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