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( 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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حَامِد ''ḥāmid'') also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish
Hamit Hamit is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Hamid.
People named Hamit include:
* Hamit Altıntop, Turkish footballer
* Hamit Kaplan, Turkish sport wrestler
* Hamit Karakus, Dutch politician
* Hamit Zübeyir Koşay, Turkish ...
; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".
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حَمِيد ''ḥamīd'') also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is
Hamit Hamit is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Hamid.
People named Hamit include:
* Hamit Altıntop, Turkish footballer
* Hamit Kaplan, Turkish sport wrestler
* Hamit Karakus, Dutch politician
* Hamit Zübeyir Koşay, Turkish ...
, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy".
Given name
Hamid
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Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
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Hamid Ahmadi (futsal)
Hamid Ahmadi Dazaj ( fa, حمید احمدی دزج; born 24 November 1988) is an Iranian professional futsal player. He is currently a member of Mes Sungun FSC, Mes Sungun in the Iranian Futsal Super League.
Honours
Country
* FIFA Futsal ...
(b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
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Hamid Ahmadieh
Hamid Ahmadieh is an Iranian ophthalmologist, medical scientist, and pioneer specializing on the retina of the eye. He is also the founder of Iranian Vitreoretina Society.
He is currently a professor of ophthalmology at Shahid Beheshti Universit ...
, Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist
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Hamid Al Shaeri, Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician
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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 Scienc ...
, Azeri and Soviet scientist
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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 (city), Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.
Hamid Arzulu is one of the Nak ...
, Azerbaijani poet and writer
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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 (& ...
(born 1964), Moroccan boxer
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Hamid Mahmood Butt
Hamid Mahmood Butt ( ur, ) is the former principal of Services Institute of Medical Sciences, chair of Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and patron of Services Hospital. He served as the ex-Chair of Department of Ophthalmology and ...
, Pakistani ophthalmologist
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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 Tabr ...
(born c. 1957), Iranian politician
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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
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Hamid Etemad
Hamid Etemad (born 1945) is a Canadian organizational theorist, and Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is best known for his work on international entrepreneurship and business, specifically the "international ...
, Iranian professor
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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 b ...
(1907–1981), Lebanese politician
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Hamid Gabbay
Hamid Gabbay (born c. 1943) is an Iranian-born American architect. He was a professor at the University of Tehran and a prolific architect in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1978, he has designed man ...
, Iranian-born American architect
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Hamid Ghandehari, Iranian-American drug chemist
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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
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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
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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 an ...
(born 1968), Iranian lexicographer
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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 Uzbeki ...
, Uzbek journalist
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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 Repub ...
, President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014
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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
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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; it m ...
, Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor
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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
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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
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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
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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 was ...
, Egyptian oceanographer
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Hamed Haddadi
Hamed Ehdadi Haddadi ( fa, حامد حدادی, , born May 19, 1985) is an Iranian professional basketball player for Sichuan Blue Whales of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He plays at the center position and is 7'2" (2.18 meters) tall a ...
, Iranian basketball player
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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
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Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer
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Hameed Nizami
Hameed Nizami or Hamid Nizami ( Punjabi, ur, ; b. 3 October 1915 – 22 February 1962), was an eminent journalist, literary figure, Pakistan Movement activist, and the founder as well as the editor-in-chief of the Urdu-language newspaper, ...
, Pakistani journalist
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Hamed Rasouli, Iranian footballer
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Hamed Sohrabnejad
Hamed Sohrabnejad ( fa, حامد سهرابنژاد , born May 7, 1983, in Sanandaj, Iran) is a professional Iranian basketball player who plays for Zob Ahan of the Iranian Super League and also the Iranian national basketball te ...
, Iranian basketball player
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Hamed Traorè, Ivorian footballer
Middle name
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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
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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
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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
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Alejandro Hamed
Alejandro Hamed Franco (26 February 1934 – 24 April 2023) Paraguayan politician who was appointed foreign minister by President Fernando Lugo, a term he served between 2008 and 2009. At the time of his death he was nominated to become the ne ...
, Paraguayan diplomat and Arabist
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Amir Hamed
Amir Hamed (11 May 1962 – 20 November 2017) was a Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator.
Background and education
Born in Montevideo, he earned a degree in literature from the University of the Republic and a doctorate in Hispanoamerican ...
, Uruguayan writer and translator
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Amr Hamed Amr Mohamed Hamed (عمرو محمد حامد) (also Amer AhmedMichelle Shephard, "Guantanamo's Child", 2008.) was a Canadian who died in the American bombing of an Afghan training camp on August 20, 1998, as retaliation for the African embassy bo ...
, Canadian terrorist
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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
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Haseeb Hameed
Haseeb Hameed (born 17 January 1997) is an English professional cricketer who plays internationally for the England cricket team, England Test cricket team. In domestic cricket, he represents Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire ...
, English cricketer
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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
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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'' (201 ...
(born 1971), Pakistani British author
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Jasmin Hamid
Jasmin Hamid (born 18 February 1984, Helsinki) is a Finnish actress, politician and investor.
As an actress, Hamid is most known for playing a character named ''Katariina Mäkelä'' in the popular Finnish television soap opera Salatut Elämät. Ha ...
, Finnish actress
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Mohamed Naguib Hamed
Mohamed Naguib Hamed ( ar, محمد نجيب حامد; born September 13, 1962) is an Egyptian athlete, one of only a few Egyptians to win gold medals in African athletic events. He competed in the men's discus throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics and ...
, Egyptian athlete
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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
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Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian , Canadian-American theoretical physicist
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Rani Hamid
Rani Hamid (born 14 July 1944) is a Bangladeshi chess player who became the country's first Woman International Master in 1985. She has become the national champion a total of 20 times. She is the current national champion crowned on the 38th Wo ...
(born 1944), Bangladeshi chess player
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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
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Taha Bidaywi Hamed, Iraqi politician
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Yasmeen Hameed
Yasmeen Hameed ( ur, ) is a Pakistani Urdu poet, translator and an educator.
Career
Yasmeen Hameed has more than thirty years of experience in the fields of education, literature and art. She was the Founding Director of Gurmani Centre for Sou ...
, Pakistani Urdu poet
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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
See also
*Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad
Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111; ), full name (), and known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی) or in Medieval Europe by the Latinized as Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian polymat ...
Persian theologian, philosopher, jurist
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Al Hamed Al Hamed is a town in Egypt near Rosetta. On 21 April 1807, forces loyal to Muhammad Ali defeated a small British force here during the Alexandria expedition of 1807
The Alexandria expedition of 1807, also known as the Fraser expedition, ( ar, ح ...
, town in Egypt near Rosetta
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Hameed a village in Hazro Tehsil, Punjab, Pakistan
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Abdul Hamid ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t ...
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Hamid al-Din (disambiguation) Hamid al-Din is a Muslim male name formed from the elements Ḥamid and ad-Din.
It has been used for:
*Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (996–1021), Persian Isma'ili scholar
*Hamidüddin Aksarayî (1331–1412), also known as Somuncu Baba, Turkish Islamic ...
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Hamidids
Hamidids or Hamed Dynasty (Modern Turkish: ''Hamidoğulları'' or ''Hamidoğulları Beyliği'') also known as the Beylik of Hamid, was one of the 14th century Anatolian beyliks that emerged as a consequence of the decline of the Sultanate of Rum a ...
, 14th century Turkic dynasty
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Hamit Hamit is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Hamid.
People named Hamit include:
* Hamit Altıntop, Turkish footballer
* Hamit Kaplan, Turkish sport wrestler
* Hamit Karakus, Dutch politician
* Hamit Zübeyir Koşay, Turkish ...
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Hamidah (disambiguation) Hamidah or Hamida is the female version of the Arabic name Hamid
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' ...
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