Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (<big></big>):

1. (Arabic: <big></big> ḥāmed) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".

2. (Arabic: <big></big> 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 Sabouri (1999/2000–2022), Afghan murder victim

• 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

See also

• Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazali Persian theologian, philosopher, jurist

• Al Hamed, town in Egypt near Rosetta

• Hameed a village in Hazro Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan

• Abdul Hamid

• Hamid al-Din (disambiguation)

• Hamidids, 14th century Turkic dynasty

• Hamit

• Hamidah (disambiguation)

References