Hamid

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Field	Value
name	Hamid
pronunciation

| | gender | Male | | meaning | Praiseworthy | | origin | Arabic | | related names | Hamad, Hamit | | variant forms | Hamed, Hameed | ::

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| gender = Male | meaning = Praiseworthy | region = | origin = Arabic | related names = Hamad, Hamit | footnotes = |variant forms=Hamed, Hameed}} Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (ح-م-د):

1. ar (Arabic: حَامِد ḥāmed) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".
2. ar (Arabic: حَمِيد ḥamīd) also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is Hamit, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy".

Given name

Hamid

• Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (born 1945), Iranian historian
• Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (born 1988), Iranian futsal player
• Hamid Ahmadieh (born 1953), Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist
• Hamid Al Shaeri (born 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician
• Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist
• Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean guerrilla commander
• Hamid Berhili (born 1964), Moroccan boxer
• Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist
• Hamid Chitchian (born 1957), Iranian politician
• Hamid Drake (born 1955), American musician
• Hamid Etemad (born 1945), Iranian professor
• Hamid Frangieh (1907–1981), Lebanese politician
• Hamid Gabbay (born 1943), Iranian-born American architect
• Hamid Ghandehari, Iranian-American drug chemist
• Hamid Gul (1936–2015), Pakistani politician
• Hamid Guska (born 1953), head coach of Bosnian national boxing team
• Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani (1968-2025), Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician
• Hamid Ismailov (born 1954), Uzbek journalist
• Hamid Karzai (born 1957), President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014
• Hamid Merakchi (1976-2024), Algerian footballer
• Hamid Hussain Musavi (1830-1888), Indian scholar
• Hamid Notghi (1920–1999), Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor
• Hamid Olimjon (1909–1944), Uzbek poet and scholar
• Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882–1936), Bosnian writer and dramatist
• Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (born 1990), Iranian mathematical artist

Hamed / Hameed

• Hamed Dramé (born 2001), French footballer
• Hamed Gohar (1907–1992), Egyptian oceanographer
• Hamed Haddadi (born 1985), Iranian basketball player
• Hamed Haghshenas (born 1994), Iranian para taekwondo practitioner
• Hameed Haroon, Pakistani economist
• Hamed Namouchi (born 1984), Tunisian footballer
• Hameed Nizami (1915–1962), Pakistani journalist
• Hamed Rasouli (born 1985), Iranian footballer
• Hamed Sohrabnejad (born 1983), Iranian basketball player
• Hamed Traorè (born 2000), Ivorian footballer

Middle name

• Abed Hamed Mowhoush (1947-2003), Iraqi general
• Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge
• Mohammad Hamid Ansari (born 1937), vice-president of India

Surname

• Alejandro Hamed (1934–2023), Paraguayan diplomat and Arabist
• Amir Hamed (1962–2017), Uruguayan writer and translator
• Amr Hamed (died 1998), Canadian terrorist
• Ezzedin Yacoub Hamed, Egyptian Long Jumper
• Haseeb Hameed (born 1997), English cricketer
• Ibrahim Hamed (born 1965), Hamas military commander
• Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), Pakistani British author
• Jasmin Hamid (born 1984), Finnish actress
• Mohamed Naguib Hamed (born 1962), Egyptian athlete
• Naseem Hamed (born 1974), British boxer
• Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972), Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist
• Rani Hamid (born 1944), Bangladeshi chess player
• Sanaa Ismail Hamed (born 1984), Egyptian model
• Taha Bidaywi Hamed, Iraqi politician
• Yasmeen Hameed (born 1952), Pakistani Urdu poet
• Zid Abou Hamed (born 1970), Australian athlete

References

References

1. Salahuddin Ahmed. (1999). "A Dictionary of Muslim Names". Hurst & Company.
2. S. A. Rahman. (2001). "A Dictionary of Muslim Names". Goodword Books.

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