Omid (name)

OmidGender| Male

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Origin
Word/name| Persian
Other names
Alternative spelling| Omeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent)

Omid (Persian: اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian, Turkish, and Kurdish male given name, meaning hope.[1][2]

## Given name

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* Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years
* Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor
* Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand-up comedian and actor
* Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer
* Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive
* Omeed Malik, Iranian-American businessman
* Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist
* Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player
* Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician
* Omid Rahimi, American anatomist
* Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer
* Omid Safi, American religion academic
* Omid Scobie, British journalist and writer
* Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal
* Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer

## Surname

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* Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author
* Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay

## Other uses

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* Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009
* "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979.[3]
* "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon
* Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase[4][5]
* M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet

## References

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1. ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
2. ^ "Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
3. ^ "Human Rights & Democracy for Iran". Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
4. ^ "Apache Omid – What is Omid?". Omid.incubator.apache.org. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
5. ^ "Introducing Omid - Transaction Processing for Apache HBase". Hadoop at Yahoo. Retrieved 5 February 2019.

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