Khalid


Khalid is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal". It also appears as a surname.

Notable persons

Politics and military

  • Khalid ibn al-Walid, Arab military commander in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate
  • Khalid of Saudi Arabia, the fourth king of Saudi Arabia
  • Khalid bin Mohammed Al Angari, Saudi politician
  • Khalid Anwer, Pakistani lawyer and jurist
  • Khaled al-Attiyah, Iraqi politician
  • Khalid Bakdash, leader of the Syrian Communist Party
  • Khalid ibn Barmak, first prominent member of the Barmakid family
  • Khalid Farooqi, Afghan politician
  • Khalid Al Hud Al Gargani, Libyan royal advisor in Saudi Arabia
  • Khaled al-Harbi, associate of Osama Bin Laden
  • Khalid Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
  • Khalid Islambouli, assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
  • Khaled Kelkal, affiliated with Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
  • Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah, current Foreign Minister of Bahrain
  • Khaled Mashal, Palestinian politician, former head of Hamas
  • Khalid El-Masri, German citizen detained and interrogated by the CIA
  • Khalid al-Mihdhar, Saudi hijacker in the September 11 attacks
  • Khaled Mosharraf, Bangladeshi war hero
  • Khalid Abdul Muhammad, Nation of Islam member and Black Nationalist
  • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, terrorist claimed to be responsible for masterminding the September 11 attacks
  • Khaled Qasim, Yemeni citizen detained in Guantanamo Bay
  • Khalid bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, assassinated ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates
  • Khaled Ben Mustapha, former detainee at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
  • Khalid al-Qasri, Umayyad governor of Mecca and Iraq
  • Khalid Raad, Syrian economist and politician
  • Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud, Saudi royal
  • Khaled bin Abdullah Al Saud, Saudi royal
  • Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud , Saudi royal

    Film, television, theatre

  • Khalid Abdalla, British actor
  • Khalid Butt , Pakistani actor
  • Khalid Gonçalves, American actor
  • Khaled El Sayed, Lebanese actor and voice actor

    Music

  • DJ Khaled, American DJ, record producer and radio personality
  • Khaled , Algerian raï musician
  • Khaleedthefirst, real name Khalid Suleiman Chibuikem, Nigerian singer and songwriter
  • Khalid , American singer and songwriter
  • Khalid , Bangladeshi singer
  • Nazim Khaled, French singer, songwriter and composer

    Sports

  • Khaled Badra, Tunisian football player
  • Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch football player
  • Khalid Duke, American football player
  • Khaled Fadhel, Tunisian football player
  • Khalid Kareem, American football player
  • Khalid Khan, Hong Kong cricketer
  • Khalid Khannouchi, Moroccan American marathoner
  • Khalid Lachheb, French pole vaulter
  • Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricket player
  • Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricket player
  • Khaled Mouelhi, Tunisian football player
  • Khalidou Sissokho, Senegalese footballer
  • Khalid Skah, Moroccan athlete

    Other

  • Khalid, Indian novelist in Malayalam-language
  • Khaled bin Sinan, historic figure of pre-Islamic Arabia, and a disputed prophet in Islam
  • Khalid bin Mahfouz, Saudi Arabian businessman suspected of having links to terrorism
  • Khaled Abou Al-Fadl, professor at the UCLA School of Law
  • Khaled Abu Toameh, Israeli journalist
  • Khalid Adem, American convict
  • Khalid Amayreh, Palestinian journalist
  • Khalid Basalamah, Indonesian preacher
  • Khâlid-i Baghdâdî, Ottoman mystic founding the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order
  • Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American physician and author
  • Khalid ibn Yazid, seventh century alchemist
  • Khaled Mardam-Bey, Jordanian-born British programmer, creator of mIRC
  • Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, Saudi entrepreneur and royal
  • Khalid bin Talal Al Saud, Saudi royal and businessman
  • Khalid Sharrouf, Australian Arab hate speaker and terror suspect
  • Khalid, the true name of the character Claude from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
  • Khalid, one of the companion characters in ''Baldur's Gate''

    Middle name

  • Ahmad Khaled Towfeq, Egyptian novelist

    Surname

  • Aisha Khalid, Pakistani artist
  • Amr Khaled, Islamic preacher
  • Asma Khalid, political correspondent and journalist
  • DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American journalist and writer
  • Hassan Khaled, leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community
  • Jameela Ali Khalid, Maldivian diplomat
  • Leila Khaled, member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  • Rehman Khalid, Pakistani baseball player
  • Waleed Khaled, journalist killed by American soldiers during the Iraq War
  • Ismael Khalid, American-Somali influencer and Kick streamer known as Johnny Somali

    Notable animals

  • Khaled, a Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Khaled 5, an Arabian horse noted as a major sire in the early 1900s