Wahid or Waheed is an Arabic masculine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

, meaning "One", "Absolute One". Al-Wahid is one of the

99 names of Allah Names of God in Islam ( ar, أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ , "''Allah's Beautiful Names''") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. While some names are only in the Quran, and others are only in the hadith, th ...

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* Waheed Akhtar (1934–1996), *

Waheed Alli, Baron Alli Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 16 November 1964) is a British media entrepreneur and politician. He is the co-creator of the television series '' Survivor'' and has held executive positions at several television production companies including the ...

(born 1964), British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician *

Waheed Arian Waheed Arian (born 1983) is a British doctor and radiologist, born in Afghanistan, who founded a telemedicine charity called Arian Teleheal. The charity enables doctors in conflict zones and low-resource countries to use their smartphones to rece ...

(born 1983), British doctor and radiologist, born in Afghanistan * Mohammed Waheed Hassan (born 1953), political figure * Wahid Hasyim (1914–1953), first Minister of Religious Affairs, Indonesia *

Waheed Murad Waheed Murad ( ur, ; 2 October 1938 – 23 November 1983), also known as Chocolate Hero, was a Pakistani film actor, producer and script writer. Famous for his charming expressions, attractive personality, tender voice and unusual talent for a ...

(1938–1983), producer, writer, and protagonist of many film musicals *

Waheed Muzdha Waheed Muzdha (1953 – 20 November 2019) was a senior Afghan political analyst, writer and a peace activist. He was also a poet and wrote several anti-Soviet poetry during the Soviet Afghan war. He was widely cited by various international newspa ...

(1953–2019), Afghan political analyst, writer and a peace activist * Wahid Omar (born 1978), Afghan politician *

Waheed Qureshi Waheed Qureshi (Urdu: وحید قریشی) (14 February 1925 – 17 October 2009) was a Pakistani noted linguist, literary critic, writer, researcher, educationalist and scholar of Urdu literature and oriental languages. Waheed Qureshi was on ...

(1925–2009), Pakistani linguist, literary critic, educationalist and scholar *

Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani Captain Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani (1910 – April 21, 1995) was a Pakistani saint in the Chishti (Sabri branch) order of Sufis. He was initiated into the Chishtiyya Spiritual Order in 1940 by Maulana Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah (1878-1951). He remained ...

(1910–1995), saint in the Chishti order of Sufis

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Abdul Wahid (disambiguation) ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ( ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الواحد) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Wāḥid'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise ...

, several people * Abdurrahman Wahid (1940–2009), 4th President of Indonesia * Habib Wahid (born 1979), Bangladeshi composer and musician * Hidayat Nur Wahid (born 1960), leader of Indonesia's Constitutional Assembly *

Naushad Waheed Naushad Waheed (born December 15, 1962, in Malé) is a cartoonist and painter from the Maldives. He was detained by the government for four months following the publication of one of his cartoons in the magazine '' Hukuru'' in 1999. In 2001 he wa ...

(born 1962), Maldivian cartoonist and painter *

Nayyirah Waheed Nayyirah Waheed is a poet and author who has published two books of poetry and has been described as "perhaps the most famous poet on Instagram." While Waheed is a reclusive writer who doesn't reveal many details about her life, her poetry is fre ...

, American poet *

Rezia Wahid Rezia Wahid, MBE ( bn, রেজিয়া ওয়াহিদ; born 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British textile artist and designer. Her work has been exhibited both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Early life Rezia Wahid was born in Bang ...

(born 1975), British textile artist * Yenny Wahid (born 1974), Indonesian Islamic activist and politician

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