Feroze
# 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", 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

