Omid (name)

Omid
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Persian

Omid (Persian: اُمید‎‎, also transliterated as Omead, Omeed, Omied, Umeed, or Ümit) is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope.^[1][2]

Given name

• Omid 16B, Iranian-British electronic music producer
• Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
• Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand up comedian and actor
• Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer
• Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive
• Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist
• Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player
• Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician
• Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer
• Omid Safi, American religion academic
• Omid Tahvili, Iranian criminal
• Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer

Surname

• Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author
• Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay

Other uses

• Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
• "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.^[3]
• "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
• "Omid", an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase^[4]
• M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary iranian poet

References

1. http://www.iranrights.org/english/memorial.php Boroumand Foundation: Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights
2. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/voices/transcript/?content=20070607 Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand
3. http://www.iranrights.org/english/memorial.php
4. http://yahoohadoop.tumblr.com/post/129089878751/introducing-omid-transaction-processing-for