Feroze

Firouz (Persian: فیروز‎; also spelled Farooz, Firuz, Pirooz, Firoz), Pirouz (Persian: پیروز‎, also spelled Pirooz, Piruz, Piroz), Feroz (Hindi/Urdu; also spelled Feroze, Phiroze), Fayrouz (Arabic: فيروز‎), Phiroj, are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from Middle Persian Pērōz (Inscriptional Pahlavi: 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, Book Pahlavi: ), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous",[1] mentioned as Perozes (Περόζης) in Latin and Greek sources.

Notable persons with the name include:

People
  • Feroze Gandhi, an Indian politician and journalist
  • Feroz Khan, an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director
  • Feroze Khan (field hockey), a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics
  • Feroz Abbasi, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
  • Feroz Khan Noon, a politician from Pakistan
  • Feroz Abbas Khan, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter
  • Firouz – a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
  • Firuz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–1388 CE), a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
  • Firuz Kanatlı Turkish businessman, founder of Eti.
  • Firuz Kazemzadeh, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
  • Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin
  • Peroz I, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484
  • Peroz II, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD
  • Piruz Khosrow, Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran
  • Peroz III, exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor
  • Piruz Nahavandi, Sasanian soldier and the assassin of Caliph Umar
  • Peruz Terzekyan, b. Sivas 1866, a kanto singer
  • Pirouz Davani, an Iranian leftist activist
  • Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian
  • Farooq Feroze Khan, a Pakistan Air Force officer
  • Jam Feroz, the last ruler of the Samma dynasty of Sindh
  • Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty
  • Alauddin Firuz Shah I, the son and successor of sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah
  • Alauddin Firuz Shah II, the son and successor of sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah
  • Rukn ud din Firuz, a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India
  • Fairuz, a Lebanese singer
  • Pherozeshah Mehta
  • Shamsuddin Firoz Shah, Sultan of Bengal from 1301 to 1322
  • Firoz Khan, young leader and businessman, at present Aligarh, India

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Characters

See also
  • Feroz (disambiguation)
  • Piruz, Iran, a village in Hamadan

References
  1. MAcKENZIE, D. (n.d.). A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (p. 68). Oxford University Press.
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