Khalid
Appearance
Pronunciation | Arabic: [xɑːlid] |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Arabic |
Meaning | "eternal" or "immortal" |
Khalid (also spelled Khaled, Halid, or Halit) (Template:Lang-ar, Ḫālid) is a popular Arabic male given name, and it also appears as a surname.
Given name
- DJ Khaled, an American DJ
- Khaled (musician), formerly known as Cheb Khaled, an Algerian raï musician
- Khalid of Saudi Arabia, former King of Saudi Arabia
- Khalid Abdalla, British actor
- Khaled bin Abdullah, son of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
- Prince Khalid Abdullah, first cousin of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and brother-in-law of the late King Fahd
- Khalid Adem, American convict
- Khaled AlAwadhi, a Kuwaiti terrorist
- Khaled Ahmed, a Pakistani political analyst
- Khalid Amayreh, a Palestinian journalist
- Khaled al-Attiyah, an Iraqi politician
- Khaled Badra, a Tunisian football player
- Khalid Bakdash, former leader of the Syrian Communist Party
- Khalid ibn Barmak, member of the Persian Barmakids family
- Khalid Boulahrouz, a Dutch football player
- Khaled Fadhel, a Tunisian football player
- Khaled Abou Al-Fadl, professor at the UCLA School of Law
- Khalid Gonçalves, American actor
- Khaled al-Harbi, associate of Osama Bin Laden
- Khaled Hosseini, a Afghan-American physician and author
- Khalid Ibrahim, a Malaysian politician
- Khalid Islambouli, assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
- Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah, current Foreign Minister of Bahrain
- Khalid Khan, Hong Kong cricketer
- Khalid Khannouchi, is a Moroccan American marathoner
- Khalid Lachheb, a French pole vaulter
- Khalid bin Mahfouz, Saudi Arabian businessman suspected of having links to terrorism
- Khaled Mahmud, a Bangladeshi cricket player
- Khaled Mardam-Bey, creator of mIRC
- Khaled Mashal, a member of Hamas
- Khaled Mashud, a Bangladeshi cricket player
- Khalid El-Masri, German citizen detained and interrogated by the CIA
- Khalid al-Mihdhar, Saudi hijacker in the September 11 attacks
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, terrorist claimed to be responsible for masterminding the September 11 attacks
- Khaled Mosharraf, a Bangladeshi war hero
- Khaled Mouelhi, a Tunisian football player
- Khalid Abdul Muhammad, Afro-centric pan Africanist extremist
- Khaled Ben Mustapha, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
- Khaled Qasim, Yemeni citizen detained in Guantanamo Bay
- Khaled bin Sinan, a historic figure of pre-Islamic Arabia, and a disputed Prophet in Islam
- Khalidou Sissokho, a Senegalese footballer
- Khalid Skah, is a Moroccan athlete
- Khaled Abu Toameh, Israeli journalist
- Ahmad Khaled Towfeq, an Egyptian novelist
- Khalid ibn al-Walid, famous 7th century military leader
- Khalid ibn Yazid, famous 7th century alchemist
Surname
- Amr Khaled, an Islamic preacher
- Hassan Khaled, former leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community
- Leila Khaled, former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Waleed Khaled, a journalist killed by American soldiers during the Iraq War