Hamida

Hamida is an Arabic given name that means praiseworthy, and it is the feminine form of the name Hamid. In Azerbaijani it becomes Həmidə. It may refer to:

People

  • DJ Hamida, Moroccan DJ and record producer based in France

Given name

  • Hamida Addèche (born 1932), French long-distance runner
  • Hamida al-Attas (born 1934), the mother of Osama bin Laden
  • Hamida Banu Begum (1527–1604), wife of the second Mughal Emperor, Humayun, and the mother of Mughal Emperor, Akbar
  • Hamida Banu Shova, founder and chairperson of Queens University, Bangladesh
  • Hamida Barmaki (1970–2011) Afghan law professor and human rights activist
  • Hamida Djandoubi (1949–1977), the last person to be guillotined in France, at Baumettes Prison in Marseille
  • Hamida Ghafour, Canadian journalist and author of Afghan origin
  • Hamida Habibullah (1916–2018), Indian parliamentarian, educationist and social worker
  • Hamida Al-Habsi (born 1987), Omani shot putter and discus thrower
  • Hamida Javanshir (1873–1955), Azerbaijani philanthropist and women's rights activist
  • Hamida Khuhro (1936–2017), Pakistani politician and historian Sindh government minister
  • Hamida Nana (born 1946), Syrian writer and journalist
  • Hamida Rania Nefsi (born 1997), Algerian swimmer
  • Hamida Omarova (born 1957), Azerbaijani actress
  • Hamida Pahalwan, Indian wrestler in Radhanpur during the 1930s

Middle name

Ben / Bin / Bani / Banu Hamida

  • Bani Hamida, a semi-nomadic bedouin tribe that controlled much of the land East of the Dead Sea before the establishment of the emirate of Transjordan
  • Adil Mabrouk Bin Hamida, citizen of Tunisia, former extrajudicial detainee at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba
  • Mongi Ben Hamida (1928–2003), Tunisian neurologist and neuropsychiatrist

Fictional characters

See also

  • Hamidah (disambiguation)
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