# Hakim (name)

Hakim or Al-Hakim is a masculine given name from Arabic: حكيم ḥakīm "wise" or Arabic: حاکم ḥākem "ruler". Its Anglicized variant, especially in the United States, is Hakeem.

## Title

* Samir Geagea, known as al-Hakim, leader of the Lebanese Forces party
* George Habash, known as al-Hakim, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

## Honorific

* Hakim Noor-ud-Din
* Hakim Abdul Aziz
* Hakim Habibur Rahman
* Hakim Mohammed Said
* Hakim Syed Karam Husain
* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

## Patronymic

* Abu Abdullah al-Hakim Nishapuri (933–1012), Sunni scholar and traditionist of Khorasan
* Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim (1953–2009), Iraqi cleric and politician
* Sulayman ibn al-Hakam (died 1016), Umayyad ruler of Córdoba
* Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987), Egyptian dramatist, novelist and thinker

## Given name

* Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (c. 755 – 869), Sunni jurist and traditionist of Khorasan
* Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985–1021), Fatimid caliph (r. 996–1021)
* Hakim (Egyptian singer) (born 1962), Egyptian sha'abi singer
* Al-Hakam I (died 822), Emir of Córdoba
* Al-Hakam II (915–976), Ruler of Córdoba
* Hakeem Adeniji (born 1997), American football player
* Hakim Adi (living), British historian and scholar
* Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As (c. 600), father of Umayyad caliph Marwan I and uncle of Uthman ibn Affan
* Hakim Bey, pseudonym of Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945-2022), American writer
* Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (born 1999), Japanese runner of sprint
* Hakim ibn Hizam (fl. 600s), Meccan merchant
* Hakeem Jeffries (born 1970), American Congressman
* Hakeem Nicks, (born 1988), American football player
* Hakeem Noor-ud-Din (c. 1841 – 1914), Ahmadiyya leader and companion of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
* Hakeem Femi Gbajabiamila (born 1962), Nigerian politician
* Hakeem Olajuwon (born 1963), Nigerian-American retired basketball player
* Hakim Rawther (died 2013), Indian director and actor of Malayalam films
* Hakeem Seriki (born 1979), American rapper better known as Chamillionaire
* Hakim Toumi (born 1961), Algerian retired hammer thrower
* Hakim Abol Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi (940–1020), Persian poet and author of the epic Shahnameh better known as Ferdowsi
* Hakeem Valles, (born 1992), American football player
* Hakim Warrick (born 1982), American basketball player
* Hakim Ali Zardari (1930–2011), Pakistani tribal leader and father of former President Asif Ali Zardari
* Hakim Ziyech (born 1993), Moroccan footballer

## Family name

* Abdo Hakim (born 1973), Lebanese actor and voice actor
* Ayala Hakim, director of the technology division of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank, Israel, previously Brigadier-general of the Israeli Defence Forces
* Az-Zahir Hakim (born 1977), American football coach and former player, older brother of Saalim Hakim
* André Hakim (1915–1980), Egyptian-born film producer for 20th Century Fox, brother of Robert and Raymond Hakim
* Christine Hakim (born 1956), Indonesian actress, film producer, activist
* Imani Hakim (born 1993), American actress
* James Gita Hakim (1954–2021), South Sudanese-Ugandan internist, clinical epidemiologist, cardiologist, researcher
* Maximos II Hakim (c. 1689 – 1761), patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1760 to 1761
* Maximos V Hakim (1908–2001), patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1967 to 2000
* Nadey Hakim (born 1958), British surgeon
* Nasser Hakim (born 1960), Lebanese-born Curaçaoan businessman and politician
* Noel Hakim (born 1972), Franco-Lebanese Banker
* Naji Hakim (born 1955), the Lebanese-born composer and organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris
* Omar Hakim (born 1959), American drummer
* Peter Hakim, American economist of Lebanese descent
* Robert and Raymond Hakim (1907–1992) and (1909–1980), Egyptian-born, European film producers, brothers of André Hakim
* Saalim Hakim (born 1990), American football player, younger brother of Az-Zahir Hakim
* Weli-Ahmed Hakim, Finnish Tatar Imam
* Yalda Hakim, Australian journalist
* Hakim family of Iraqi Shiite clerics:
** Muhsin al-Hakim (1889–1970), the spiritual leader of the Shia world between 1955 and 1970
** Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim (born 1936), Shiite cleric
** Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (1939–2003), Shiite cleric
** Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (1953–2009), Shiite cleric and politician
** Ammar al-Hakim (born 1971), Shiite cleric and politician

## Fictional characters

* Doctor Hakim, a character in the 2021 video game It Takes Two