Omid (), also transliterated as Omeed, Umeed or Ümit (Turkish equivalent), is a common Persian male given name, meaning hope. Given name Omid Abolhassani, Iranian football player banned for four years Omid Abtahi, Iranian-American actor Omid Djalili, Iranian-British stand up comedian and actor Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer Omid Kordestani, Iranian-American Google executive Omid Memarian, Iranian journalist and social activist Omid Namazi, Iranian-American soccer player Omid Nouripour, German-Iranian politician Omid Rahimi, American anatomist Omid Ravankhah, Iranian footballer Omid Safi, American religion academic Omid Tahvili, Iranian-Canadian criminal Omid Walizadeh, American underground hip hop producer Omid Shafiyi, a famous League of Legends player. Surname Ghazal Omid, Iranian-Canadian author Pierre Omidyar, French-born American entrepreneur and the founder of eBay Other uses Omid, first Iranian-launched satellite, launched on February 2, 2009 "Omid", an electronic database of human rights violations in Iran, acting as a memorial to the victims executed by the Islamic Republic since it was established in 1979. "Omid", a song on Thievery Corporation's album The Richest Man in Babylon Apache Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase M. Omid, pen name of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, notable contemporary Iranian poet References Persian masculine given names