Rashid (name)
Rashid is the transliteration of two male given names:
and, both meaning 'rightly guided', 'having the true faith', or alternatively, 'the high one'.
In Islamic tradition, al-Rashid is one of the 99 names of Allah, and thus as a personal name is often used with the word abd.
Given name
- Rashid (rapper), Brazilian rapper
- Rashid III ibn Ahmad Al Mu'alla, former ruler of Umm al-Quwain, part of the United Arab Emirates
- Rashid Ali, Danish cricketer
- Rashid Ali, Indian singer, musician, and composer
- Rashied Ali, American avant-garde jazz drummer
- Raashid Alvi, Indian politician
- Rachid Arma, Moroccan footballer
- Rasyid Bakri, Indonesian footballer
- Rasyid Bancin, Indonesian politician
- Rashid Baz, Lebanese convicted murderer
- Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer
- Rachid Bouaita, French boxer
- Rashed Al Hooti, Bahraini footballer
- Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian-American historian
- Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Bahraini royal
- Räshid Hakimsan, Finnish Tatar hockey player
- Rashid Khan (actor), Indian actor
- Rashid Khan (cricketer), Afghan cricketer
- Rashid Khan (Pakistani cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
- Rashid Khan (golfer), Indian golfer
- Rashid Khan (musician), Indian musician
- Rashid Khan Gaplanov, Azerbaijani statesman
- Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, Moroccan royal
- Al-Rashid of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco from 1666 to 1672
- Rashid Latif, Pakistani cricket player
- Rashid Mahazi, Australian footballer
- Rashid Al Marikhi, Sufi shaikh in Bahrain
- Rasheed Muhammad, Pakistani tissue seller and murderer
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player
- Rashid Nurgaliyev, Russian military officer
- Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan athlete
- Rashid Rana, Pakistani visual artist
- Rashid Rauf, alleged Al-Qaeda operative
- Rashid Sarwar, Scottish footballer
- Rashid Shaheed, American football player
- Rashid Taha, French-Algerian rock-rai musician and activist
- Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- Rashid Yasemi, Iranian poet
- Rachid Yazami, Moroccan scientist known for his work on lithium batteries
- Brother Rachid, Moroccan ex-Muslim
Surname
- Abdul Rashid (hurdler), Pakistani Olympic sprint hurdler
- Abdul Rasyid Kacong, Indonesian military officer
- Abdullah Rasheed, Maldivian former leader of the World Scouts Association
- Adil Rashid, English cricketer
- Akbar Rasyid, Indonesian footballer
- Anies Rasyid Baswedan, Indonesian politician
- Ariff Ar-Rasyid, Malaysian footballer
- Ahmad Baba Rachid, Algerian musician
- Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani author and former revolutionary
- Amin Abu Rashid, Palestinian Dutch Hamas leader
- Ashraf Rashid, Pakistani general
- Gholam Ali Rashid, Iranian major general
- Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
- Harun Al Rasyid Zain, Indonesian academics
- Al-Rashid Billah, Caliph of Baghdad
- Kameelah Janan Rasheed, American writer
- Kamran Rasheed, Pakistani cricketer
- Karim Rashid, American industrial designer
- Khalid Rashid, Pakistani Guantanamo detainee
- Khalida Rashid Khan, first female judge in the Superior Judiciary of Pakistan
- Leila Rachid, Paraguayan diplomat
- Maesyal Rasyid, Indonesian politician
- Mamunur Rashid, Bangladeshi actor, director, scriptwriter
- Mohamed Al Rashed, Sudanese footballer
- Mohammad Rashed, Kuwaiti footballer
- Muhammad Abdul Rashid, Pakistani hockey player
- Muhammad Rashid (field hockey, born 1992), Pakistani hockey player
- Muhd Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid, Bruneian sprinter
- Richard Rashid, American computer science researcher
- Roger Rasheed, Australian tennis coach and commentator
- Shaun Rashid, English cricketer
- Tauffiq Ar-Rasyid, Malaysian footballer