Abdulhamid Bey Sharif Bey oglu Gaytabashi (Azerbaijani: Əbdülhəmid bəy Şərif bəy oğlu Qaytabaşı; 1884 - June, 1920) was the last Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic before its occupation by the Red Army in April 1920.

[14][15][16] By the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on June 25, 1919, he was promoted to the rank of major general.

While serving in the Ottoman Army, Abdulmecid Bey was a regiment commander, a position referred to as "Haytabaşı."

Abdulmecid Bey adopted the surname "Haytabaşı," which, upon moving to Tbilisi, was translated into Russian as "Gaytabaşı.

[28] According to documents compiled in 1890, he worked as a translator for Eastern languages in the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Office Department of the Central Headquarters of the Russian Army in Tbilisi.

In his second marriage, he wed Khadija Khanum, the daughter of landowner Mirza Aliagha from Shikhli village in the Kazakh district.

[8] In his 1923 book "The Azerbaijani Democratic Republic: Its Formation and Current Situation," Mahammad Amin Rasulzade called Abdulhamid Bey Gaytabashi a martyr for Azerbaijan's independence.

[29] General-Lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Army and Deputy Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic, Aliagha Shikhlinski, also wrote about Abdulhamid Gaytabashi in his memoirs.