Hamida

Hamida is an Arabic given name that means praiseworthy, and it is the feminine form of the name Hamid. In Azerbaijani it becomes Həmidə. It may refer to:

People

• DJ Hamida (born 1986), Moroccan DJ and record producer based in France

Given name

• Hamida Addèche (born 1932), French long-distance runner
• Hamida al-Attas (born 1934), the mother of Osama bin Laden
• Hamida Banu (died 2024), Indian sprinter
• Hamida Banu Begum (1527–1604), wife of the second Mughal Emperor, Humayun, and the mother of Mughal Emperor, Akbar
• Hamida Banu Shova (born 1954), founder and chairperson of Queens University, Bangladesh
• Hamida Barmaki (1970–2011) Afghan law professor and human rights activist
• Hamida Djandoubi (1949–1977), the last person to be guillotined in France, at Baumettes Prison in Marseille
• Hamida Ghafour (born 1977), Canadian journalist and author of Afghan origin
• Hamida Habibullah (1916–2018), Indian parliamentarian, educationist and social worker
• Hamida Al-Habsi (born 1987), Omani shot putter and discus thrower
• Hamida Javanshir (1873–1955), Azerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist
• Hamida Khuhro (1936–2017), Pakistani politician and historian Sindh government minister
• Hamida Nana (born 1946), Syrian writer and journalist
• Hamida Rania Nefsi (born 1997), Algerian swimmer
• Hamida Omarova (born 1957), Azerbaijani actress
• Hamida Pahalwan (1907-1984), Indian wrestler in Radhanpur during the 1930s

Middle name

• K. J. Hamida Khanam (1940-2015), Bangladeshi politician.

Ben / Bin / Bani / Banu Hamida

• Bani Hamida, a semi-nomadic bedouin tribe that controlled much of the land East of the Dead Sea before the establishment of the emirate of Transjordan
• Adil Mabrouk Bin Hamida, citizen of Tunisia, former extrajudicial detainee at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba
• Mongi Ben Hamida (1928–2003), Tunisian neurologist and neuropsychiatrist

Fictional characters

• Ĥamida, a character in the film A Girl Named Maĥmood

See also

• Hamidah (disambiguation)