Firouz (; also spelled Farooz, Firuz, Pirooz, Firoz), Pirouz (, also spelled Pirooz, Piruz, Piroz), Feroz (Hindi/Urdu; also spelled Feroze, Phiroze), Fayrouz () and Phiroj are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from Middle Persian Pērōz (Inscriptional Pahlavi: , Book Pahlavi: ), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous",MAcKENZIE, D. (n.d.). A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (p. 68). Oxford University Press. mentioned as Perozes () in Latin and Greek sources.
Notable figures with the name include:
People Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz, also known as Firuz Nahavandi, 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 Firoze Manji, Kenyan activist and publisher 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), a male Asiatic cheetah
See also Piruz, Iran, a village in Hamadan
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