List of Famous people named Mehdi

Mehdi Dehbi is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in La Folle Histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy, L'Infiltré (2011), Le Fils de l'Autre, Mary Queen of Scots (2013), and A Most Wanted Man (2014). In 2020, he played the title role in the Netflix series Messiah.

Mehdi Nebbou is a film actor born in France.

Mehdi El Mezouari El Glaoui, also known as Mehdi El Glaoui, is a French actor, director and screenwriter. He is the son of actress Cécile Aubry and Si Brahim El Glaoui, caïd of Telouet and grandson of Thami El Glaoui, pasha of Marrakech.

Mehdi Ben Sadok Nafti is a former Tunisian footballer and the current manager of Spanish club CD Lugo.

Mehdi Taremi is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Primeira Liga club FC Porto and the Iran national team.

Mehdi Embareck Zeffane is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for Russian club Krylia Sovetov Samara and the Algeria national football team. He plays primarily as a right-back, but has also been used as a left winger or left midfielder.

Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNPF) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference. An opponent of French Imperialism and King Hassan II, he "disappeared" in Paris in 1965. Many theories attempting to explain what happened to him were put forward over the years; but it was not until 2018 that details of his disappearance were established by Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman in his book Rise And Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. Based on research and interviews with Israeli intelligence operatives involved in planning the kidnapping of Barka, Bergman concluded that he was murdered by Moroccan agents and French police, who ended up disposing of his body.

Mehdi Baala is a French, middle-distance runner competing mainly in the 1500 metres event. Baala has won several major international championships medals in the 1500 metres event – an Olympic Games bronze, a World Championships silver, two European Championships golds and a European Indoor Championships bronze. Moreover, he has won several medals in the 1500 metres event of the European Cup, IAAF World Cup and the IAAF World Athletics Final. Baala is considered to be the best French middle-distance runner of all time. As of July 2013, he holds French national outdoor records for four distances and French national indoor records for four distances.

Mehdi Jean Tahrat is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for Abha and the Algeria national team. He can play as either a centre-back or a defensive midfielder.

Mehdi Abeid is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE Pro League club Al-Nasr and the Algeria national team.