Omid (), also

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as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit ( Turkish equivalent), is a common

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, Turkish, and

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male given name, meaning ''hope''.

Given name

* Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years *

Omid Abtahi Omid Abtahi (; born July 12, 1979) is an Iranian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Salim, in the Starz Original ''American Gods'', Penn Pershing in ''The Mandalorian'', Saleem Ulman in '' NCIS'', and Homes in the fourth insta ...

, Iranian-American actor *

Omid Djalili Omid Djalili (; born 30 September 1965) is a British comedian, actor, and writer. Early life and education Djalili was born on 30 September 1965 in St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, London, to Iranian Baháʼí parents Ahmad and Parvane ...

, Iranian-British stand-up comedian and actor * Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer * Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive *

Omeed Malik Omeed Malik (born ) is an American banker and executive. He is the founder and CEO of the merchant bank Farvahar Partners. Early life Omeed Malik was born in New Jersey to an Iranian mother and a Pakistani father. He received his Juris Doctor de ...

, Iranian-American businessman *

Omid Memarian Omid Memarian (; born ) is an Iranian journalist and blogger. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2005–2006 and was a Rotary Peace Fellow at the Journalism School in 2007–2009, where he received his mast ...

, Iranian journalist and social activist *

Omid Namazi Omid Namazi (; born December 8, 1964) is an Iranian-American former professional soccer player and coach. Namazi is a USSF “Pro” coaching license holder. Namazi played professionally as a defender in the American Soccer League, American P ...

, Iranian-American soccer player * Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician * Omid Rahimi, American anatomist * Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer *

Omid Safi Omid Safi is an Iranian-American professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He was the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center from July 2014 to June 2019 and was a columnist for On Being. Safi specializes in Islamic my ...

, American religion academic *

Omid Scobie Omid Scobie (born 4 July 1981) is a British journalist and writer best known as co-author of the book ''Finding Freedom'' and author of the book ''Endgame (Scobie book), Endgame''. Scobie's work focuses on the British royal family. Early life S ...

, British journalist and writer * Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal *

Omid Walizadeh Omid Walizadeh, also known as Omid or OD, is a hip hop producer based in Long Beach, California. He has produced tracks for the likes of Freestyle Fellowship, Busdriver, 2Mex, Subtitle (rapper), Subtitle, and Awol One. History Omid Walizadeh gradu ...

, American underground hip hop producer

Surname

* Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author *

Pierre Omidyar Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire and the grandson of General Mahmud Mir-Djalali. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the foun ...

, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of

eBay eBay Inc. ( , often stylized as ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. ...

Other uses

Omid Omid (, meaning "Hope") was Iran's first domestically made satellite. Omid was a data-processing satellite for research and telecommunications; Iran's state television reported that it was successfully launched on 2 February 2009. After being lau ...

, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009 * "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979. * "Omid", a song on

Thievery Corporation Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. Their musical style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern music, hip hop, electronica, and Brazilian music, ...

's album '' The Richest Man in Babylon'' * Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for

Apache HBase HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Fil ...

* M. Omid, pen name of

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles, or Akhavān-Sāless () (March 1, 1929 in Mashhad, Iran – August 26, 1990 in Tehran, Iran), pen name Mim. Omid (, meaning ''M. Hope'') was a prominent Iranian modern poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse (''New ...

, notable contemporary Iranian poet

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