Female given name
Zahra
- Zahra Abdulla (born 1966), Somali-Finnish politician
- Zahra Abrahimzadeh, mother of Arman Abrahimzadeh, murdered by her husband
- Zahra Foundation, named after her
- Zahra Ahmadi (born 1983), British actress
- Zahra Airall, women's rights activist
- Zahra Alzubaidi, Iraqi film actress and musician
- Khalub Zahra, was the mother of the 10th-century caliph of Baghdad al-Muttaqi (r. 940–944).
- Zahra Amir Ebrahimi (born 1981), Iranian television actress
- Zahra Bahrami (c. 1965–2011), Dutch/Iranian executed for drug trafficking
- Zahra Bani (born 1979), Somali-Italian javelin thrower
- Zahra Bani Yaghoub (1980–2007), an Iranian doctor who died in prison
- Zohra Bensalem (born 1990), Algerian volleyball player
- Zahra Dowlatabadi (born 1962), Iranian filmmaker
- Zahra Eshraghi (born c. 1964), Iranian feminist and human rights activist
- Zahra Freeth (1924 or 1925–2015), a British writer on Middle Eastern subjects
- Zahra Jishi, Lebanese-American translator of Arabic literature
- Zahra Kamalfar, Iranian refugee to Canada
- Zahra Kazemi (1949–2003), Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer
- Zahra Aga Khan (born 1970), Swiss-born princess
- Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883–1936), a Persian princess
- Zahra' Langhi, Libyan gender specialist, civil society strategist and political activist
- Zahra Lari, Emirati figure skater
- Zahra Mansouri, Moroccan poet
- Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini (born c. 1940), Iranian politician, daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini
- Zahra Rahmat Allah (born 1954), Yemeni short story writer
- Zahra Rahnavard (born 1945), Iranian artist and politician
- Zahra Ouaziz (born 1969), Moroccan long-distance runner
- Zahra Redwood, Jamaican beauty queen
- Zahra Shojaei, Iranian politician
- Zahra Universe, American musician and actress
- Zahra Hankir, Lebanese-British writer and journalist
Zehra
Given name
- Ada Zehra Anlatıcı (born 2007), Turkish swimmer with Down syndrome
- Zehra Bilir (1913–2007), Turkish folk singer
- Zehra Borazancı (born 1989), Turkish Cypriot women's footballer
- Zehra Çırak (born 1960), Turkish-German writer
- Zehra Deović (1938–2015), Bosnian sevdalinka singer
- Zehra Fazal (born 1986), South Asian-American voice actresses
- Zehra Güneş (born 1999), Turkish volleyball player
- Zehra Kaya (born 2004), Turkish karateka
- Zehra Khan (born 1983), American artist
- Zehra Nigah, Pakistani Urdu poet
- Zehra Öktem (born 1959), Turkish archer
- Zehra Say (1906–1990), Turkish painter
- Zehra Sayers (born 1953), Turkish scientist in structural biology
- Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk (born 1979), Turkish politician
- Zehra Topel (born 1987), Turkish international chess master
Middle name
- Belkıs Zehra Kaya (born 1984), Turkish judoka
Other variant spellings of female given name
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See also: Zohra (disambiguation) |
- Sahra Hausmann (born 1973), Norwegian team handball player
- Sahra Wagenknecht (born 1969), German politician (with Iranian father)
- Zohre Esmaeli (born 1985), Afghan model, designer and author
- Zuhra Ramdan Agha Al-Awji (active 1920s), Turkish-Libyan educator
Fatimah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name Fatimah az-Zahra' , فاطمة الزهراء, or Fatimah Zahra' , فاطمة زهراء. This has then been used as a female given name.[citation needed]
- Fatima Al Zahraa Haider (born ca. 1910), an Egyptian princess
- Fatima Zahra Hafdi, known as La Zarra, Canadian-Moroccan singer
- Lalla Fatima Zohra (1929–2014), Moroccan princess
- Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known as Assia Djebar (1936–2015), Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker
- Fatima Zohra Karadja (born 1949), Algerian, Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa
- Fatma-Zohra Oukazi (born 1984), Algerian volleyball player
- Fatima Zohra Cherif (born 1986), Algerian volleyball player
- Fatima Zahra Djouad (born 1988), Algerian volleyball player
