Hidayat

Hidayat is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:


 * Ignatius Hidayat Allah (d. 1639/1640), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
 * Hidayat Amin Arsala (born 1942), economist and a prominent politician in Afghanistan
 * Shahzada Muhammad Hidayat Afshar, Ilahi Bakhsh Bahadur (1809–1878), the 23rd head of the Mughal Dynasty, born in Delhi
 * Arief Hidayat (born 1956), the fifth and current chief justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia
 * Cucu Hidayat, Indonesian footballer
 * Komaruddin Hidayat (born 1953), Muslim academic and intellectual from Indonesia
 * Mahdi Quli Khan Hidayat (1863–1955), prime minister of Iran and an author of several books
 * Mohamad Suleman Hidayat (born 1944), Indonesian businessman and politician from Jombang, East Java
 * Muhyi ad-Din Muzaffar Jang Hidayat (died 1751), the ruler of Hyderabad from 1750 to his death in battle in 1751
 * Rachmad Hidayat (born 1991), Indonesian professional footballer
 * Shazia Hidayat (born 1976), Pakistani former track and field athlete
 * Taufik Hidayat (born 1981), retired Indonesian badminton player
 * Hidayat Inayat Khan (1917–2016), English-French classical composer, conductor, representative of the International Sufi Movement
 * Hidayat Orujov (born 1944), writer and an Azerbaijani politician, Chairman of State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic
 * Ghulam Hussain Hidayat Ullah, Pakistani politician from Sindh
 * Hidayat Ullah, Pakistani politician and a member of Senate of Pakistan, affiliated with Awami National Party
 * Muhammad Hidayat Ullah (1905–1992), the eleventh chief justice of India and the sixth vice-president of India
 * Hidayat Nur Wahid (born 1960), the Speaker of Indonesia People's Consultative Assembly 2004–2009
 * Hidayat (poet) (15th century), Azerbaijani poet and Aq Qoyunlu statesman