Omid (name)
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Persian |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Omeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent) |
Omid (Persian: اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope.[1][2]
Given name[]
- Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years
- Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
- Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand up comedian and actor
- Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer
- Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive
- Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist
- Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player
- Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician
- Omid Rahimi, American anatomist
- Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer
- Omid Safi, American religion academic
- Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal
- Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer
Surname[]
- Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author
- Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay
Other uses[]
- Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
- "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.[3]
- "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
- Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase[4][5]
- M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet
References[]
- ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Apache Omid – What is Omid?". Omid.incubator.apache.org. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
- ^ "Introducing Omid - Transaction Processing for Apache HBase". Hadoop at Yahoo. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
This page or section lists people that share the same given name.
If an led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.
If an led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.
This page lists people with the surname Omid.
If an intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
Categories:
- Given names
- Persian masculine given names
- Surnames