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: حَامِد ''ḥāmid'') also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises". # (

: 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) Hamid Ahmadi (born April 15, 1945 in Sari, Iran) is a historian of modern Iranian history. He received his Msc in Naval Studies, M.A. in Political Science and worked on his Ph.D in this field at the Free University of Berlin. Ahmadi was a member ...

(b. 1945), Iranian historian * Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player * Hamid Ahmadieh, Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist *

Hamid Al Shaeri Hamid Al-Shaeri ( ar, حميد الشاعري; born Abdel-Hamid Ali Ahmed; 29 November 1961) is an Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician residing in Cairo. He is known as representative of Westernized synthesizer in ...

, Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician * Hamid Arasly, 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, American musician * Hamid Etemad, Iranian professor * Hamid Frangieh (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, Pakistani politician * Hamid Guska, head coach of Bosnian national boxing team * Hamid Hassani (born 1968), Iranian lexicographer * Hamid Ismailov, 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, Indian scholar * Hamid Notghi, Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor * Hamid Olimjon (1909–1944), Uzbek poet and scholar * Hamid Ekrem Šahinović, Bosnian writer and dramatist * Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, Iranian mathematical artist

Hamed / Hameed

* Hamed Gohar, Egyptian oceanographer * Hamed Haddadi, Iranian basketball player *

Hameed Haroon Pakistan Herald Limited, doing business as the Dawn Media Group, is a Pakistani media company based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It publishes the ''Dawn'' newspaper and operates a TV channel, radio stations and websites. It is a listed member ...

, 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, Iraqi chief judge * Mohammad Hamid Ansari (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 Izz al-Din Yacoub is a retired Egyptian Long Jumper. Achievements See also *Egyptian athletes Egyptian athletes have won Track and Field medals in African, Pan Arab Games and international athletic events. Most of the gold medals in African o ...

, Egyptian Long Jumper * Haseeb Hameed, English cricketer * Ibrahim Hamed, Hamas military commander * Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), Pakistani British author * Jasmin Hamid, Finnish actress * Mohamed Naguib Hamed, Egyptian athlete * Naseem Hamed, 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 Sanaa Ismail Hamed ( ar, سناء إسماعيل حامد; born 1984) is a beauty pageant contestant who represented Egypt in Miss World 2008 in South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmos ...

, 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

References

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