Arts and entertainment •
DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer •
Mehdi Ahmadi (1966–2026), Iranian painter, film actor and artist •
Mehdi Bagheri (born 1980), Iranian kamancheh player and composer •
Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist •
Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974), Iranian actor •
Mehdi Bozorgmehr (born 1971), Iranian musician and composer •
Mehdi Charef (born 1952), French-Algerian film director and screenwriter •
Mehdi Dehbi (born 1985), Belgian actor and theatre director •
Mehdi Favéris-Essadi (1977–2011), French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better known as
DJ Mehdi •
Mehdi Forough (1911–2008), Iranian scholar, author, dramatist, writer on dramatic arts and culture, translator •
Mehdi Ghadyanloo (born 1981), Iranian artist, painter, and muralist •
Mehdi Halıcı (1927–2008), Turkish writer of Kurdish origin •
Mehdi Hassan (1927–2012), Pakistani ghazal singer •
Mehdi Hosseini (born 1979), Persian composer of contemporary classical music •
Mehdi Khalaji (born 1973), Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst •
Mehdi Mousavi (born 1976), Iranian poet •
Mehdi Norowzian, Iranian-British film director •
Mehdi Pakdel (born 1980), Iranian actor •
Mehdi Rajabian (born 1989), Iranian musician •
Mehdi Sahabi (1944–2009), Iranian translator, painter and writer •
Mehdi Saki (born 1974), Iranian actor, composer and singer
Politics •
Mehdi Abrishamchi (born 1947), Iranian dissident and member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) •
Mehdi Azar (1901–1994), Iranian physician and politician •
Mehdi Bazargan (1907–1995), Prime Minister of Iran in 1979 •
Mehdi Ben Barka (1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965), Moroccan politician •
Mehdi Frashëri (1872–1963), Albanian intellectual and politician, former prime minister of Albania •
Mehdi Hashemi (1944–1987), Iranian cleric and senior official •
Mehdi Huseynzade (1918–1944), Azerbaijani guerrilla and scout during World War II •
Mehdi Jomaa (born 1962), Tunisian engineer and acting Prime Minister of Tunisia •
Mehdi Karroubi (born 1937), Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician •
Mehdi Noorbakhsh (born 1954), Iranian academic and political activist •
Mehdi Tabatabaei (1936—2018), Iranian Shia cleric and politician •
Mehdi Zana (born 1940), Kurdish politician from Turkey
Sports •
Mehdi Abdesmad (born 1991), Canadian-born American football player in the defensive end •
Mehdi Abdi (born 1998), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Abeid (born 1992), Algerian footballer •
Mehdi Abtahi (born 1963), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Baala (born 1978), French, middle-distance runner •
Mehdi Baghdad (born 1985), French mixed martial artist •
Mehdi Bazargard (born 1979), Iranian volleyball player •
Mehdi Beneddine (born 1996), French footballer •
Mehdi Bennani (born 1983), Moroccan racing driver •
Mehdi Bouadla (born 1982), French-Algerian boxer •
Mehdi Boudjemaa (born 1998), French footballer •
Mehdi Boukassi (born 1996), Algerian footballer •
Mehdi Bourabia (born 1991), Moroccan footballer •
Mehdi Carcela, or Mehdi François Carcela-González (born 1989), Belgian-born Moroccan footballer •
Mehdi Cerbah (1953–2021), Algerian footballer •
Mehdi Essoussi (born 2001), Tunisian footballer •
Mehdi Fonounizadeh (born 1962), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Ghayedi (born 1998), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Hafsi, also known as Mehdi Labeyrie (born 1978), French-born Tunisian basketball player •
Mehdi Haj Mohamad (1950–2025), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Haji Mousaei (born 2004), Iranian taekwondo practitioner •
Mehdi Hasan (cricketer, born 1990) (born 1990), Indian cricketer •
Mehdi Hasheminasab (born 1973), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Jannatov (born 1992), Azerbaijani footballer •
Mehdi Kadi (born 1994), French footballer •
Mehdi Khalil (born 1991), Lebanese footballer •
Mehdi Khodabakhshi (born 1991), Iranian-born Serb Taekwondo practitioner. •
Mehdi Lacen (born 1984), Algerian football player •
Mehdi Lehaire (born 2000), Belgian footballer •
Mehdi Léris (born 1998), French footballer •
Mehdi Leroy (born 1978), French football player •
Mehdi Mahdavikia (born 1977), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Mehdipour (born 1994), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Méniri (born 1977), Algerian footballer •
Mehdi Meriah (born 1979), Tunisian footballer •
Mehdi Momeni (born 1985), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi El Moutacim (born 2000), Finnish footballer •
Mehdi Nafti (born 1978), Tunisian footballer •
Mehdi Ouertani (born 1990), Tunisian footballer •
Mehdi Pashazadeh (born 1973), Iranian footballer and football coach •
Mehdi Rahmati (born 1983), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Salehpour (born 1975), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Sharifi (born 1992), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Tahrat (born 1990), Algerian footballer •
Mehdi Taj (born 1960), Iranian sports executive and administrator •
Mehdi Taremi (born 1992), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Terki (born 1991), Algerian footballer •
Mehdi Tikdari (born 1996), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Torabi (born 1994), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Torkaman (born 1989), Iranian footballer •
Mehdi Yaghoubi (1930–2021), Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler •
Mehdi Zamani (born 1989), Iranian sprint athlete •
Mehdi Zeffane (born 1992), Algerian footballer
Others •
Mehdi Aminrazavi (born 1957), Iranian scholar of philosophy and mysticism •
Mehdi Bahadori (born 1933), Iranian professor of mechanical engineering •
Mehdi Bayat (born 1979), French-Iranian businessman, president of the Royal Belgian Football Association •
Mehdi Dibaj (1935–1994), Iranian Christian convert from Shia Islam, pastor and Christian martyr •
Mehdi Golshani (born 1939), Iranian theoretical physicist •
Mehdi Ghezali (born 1979), Swedish bank robber •
Mehdi Hasan (born 1979), British-American journalist, broadcaster and author •
Mehdi Hasan (Pakistani journalist) (1937–2022), Pakistani journalist •
Mehdi Hasan Aini Qasmi, Indian Islamic scholar and social activist •
Mehdi Kazemi (born 1989), Iranian asylum seeker in the UK •
Mehdi Khalaji (born 1973), Iranian journalist •
Mehdi Khazali (born 1965), publisher, physician, blogger •
Mehdi Rabbani (died 2025), Iranian brigadier general •
Mehdi Sadaghdar (born 1977), also known as ElectroBOOM, Iranian-Canadian electrical engineer, YouTuber and comedian •
Mehdi Semsar (1929–2003), Iranian journalist and translator •
Mehdi Shahbazi (1942–2007), American businessman ==People with the middle name==