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Khaldeh
Khaldeh, also written Khaldé and known as Khan Khaldeh, is a coastal archaeological site about 12 km south of Beirut, Lebanon, with a Phoenician necropolis of over 400 Iron Age tombs excavated by Roger Saidah.
Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak is an Emirati investor and government official who has led Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign investment fund, since 2002 and chairs Manchester City.
Khaled (خالد حاج إبراهيم) (musician)
Cheb Khaled (خالد حاج إبراهيم), Algerian raï singer born 1960 in Oran, nicknamed King of Raï; his 1992 album Khaled and single Didi made him the first Arabic-language artist in the French Top 10.
Khaled Ben Letaief
Khaled Ben Letaief is a Tunisian-born wireless communications researcher at HKUST, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for adaptive resource allocation work foundational to 4G cellular systems.
Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan
Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, eldest son of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, is Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi (appointed 29 March 2023) and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, chairing ADNOC's Executive Committee and Abu Dhabi's AI council.
Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi (خالد بن عودة بن محمد الحربي)
Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi (خالد بن عودة بن محمد الحربي), aka Abu Sulaiman al-Makki, born about 1963, is the Saudi militant imam seen with bin Laden on the December 2001 videotape; he fought in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya and surrendered in Tehran in July 2004.
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist and former physician, author of The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed, and Sea Prayer; UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador since 2006 and founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation.
Khaled Kayhan
Khaled Kayhan (خالد کیهان) is an Afghan keyboardist, composer, and producer, born in Kabul, the son of artist Arif Kayhan, and based in Hamburg, Germany, since 1992.
Khaled Mashal (خالد مشعل)
Khaled Mashal (خالد مشعل), born 1956 in Silwad near Ramallah, is a Hamas founder who chaired its Political Bureau 1996–2017, survived a 1997 Mossad poisoning attempt in Amman, operated in exile from Jordan, Syria and Qatar, and was EU-listed in 2026.
Khaled Yousef Al Shamlan
Khaled Yousef Al Shamlan, also written Khaled Alshamlan, is a Kuwaiti banker serving since January 2025 as Group CEO of Kuwait Finance House, one of the world's largest Islamic banks.
Khaleda Zia (খালেদা জিয়া)
Khaleda Zia (খালেদা জিয়া), born Khaleda Khanam Majumder, was Bangladesh's first woman elected prime minister, serving 1991-96, briefly 1996, and 2001-06, and BNP chairperson from 1984 until her death on 30 December 2025.
Khaleel Anderson
Khaleel M. Anderson is an American Democratic politician who represents the 31st district in Queens in the New York State Assembly, first elected in November 2020.
Khaleja (ఖలేజా)
Khaleja (ఖలేజా), also Mahesh Khaleja, is a 2010 Telugu fantasy action comedy directed by Trivikram Srinivas, starring Mahesh Babu, Anushka Shetty, and Prakash Raj, with music by Mani Sharma; a 2010 box-office failure that later became a cult classic.
Khalid Abdalla
Khalid Abdalla (born 1980, Glasgow) is a British-Egyptian actor and activist known for United 93, The Kite Runner, Green Zone, Dodi Fayed in The Crown, the Mosireen collective, and the solo play Nowhere.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (Harold Moore Jr., 1948–2001), American black nationalist, Nation of Islam spokesman under Louis Farrakhan, later New Black Panther Party chairman; notorious for the 1993 Kean College antisemitic speech and the 1998 Million Youth March.
Khalid Abdulrahman
Khalid Abdulrahman (خالد عبد الرحمن) is a Saudi singer-songwriter identified with Najdi song, the popular tradition of central Arabia, active since his 1988 debut album Sarhini.
Khalid Al Malik
Khalid Al Malik is a Dubai executive serving as Managing Director of Dubai Holding and CEO of Dubai Holding Real Estate, overseeing projects like Palm Jebel Ali and City Walk.
Khalid al-Baghdadi
Khalid al-Baghdadi (خالد البغدادي) was a Kurdish Sufi master who founded the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi order; born near Sulaymaniyya in 1779, he died in Damascus in 1827.
Khalid al-Mihdhar
Khalid al-Mihdhar, Saudi al-Qaeda member and muscle hijacker on American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11; one of two hijackers known to US intelligence beforehand, watchlisted only August 24, 2001.
Khalid al-Qasri
Khalid al-Qasri (خالد القسري) was a Umayyad governor who served Mecca under al-Walid and Sulayman, then governed Iraq for about fifteen years under Caliph Hisham until his dismissal in 738.
Khalid al-Shahrazuri
Khalid al-Shahrazuri (خالد الشهرزوري) was a Kurdish Sufi master, born around 1779, who founded the Khalidiyya branch of the Naqshbandi order and died of plague in Damascus in 1827.
Khalid Alkhudair
Khalid Waleed Al Khudair is a Saudi entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Glowork, a Riyadh employment platform for Saudi women, and the first Saudi Ashoka Fellow.
Khalid Almunif
Khalid Almunif is a Saudi proptech and fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Ejari, a Riyadh rent-now-pay-later platform, in 2022, after five years at the Public Investment Fund.
Khalid Ashmawy
Khalid Ashmawy is an Egyptian entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded the Dubai property technology company Huspy in 2020 and founded the neobank Munify in January 2025.
Khalid Hamid
Khalid Hamid, Pakistani field hockey left wing born 1962 in Gujranwala; won gold at 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and played at 1988 Seoul; PIA player, later coach and PIA manager in Qatar.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Khalid ibn al-Walid (خالد بن الوليد), also known as Khalid bin Waleed, was an Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, titled Sayf Allah, who won the Battle of Yarmouk in 636.
Khalid ibn Barghash
Khalid ibn Barghash (خالد بن برغش) was an Omani prince who seized the Zanzibar throne in August 1896, provoking the Anglo-Zanzibar War, one of the shortest wars on record.
Khalid ibn Barmak
Khalid ibn Barmak (خالد بن برمك) was an Iranian administrator from Balkh who headed the army and land-tax bureaus under the first Abbasid caliphs, dying around 780.
Khalid ibn Khidash al-Muhallabi
Khalid ibn Khidash al-Muhallabi (خالد بن خداش المهلبي) was a Basran hadith transmitter who settled in Baghdad, taught by Malik ibn Anas and Hammad ibn Zayd, and cited by Muslim in his Sahih.
Khalid ibn Lu'ayy
Khalid ibn Lu'ayy (خالد بن لؤي) was a sharif and tribal leader of Khurma who crushed the Hashimite army at Turaba in 1919 and became an early ally of King Abdulaziz.