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The Persian name Jamshid has been carried by several rulers, semi-legendary and fully historical, some more famous than others. The legendary Jamshid had a magical seven-ringed cup:
- They say the Lion and the Lizard keep,
- The Courts where Jamshid gloried and drank deep;
- And Bahram, that great Hunter— the Wild Ass,
- Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.
- — Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Takht-e Jamshid is the city of Persepolis.
- Sultan Jamshid succeeded his father Shamsu'd-Din but ruled Kashmir for just fourteen months before falling out with his brother. In an armed confrontation which ensued in the village of Vantipore, Sultan Jamshid suffered a defeat, following which his younger brother Sultan 'Alau'd-Din ascended the throne in A.D. 1347.
- Sultan Jamshid (Sultan Jamshid Qutb, Shah of Golconda (ruled 1543-50) was a legendary ruler of the Qutb Shahi, a Shia Muslim dynasty in the Deccan. Jamshid Shah's father Sultan Quli Qutb Shah was the first of the dynasty and lived to be over ninety years old. The rumor ran that his son Jamshid became so impatient to become ruler that he had his father stabbed to death while he was at prayer in the mosque. Sultan Jamshid left a handsome domed octagonal tomb for his monument.
- Sultan Sayyid Jamshid bin 'Abdullah, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1963—1964 (born at Zanzibar, September 16, 1929) was overthrown in the 1964 Zanzibar revolution.
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