Sa‘id

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Sa‘id (also spelled Saeed, Saeid, Said, or Sayid, Arabic: سعيد‎, Sa‘īd) is a male Arabic given name meaning happy. For the female version, see Saida (name); for the Turkish variant, see Sait.

[edit] Given name

• Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer
• Saeid Alihosseini (born 1988), Iranian weightlifter
• Said Salim Bakhresa, Tanzanian businessman
• Said Bahaji, German al-Qaeda member
• Saeid Bayat (born 1976), Iranian football midfielder
• Saeid Davarpanah (born 1987), Iranian professional basketball player
• Saeid Ebrahimi (born 1982), Iranian wrestler
• Saeed al-Ghamdi, Saudi Arabian hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93 in the September 11 attacks
• Saeed Hanaei, Iranian serial killer
• Sa'id Hormozi, Iranian musician
• Sultan Said Khan, ruler of Kashgaria in 1514–1533
• Saeid Marouf (born 1985), volleyball player from Iran
• Saeed al-Masri, Egyptian al-Qaeda member
• Saeed Akhtar Mirza (born 1943), Indian film director
• Saeed Nafisi, Iranian scholar
• Saeed Naqvi, Indian journalist
• Said Nursî (1878–1960), Muslim Scholar from Turkey
• Saeid Pirdoost, Iranian actor
• Said Shavershian (born 1986), Australian bodybuilder
• Said Sheikh Samatar, Somali historian
• Said Ali al-Shihri, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda member
• Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1797–1856)
• Saïd Taghmaoui (born 1973), French actor
• Saeed bin Zaid (593–673), one of the Companions of Muhammed

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[edit] Abu Sa‘id

• Abu Sa'id (Ilkhanid dynasty) (1316–1335), ninth ruler of the Ilkhanate state in Iran
• Abu Sa'id (Timurid dynasty) (1424–1469), mid-fifteenth century Timurid Empire ruler in what are today parts of Persia and Afghanistan
• Khaled al-Hassan (1928–1994), known as Abu Said, Palestine Liberation Organization leader
• Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049), Persian Sufi and poet

[edit] Surname

• Abdelmadjid Sidi Said, leader of the Algerian trade union UGTA
• Abdulla Saeed (born 1964), chief justice of the Maldives
• Agha Saeed, chairman of the American Muslim Alliance
• Amina Said (born 1953), poet
• Boris Said (born 1962), American race car driver
• Brian Said (born 1973), Maltese footballer
• Edward Said (1935–2003), Palestinian-American literary critic and theorist
• Hakim Said, (1920–1998), Pakistani physician and scholar
• Samira Said (born 1961), Moroccan pop star
• Wafic Saïd (born 1939), Syrian businessman

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[edit] Fictional characters

• Sayid Jarrah, character on the television series Lost
• Kareem Saïd, character on the HBO drama Oz

[edit] Other uses

• Sa'idi people refers to the inhabitants of Upper Egypt. This term is not linked to the name Sa‘id, as they are two different Arabic words: the former is pronounced and spelled with a Ṣād (thus صعيدي) and the latter, a Sīn.

[edit] See also

• Sheikh Said (disambiguation)
• Syed, similar name with different pronunciation