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Ḥ-M-D ( ar, ح-م-د, he, ח-מ-ד) is the triconsonantal root of many Arabic and some Hebrew words. Many of those words are used as names. The basic meaning expressed by the root is "to praise" in Arabic and "to desire" in Hebrew.'' A Concise Hebrew a ...

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: 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, Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist * Hamid Al Shaeri, Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician *

Hamid Arasly Hamid Mammadtaghi oglu Arasly ( az, Həmid Hacı Məmmədtağı oğlu Araslı; 23 February 1902–20 November 1983) was an Azerbaijani literary critic, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, and an academic at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science ...

, Azeri and Soviet scientist *

Hamid Arzulu Hamid Arzulu (''Hamid Aliyev''; b. 15 May 1937) is an Azerbaijani poet, writer, translator, dramatist, scientist, teacher and a doctor of philology. He lives in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Hamid Arzulu is one of the Nakhchivan Autonomou ...

, Azerbaijani poet and writer *

Hamid Berhili Hamid Berhili (born May 14, 1964) is a retired male boxer from Morocco, who twice competed for his North African country at the Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. He is best known for winning the bronze medal in the men's light flyweight division (&n ...

(born 1964), Moroccan boxer * Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist *

Hamid Chitchian Hamid Chitchian ( fa, حمید چیت‌چیان, born 21 March 1957) is an Iranian politician and the former intelligence head. He had been energy minister of Iran from 15 August 2013 until 20 August 2017. Early life Chitchian was born in Ta ...

(born c. 1957), Iranian politician *

Hamid Drake Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and Afr ...

, American musician * Hamid Etemad, Iranian professor *

Hamid Frangieh Hamid Frangieh (6 August 1907 – 5 September 1981) was a Lebanese member of the Parliament of Lebanon and held numerous ministerial positions in the Lebanese government. He was one of the Maronite leaders of Lebanon. Early life Hamid was bo ...

(1907–1981), Lebanese politician * Hamid Gabbay, Iranian-born American architect *

Hamid Ghandehari Hamid Ghandehari is an Iranian-American drug delivery research scientist, and a professor in the Departments of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah. His research is focused in recombina ...

, Iranian-American drug chemist *

Hamid Gul Lieutenant General Hamid Gul ( ur, ‎; 20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army and defence analyst. Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligenc ...

, Pakistani politician *

Hamid Guska Hamid Guska (born 15 February 1953 in Glavatičevo) is a Bosnian boxing trainer and a former boxer. Boxing career He started his amateur boxing career in 1974 in BK Partizan Sarajevo. His boxing career ended 1980 due to an arm injury. One year ...

, head coach of Bosnian national boxing team *

Hamid Hassani Hamid Hassani or Hamid Hasani ( fa, حمید حسنی, ku, Hemîd Hesenî; ; born 23 November 1968 in Saqqez) is an Iranian scholar and researcher, concentrated on Persian lexicography, dictionary-making, and Persian corpus linguistics, also ...

(born 1968), Iranian lexicographer *

Hamid Ismailov Hamid Ismailov (russian: Хамид Исмайлов) ( uz, Hamid Ismoilov / Ҳамид Исмоилов or Абдулҳамид Исмоил) born May 5, 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbek ...

, Uzbek journalist *

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repu ...

, President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014 *

Hamid Hussain Musavi Syed Hamid Hussain Musavi ''Kintoori Lakhnavi Hindi Neshapuri'' (1830 - 1888) (Hindi: आयतुल्लाह सय्यिद मीर हामिद हुसैन मुसवी किन्तूरी लखनवी, Urdu: آيت� ...

, Indian scholar *

Hamid Notghi 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): # (Arabic: حَامِد ''ḥāmid'') also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; i ...

, Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor *

Hamid Olimjon Hamid Olimjon (sometimes spelled Hamid Alimjan in English; uz, Ҳамид Олимжон; Hamid Olimjon; russian: Хамид Алимджан; Khamid Alimdzhan; 12 December 1909 – 3 July 1944) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and liter ...

(1909–1944), Uzbek poet and scholar *

Hamid Ekrem Šahinović Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882 – 30 December 1936) was a Bosnian writer and dramatist. He was editor of ''Muslimanska svijest'' ( en, Muslim Consciousness), a Bosnian-language newspaper supporting the Young Turks political reform movement ...

, Bosnian writer and dramatist *

Hamid Naderi Yeganeh Hamid Naderi Yeganeh ( fa, حمید نادری یگانه; born July 26, 1990 in Iran) is an Iranian mathematical artist and digital artist. He is known for using mathematical formulas to create drawings of real-life objects, intricate and symme ...

, Iranian mathematical artist

Hamed / Hameed

Hamed Gohar Hamed Abdel Fattah Goher (15 November 1907 – 17 June 1992) ( ar, حامد عبد الفتاح جوهر) was an Egyptian oceanographer, scientist and TV presenter. He appeared for over 18 years in his program ''The World of the Seas''. He w ...

, Egyptian oceanographer * Hamed Haddadi, Iranian basketball player * Hameed Haroon, Pakistani economist *

Hamed Namouchi Hamed Namouchi ( ar, حامد النموشي; born 14 February 1984) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in France, he played for the Tunisia national team internationally. Club career Born in Cannes, France, N ...

, Tunisian footballer * Hameed Nizami, Pakistani journalist *

Hamed Rasouli Hamed Rasouli (born 18 January 1985) is an Iranian football player. He currently plays for the IPL club PAS Hamedan as a striker. Club career A product of the Sepahan's youth system, Rasouli was drafted into the first team for the IPL 2006/0 ...

, Iranian footballer * Hamed Sohrabnejad, Iranian basketball player *

Hamed Traorè Hamed Junior Traorè (born 16 February 2000) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for club Napoli, on loan from club Bournemouth, and the Ivory Coast national team. Early life Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coa ...

, Ivorian footballer

Middle name

Abed Hamed Mowhoush Abed Hamed Mowhoush (Arabic "عبد حمد مهاوش") was an air vice-marshal believed to be in command of the transport, logistics and airlifting division of the Iraqi Air Force during the regime of Saddam Hussein immediately prior to the 2003 ...

, Iraqi general *

Awad Hamed al-Bandar Awad Hamad al-Bandar ( ar, عواد حمد البندر السعدون, ʿAwād Ḥamad al-Bandar al-Saʿdūn; (2 January 1945 – 15 January 2007) was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was a member of the Arab Socialist ...

, Iraqi chief judge *

Mohammad Hamid Ansari Mohammad Hamid Ansari (; born 1 April 1937) is an Indian politician and retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who was the 12th vice president of India from 2007 to 2017. Ansari joined the IFS in 1961. In a diplomatic career spanning 3 ...

(born 1937), vice-president of India

Surname

* Alejandro Hamed, Paraguayan diplomat and Arabist * Amir Hamed, Uruguayan writer and translator * Amr Hamed, Canadian terrorist * Ezzedin Yacoub Hamed, Egyptian Long Jumper * Haseeb Hameed, English cricketer *

Ibrahim Hamed Ibrahim Hamed (إبراهيم حامد) is a Hamas military commander in the West Bank who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Second Intifada until he was apprehended by Israeli YAMAM unit on 23 May 2006. Israeli authorities accused him o ...

, Hamas military commander *

Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid ( ur, محسن حامد; born 23 July 1971) is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are ''Moth Smoke'' (2000), '' The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' (2007), '' How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' (2 ...

(born 1971), Pakistani British author * Jasmin Hamid, Finnish actress * Mohamed Naguib Hamed, Egyptian athlete *

Naseem Hamed Naseem Hamed (born 12 February 1974), nicknamed Prince Naseem and Naz, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2002.. Retrieved 25 February 2016. He held multiple featherweight world championships, including the WBO ti ...

, British boxer *

Nima Arkani-Hamed Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian

, Canadian-American theoretical physicist * Rani Hamid (born 1944), Bangladeshi chess player * Sanaa Ismail Hamed, Egyptian model *

Taha Bidaywi Hamed Taha Bidaywi Hamed is an Iraqi politician. He was elected by local tribal leaders to lead the town council of Fallujah on April 30, 2003. The position had been vacant after the previous administrators - loyal to Saddam Hussein's regime - fled to av ...

, Iraqi politician * Yasmeen Hameed, Pakistani Urdu poet *

Zid Abou Hamed Zid Abou Hamed ( ar, زيد أبو حامد; born 4 April 1970) is an Australian-Syrian former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. Career Hamed originally began to compete for his birth country Syria. He represent ...

, Australian athlete

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