samanid and Mansur II of Samanid, amirs of the Samanids
• Mansur ad-Din of Adal, 15th-century sultan of Adal.

Imams of Yemen

• Al-Mansur Yahya (d. 976)
• Al-Mansur Abdallah (1166-1217)
• Al-Mansur al-Hasan (1199–1271)
• Al-Mansur an-Nasir (d. 1462)
• Al-Mansur Muhammad, Imam of Yemen (1441-1505)
• Al-Mansur al-Husayn (1669 - 1720)
• Al-Mansur Ali I (1738-1809)
• Al-Mansur Ahmad (d. 1853)
• Al-Mansur Ali II, Imam of Yemen (1812 - 1871)
• Al-Mansur al-Husayn III (d.1888)

Modern given name

Mansur or Mansour is used in Turkic languages, Iranian languages and Arabic, while the transliteration Mansoor is typically used by South Asians, and Mensur is used in the Bosnian language.

Surname

See also

• Al-Mansur (disambiguation)
• Manzur, a similar sounding yet unrelated name
• Mansura (disambiguation)
• Mansurnagar Union