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Heydari (Persian: حیدری) is an Iranian surname and given name. Transliteration variants include Heydary, Heidari, Haydary, Haydari, Heidary. The meaning of Heydari comes from an epithet for "lion" (Haydar) in Arabic. A surname of similar origin, known in the Indian subcontinent, Hyderi/Hydari, is derived from a similar given name Hyder. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Ahmad Ali Heydari (born 1963), Iranian philosopher
• Andre Heidari (born 1993), American football placekicker
• Ali Akbar Heidari (born 1941), Iranian wrestler
• Alireza Heidari (born 1976), Iranian wrestler
• Alireza Heidari (footballer) (born 1992), Iranian footballer
• Alison Heydari (fl. 2000), British police officer
• Fatemeh Heidari (born 1996), Iranian Wushu practitioner
• Gholamreza Heydari (born c. 1955), Iranian engineer and academic
• Hadi Heidari (fl. 2009), Iranian cartoonist
• Hamed Heidari (born 1991), Iranian Paralympic athlete
• Hashem Heydari (born 1966), Iranian footballer
• Hossein Heydari (born 1998), Iranian footballer
• Ibrahim Haydari (1936–2024), Iraqi sociologist
• Iman Heydari (born 1983), Iranian footballer
• Kamal al-Haydari (born 1956), Iraqi Philosopher
• Kamran Heidari (born 1979), Iranian documentary filmmaker, photographer, and writer
• Khosro Heydari (born 1983), Iranian footballer
• Kioumars Heydari (born 1964), Iranian soldier
• Majid Heidari (born 1982), Iranian footballer
• Mobina Heidari (fl. 2018), Iranian karateka
• Mohammad Heidari (born 1986), Iranian footballer
• Mohammad Heydari (1937–2016), Iranian musician
• Mohammad Reza Heydari (born 1966), Iranian consul
• Morteza Heidari (born 1968), Iranian TV presenter
• Mostafa Heydari (born 1991), Iranian volleyball player
• Nima Heidari (born 1985), Iranian hockey player
• Omran Haydary, (born 1998), Afghan footballer
• Payam Heydari (fl. 1992), Iranian-American professor
• Reza Heydari (born 1991), Iranian footballer
• Sepehr Heydari (born 1980), Iranian footballer
• Shadieh Heydari (born 1967), Swedish politician

Given name

• Haydari Tabrizi (died 1592/1594), poet in Safavid Iran and the Mughal Empire
• Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami (1925–1987), Iranian ayatollah
• Mohsen Heidari Alekasir (born 1957), Iranian ayatollah

See also

• Haydari and Ne'mati, historical rival Iranian factions