Machar

Machar may refer to:

People:

• Agnes Maule Machar (1837–1927), Canadian author
• Josef Svatopluk Machar (1854–1942), Czech poet and essayist
• Riek Machar (b. 1952), Vice President of Southern Sudan
• Saint Machar, a purported 6th century Gaelic saint

Places:

• Machar Colony, a neighborhood in Kiamari Town, Pakistan
• Machar, Ontario, a township in Canada
• the Machars, a peninsula in southwest Scotland

Other uses:

• Machar (Washington, D.C.), a congregation in the Washington, DC metro area
• Machair (geography), a type of fertile low-lying raised beach
• Machar, a transliteration of the Hebrew word meaning "tomorrow"
• St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen, Scotland
• Machar Oilfield, a part of the Eastern Trough Area Project in the North Sea
• Macchar, Hindi and Urdu for mosquito
• an Anglicisation of Machair