Mahdi (disambiguation)

• DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer
• Mahdi Falahati (born 1958), Iranian writer, political expert, television presenter and poet
• Mahdi Fleifel (born 1979), Danish-Palestinian film director
• Mahdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor

• Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis real name Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim (1954–2020), was an Iraqi leader, and commander of the Popular Mobilisation Committee
• Mahdi al-Arabi, Libyan brigadier-general who served under the Libyan Armed Forces
• Mahdi Amel, pen name and pseudonym of Hassan Abdullah Hamdan (1936–1987), Lebanese Marxist intellectual and militant
• Mahdi Bazargan or [[Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1995), Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government.
• Mahdi Dakhlallah (born 1947), Syrian politician and diplomat
• Mahdi Eraqi, or Mehdi Araghi (1930–1979), a founder of Fadayan-e Islam
• Mahdi Al-Gharrawi, Iraqi police officer, the former Commander of the Iraqi Federal Police in Nineveh Province, and Lieutenant General
• Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid, Somali politician, Vice President and then Acting Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia
• Mahdi Aliyu Gusau, Nigerian politician, deputy governor of Zamfara State
• Mahdi al-Hafez (born 1943), Minister of Planning in the Interim Iraq Governing Council cabinet
• Mahdi al-Harati (born c. 1973), Irish-Libyan politician and former co-commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan Civil War
• Mahdi Quli Khan Hidayat (1863–1955), Iranian politician, Prime Minister of Iran
• Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai (born 1955), Iraqi Shia Muslim scholar
• Mahdi al-Mashat (born 1986), Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement
• Mahdi Al Tajir (born 1931), Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United Kingdom
• Mahdi Tajik (born 1981), Iranian students’ activist, journalist and political prisoner

(includes contemporary religious personalities. For historical personalities, see Islam section on this page)

• Al-Mahdi Ahmad (1633–1681) Imam of Yemen who ruled 1676–1681.
• Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin Ahmed (1637–1718), also known as Ṣāḥib al-Mawāhib, Imam of Yemen who ruled in 1689–1718
• Al-Mahdi Abbas (1719–1775), Imam of Yemen who ruled in 1748–1775.
• Mahdi Puya or Ayatullah Agha Hajji Mirza Mahdi Puya Yazdi (1899–1973), Twelver Shi`a Muslim and an Islamic scholar
• Mahdi al-Modarresi (born 1977), Muslim scholar and lecturer

• Al-Mahdi Ali Mukhtar, Qatari footballer
• Mahdi Abdul-Sahib (born 1956), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Abduljabbar (born 1991), Bahraini footballer
• Mahdi Abu-Omar (born 1970), Palestinian American chemist
• Mahdi Afri, Moroccan visually impaired Paralympic athlete
• Mahdi Fahri Albaar (born 1995), Indonesian footballer
• Mahdi Ali or Mahdi Ali Hassan Redha (born 1965), Emirati footballer and sports manager
• Mahdi Camara (born 1998), French footballer
• Mahdi Ben Cheikh (born 1979), Tunisian volleyball player
• Mahdi Fahes (born 1994), Lebanese footballer
• Mahdi Houryar (born 1945), Iranian wrestler
• Mahdi Jassim (born 1956), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Javid (born 1987), Iranian futsal player
• Mahdi Kadhim (born 1967), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Kamil Shiltagh (born 1995), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi Karim Ajeel (born 1983), Iraqi footballer
• Mahdi El Khammasi (born 1987), Tunisian born-Qatari footballer
• Mahdi Houssein Mahabeh (born 1995), Djibouti footballer
• Mahdi Marandi (born 1986), Iranian volleyball player
• Mahdi Ouatine (born 1987), Moroccan amateur boxer
• Mahdi Salman, Iraqi basketball player

• Mahdi Abbaszadeh, Iranian philosopher and associate professor of epistemology
• Mahdi Abdul Hadi (born 1944), a political scientist, historian, columnist, author, founder and member of various Palestinian, Arab and international institutions
• Mahdi Agnelli born Edoardo Agnelli (1954–2000), eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat
• Mahdi Ahouie (born 1977), Iranian political scientist
• Mahdi Bray, born Wright Bray (born 1950), Muslim American civil and human rights activist
• Mahdi Elmandjra (1933–2014), Moroccan futurist, economist and sociologist
• Mahdi Ghalibafian (1935-2007), Iranian civil engineer and university professor
• Mahdi Gilbert (born 1989), Canadian professional sleight of hand card magician
• Mahdi S. Hantush (1921–1984), American hydrologist
• Mahdi Moudini (born Mahdi Moammer; 1979), Iranian illusionist
• Mahdi Khajeh Piri, founder of Noor International Microfilm Center, New Delhi and innovative of new methods of repair, pest and print of duplicate copy of same manuscripts

• Amir Mahdi Jule (born 1980), Iranian screenwriter and actor

• Ali Mahdi Muhammad (born 1939), politician and entrepreneur, president of Somalia in 1991
• Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi, Yemeni who was captured and transferred to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
• Muhammad Mahdi Kubba (1900–1984), Iraqi politician
• Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi (1844–1902), the supreme leader of the Sufi Senussi Order
• Salih Mahdi Ammash (1924–1985), Iraqi historian, writer, author, poet, politician and Iraqi army officer
• Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, King of Libya
• Sayyid Muhammad bin Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, Crown Prince of Libya

• Mohammed Mahdi Akef (1928–2017), head of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei (1901–1973), Iranian mystic, poet, translator of the Quran, and one of the grand Masters of the philosophical school of Tehran
• Mirza Mahdi al-Shirazi (1887–1961), also known as Grand Ayatollah Mirza Mahdi al-Husayni al-Shirazi, Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja
• Mulla Muhammad Mahdi Naraqi (1715–1795), Shia philosopher and theologian

• Mohammad Mahdi Jafari (born 1964), Iranian karateka
• Mohannad Mahdi Al-Nadawi, Iraqi footballer.

• Amèle El Mahdi (born 1956), Algerian professor of mathematics and writer
• Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (1953–2016), American-educated Iraqi scientist
• Mirza Mahdi Ashtiani (1888–1952), Man of wisdom, Mystic, Man of Literature, was a Great Master in the philosophical School of Tehran
• Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi (born 1967), Iranian electrical engineer
• Syed Mahdi Hasnain, Indian commanding officer

• Alexander Siddig or Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (born 1965), a Sudanese-born British actor

• Abbas Mahdi (born 1898), Iraqi politician and public servant
• Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (1885–1959), one of the leading religious and political figures during the colonial era in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898–1955), and continued to exert great authority as leader of the Neo-Mahdists after Sudan became independent. See also Ansar (Sudan)
• Abdirahman Mahdi, one of the founders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a political movement determined to allow the people of Ogaden to exercise their right to self-determination in the Horn of Africa and its current Chairman since 2019
• Abubakar Mahdi, Nigerian politician and Senator for the Borno South constituency of Borno State, Nigeria
• Adil Abdul-Mahdi (born 1942), Prime Minister of Iraq
• Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi, also known as Abu Tourab, member of Ansar Dine, a Tuareg Islamist militia in North Africa
• Ahmad Hamza Al-Mahdi, Libyan politician, member of the Presidential Council of Libya
• Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi, extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
• Imam al-Hadi al-Mahdi or Sayyid Hadi Abdulrahman al-Mahdi (1918–1971), Sudanese political and religious figure and leader of the Sudanese Ansar religious order and was also the uncle of fellow Umma party politician Sadiq al-Mahdi
• Khaled A. Mahdi (born 1970), Kuwaiti government official
• Mubarak al Fadil al Mahdi, Sudanese economist and politician
• Muhammad Mahdi Salih Al-Rawi, Iraqi politician and government minister
• Sadiq al-Mahdi (born 1935), Sudanese political and religious figure. See also Ansar (Sudan)
• Siddick Sayed el-Mahdi (1911–1961), Sudanese religious and political leader
• Sammy Mahdi (born 1988), Belgian politician, member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration

• Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi, Syrian Islamist cleric

• Ala Addin Mahdi (born 1996), Yemeni footballer
• Dhurgham Mahdi (born 1951), Iraqi footballer
• Hussain Mahdi (born 2000), Emirati footballer
• Khaled Mahdi (footballer) (born 1987), Palestinian footballer
• Saleh Mehdi, Kuwaiti footballer

• As Sayyid Al Imaam Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, better known as Dwight York, American musician, and writer who is known as the founding leader of various religious/political groups, including most notably the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors, a religious ministry/Native American tribe that has existed in some form since the 1960s. He is a kniown criminal and convicted child molester.
• Hadi al-Mahdi (ca. 1967–2011), Iraqi freelance journalist and radio talk show host
• Muhsin Mahdi (1926–2007), Iraqi-American Islamologist and Arabist
• Saudatu Mahdi (born 1957), Nigerian Women's Right advocate