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), Urdu poet
• Wahid al-Balous (1965–2015), Syrian Druze cleric
• Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964), British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician
• Waheed Arian (born 1983), British doctor and radiologist, born in Afghanistan
• Mohamed 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
• Wahid Supriyadi (born 1959), Indonesian diplomat
• Wahid Ullah Zaid (born 1944), Afghan wrestler

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
• Zaha Waheed, Maldivian 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