{{About||places in Iran|Hamid, Iran (disambiguation){{!}}Hamid, Iran|the village in Pakistan|Hameed, Attock}} {{Infobox given name | name = Hamid | image = | caption = | pronunciation = {{IPA|ar|ħaˈmiːd|lang}}<br/>{{IPA|fa|haˈmiːd, hæˈmiːd|lang}}<br/>{{IPA|ur|ɦɛˈmiːd̪|lang}} | 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 (<big>{{lang|ar|ح-م-د}}</big>):
# {{Transliteration|ar|'''Ḥāmed'''}} (Arabic: <big>{{lang|ar|حَامِد}}</big> ''ḥāmed'') also spelled '''Haamed''', '''Hamid''' or '''Hamed''', and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".<ref name=ahmed>{{cite book| title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names| author=Salahuddin Ahmed| publisher = Hurst & Company| location=London| year=1999}}</ref><ref name=rahman>{{cite book| title=A Dictionary of Muslim Names| author= S. A. Rahman| publisher=Goodword Books| location=New Delhi| year=2001}}</ref> # {{Transliteration|ar|'''Ḥamīd'''}} (Arabic: <big>{{lang|ar|حَمِيد}}</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 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== {{For|people called '''Abdul Hamid'''|Abdul Hamid (name)}} *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== <references/>
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