Shahid (name)
Shahid or Shahed is a given name translating to 'Witness' in Arabic and 'Beloved' in Persian, mostly found in South Asia.
It is derived from the root .
Shahid is a male Muslim name and Arabic in origin. The name is common in Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
It is not to be confused with a different word, a religious term, written and pronounced differently, Shahid, meaning 'martyr'.
People named Shahid
Given name
- Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, politician and former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
- Shahid Ahmed, Pakistani footballer
- Shahid Ahmed (cricketer), cricket player
- Shahid Azmi, Indian lawyer and human rights activist
- Shaheed Kader, Indian film director
- Shahid Kapoor, Bollywood actor
- Shahid Khan (disambiguation), multiple people
- Shaheed Latif, Indian film producer
- Shahid Parvez Khan, Indian sitar player
- Shaied Nazir, convicted of the racially motivated murder of Ross Parker
- Shahid Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer
Stage name
- Shahid (actor), Pakistani actor active from 1971 to 1998
Surname
- Abdulla Shahid, Maldivian MP
- Imran Shahid, ringleader of gang responsible for the racially motivated murder of Kriss Donald in Scotland
- Leila Shahid, Palestinian diplomat
- Mohammed Shahid, Indian field hockey player
- Munib Shahid, Chairman of Hematology and Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut
- Parvez Ahmed Shahid, Pakistani retired banker
- Rashid Shaheed, American football player
- Serene Husseini Shahid, writer, promoter of Palestinian costumes.
- Zeeshan Shahid, convicted of the racially motivated murder of Kriss Donald in Scotland
- Ash-Shakur Nafi-Shahid Stevenson aka Shakur Stevenson, two time unified world champion and Olympic silver medalist.
Legendary figures
- Shahid ibn Jarr, the name for Seth in Yazidism