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Mehdi

Mehdi (Arabic: المَهْدِي, romanized: al-mehdi) is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided".[1] People with the name Mehdi generally originate from Iran, with other notable countries of origin being: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United States of America.[2]

This name is a variation of the name Mahdi which has an Arabic origin. Other, less common, variations are Medi, Mehti, Meyti, Metti, Madi, Maadi.

People with the given name edit

Arts and entertainment edit

  • DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer
  • Mehdi Bagheri (born 1980), Iranian kamancheh player and composer
  • Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist
  • Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974), Iranian actor
  • Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Iranian musician and composer
  • Mehdi Charef, French-Algerian film director and screenwriter
  • Mehdi Dehbi (born 1985), Belgian actor and theatre director
  • Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better known as DJ Mehdi
  • Mehdi Forough (1911–2008), Iranian scholar, author, dramatist, writer on dramatic arts and culture, translator
  • Mehdi Ghadyanloo (born 1981), Iranian artist, painter, and muralist
  • Mehdi Halıcı (1927-2008), a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin who wrote several novels and books about Kurdish and Turkish culture and history. Also widely known as Cemşid Bender, a pseudonym he used for books and articles on Kurdish culture and history
  • Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer
  • Mehdi Hosseini (born 1979), Persian composer of contemporary classical music
  • Mehdi Khalaji (born 1973), Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst
  • Mehdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor
  • Mehdi Mousavi (born 1976), Iranian poet
  • Mehdi Norowzian, Iranian-British film director
  • Mehdi Rajabian, Iranian musician
  • Mehdi Sahabi (1944–2009), Iranian translator, painter and writer
  • Mehdi Saki (born 1974), Iranian actor, composer and singer

Politics edit

  • Mehdi Abrishamchi, member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) described as "the right hand man of Massoud Rajavi", the group's leader
  • Mehdi Azar (1901–1994), Iranian physician and politician
  • Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister of Iran in 1979
  • Mehdi Ben Barka (1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965), Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNPF) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference
  • Mehdi Frashëri (1872–1963), Albanian intellectual and politician. Served as Prime Minister of Albania in the 1930s
  • Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian cleric and senior official
  • Mehdi Huseynzade (1918–1944), Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II
  • Mehdi Jomaa (born 1962), Tunisian engineer and acting Prime Minister of Tunisia
  • Mehdi Karroubi (born 1937), Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician, former speaker of Parliament in Iran
  • Mehdi Noorbakhsh, Iranian academic and political activist affiliated with the Freedom Movement of Iran
  • Mehdi Tabatabaei (1936—2018), Iranian Shia cleric and Seyyed, conservative politician who served as member of the Parliament of Iran
  • Mehdi Zana (born 1940), Kurdish politician from Turkey

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Others edit

People with the middle name edit

People with the surname edit

  • Aga Syed Mehdi (1959–2000), Kashmiri Shia leader and social activist
  • Amir Mehdi (or Amir Mahdi, and also known as Hunza Mehdi), Pakistani mountaineer
  • Anisa Mehdi, Iraqi-Canadian film director and journalist
  • Asif Mehdi (born 1966), Pakistani ghazal and playback singer
  • Eqbal Mehdi (1946–2008), Pakistani painter
  • Georges Mehdi (1934–2018), Brazilian judoka of French descent
  • M. T. Mehdi (1928-1998), Iraqi-American politician and pro-Palestinian activist based in New York
  • Parvez Mehdi, born Pervez Akhtar (1947–2005), Pakistani ghazal singer
  • Qasim Mehdi, Pakistani molecular biologist and population genetics
  • Sahim Saleh Mehdi (born 1967), South Yemen athlete
  • Tanvir Mehdi (born 1972), Pakistani cricketer

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Name Mehdi". The Meaning Of The Name. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  2. ^ "Name Mehdi". The Meaning Of The Name. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
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