Azar

Azar Andami' (Persian: آذر اندامی‎, 8 December 1926 – 19 August 1984) was an Iranian physician and bacteriologist. Born in Rasht, Iran in 1926, she began her career as a teacher for the Ministry of Culture, but attended the University of Tehran and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1953. At first she specialised in gynaecology. She moved to the Pasteur Institute in Tehran and then to Paris to study bacteriology. She published several scholarly papers and invented a vaccine against cholera.

Azar Majedi (Persian: آذر ماجدی‎) is an Iranian communist activist, writer, chairperson of the Organization for Women's Liberation and one of the leaders of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran. She has been an opponent of the current regime ruling Iran since returning from her education abroad to oppose the regime in 1978, a movement she has described as 'just'. Majedi was born in Iran to an atheist father and Muslim mother.

Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی‎; born 1948) is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008. Nafisi has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and served on the Board of Trustees of Freedom House. She is the niece of famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi.

In the Vietnam War novel "The Things They Carried", there was a soldier (male) named Azar. He was a little messed up in the head (i.e. borderline psychotic).

Azar is usually the name of Raven (from Teen Titans)'s grandmother or tutor in Teen Titans fanfiction. I didn't know that the name actually had a meaning.