Feroze
Introduction '''Firouz''' (; also spelled '''Farooz, Firuz''', '''Pirooz''', '''Firoz'''), '''Pirouz''' (, also spelled '''Pirooz''', '''Piruz''', '''Piroz'''), '''Feroz''' (Hindi/Urdu; also spelled '''Feroze''', '''Phiroze'''), '''Fayrouz''' (), '''Phiroj''', are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from Middle Persian '''Pērōz''' (Inscriptional Pahlavi: , Book Pahlavi: pyrwc), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous", mentioned as '''Perozes''' () in Latin and Greek sources. Notable figures with the name include:
People * Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644), Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar* Feroze Gandhi, an Indian politician and journalist* Firoz Khan, known as Arjun, Indian actor* 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* 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
Characters * Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
Other Pirouz (cheetah) Male Asiatic cheetah
See also * Feroz (disambiguation)* Piruz, Iran, a village in Hamadan
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