Heydari (surname)
Heydari is an Iranian surname and given name. Transliteration variants include Heydary, Heidari, Haydary, Haydari, Heidary. The meaning of Heydari comes from an epithet for "lion" in Arabic. A surname of similar origin, known in the Indian subcontinent, Hyderi/Hydari, is derived from a similar given name Hyder. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Ahmad Ali Heydari, Iranian philosopher
- Andre Heidari, American football placekicker
- Ali Akbar Heidari, Iranian wrestler
- Alireza Heidari, Iranian wrestler
- Alireza Heidari (footballer), Iranian footballer
- Alison Heydari, British police officer
- Fatemeh Heidari, Iranian Wushu practitioner
- Gholamreza Heydari, Iranian engineer and academic
- Hadi Heidari, Iranian cartoonist
- Hamed Heidari, Iranian Paralympic athlete
- Hashem Heydari, Iranian footballer
- Hossein Heydari, Iranian footballer
- Ibrahim Haydari, Iraqi sociologist
- Iman Heydari, Iranian footballer
- Kamal al-Haydari, Iraqi Philosopher
- Kamran Heidari, Iranian documentary filmmaker, photographer, and writer
- Khosro Heydari, Iranian footballer
- Kioumars Heydari, Iranian soldier
- Majid Heidari, Iranian footballer
- Mobina Heidari, Iranian karateka
- Mohammad Heidari, Iranian footballer
- Mohammad Heydari, Iranian musician
- Mohammad Reza Heydari, Iranian consul
- Morteza Heidari, Iranian TV presenter
- Mostafa Heydari, Iranian volleyball player
- Nima Heidari, Iranian hockey player
- Omran Haydary,, Afghan footballer
- Payam Heydari, Iranian-American professor
- Reza Heydari, Iranian footballer
- Sepehr Heydari, Iranian footballer
- Shadieh Heydari, Swedish politician
Given name
- Haydari Tabrizi, poet in Safavid Iran and the Mughal Empire
- Abdul Rahman Heidari Ilami, Iranian ayatollah
- Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, Iranian ayatollah