Khalid facts for kids

Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal", and it also appears as a surname.

Notable persons

• Khalid bin al-Walid (died 642), Muslim military commander and Companion of Muhammad.
• Khalid al-Qasri (died 743), Umayyad governor of Mecca and Iraq
• Khalid ibn Barmak (705–782), first prominent member of the Barmakid family
• Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1913–1982), the fourth king of Saudi Arabia
• Khalid ibn Abdullah (1937–2021), a member of House of Saud
• Khalid Ibrahim (born 1946), Malaysian politician
• Khaled al-Attiyah (born 1949), Iraqi politician
• Khaled bin Abdullah (born 1950), son of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• Khaled Mashal (born 1956), member of Hamas
• Khaled al-Harbi (born 1963), associate of Osama Bin Laden
• Khalid El-Masri (born 1963), German citizen detained and interrogated by the CIA
• Khaled Ben Mustapha (born 1972), former detainee at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
• Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah (1960–), current Foreign Minister of Bahrain
• Khalid al-Mihdhar (1975–2001), Saudi hijacker in the September 11 attacks
• Khaled Mosharraf (1937–1975), Bangladeshi war hero
• Khalid bin Mohammed Al Qasimi (1931–1972), assassinated ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates
• Khalid Islambouli (1955–1982), assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
• Khalid Bakdash (1912–1995), former leader of the Syrian Communist Party
• Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001), former Nation of Islam member and Black Nationalist
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (born 1964), terrorist claimed to be responsible for masterminding the September 11 attacks
• Khaled Qasim, Yemeni citizen detained in Guantanamo Bay
• Khalid Raad, Syrian economist and politician
• Khaled Kelkal, soldier in the Armed Islamic group of Algeria; he was also responsible for carrying out some bombings in France.

• Khalid Abdalla (born 1988), British actor
• Khalid Gonçalves (born 1971), American actor
• Khaled El Sayed, Lebanese actor and voice actor

• DJ Khaled (born 1975), American DJ, record producer and radio personality
• Khaled (musician) (born 1960), formerly known as Cheb Khaled, Algerian raï musician
• Khalid (singer) (born 1998), American singer and songwriter

• Khalid Abdel-Gabar (born 1983), Saudi Arabian basketball player
• Khaled Badra (born 1973), Tunisian football player
• Khalid Boulahrouz (born 1981), Dutch football player
• Khaled Fadhel (born 1976), Tunisian football player
• Khalid Kareem (born 1998), American football player
• Khalid Khan (born 1971), Hong Kong cricketer
• Khalid Khannouchi (born 1971), Moroccan American marathoner
• Khalid Lachheb (born 1975), French pole vaulter
• Khaled Mahmud (born 1971), Bangladeshi cricket player
• Khaled Mashud (born 1976), Bangladeshi cricket player
• Khaled Mouelhi (born 1981), Tunisian football player
• Khalidou Sissokho (born 1978), Senegalese footballer
• Khalid Skah (born 1967), Moroccan athlete

• Khalid (1930-1994), Indian novelist in Malayalam-language
• Khaled bin Sinan (pre-7th century), historic figure of pre-Islamic Arabia, and a disputed prophet in Islam
• Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal (born 1978), Saudi entrepreneur and prince of the House of Saud
• Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949-2009), Saudi Arabian businessman suspected of having links to terrorism
• Ahmad Khaled Towfeq (1962-2018), Egyptian novelist
• Khaled Abou Al-Fadl (born 1963), professor at the UCLA School of Law
• Khaled Abu Toameh (born 1963), Israeli journalist
• Khalid Adem (born 1975), American convict
• Khalid Amayreh (born 1957), Palestinian journalist
• Khâlid-i Baghdâdî, Ottoman mystic founding the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order
• Khaled Hosseini (born 1965), Afghan-American physician and author
• Khalid ibn Yazid, seventh century alchemist
• Khaled Mardam-Bey, creator of mIRC
• Khalid Sharrouf (born 1981), Australian Arab hate speaker and terror suspect

Surname

• Aisha Khalid (born 1972), Pakistani artist
• Amr Khaled (born 1967), Islamic preacher
• Hassan Khaled (1921-1989), former leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community
• Leila Khaled (born 1944), former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• Nazim Khaled, French singer, songwriter and composer
• Waleed Khaled (died 2005), journalist killed by American soldiers during the Iraq War

Notable animals

• Khaled (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Khaled 5, an Arabian horse noted as a major sire in the early 1900s.