Abdul Hamid
Abdul Hamid (Arabic: عبد الحميد ) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Ḥamid. The name means "servant of the All-laudable", al-Ḥamīd being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.
The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by e. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Hamid, Hameed, or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
It may refer to:
Males
Abd al-Hamid al-Katib (died 749), Umayyad official and Islamic scholar
'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk (fl. 830), Turkish Muslim mathematician
Abdul Hamid Lahori (died 1654), Indian traveller and court historian of Shah Jahan
Abdul Hamid Baba, Pashtun poet
Abdul Hamid I (1725–1789), sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Abdul Hamid (surveyor) (died ?1864), surveyor in Central Asia
Abdul Hamid II (1842–1918), sultan of the Ottoman Empire