Wahid
Wahid or Waheed is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "peerless", "unique". Al-Wahid is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Given name
People
- Abdul Wahid(1999)
- Waheed Akhtar (1934-1996), poet, literary critic and scholar
- Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964), British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician
- Mohammed Waheed Hassan (born 1953), political figure
- Waheed Khan, documentary television director
- Waheed Murad (1938-1983), producer, writer, and protagonist of many film musicals
- Wahid Omar, Afghan politician
- Captain Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani, saint in the Chishti order of Sufis
- Wahid Saberi, Afghan singer
- Wahid Zaland, Afghan singer
- Waheed uz-Zaman, Sunni Deobandi Islamic scholar
Fictional characters:
- Waĥeed, a character in the film A Girl Named Mahmoud
Surname
- Abdurrahman Wahid (born 1940), President of Indonesia
- Habib Wahid, Bangladeshi composer and musician
- Hidayat Nur Wahid (born 1960), leader of Indonesia's Constitutional Assembly
- Naushad Waheed (born 1962), Maldivian cartoonist and painter
- Rezia Wahid, British textile artist
- Yenny Wahid (born 1974), Indonesian Islamic activist and politician
See also
- Wahid (horse), New Zealand Derby winning racehorse
- The Wahid Institute, an Indonesian research center on Islam
- Abdul Wahid
- Vahid, Bosnian, Turkish and Persian variant
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