Hidayat

Hidayat or Hedayat is a given name and a surname of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:

• Ignatius Hidayat Allah (died 1639/40), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
• Shahzada Muhammad Hidayat Afshar, Ilahi Bakhsh Bahadur (1809–1878), the 23rd head of the Mughal Dynasty, born in Delhi
• Arief Hidayat (born 1956), the fifth and current chief justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia
• Cucu Hidayat (born 1983), Indonesian footballer
• Djarot Saiful Hidayat (born 1962), Indonesian politician
• Komaruddin Hidayat (born 1953), Muslim academic and intellectual from Indonesia
• Mahdi Quli Khan Hidayat (1863–1955), prime minister of Iran and an author of several books
• Mohamad Suleman Hidayat (born 1944), Indonesian businessman and politician from Jombang, East Java
• Muhyi ad-Din Muzaffar Jang Hidayat (died 1751), the ruler of Hyderabad from 1750 to his death in battle in 1751
• Rachmad Hidayat (born 1992), Indonesian professional footballer
• Shazia Hidayat (born 1976), Pakistani former track and field athlete
• Taufik Hidayat (born 1981), retired Indonesian badminton player
• Hidayat Inayat Khan (1917–2016), English-French classical composer, conductor, representative of the International Sufi Movement
• Hidayat Orujov (born 1944), writer and an Azerbaijani politician, Chairman of State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic
• Ghulam Hussain Hidayat Ullah (1879–1948), Pakistani politician from Sindh
• Hidayat Ullah (died 2024), Pakistani politician and a member of Senate of Pakistan, affiliated with Awami National Party
• Muhammad Hidayat Ullah (1905–1992), the eleventh chief justice of India and the sixth vice-president of India
• Hidayat Nur Wahid (born 1960), the Speaker of Indonesia People's Consultative Assembly 2004–2009
• Hidayat (poet), Azerbaijani poet and Aq Qoyunlu statesman
• Hedayat Amin Arsala (1942–2025), Afghan politician

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