Hakim (name)

Hakim or Al-Hakim (commonly حكيم ḥakīm "wise" or حاکم ḥākem "ruler") is a masculine given name. Its Anglicized variant, especially in the United States, is Hakeem.

Title

 * Samir Geagea, known as al-Hakim, leader of the Lebanese Forces party
 * George Habash, known as al-Hakim, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Honorific

 * Hakim Noor-ud-Din
 * Hakim Abdul Aziz
 * Hakim Habibur Rahman
 * Hakim Mohammed Said
 * Hakim Syed Karam Husain
 * Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Patronymic

 * Abu Abdullah al-Hakim Nishapuri (933–1012), Sunni scholar and traditionist of Khorasan
 * Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim (1953–2009), Iraqi cleric and politician
 * Sulayman ibn al-Hakam (died 1016), Umayyad ruler of Córdoba
 * Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987), Egyptian dramatist, novelist and thinker

Given name

 * Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (c. 755 – 869), Sunni jurist and traditionist of Khorasan
 * Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985–1021), Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021)
 * Hakim (Egyptian singer) (born 1962), Egyptian sha'abi singer
 * Al-Hakam I (died 822), Emir of Córdoba
 * Al-Hakam II (915–976), Ruler of Córdoba
 * Hakeem Adeniji (born 1997), American football player
 * Hakim Adi (living), British historian and scholar
 * Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As (c. 600), father of Umayyad caliph Marwan I and uncle of Uthman ibn Affan
 * Hakim Bey, pseudonym of Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945), American writer
 * Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (born 1999), Japanese runner of sprint
 * Hakim ibn Hizam (fl. 600s), Meccan merchant
 * Hakeem Jeffries (born 1970), American Congressman
 * Hakeem Nicks, (born 1988), American football player
 * Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (c. 1841 – 1914), Ahmadiyya leader and companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
 * Hakeem Femi Gbajabiamila (born 1962), Nigerian politician
 * Hakeem Olajuwon (born 1963), Nigerian-American retired basketball player
 * Hakim Rawther (died 2013), Indian director and actor of Malayalam films
 * Hakeem Seriki (born 1979), American rapper better known as Chamillionaire
 * Hakim Toumi (born 1961), Algerian retired hammer thrower
 * Hakim Abol Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (940–1020), Persian poet and author of the epic Shahnameh better known as Ferdowsi
 * Hakeem Valles, (born 1992), American football player
 * Hakim Warrick (born 1982), American basketball player
 * Hakim Ali Zardari (1930–2011), Pakistani tribal leader and father of former President Asif Ali Zardari
 * Hakim Ziyech (born 1993), Moroccan footballer

Family name

 * Abdo Hakim (born 1973), Lebanese actor and voice actor
 * Ayala Hakim, director of the technology division of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank, Israel, previously Brigadier-general of the Israeli Defence Forces
 * Az-Zahir Hakim (born 1977), American football coach and former player, older brother of Saalim Hakim
 * André Hakim (1915–1980), Egyptian-born film producer for 20th Century Fox, brother of Robert and Raymond Hakim
 * Christine Hakim (born 1956), Indonesian actress, film producer, activist
 * Imani Hakim (born 1993), American actress
 * James Gita Hakim (1954–2021), South Sudanese-Ugandan internist, clinical epidemiologist, cardiologist, researcher
 * Maximos II Hakim (c. 1689 – 1761), patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1760 to 1761
 * Maximos V Hakim (1908–2001), patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1967 to 2000
 * Nadey Hakim (born 1958), British surgeon
 * Nasser Hakim (born 1960), Lebanese-born Curaçaoan businessman and politician
 * Noel Hakim (born 1972), Franco-Lebanese Banker
 * Naji Hakim (born 1955), the Lebanese-born composer and organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris
 * Omar Hakim (born 1959), American drummer
 * Peter Hakim, American economist of Lebanese descent
 * Robert and Raymond Hakim (1907–1992) and (1909–1980), Egyptian-born, European film producers, brothers of André Hakim
 * Saalim Hakim (born 1990), American football player, younger brother of Az-Zahir Hakim
 * Weli-Ahmed Hakim, Finnish Tatar Imam
 * Yalda Hakim, Australian journalist
 * Hakim family of Iraqi Shiite clerics:
 * Muhsin al-Hakim (1889–1970), the spiritual leader of the Shia world between 1955 and 1970
 * Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim (born 1936), Shiite cleric
 * Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (1939–2003), Shiite cleric
 * Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (1953–2009), Shiite cleric and politician
 * Ammar al-Hakim (born 1971), Shiite cleric and politician

Fictional characters

 * Doctor Hakim, a character in the 2021 video game It Takes Two