Mehdi
Mehdi is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People with the name Mehdi generally originate from Iran, with other notable countries of origin being India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United States of America.
This name is a variation of the name Mahdi, which is of Arabic origin. Other, less common variations are Medi, Mehti, Meyti, Metti, Madi, Maadi, Mahadi, Mehedi.
People with the given name
Arts and entertainment
- DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and house producer
- Mehdi Bagheri, Iranian kamancheh player and composer
- Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist
- Mehdi Bajestani, Iranian actor
- Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Iranian musician and composer
- Mehdi Charef, French-Algerian film director and screenwriter
- Mehdi Dehbi, Belgian actor and theatre director
- Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better known as DJ Mehdi
- Mehdi Forough, Iranian scholar, author, dramatist, writer on dramatic arts and culture, translator
- Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Iranian artist, painter, and muralist
- Mehdi Halıcı, a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin
- Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer
- Mehdi Hosseini, Persian composer of contemporary classical music
- Mehdi Khalaji, Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst
- Mehdi Pakdel, Iranian actor
- Mehdi Mousavi, Iranian poet
- Mehdi Norowzian, Iranian-British film director
- Mehdi Rajabian, Iranian musician
- Mehdi Sahabi, Iranian translator, painter and writer
- Mehdi Saki, Iranian actor, composer and singer
Politics
- Mehdi Abrishamchi, Iranian dissident and member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran
- Mehdi Azar, Iranian physician and politician
- Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister of Iran in 1979
- Mehdi Ben Barka, Moroccan politician
- Mehdi Frashëri, Albanian intellectual and politician, former prime minister of Albania
- Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian cleric and senior official
- Mehdi Huseynzade, Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II
- Mehdi Jomaa, Tunisian engineer and acting Prime Minister of Tunisia
- Mehdi Karroubi, Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician
- Mehdi Noorbakhsh, Iranian academic and political activist
- Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian Shia cleric and politician
- Mehdi Zana, Kurdish politician from Turkey
Sports
- Mehdi Abdesmad, Canadian-born American football player in the defensive end
- Mehdi Abdi, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Abeid, Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Abtahi, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Baala, French, middle-distance runner
- Mehdi Baghdad, French mixed martial artist
- Mehdi Bazargard, Iranian volleyball player
- Mehdi Beneddine, French footballer
- Mehdi Bennani, Moroccan racing driver
- Mehdi Bouadla, French-Algerian boxer
- Mehdi Boudjemaa, French footballer
- Mehdi Boukassi, Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Bourabia, Moroccan footballer
- Mehdi Carcela, or Mehdi François Carcela-González, Belgian-born Moroccan footballer
- Mehdi Cerbah, Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Essoussi, Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Fonounizadeh, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Ghayedi, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Hafsi, also known as Mehdi Labeyrie, French-born Tunisian basketball player
- Mehdi Haj Mohamad, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Haji Mousaei, Iranian taekwondo practitioner
- Mehdi Hasan (cricketer, born 1990), Indian cricketer
- Mehdi Hasheminasab, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Jannatov, Azerbaijani footballer
- Mehdi Kadi, French footballer
- Mehdi Khalil, Lebanese footballer
- Mehdi Khodabakhshi, Iranian-born Serb Taekwondo practitioner.
- Mehdi Lacen, Algerian football player
- Mehdi Lehaire, Belgian footballer
- Mehdi Léris, French footballer
- Mehdi Leroy, French football player
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Mehdipour, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Méniri, Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Meriah, Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Momeni, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi El Moutacim, Finnish footballer
- Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Ouertani, Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Pashazadeh, Iranian footballer and football coach
- Mehdi Rahmati, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Salehpour, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Sharifi, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Tahrat, Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Taj, Iranian sports executive and administrator
- Mehdi Taremi, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Terki, Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Tikdari, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Torabi, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Torkaman, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Yaghoubi, Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler
- Mehdi Zamani, Iranian sprint athlete
- Mehdi Zeffane, Algerian footballer
Others
- Mehdi Aminrazavi, Iranian scholar of philosophy and mysticism
- Mehdi Ashraphijuo, American mathematician, financial risk manager and writer
- Mehdi Bahadori, Iranian professor of mechanical engineering
- Mehdi Bayat, French-Iranian businessman, president of the Royal Belgian Football Association
- Mehdi Dibaj, Iranian Christian convert from Shia Islam, pastor and Christian martyr
- Mehdi Golshani, Iranian theoretical physicist
- Mehdi Ghezali, Swedish bank robber
- Mehdi Hasan, British-American journalist, broadcaster and author
- Mehdi Hasan (Pakistani journalist), Pakistani journalist
- Mehdi Hasan Aini Qasmi, Indian Islamic scholar and social activist
- Mehdi Kazemi, Iranian asylum seeker in the UK
- Mehdi Khalaji, Iranian journalist
- Mehdi Khazali, publisher, physician, blogger
- Mehdi Rabbani, Iranian brigadier general
- Mehdi Sadaghdar, also known as ElectroBOOM, Iranian-Canadian electrical engineer, YouTuber and comedian
- Mehdi Semsar, Iranian journalist and translator
- Mehdi Shahbazi, American businessman
People with the middle name
- Mohamed Mehdi Hasan, Bangladeshi Olympic sprinter
- Mohammad Mehdi Mehdikhani, Iranian footballer
- Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi, Pakistani retired four-star air officer and a fighter pilot
- Syed Mehdi Shah, first Chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.
People with the surname
- Aga Syed Mehdi, Kashmiri Shia leader and social activist
- Amir Mehdi, Pakistani mountaineer
- Anisa Mehdi, Iraqi-Canadian film director and journalist
- Asif Mehdi, Pakistani ghazal and playback singer
- Eqbal Mehdi, Pakistani painter
- Georges Mehdi, Brazilian judoka of French descent
- M. T. Mehdi, Iraqi-American politician and pro-Palestinian activist
- Parvez Mehdi, born Pervez Akhtar, Pakistani ghazal singer
- Qasim Mehdi, Pakistani molecular biologist and population genetics
- Sahim Saleh Mehdi, South Yemen athlete
- Tabish Mehdi, Indian poet, literary critic, journalist, and author
- Tanvir Mehdi, Pakistani cricketer