Heidar

• Heidar Aliev, third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from October 1993 to October 2003
• Heidar Arfaa, Conseiller d'État to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
• Aminatou Heidar, Sahrawi human rights activist and an advocate of the independence of Western Sahara
• Knut Heidar, Norwegian political scientist
• Heidar Moslehi, Iranian cleric and politician who served as the minister of intelligence from 2009 to 2013