Haydar
Haydar is an Arabic male given name, one of many names for "lion", each denoting some aspect of the animal, with "haydar" meaning "brave"; see Lions in Islam. In Islamic tradition, the name is primarily associated with the cousin of Muhammad, Ali, nicknamed "Haydar". It may also be used as a surname.
Place name
- Haidar, a village in Casimcea Commune, Tulcea County, Romania
- Haidar Usmonov, town and jamoat in north-west Tajikistan
- Haydar, Akyurt, village in the District of Akyurt, Ankara Province, Turkey
- Haydarpaşa, neighborhood within the Kadıköy district on the Asian part of Istanbul, Turkey
- Hyderabad, India
- Hyderabad, Pakistan
- Babaheydar, city in the Central District of Farsan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
- Chaidari, a suburb of Athens, Greece
Haidar / Haïdar
- Haidar al-Abbadi, Iraqi prime minister
- Haider Ackermann, French fashion designer
- Haidar Ali, ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore
- Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat was a Mugal ruler of Kashmir, cousin of Indian emperor Babul and founder of the Haidar family, a subsent of the Mugal family clan of Dughlat.
- Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician, community leader and political leader
- Haidar Abdul-Amir, Iraqi football player
- Haidar Abdul-Jabar, Iraqi football player
- Haidar Abdul-Razzaq, Iraqi football player
- Haïdar el Ali, Senegalese ecologist and government minister
- Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen
- Haidar Bagir, Indonesian philosopher, entrepreneur, social activist
- Haidar Khan, leader of one of the Bakhtiari tribes in Iran
- Haidar Mahmoud, Iraqi football player
- Haidar Malik, administrator, and soldier in Kashmir
- Haidar Nasir, also known as Haider Jabreen, Iraqi discus thrower
- Haidar Obeid, Iraqi football player
- Haidar Qassāb, head of the Sarbadars of Sabzewar from 1355/56 until his death
- Haidar Sabah, Iraqi football player
- Haidar Salim, Afghan singer.
- Haidar Al-Shaïbani, Algerian-Canadian football player
- Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish, Urdu poet
- Maya Haïdar Boustani, Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator
- Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Chagatai Turko-Mongol military general, ruler of Kashmir, and a historical writer
- Adnan Haidar, Norway-born Lebanese football player
- Ali Haidar , Canadian basketball player of Lebanese origin
- Ali Haidar , Pakistani Pashtun military personality in British Indian Army
- Ali Haidar , Syrian politician and minister
- Aminatou Haidar, Sahrawi human rights activist
- Dana Haidar, Jordanian taekwondo player
- Gul Haidar, former mujahideen commander and official in the Afghan Ministry of Defense
- Haidar Haidar, Syrian writer and novelist
- Mohamad Haidar, Lebanese football player
Hajdar
- Hajdar Blloshmi, Albanian politician
- Hajdar Muneka, Albanian journalist and diplomat
Haydar
- Ali, the cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, said to have been nicknamed "Haydar"
- Haydar Ergülen, Turkish poet
- Haydar Ghazi, second Wazir of Sylhet
- Haydar Hatemi, Iranian artist
- Haydar al-Kuzbari, Syrian military officer
- Haydar al-Sadr, Muslim Iraqi cleric and ayatollah
- Haydar Khan e Amo-oghli, revolutionary and military activist in Iran, Republic of Azerbaijan and Central Asia
- Haydar Zorlu, Turkish-German actor
- Sheikh Haydar Astrakhani, Khan of Astrakhan from 1538 through 1541.
- Sayyid Haydar Amuli, or Haydar al-'Obaydi al-Husayni Amoli, a Shi'ite mystic and Sufi philosopher
- Ali Haydar Şen, Turkish businessman
- Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Syrian Muslim jihadist and al-Qaida recruiter
- Darren Haydar, Canadian professional ice hockey
- Kamal Haydar, Yemeni short story writer
- Paula Haydar, American academic and translator
- Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar, Persian Sufi saint
- Shaykh Haydar, a religious leader of the Safaviyya from 1460-1488
- Sultan Haydar, Turkish female long-distance runner of Ethiopian origin
Haider
- Haider Al-Abadi, Iraqi politician
- Haider Ackermann, French fashion designer
- Haider Ali , all-round Pakistani Paralympic athlete
- Haider Ali , Pakistani Olympic boxer
- Haider Ali Kohari, military general and secretary of the Maratha king Shivaji
- Haider Aziz Safwi, Indian politician
- Haider Hussain, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter
- Haider Mahmoud, Jordanian-Palestinian poet
- Haider Nawzad, Iraqi rower. Also known as Haydar Nozad, Haidar Hama Rashid
- Haider Qureshi, Pakistani Urdu poet, writer and journalist
- Haider Rahman, Pakistani musician
- Haider Zaman Khan, Pakistan politician and administrator
- Abdulelah Haider Shaye, Yemeni journalist. Also known as Abd al-Ilah Haydar Al-Sha’i
- Ali Haider Khan, Nawab of Sylhet
- Ali Haider Multani, Sufi Punjabi poet
- Ghulam Haider Hamidi, Mayor of Kandahar, Afghanistan
- Ghulam Haider Wyne, Pakistani politician
- Khaqan Haider Ghazi, Punjabi poet
- Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bengali essayist, scholar of Bengali literature, educator and linguist of the Bengali language
- Nawab Ali Haider Khan, Indian politician
- Nawab Haider Naqvi, Pakistani economist and scholar
- Rafique Haider Khan Leghari, Pakistani politician, minister
- Shamim Haider Tirmazi, Pakistani author
- Afzaal Haider, Pakistani-born Hong Kong cricketer
- Ali Haider, Pakistani singer and actor
- Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austrian tennis player
- Ernst Haider, German painter and graphic artist
- Ghazi-ud-Din Haider, last nawab wazir of Oudh and first King of Oudh
- Ghulam Haider, music composer well known in both India and Pakistan
- Ilse Haider, Austrian artist
- Iqbal Haider, advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Co-Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Senator
- Izhar Haider, Urdu poet, social worker, broadcaster
- Jörg Haider, Austrian politician
- Maximilian Haider, Austrian physicist
- Michael Lawrence Haider, American petroleum engineer, business executive
- Moinuddin Haider, Pakistani general
- Nasiruddin Haider, second King of Oudh
- Rashid Haider, Bangladeshi author and novelist
- Sajjad Haider, Indian journalist media personality
- Shani Haider, Pakistani music producer
- Sepp Haider, Austrian rally driver
- Syed Afzal Haider, Pakistani politician
- Wasim Haider, Pakistani cricketer
- Zameer Haider, Pakistani international cricket umpire
- Zulqarnain Haider, Pakistani cricketer
Hayder
- Hayder of Crimea
Heydar
- Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
Hyder
- Hyder Ali, sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India
- Qurratulain Hyder, novelist writing in Urdu
- Jamie Gray Hyder, American actress