Wahid

Wahid or Waheed is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "One", "Absolute One". Its feminine form is Wahida. Al-Wahid is one of the 99 names of Allah.

Given name

  • Waheed Akhtar (1934–1996),
  • Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964), British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician
  • Waheed Arian (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 (1938–1983), producer, writer, and protagonist of many film musicals
  • Waheed Muzdha (1953–2019), Afghan political analyst, writer and a peace activist
  • Wahid Omar (born 1978), Afghan politician
  • Waheed Qureshi (1925–2009), Pakistani linguist, literary critic, educationalist and scholar
  • Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani (1910–1995), saint in the Chishti order of Sufis

Surname

  • Abdul Wahid (disambiguation), 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 (born 1962), Maldivian cartoonist and painter
  • Nayyirah Waheed, American poet
  • Rezia Wahid (born 1975), British textile artist
  • Yenny Wahid (born 1974), Indonesian Islamic activist and politician

See also

  • Waĥeed, a character in the 1975 film A Girl Named Mahmoud
  • Wahid (horse), New Zealand Derby winning racehorse
  • Wahid, Phagwara, a village in Phagwara Tehsil, Kapurthala district, Punjab, India
  • The Wahid Institute, an Indonesian research center on Islam
  • Vahid, Bosnian, Turkish and Persian variant
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