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Hidayat is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Ignatius Hidayat Allah (d. 1639/1640), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
- Hidayat Amin Arsala (born 1942), economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan
- Shahzada Muhammad Hidayat Afshar, Ilahi Bakhsh Bahadur (1809–1878), the 23rd head of the Mughal Dynasty, born in Delhi
- Arief Hidayat (born 1956), the fifth and current chief justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia
- Cucu Hidayat, Indonesian footballer
- Komaruddin Hidayat (born 1953), Muslim academic and intellectual from Indonesia
- Mahdi Quli Khan Hidayat (1863–1955), prime minister of Iran and an author of several books
- Mohamad Suleman Hidayat (born 1944), Indonesian businessman and politician from Jombang, East Java
- Muhyi ad-Din Muzaffar Jang Hidayat (died 1751), the ruler of Hyderabad from 1750 to his death in battle in 1751
- Rachmad Hidayat (born 1991), Indonesian professional footballer
- Shazia Hidayat (born 1976), Pakistani former track and field athlete
- Taufik Hidayat (born 1981), retired Indonesian badminton player
- Hidayat Inayat Khan (1917–2016), English-French classical composer, conductor, representative of the International Sufi Movement
- Hidayat Orujov (born 1944), writer and an Azerbaijani politician, Chairman of State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic
- Ghulam Hussain Hidayat Ullah, Pakistani politician from Sindh
- Hidayat Ullah, Pakistani politician and a member of Senate of Pakistan, affiliated with Awami National Party
- Muhammad Hidayat Ullah (1905–1992), the eleventh chief justice of India and the sixth vice-president of India
- Hidayat Nur Wahid (born 1960), the Speaker of Indonesia People's Consultative Assembly 2004–2009
- Hidayat (poet) (15th century), Azerbaijani poet and Aq Qoyunlu statesman
