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

• 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 (disambiguation), multiple people
• Vahid, Bosnian, Turkish and Persian variant
• Wahid, Phagwara, a village in Phagwara Tehsil, Kapurthala district, Punjab State, India