Haider (surname)
Haider is a South Asian, Arabic, and German surname. The German surname is a variant of Heider, and may be a habitation name for someone living on a heath, or a reference to a place-name with similar meanings.
Arabic-derived
- Adil Haider, Pakistani-American trauma surgeon
- Afzaal Haider, Pakistani-born Hongkonger cricketer
- Ali Haider (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
- Ali Haider, Pakistani singer and actor
- Daud Haider, Bangladeshi poet
- Farooq Haider Khan, 12th Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- Ghazi-ud-Din Haider, last nawab wazir of Oudh and first King of Oudh
- Ghulam Haider, music composer well known in both India and Pakistan
- Iqbal Haider, advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, co-chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
- Izhar Haider, Urdu poet, social worker, and broadcaster
- Jalila Haider, human rights attorney and political activist
- Moinuddin Haider, Pakistani general
- Mohsin Abbas Haider, Pakistani singer, actor, writer and TV presenter
- Nasiruddin Haider, second King of Oudh
- Rashid Haider, Bangladeshi author and novelist
- Sajad Haider, Pakistani fighter pilot
- Sajjad Haider, Indian journalist media personality
- Sara Haider, Pakistani singer-songwriter and actress
- Sarah Haider, Pakistani-American writer
- Sayed Haider, Bangladeshi physician and Language Movement activist
- Shuja Haider, Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, music director and record producer
- Syed Afzal Haider, Pakistani politician
- Wasim Haider, Pakistani cricketer
- Zameer Haider, Pakistani international cricket umpire
- Zulqarnain Haider (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
German-derived
- Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austrian tennis player
- Celina Haider, German ice-hockey player
- Eduard Haider, Austrian slalom canoeist
- Engelbert Haider, Austrian alpine skier
- Ernst Haider, German painter
- Ilse Haider, Austrian artist
- Joe Haider, German pianist and jazz educator
- Jörg Haider, Austrian politician
- Karl Michael Haider, German painter
- Markus Haider, Austrian singer
- Maximilian Haider, Austrian physicist
- Michael Lawrence Haider, American petroleum executive
- Roman Haider, Austrian politician
- Sepp Haider, Austrian rally driver