Jawed

Jawed (also spelled Javaid, Javed, Javid, or Jawaid) is a male given name and may refer to:

Given name

• Javed Ali, Indian playback singer
• Mirza Ghulam Moinuddin Muhammad Javaid Jah Bahadur (born 1946), head of the descendants of Timurid Dynasty
• Javed Burki, Pakistani cricketer
• Javed Hashmi, Pakistani politician
• Javaid Iqbal, a justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former Chief Justice of High Court of Balochistan
• Jawed Iqbal, Pakistani journalist
• Jawed Karim, American computer programmer and co-founder of YouTube
• Javaid Laghari, chairperson of the Higher Education of Pakistan
• Jawed Ludin, Afghan diplomat
• Javaid Rahi (born 1970), an Indian poet, critic and scholar
• Jawed Siddiqi, Pakistani computer scientist

Surname

• Aaqib Javed (born 1972), a Pakistani cricketer and coach
• Aftab Jawaid, a former squash player from Pakistan
• Ajeet Javed, author who wrote a book on the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah called Secular and Nationalist Jinnah
• Amjad Javed (born 1980), a cricketer who has played one One Day International for the United Arab Emirates
• Behrouz Javid-Tehrani, an Iranian student arrested following the Iran student protests of July, 1999
• Burhan Javaid (born 1983), a Cambridge University graduate in Economics and a budding columnist from Pakistan
• Hamid Javaid (born 1947), a former Pakistan Army general, Chief of Staff to President Pervez Musharraf for six years (2001–2007)
• Huseyn Javid (1882–1941), a prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright of the early 20th century

See also

• Jaw
• 6262 Javid (1978 RZ) is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1978
• Hayat-i-Javed, the biography of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan by Altaf Hussain Hali, the great urdu poet who was also his friend and associate