Mehdi (Arabic: المَهْدِي, romanized: al-mehdi) is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided".[1] People with the name Mehdi generally originate from Iran, with other notable countries of origin being: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United States of America.[2]

This name is a variation of the name Mahdi which has an Arabic origin. Other, less common, variations are Medi, Mehti, Meyti.

People with the given name

Arts and entertainment

  • DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer
  • Mehdi Bagheri (born 1980), Iranian kamancheh player and composer
  • Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist
  • Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974), Iranian actor
  • Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Iranian musician and composer
  • Mehdi Charef, French-Algerian film director and screenwriter
  • Mehdi Dehbi (born 1985), Belgian actor and theatre director
  • Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better known as DJ Mehdi
  • Mehdi Forough (1911–2008), Iranian scholar, author, dramatist, writer on dramatic arts and culture, translator
  • Mehdi Ghadyanloo (born 1981), Iranian artist, painter, and muralist
  • Mehdi Halıcı (1927-2008), a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin who wrote several novels and books about Kurdish and Turkish culture and history. Also widely known as Cemşid Bender, a pseudonym he used for books and articles on Kurdish culture and history
  • Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer
  • Mehdi Hosseini (born 1979), Persian composer of contemporary classical music
  • Mehdi Hosseini (born 1967), Iranian-American Telecommunications Engineer
  • Mehdi Khalaji (born 1973), Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst
  • Mehdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor
  • Mehdi Mousavi (born 1976), Iranian poet
  • Mehdi Norowzian, Iranian-British film director
  • Mehdi Rajabian, Iranian musician
  • Mehdi Sahabi (1944–2009), Iranian translator, painter and writer
  • Mehdi Saki (born 1974), Iranian actor, composer and singer

Politics

  • Mehdi Abrishamchi, member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) described as "the right hand man of Massoud Rajavi", the group's leader
  • Mehdi Azar (1901–1994), Iranian physician and politician
  • Mehdi Bazargan, Prime Minister of Iran in 1979
  • Mehdi Ben Barka (1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965), Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNPF) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference
  • Mehdi Frashëri (1872–1963), Albanian intellectual and politician. Served as Prime Minister of Albania in the 1930s
  • Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian cleric and senior official
  • Mehdi Huseynzade (1918–1944), Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II
  • Mehdi Jomaa (born 1962), Tunisian engineer and acting Prime Minister of Tunisia
  • Mehdi Karroubi (born 1937), Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician, former speaker of Parliament in Iran
  • Mehdi Noorbakhsh, Iranian academic and political activist affiliated with the Freedom Movement of Iran
  • Mehdi Tabatabaei (1936—2018), Iranian Shia cleric and Seyyed, conservative politician who served as member of the Parliament of Iran
  • Mehdi Zana (born 1940), Kurdish politician from Turkey

Sports

Others

People with the middle name

People with the surname

  • Aga Syed Mehdi (1959–2000), Kashmiri Shia leader and social activist
  • Amir Mehdi (or Amir Mahdi, and also known as Hunza Mehdi), Pakistani mountaineer
  • Anisa Mehdi, Iraqi-Canadian film director and journalist
  • Asif Mehdi (born 1966), Pakistani ghazal and playback singer
  • Eqbal Mehdi (1946–2008), Pakistani painter
  • Georges Mehdi (1934–2018), Brazilian judoka of French descent
  • M. T. Mehdi (1928-1998), Iraqi-American politician and pro-Palestinian activist based in New York
  • Parvez Mehdi, born Pervez Akhtar (1947–2005), Pakistani ghazal singer
  • Qasim Mehdi, Pakistani molecular biologist and population genetics
  • Sahim Saleh Mehdi (born 1967), South Yemen athlete
  • Tanvir Mehdi (born 1972), Pakistani cricketer

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Name Mehdi". The Meaning Of The Name. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Name Mehdi". The Meaning Of The Name. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
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