Hamid

For places in Iran, see Hamid, Iran. For the village in Pakistan, see Hameed, Attock.

Hamid

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ħaˈmiːd] Urdu: [ɦɛˈmiːd̪]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Praiseworthy
Other names
Variant form(s)	Hamed, Hameed
Related names	Hamad, Hamit

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. Ḥāmed (Arabic: حَامِد ḥāmid) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".
2. Ḥamīd (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) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
• Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
• Hamid Ahmadieh (born 1953), Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist
• Hamid Al Shaeri (b. 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician
• Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist
• Hamid Arzulu (b. 1937), Azerbaijani poet and writer
• Hamid Idris Awate (1910–1962), Eritrean guerrilla commander
• Hamid Berhili (b. 1964), Moroccan boxer
• Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist
• Hamid Chitchian (b. c. 1957), Iranian politician
• Hamid Drake (b. 1955), American musician
• Hamid Etemad (b. 1945), Iranian professor
• Hamid Frangieh (1907–1981), Lebanese politician
• Hamid Gabbay (b. c. 1943), Iranian-born American architect
• Hamid Ghandehari, Iranian-American drug chemist
• Hamid Gul (1936–2015), Pakistani politician
• Hamid Guska (b. 1953), head coach of Bosnian national boxing team
• Hamid Hassani (b. 1968), Iranian lexicographer
• Hamid Ismailov (b. 1954), Uzbek journalist
• Hamid Karzai (b. 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 (b. 1990), Iranian mathematical artist

Hamed / Hameed

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

Middle name

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

Surname

For people called Abdul Hamid, see Abdul Hamid (name).

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