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 (born 1951), Saudi royal
Film, television, theatre
- Khalid Abdalla, British actor
- Khalid Butt (actor), 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 (musician), Algerian raï musician
- Khaleedthefirst, real name Khalid Suleiman Chibuikem, Nigerian singer and songwriter
- Khalid (American singer), American singer and songwriter
- Khalid (Bangladeshi singer), 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 (Baldur's Gate), 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 (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Khaled 5, an Arabian horse noted as a major sire in the early 1900s