Mehdi
Appearance
Mehdi (Arabic: المَهْدِي, romanized: al-mehdi) is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided".[1] People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, 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 Khalaji (born 1973), Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst
- Mehdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor
- Mehdi Mahdloo, Italian actor, model and writer
- 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
- Mehdi Abdesmad (born 1991), Canadian-born American football player in the defensive end
- Mehdi Abdi (born 1998), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Abeid (born 1992), Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Abtahi (born 1963), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Baala (born 1978), French, middle-distance runner
- Mehdi Baghdad (born 1985), French mixed martial artist
- Mehdi Bazargard (born 1979), Iranian volleyball player
- Mehdi Beneddine (born 1996), French footballer
- Mehdi Berrahma (born 1992), Moroccan footballer
- Mehdi Bouadla (born 1982), French-Algerian boxer
- Mehdi Boudjemaa (born 1998), French footballer
- Mehdi Boukassi (born 1996), Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Bourabia (born 1991), Moroccan footballer
- Mehdi Carcela, or Mehdi François Carcela-González (born 1989), Belgian-born Moroccan footballer
- Mehdi Cerbah (born 1953), Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Fonounizadeh (born 1962), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Ghayedi (born 1998), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Hafsi, also known as Mehdi Labeyrie (born 1978), French-born Tunisian basketball player
- Mehdi Hasan (cricketer, born 1990), Indian cricketer
- Mehdi Hasheminasab (born 1973), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Jannatov (born 1992), Azerbaijani footballer
- Mehdi Kadi (born 1994), French footballer
- Mehdi Khalil, Lebanese footballer
- Mehdi Khodabakhshi (born 1991), Iranian-born Serb Taekwondo practitioner.
- Mehdi Lacen, Algerian football player
- Mehdi Lehaire (born 2000), Belgian footballer
- Mehdi Léris (born 1998), French footballer
- Mehdi Leroy, French football player
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Mehdipour (born 1994), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Méniri (born 1977), Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Meriah (born 1979), Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Momeni, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Ouertani (born 1990), Tunisian footballer
- Mehdi Pashazadeh (born 1973), Iranian footballer and football coach
- Mehdi Rahmati, Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Salehpour (born 1975), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Sharifi (born 1992), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Tahrat (born 1990), Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Taj, Iranian sports executive and administrator
- Mehdi Taremi (born 1992), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Terki (born 1991), Algerian footballer
- Mehdi Tikdari (born 1996), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Torabi (born 1994), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Torkaman (born 1989), Iranian footballer
- Mehdi Yaghoubi (born 1930), Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler
- Mehdi Zamani, Iranian sprint athlete
- Mehdi Zatout (born 1983), Algerian-French Muay Thai kickboxer
- Mehdi Zeffane (born 1992), Algerian footballer
Others
- Mehdi Aminrazavi, Iranian scholar of philosophy and mysticism
- Mehdi Ashraphijuo, American mathematician, financial risk manager and writer
- Mehdi Bahadori (born 1933), Iranian professor of mechanical engineering
- Mehdi Bayat (born 1979), French-Iranian businessman, president of the Royal Belgian Football Association
- Mehdi Dibaj (1935–1994), Iranian Christian convert from Shia Islam, pastor and Christian martyr
- Mehdi Golshani, Iranian theoretical physicist
- Mehdi Ghezali, Swedish bank robber
- Mehdi Hasan (born 1979), British-American journalist, broadcaster and author
- Mehdi Hasan (Pakistani journalist) (born 1937), Pakistani journalist
- Mehdi Kazemi, Iranian asylum seeker in the UK
- Mehdi Khalaji, Iranian journalist
- Mehdi Khazali (born 1965), publisher, physician, blogger
- Mehdi Sadaghdar, also known as ElectroBOOM, Iranian-Canadian electrical engineer, YouTuber and comedian
- Mehdi Semsar (1929–2003), Iranian journalist and translator
- Mehdi Shahbazi, American businessman
People with the middle name
- Mohamed Mehdi Hasan (born 1971), Bangladeshi Olympic sprinter
- Mohammad Mehdi Mehdikhani (born 1997), Iranian footballer
- Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi (born 1943), Pakistani retired four-star air officer and a fighter pilot who served as the eighth Chief of Air Staff (CAS) of the Pakistan Air Force
- Syed Mehdi Shah, first Chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.
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
- Mahdi (name)
- Medhi (disambiguation)
- Dik El Mehdi, a Lebanese village in the Matn District governorate of Mount Lebanon
References
- ^ "Name Mehdi". The Meaning Of The Name. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
- ^ "Name Mehdi". The Meaning Of The Name. Retrieved 2019-10-14.