Haydar
Haydar, also spelt Hajdar, Hayder, Haidar, Heidar, Haider, Heydar, Hyder, and other variants, is an Arabic male given name, also used as a surname, and means an epithet for "lion".
In Islamic tradition, the name is primarily associated with Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law and cousin of Muhammad, who was nicknamed "Haydar".
The variant Hyder is an Urdu variant used predominantly by Muslims in South Asia.
Hajdar
- Hajdar Blloshmi, Albanian politician
- Hajdar Muneka, Albanian journalist and diplomat
Haydar
Given name
- Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, said to have been nicknamed "Haydar".
- Haydar Aşan, Turkish Olympian
- Haydar Çetinkaya, Turkish para-Nordic skier
- Haydar Ergülen, Turkish poet
- Haydar Ghazi, second Wazir of Sylhet
- Haydar Hassan Haj Al-Sidig, Sudanese footballer
- Haydar Hatemi, Iranian artist
- Haydar al-Kuzbari, Syrian military officer
- Haydar al-Sadr, Muslim Iraqi cleric and ayatollah
- Haydar Karataş, Turkish footballer
- Haydar Khan e Amo-oghli, revolutionary and military activist in Iran, Republic of Azerbaijan and Central Asia
- Haydar Zorlu, Turkish-German actor
- Haydar Astrakhani, Khan of Astrakhan from 1538 through 1541.
- Haydar Amuli, or Haydar al-'Obaydi al-Husayni Amoli, a Shi'ite mystic and Sufi philosopher
Middle name
- Ali Haydar Şen, Turkish businessman
- Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Syrian Muslim jihadist and al-Qaida recruiter
Surname
- Darren Haydar, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Kamal Haydar, Yemeni short story writer
- Paula Haydar, American academic and translator
- Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar, Persian Sufi saint
- Shaykh Haydar, a religious leader of the Safaviyya from 1460 to 1488
- Sultan Haydar, Turkish female long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin
Haidar
- Adnan Haidar, Lebanese footballer
- Celine Haidar, Lebanese footballer
- Haidar Haidar, Syrian writer and novelist.
- Ibrahim Haidar, Lebanese politician
- Mohamad Haidar, Lebanese footballer
- Ossama Haidar, Lebanese footballer
- Que Haidar, Malaysian actor
- Salim Haidar, Lebanese politician
- Haider Abbas Rizvi, Pakistani politician
Hayder
- Hayder Ali Founder of Mysore Sultanate and Father of Tipu Sultan
- Hayder of Crimea, Khan of Crimea
Other variant spellings
For people with these variant spellings, see:- Heidar
- Haider
- Heydar
- Hyder (name)
- Hyderi (name)
- Heydari (name)
- Aidar (disambiguation) - Brazilian Portuguese variant
- Aydar (disambiguation) - Brazilian Portuguese variant
- Gaidar (surname) - Russian variant