Khorshid

For other uses, see Khurshid (disambiguation).

Khorshīd

Other names
Related names	Hurşit

Khorshīd or Khorshēd (Persian: خورشید [xoɾˈʃid], meaning the Sun or the "Radiant Sun"), also spelled as Khurshed and Khurshid, is a Persian given name. In the modern day as well as historical Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan, but also in Iraqi Kurdistan, Egypt, Central Asia and South Asia, it is mostly a given name for boys. The origin of the word is related to the Avestan divinity Hvare-khshaeta. In Turkish, it is sometimes written as Hurşit.

People

• Khurshid of Tabaristan (died 761), last Dabuyid ruler of Tabaristan
• Khurshid of Dailam (died 865), a Justanid king
• Khurshid Khan, fifteenth-century minister of Sylhet
• Hurshid Pasha (died 1822), Ottoman general and Grand Vizier
• Hurşit Güneş (born 1957), Turkish politician
• Khurshed Alam Khan (born 1919), Indian Congress Party senior leader
• Khurshed Mahmudov (born 1982), Tajikistani footballer
• Khurshed Nariman, Mayor of Mumbai (1935–1936)
• Khursheed Bano (1914–2001), pioneer film actress and singer of the Indian cinema
• Khurshid Ahmad (disambiguation)
• Hurşit Atak (born 1991) Turkish weightlifter
• Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (born 1941), Pakistani politician and diplomat
• Khershed Meherhomji (1911–1982), Indian cricketer
• Khurshid Rizvi (born 1942), Pakistani poet

Surname

• Khurshid Hasan Khurshid (1924–1988), first elected president of Azad Kashmir, Private secretary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Omar Khorshid, (1945–1981), Egyptian instrumental guitarist
• Salman Khurshid (born 1953), Indian Congress Party politician

Places

• Khorshid, Iran (disambiguation)

Other

• Khurshid TV, Afghan television station

See also

• Khorshid (newspaper)
• Khorshidi dynasty