Feroze

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, 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
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