Omid (name)

Omid

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Persian
Other names
Alternative spelling	Omeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent)

Omid (Persian: اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian, Turkish, and Kurdish 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
• Omeed Malik, Iranian-American businessman
• 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 Scobie, British journalist and writer
• 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

1. "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
2. "Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
3. "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
4. "Apache Omid – What is Omid?". Omid.incubator.apache.org. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
5. "Introducing Omid - Transaction Processing for Apache HBase". Hadoop at Yahoo. Retrieved 5 February 2019.