Maulana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900–1986), Bangladeshi politician Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan (1906 - ?1995), senior police officer and cabinet minister in Pakistan Abdirashid Ali Shermarke (1919–1969), Prime Minister of Somalia Chauhdry Abdul Rashid (born 1941), Pakistani-British politician Maher Abd al-Rashid, (born 1942) Iraqi General Abdul Rashid Shaheen (born 1945), Indian politician Abdul Rasheed Hussain (born 1946), Maldivian politician Abdul Rashid Dostum (born 1954), Afghan soldier and politician Abderrachid Boukerzaza (born 1955), Algerian politician Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig, Somali politician Abdur Rasheed Turabi, politician in Azad Jammu & Kashmir Abdul Rashid Godil (born 1960), Pakistani politician Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke (born 1960), Prime Minister of Somalia