Omid (name)

Omid, also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian and Kurdish male given name, meaning hope.

Given name

 * Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years
 * Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
 * Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand-up comedian and actor
 * Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer
 * Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive
 * Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist
 * Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player
 * Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician
 * Omid Rahimi, American anatomist
 * Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer
 * Omid Safi, American religion academic
 * Omid Scobie, British journalist and writer
 * Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal
 * Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer

Surname

 * Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author
 * Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay

Other uses

 * Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
 * "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.
 * "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
 * Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase
 * M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet