Fawaz

Fawaz (sometimes, Fawwaz) is a male, Arabic given name meaning "winner", "successful" or "prosperous". Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Fawaz Akhras, London-based Syrian cardiologist and father-in-law of Bashar Al Assad
• Fawaz Damra, imam who lived near Cleveland, Ohio
• Fawaz Gerges, academic, author, and network news analyst, with expertise on the Middle East
• Fawaz Gruosi, Lebanese-Italian jeweller and founder of De Grisogono
• Fawwaz Haddad, Syrian novelist
• Fawaz Al-Hasawi (born 1968), Kuwaiti businessman and owner of Nottingham Forest Football Club
• Fawaz Hussain (born 1953), contemporary Kurdish writer and translator
• Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdullah Mahdi, citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
• Fawaz Mando (born 1971), Syrian footballer
• Fawaz al-Nashimi (died 2004), member of Al-Qaeda, the 20th hijacker of the September 11th attacks
• Fawaz al-Rabeiee (1979–2006), al-Qaeda terrorist sentenced to death in 2004 by a Yemeni court
• Fawaz al-Rabihi, citizen of Yemen believed to have played a role in the terrorist attack on the MV Limburg
• Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Syrian professor of electrical engineering and computer science
• Fawaz Younis (born 1959), Lebanese skyjacker who was arrested and imprisoned by the United States
• Fawaz Zureikat (born 1955), wealthy Jordanian businessman

Surname

• Bilal Fawaz, also known as Kelvin Fawaz, UK-based Nigerian born boxer of Lebanese/Benin descent
• Fadi Fawaz George Michael’s partner
• Florence Fawaz childhood name of Australian soprano
• Khalid al-Fawwaz convicted member of al-Qaeda
• Leila Tarazi Fawaz, lebanese historian, director of The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (2001-2012)|]]
• Ramzi Fawaz, American academic of Egyptian descent