# Khalid

Khalid (variants include Khaled and Kalid; Arabic: خالد) is a popular Arabic male given name meaning "eternal, everlasting, immortal". It also appears as a surname.

## Notable persons
### Politics and military

* Khalid ibn al-Walid (died 642), Muslim military commander in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate
* Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1913–1982), the fourth king of Saudi Arabia
* Khalid bin Mohammed Al Angari (born 1952), Saudi politician
* Khalid Anwer (1938-2025), Pakistani lawyer and jurist
* Khaled al-Attiyah (born 1949), Iraqi politician
* Khalid Bakdash (1912–1995), leader of the Syrian Communist Party
* Khalid ibn Barmak (705–782), first prominent member of the Barmakid family
* Khalid Al Hud Al Gargani (1882–1971), Libyan royal advisor in Saudi Arabia
* Khaled al-Harbi (born 1963), associate of Osama Bin Laden
* Khalid Ibrahim (1946-2022), Malaysian politician
* Khalid Islambouli (1955–1982), assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
* Khaled Kelkal (1971-1885), affiliated with Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
* Khalid ibn Ahmad Al Khalifah (born 1960), current Foreign Minister of Bahrain
* Khaled Mashal (born 1956), Palestinian politician, former head of Hamas
* Khalid El-Masri (born 1963), German citizen detained and interrogated by the CIA
* Khalid al-Mihdhar (1975–2001), Saudi hijacker in the September 11 attacks
* Khaled Mosharraf (1937–1975), Bangladeshi war hero
* Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001), Nation of Islam member and Black Nationalist
* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (born 1964), terrorist claimed to be responsible for masterminding the September 11 attacks
* Khaled Qasim (born 1977), Yemeni citizen detained in Guantanamo Bay
* Khalid bin Mohammed Al Qasimi (1931–1972), assassinated ruler of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates
* Khaled Ben Mustapha (born 1972), former detainee at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
* Khalid al-Qasri (died 743), Umayyad governor of Mecca and Iraq
* Khalid Raad, Syrian economist and politician
* Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud (1937–2021), Saudi royal
* Khaled bin Abdullah Al Saud (born 1950), Saudi royal
* Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud (born 1951) (born 1951), Saudi royal

### Film, television, theatre

* Khalid Abdalla (born 1988), British actor
* Khalid Butt (actor) (1946-2024), Pakistani actor
* Khalid Gonçalves (born 1971), American actor
* Khaled El Sayed (born 1948), Lebanese actor and voice actor

### Music

* DJ Khaled (born 1975), American DJ, record producer and radio personality
* Khaled (musician) (born 1960), Algerian raï musician
* Khaleedthefirst (born 2001), real name Khalid Suleiman Chibuikem, Nigerian singer and songwriter
* Khalid (American singer) (born 1998), American singer and songwriter
* Khalid (Bangladeshi singer) (1963/64-2024), Bangladeshi singer
* Nazim Khaled (born 1986), French singer, songwriter and composer

### Sports

* Khaled Badra (born 1973), Tunisian football player
* Khalid Boulahrouz (born 1981), Dutch football player
* Khalid Duke (born 2001), American football player
* Khaled Fadhel (born 1976), Tunisian football player
* Khalid Kareem (born 1998), American football player
* Khalid Khan (born 1971), Hong Kong cricketer
* Khalid Khannouchi (born 1971), Moroccan American marathoner
* Khalid Lachheb (born 1975), French pole vaulter
* Khaled Mahmud (born 1971), Bangladeshi cricket player
* Khaled Mashud (born 1976), Bangladeshi cricket player
* Khaled Mouelhi (born 1981), Tunisian football player
* Khalidou Sissokho (born 1978), Senegalese footballer
* Khalid Skah (born 1967), Moroccan athlete

### Other

* Khalid (1930–1994), Indian novelist in Malayalam-language
* Khaled bin Sinan (520-588), historic figure of pre-Islamic Arabia, and a disputed prophet in Islam
* Khalid bin Mahfouz (1949–2009), Saudi Arabian businessman suspected of having links to terrorism
* Khaled Abou Al-Fadl (born 1963), professor at the UCLA School of Law
* Khaled Abu Toameh (born 1963), Israeli journalist
* Khalid Adem (born 1975), American convict
* Khalid Amayreh (1957–2023), Palestinian journalist
* Khalid Basalamah (born 1975), Indonesian preacher
* Khâlid-i Baghdâdî (1779-1827), Ottoman mystic founding the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi Sufi order
* Khaled Hosseini (born 1965), Afghan-American physician and author
* Khalid ibn Yazid (668-704), seventh century alchemist
* Khaled Mardam-Bey, Jordanian-born British programmer, creator of mIRC
* Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud (born 1978), Saudi entrepreneur and royal
* Khalid bin Talal Al Saud (born 1962), Saudi royal and businessman
* Khalid Sharrouf (born 1981), Australian Arab hate speaker and terror suspect
* Khalid, the true name of the character Claude from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
* Khalid (Baldur's Gate), one of the companion characters in Baldur's Gate

### Middle name

* Ahmad Khaled Towfeq (1962–2018), Egyptian novelist

## Surname

* Aisha Khalid (born 1972), Pakistani artist
* Amr Khaled (born 1967), Islamic preacher
* DJ Khaled (born 1975), Palestinian-American journalist and writer
* Hassan Khaled (1921–1989), leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community
* Leila Khaled (born 1944), member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
* Rehman Khalid (born 1993), Pakistani baseball player
* Waleed Khaled (died 2005), journalist killed by American soldiers during the Iraq War
* Ismael Khalid (born 2000), American-Somali influencer and Kick streamer known as Johnny Somali

## Notable animals

* Khaled (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
* Khaled 5, an Arabian horse noted as a major sire in the early 1900s