Omar
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Omar may refer to:
- Omar (Deus Ex), a fictional group of cyborgs in the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War
- Omar, a Hindu surname from the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The caste system under which they fall is "vaishya", the same as Gupta, Agarwal, etc. This surname is also found in Muslim communities.
- Omar, Sulu, a municipality in the Philippines
OMAR is an acronym for:
- Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation, a charitable non-governmental organisation
- Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime - a fictional shadowy OPEC-style organization found in the auto-combat videogames Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8: Second Offense.
Omar is the name of:
- Omar ibn al-Khattāb, The second Caliph of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam .
- Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban of Afghanistan
- Yasin Hassan Omar, a suspect in the attempted 21 July 2005 London bombings
- Omar Khayyám, a medieval Persian scientist
- Omar, also known as Omar Lye-Fook, a British soul singer and musician, one of the founders of the Neo Soul movement of the 1990s.
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, lead guitarist and composer of the Mars Volta
- Omar Little, a character on the HBO drama The Wire
- Omar Epps, an American actor
- Omar Bradley, one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II
- Omar Mukhtar, leader of the resistance movement against the Italian military occupation of Libya
- Omar Sharif, an Academy Award nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films.
- Omar Vizquel, Major League Baseball shortstop playing for the San Francisco Giants
- Omar Samra, the 1st Egyptian to climb Mount Everest
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