Omid (name) explained
| Omid |
| Alternative Spelling: | Omeed or Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Origin: | Persian |
Omid (Persian: اُمید), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian and Kurdish male given name, meaning hope.[1] [2]
Given name
- 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
- 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
Other uses
- 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. 5 February 2019.
- Web site: Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Ladan Boroumand. Ushmm.org. 5 February 2019.
- Web site: Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. Human Rights & Democracy for Iran. 5 February 2019.
- Web site: Apache Omid – What is Omid?. Omid.incubator.apache.org. 2016-12-02.
- Web site: Introducing Omid - Transaction Processing for Apache HBase. Hadoop at Yahoo. 5 February 2019.
