Şehzade Mehmed Abid (17 September 1905 – 8 December 1973) was an Ottoman prince, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his wife Empress Naciye Hanım.

Prince Mehmed Abid was born in the Yıldiz Palace on 17 September 1905. His mother was Empress Naciye Hanım. At the overthrew of her father in 1909, the Abid followed his parents into exile at Salonica. They were living in Alatini Mansion. A year after he returned to Istanbul and settled in the Beylerbeyi Palace with his father. Abid was thirteen when his father, Abdulhamid II died. He educated at the Galatasaray and Habibiya Colleges, Constantinople. In 1923 his mother also died, when he was eighteen.

When the Ottoman Empire was dissolved in 1924, the royal family went into exile. Prince Abid wanted to settle in Egypt. However, King Fuad did not allowed the family to enter Egypt. He first went to Beirut, while his eldest brother Prince Şehzade Mehmed Selim, settled in Jünye. Prince Abid later went to Nice. There he stayed with his sister Princess Hamide Ayşe Sultan.

He later went to Paris and graduated from the Sorbonne Law School in 1936 and in the Faculty of Political Science in 1937. He also studied French Language and Literature from the Ecole Nationale des Langues Oriantales Vivantes. Between 1940 and 1948 he lived in Toulouse, Nice, Madrid, Lisbon, Cairo, Alexandria and Tirana. He was also appointed Albanian Ambassador to France.

He died at Beirut on 8 December 1973 and was buried in Damascus.

He married two times:

Devletlü Necabetlü Şehzade-i Civanbaht Sultan Mehmed Abid Efendi Hazretleri (The Illustarious, Noble, Prosperous Prince His Imperial Highness Sultan Mehmed Abid)

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