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 forms	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 ḥāmed) 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) (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, see 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)