title: Heidar
text: # Heidar
  
  Heidar is a name, chiefly in Arabic, with variant spellings such as Haydar, Haider, and Heydar. It may refer to:
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Haidar al-Abbadi, Iraqi prime minister
  * Haidar Ali (c. 1722 – 1782), ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore
  * Heidar Aliev (1923–2003), third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from October 1993 to October 2003
  * Haidar Abdel-Shafi (1919–2007), Palestinian physician and community leader
  * Haidar Abdul-Amir (born 1982), Iraqi football player
  * Haidar Abdul-Jabar (born 1976), Iraqi football player
  * Haidar Abdul-Razzaq (born 1982), Iraqi football player
  * Haïdar el Ali, Senegalese ecologist and government minister
  * Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939–), Prime Minister of Yemen
  * Heidar Arfaa (1919–1976), Conseiller d'État to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
  * Haidar Bagir, Indonesian philosopher, entrepreneur, social activist
  * Haidar Khan (died c. 1925), leader of one of the Bakhtiari tribes in Iran
  * Haidar Mahmoud (born 1973), Iraqi football player
  * Haidar Malik (1620s), administrator, and soldier in Kashmir
  * Heidar Moslehi (born 1957), Iranian cleric and politician who served as the minister of intelligence from 2009 to 2013
  * Haidar Nasir (born 1981), also known as Haider Jabreen, Iraqi discus thrower
  * Haidar Obeid (born 1997), Lebanese Roboticist
  * Haidar Qassāb (died 1356), head of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar from 1355/56 until his death
  * Haidar Sabah (born 1986), Iraqi football player
  * Haidar Salim, Afghan singer
  * Haidar Al-Shaïbani (born 1984), Algerian-Canadian football (soccer) player
  
  ## Middle name
  
  * Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish (1778–1848), Urdu poet
  * Maya Haïdar Boustani, Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator
  * Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat (1499 or 1500–1551), Chagatai Turko-Mongol military general, ruler of Kashmir
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Adnan Haidar (born 1989), Norway-born Lebanese football player
  * Ali Haidar (basketball) (born 1990), Canadian basketball player of Lebanese origin
  * Ali Haidar (military) (1913–1999), Pakistani Pashtun military personality in British Indian Army
  * Ali Haidar (politician) (born 1962), Syrian politician and minister
  * Aminatou Heidar (born 1966), Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara
  * Dana Haidar (born 1993), Jordanian taekwondo player
  * Ensaf Haidar, Indian Human rights activist
  * Gul Haidar, former mujahideen commander and official in the Afghan Ministry of Defense
  * Haidar Haidar, Syrian writer and novelist
  * Knut Heidar (born 1949), Norwegian political scientist
  * Mohamad Haidar (born 1989), Lebanese football player
  