Haidar
Haidar ( Arabic حيدر, DMG Ḥaidar ) is an Arabic male first name and family name meaning " lion ". The Turkish form of the name is Haydar .
Well-known namesake
First name
- Sheikh Haidar (1459 / 1460–1488), head of the Shiite Safawiyya
- Haidar Abdul-Razzaq (* 1982), Iraqi soccer player
- Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (* 1939), Yemeni politician
- Haidar Al-Shaïbani (* 1984), Algerian-Canadian football player
- Muhammad Haidar Zammar (* 1961), German alleged al-Qaeda member
family name
- Ali Haidar (poet) (1690–1785), Pakistani Sufi poet
- Ali Haidar (General) (* 1932), Syrian officer
- Ali Haidar (politician) (* 1962), Syrian politician
- Ali Haidar (actor) , actor
- Aminatou Haidar (* 1966), Moroccan human rights activist
- Mohamad Haidar (* 1989), Lebanese soccer player
Others
- Burj Haidar , early Byzantine settlement in northwest Syria
- Haidar (Tulcea) , village in Romania