Rashid

Rashid is the transliteration of two male given names; (Arabic: راشد‎, Rāshid) and (Arabic: رشيد‎, Rashīd).

The latter name has a diacritic, in the strict transliteration, on the "I", which emphasises the long "I" sound in that name's pronunciation.

Ar-Rashid is one of the 99 Names of Allah meaning The Guide.

Given name

• Rashid III ibn Ahmad Al Mu'alla, former ruler of Umm al-Quwain, part of the United Arab Emirates
• Rachid Arma, Moroccan footballer
• Rashid Baz, Lebanese convicted murderer
• Rashid Behbudov, an Azerbaijani singer
• Rachid Bouaita (born 1974), a French boxer
• Rashed Al Hooti, Bahraini footballer
• Rashida Jones, a movie actress of Jewish and African-American Descent
• Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian-American historian
• Al-Rashid of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco from 1666 to 1672
• Rashid Al Marikhi, a Sufi shaikh in Bahrain
• Rashed Naser, Emirati basketball player
• Rashid Nezhmetdinov, a Soviet chess player
• Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan athlete
• Rashid Rana, Pakistani visual artist
• Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
• Rashid Yasemi, Iranian poet

Surname

• Adil Rashid, English cricketer
• Amar Rashid, English cricketer
• Shaun Rashid, English cricketer
• Ahmad Baba Rachid, an Algerian musician
• Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani author and former revolutionary
• Amin Abu Rashid, Palestinian Dutch Hamas leader
• Ashraf Rashid, a Pakistani general
• Harun al-Rashid, a Caliph of Baghdad (lived 763-809)
• Al-Rashid (Abbasid Caliph), a Caliph of Baghdad (ruled 1135-1136)
• Karim Rashid, American industrial designer
• Khalid Rashid, Pakistani Guantanamo detainee
• Mohammad Rashed, Kuwaiti footballer
• Richard Rashid, American computer science researcher
• Tahir Rashid, British poet

See also

• Rashida
• Reşid
• Rachid
• Abdur Rashid