Feroz or variants such as Firuz, Firuze, Peroz or Piruz (Persian, 'victorious') may refer to:
People with the name
Historical people
- Peroz I (r. 459–484), Sasanian king of Iran
- Peroz II (fl. 631), Sasanian king of Iran
- Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered the Sasanian queen of Iran Boran
- Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (died 644), Persian slave who killed the second Islamic caliph Umar
- Peroz III (636 – 679), son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king of Iran, who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor
- Firouz (fl. 1098), a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
- Ruknuddin Firuz (fl. 1236), ruled the Delhi sultanate for a short time
- Jalal-ud-Din Khalji, known as Firuz al-Din Khalji (r. 1290–1296), the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty
- Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, 13th-century Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin
- Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (r. 1301–1322), independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom
- Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah (r. 1397–1422), sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in India
- Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 1388), Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
- Firuz Shah Suri (r. 1554– ), 3rd ruler of the Sur Empire in India
- Alauddin Firuz Shah I (fl. 1414), ruled the Sultanate of Bengal for a short time
- Jam Feroz (r. 1508–1524/5), last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh
- Alauddin Firuz Shah II (fl. 1533), three-month ruler of the Sultanate of Bengal
- Pherozeshah Mehta (1845 – 1915), Indian Parsi politician and lawyer
- Peruz (1866 – c. 1920), Ottoman Armenian kanto singer
Modern-day people
- Fairuz, a Lebanese singer
- Farooq Feroze Khan, a Pakistan Air Force officer
- Feroz, nickname of Arsen Goulamirian (born 1987), Armenian born French professional boxer
- Feroz Abbasi, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
- Feroz Abbas Khan, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter
- Feroz Ahmad, Indian historian and academic
- Feroz Khan (disambiguation), several people
- Firuz Kanatlı Turkish businessman, founder of the Eti company.
- Firuz Kazemzadeh, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
- Pirouz Davani, an Iranian leftist activist
- Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian
- Piruz Dilanchi, Azerbaijani activist
- Dinshah Pirosha Madon, Indian judge
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Feroz, a planeswalker in Magic: The Gathering
- Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
- Firoze Contractor, a fictional character in the 2019 Indian film War
Film and television
- Feroz (film), a 1984 Spanish film
- Feroz (TV series), a 2010 Chilean telenovela
Places
- Firuz District, Iran
- Firuz, Kerman, Iran
- Feroz Shah Kotla, fort in Delhi, India
- Naushahro Feroze District, Sindh, Pakistan
- Naushahro Feroze, a town
- Piruz, Iran, a village in Hamadan
See also
- All pages with titles containing Feroz
- Firoza (disambiguation)
- Parviz, a related name
- Phiroze, a related name
- Feroze, a related name
- Piruzabad (disambiguation)
- Piruzeh, Iran
- Firoz Shah palace complex, archaeological site in Hisar, Haryana, India
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