Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (ح-م-د):

Ḥāmed (Arabic: حَامِد ḥāmid) also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it means "lauder" or "one who praises".^[1]^[2]
Ḥamīd (Arabic: حَمِيد ḥamīd) also spelled Hamid, or Hameed, in Turkish is Hamit, and in Azeri is Həmid or Һәмид; it means "lauded" or "praiseworthy".

Given name

Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
Hamid Ahmadieh, Iranian ophthalmologist and medical scientist
Hamid Al Shaeri (b. 1961), Egyptian-Libyan singer, songwriter, and musician
Hamid Arasly (1902–1983), Azeri and Soviet scientist
Hamid Arzulu (b. 1937), Azerbaijani poet and writer
Hamid Berhili (b. 1964), Moroccan boxer
Hamid Mahmood Butt, Pakistani ophthalmologist
Hamid Chitchian (b. c. 1957), Iranian politician
Hamid Drake (b. 1955), American musician
Hamid Etemad (b. 1945), Iranian professor
Hamid Frangieh (1907–1981), Lebanese politician
Hamid Gabbay (b. c. 1943), Iranian-born American architect
Hamid Ghandehari, Iranian-American drug chemist
Hamid Gul (1936–2015), Pakistani politician
Hamid Guska (b. 1953), head coach of Bosnian national boxing team
Hamid Hassani (b. 1968), Iranian lexicographer
Hamid Ismailov (b. 1954), Uzbek journalist
Hamid Karzai (b. 1957), President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014
Hamid Hussain Musavi, Indian scholar
Hamid Notghi (1920–1999), Iranian Azeri poet, writer, author, university professor
Hamid Olimjon (1909–1944), Uzbek poet and scholar
Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882–1936), Bosnian writer and dramatist
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (b. 1990), Iranian mathematical artist

Middle name

For people called Abdul Hamid, see Abdul Hamid (name).