Khalid

For other uses, see Khalid (disambiguation).

Khalid / Khaled

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈχɑːlɪd, ˈxæːled, ˈxaːlɪd]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	"eternal" or "immortal"

Khalid (also spelled Khaled, Halid, or Halit) (Arabic: خالد, Ḫālid) is a popular Arabic male given name, and it also appears as a surname.

Given name

Politics

• Khalid of Saudi Arabia, former King of Saudi Arabia
• 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
• Khaled al-Attiyah, an Iraqi politician
• Khalid Bakdash, former leader of the Syrian Communist Party
• Khalid ibn Barmak, member of the Persian Barmakids family
• Khaled al-Harbi, associate of Osama Bin Laden
• Khalid Ibrahim, a Malaysian politician
• Khalid Islambouli, assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
• Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah, current Foreign Minister of Bahrain
• Khalid bin Mahfouz, Saudi Arabian businessman suspected of having links to terrorism
• Khaled Mashal, a member of Hamas
• 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
• 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
• Khalid ibn al-Walid, famous 7th century military leader

Film, television, theatre

• Khalid Abdalla, British actor
• Khalid Gonçalves, American actor

Music

• DJ Khaled, an American DJ
• Khaled (musician), formerly known as Cheb Khaled, an Algerian raï musician

Sports

• Khaled Badra, a Tunisian football player
• Khalid Boulahrouz, a Dutch football player
• Khaled Fadhel, a Tunisian football player
• Khalid Khan, Hong Kong cricketer
• Khalid Khannouchi, is a Moroccan American marathoner
• Khalid Lachheb, a French pole vaulter
• Khaled Mahmud, a Bangladeshi cricket player
• Khaled Mashud, a Bangladeshi cricket player
• Khaled Mouelhi, a Tunisian football player
• Khalidou Sissokho, a Senegalese footballer
• Khalid Skah, is a Moroccan athlete

Various

• Khalid Adem, American convict
• Khaled Ahmed, a Pakistani political analyst
• Khalid Amayreh, a Palestinian journalist
• Khaled Abou Al-Fadl, professor at the UCLA School of Law
• Khaled Hosseini, a Afghan-American physician and author
• Khaled Mardam-Bey, creator of mIRC
• Khaled Abu Toameh, Israeli journalist
• Ahmad Khaled Towfeq, an Egyptian novelist
• 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

Others

• Bani Khalid, an Arab tribal confederation of eastern and central Arabia
• Al-Khalid tank, a Pakistani tank
• Khaled (horse), thoroughbred racehorse
• Khaled (2001 film), a 2001 film by Asghar Massombagi
• Khalid, a character from the Baldur's Gate video games
• Khaled: A Tale of Arabia, a fantasy novel by F. Marion Crawford

See also

• Halit (disambiguation)