Feroze
For other uses, see Feroz (disambiguation).
Feroze (Persian: فیروز; also spelled Fayrouz, Firouz, Firoz, Piroz, Feroz, Firuz, Peroz, Phiroj, and Pirooz) is a common Persian masculine name meaning victorious, triumphant or prosperous. 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 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
- 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 Khilji, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khilji 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
Characters
- Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
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