Khalid

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

Politics and military

 * Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1913–1982), the fourth king of Saudi Arabia
 * Khalid bin Mohammed Al Angari (born 1952), Saudi politician
 * Khaled al-Attiyah (born 1949), Iraqi politician
 * Khalid Bakdash (1912–1995), leader of the Syrian Communist Party
 * Khalid ibn Barmak (705–782), first prominent member of the Barmakid family
 * Khalid Al Hud Al Gargani (1882–1971), Libyan royal advisor in Saudi Arabia
 * Khaled al-Harbi (born 1963), associate of Osama Bin Laden
 * Khalid Ibrahim (born 1946), Malaysian politician
 * Khalid Islambouli (1955–1982), assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
 * Khaled Kelkal, soldier in the Armed Islamic group of Algeria; he was also responsible for carrying out bombings in France
 * Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah (born 1960), current Foreign Minister of Bahrain
 * Khaled Mashal (born 1956), Palestinian politician, former head of Hamas
 * Khalid El-Masri (born 1963), German citizen detained and interrogated by the CIA
 * Khalid al-Mihdhar (1975–2001), Saudi hijacker in the September 11 attacks
 * Khaled Mosharraf (1937–1975), Bangladeshi war hero
 * Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001), 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 bin Mohammed Al Qasimi (1931–1972), assassinated ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates
 * Khaled Ben Mustapha (born 1972), former detainee at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
 * Khalid al-Qasri (died 743), Umayyad governor of Mecca and Iraq
 * Khalid Raad, Syrian economist and politician
 * Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud (1937–2021), Saudi royal
 * Khaled bin Abdullah Al Saud (born 1950), Saudi royal
 * Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (born 1951), Saudi royal
 * Khalid ibn al-Walid (died 642), Muslim military commander in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate

Film, television, theatre

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

Music

 * DJ Khaled (born 1975), American DJ, record producer and radio personality
 * Khaled (musician) (born 1960), Algerian raï musician
 * Khalid (singer) (born 1998), American singer and songwriter
 * Khalid (Bangladeshi singer), Bangladeshi singer
 * Nazim Khaled (born 1986), French singer, songwriter and composer

Sports

 * Khaled Badra (born 1973), Tunisian football player
 * Khalid Boulahrouz (born 1981), Dutch football player
 * Khalid Duke (born 2001), American 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

Other

 * 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
 * Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949–2009), Saudi Arabian businessman suspected of having links to terrorism
 * 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 (1957–2023), 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, Jordanian-born British programmer, creator of mIRC
 * Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud (born 1978), Saudi entrepreneur and royal
 * Khalid bin Talal Al Saud (born 1962), Saudi royal and businessman
 * Khalid Sharrouf (born 1981), Australian Arab hate speaker and terror suspect
 * Khalid, the true name of the character Claude from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
 * Chief Sheikh Khalid (Abdul-Mumin Khalid) Born in 1987, [Chief of Yalzoli Yaashenaa, Northern part of Ghana]

Middle name

 * Ahmad Khaled Towfeq (1962–2018), Egyptian novelist

Surname

 * Aisha Khalid (born 1972), Pakistani artist
 * Amr Khaled (born 1967), Islamic preacher
 * DJ Khaled (born 1975), Palestinian-American journalist and writer
 * Hassan Khaled (1921–1989), leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community
 * Leila Khaled (born 1944), member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
 * Waleed Khaled (died 2005), journalist killed by American soldiers during the Iraq War
 * Ismael Khalid (born 2000), American-Somali influencer and Kick streamer known as Johnny Somali

Notable animals

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