''Fāʾiz'' () is a male Arabic name meaning "successful" and "victorious" overflowing, plenty. It is derived from its root word ''Faʾz'' ( which means "successful".

People with the name

Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara Faiz Muhammad Kāteb ( prs, فیض‌محمد کاتب) also known as Kāteb () was a contemporary writer and historian. He was Afghan court chronicler, a skilled calligrapher and secretary to Habibullah Khan from 1901 to 1919.Kitab-e Tadakkor-e ...

(1862/63–1929), a Hazara historian, writer and intellectual * Faiz El-Ghusein (1883–1968), an official of the Turkish Government *

Faiz Ahmad Faiz Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Outsi ...

(1911–1984), a Pakistani

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, known by some as Khatib ul Islam, was a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar, orator, poet, and writer. Political and social contribution He was president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan for ten years, and struggled to establi ...

(1911–1984), a Pakistani Islamic religious scholar * Haji Faiz Mohammed (1932-), an Afghan man who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. *

Faiz Ahmad Faiz Ahmad (1946 – 12 November 1986) ( fa, فیض احمد) was an Afghan revolutionary and the founding leader of the Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO), a Marxist–Leninist organization established in Kabul. Biography Ahmad was ...

(1946–1986), an Afghan Marxist–Leninist * Faiz al-Hasan, Bangladeshi politician * Faiz Karizi (1953-), an Afghan singer *

Faiz Ali Faiz Faiz Ali Faiz (Urdu: فیض علی فیض; born in 1962 in Sharaqpur, Pakistan) is a well-known Pakistani qawwali singer. Faiz was born into a family of seven generations of qawwals. He studied classical music with ''Ustad Ghulam Shabir Khan'' a ...

(1962–), a Pakistani

qawwali Qawwali (Punjabi language, Punjabi: (Shahmukhi), (Gurmukhi); Urdu: (Nastaʿlīq, Nasta'liq); Hindi: क़व्वाली (Devanagari); Bengali language, Bengali: কাওয়ালি (Bengali alphabet, Bengali)) is a form of Sufi Isl ...

singer * Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (1967–), a British Muslim scholar *

Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari Faiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari (born 3 June 1977) is a Kuwaiti citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba, from 2002 to 2016. He has never been charged with war crimes. The US D ...

(1975-), a Kuwaiti citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 * Valiullah Faiz Mahdavi (1978–2006), an Iranian political prisoner * Ahmed Faiz (1979–), a Saudi Arabian long jumper *

Faiz Khaleed Faiz bin Khaleed (born September 15, 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a Malaysian military dentist with the Malaysian Armed Forces. In September 2006, he was selected as one of two final candidates to undergo astronaut training in Star City ...

(1980–), a Malaysian military dentist, astronaut *

Faiz Fazal Faiz Yakub Fazal (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Vidarbha cricket team and Lisburn Cricket Club (NCU Premier League, Northern Ireland, UK), having previously played for Central Zone, India Red, India Under-19s, ...

(1980–), an Indian cricketer

Nobility and royalty

The name is particularly common among the royal and noble houses of South Asia. Sovereigns: *

Al-Faiz Abūʾl-Qāsim ʿĪsā ibn al-Ẓāfir ( ar, أبو القاسم عيسى بن الظافر; 1149–1160), better known by his regnal name al-Fāʾiz bi-Naṣr Allāh (), was the thirteenth and penultimate Fatimid caliph, reigning in Egypt from 1 ...

(1149–1160), a

Caliph A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...

of the

Fatimid dynasty The Fatimid dynasty () was an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty of Arab descent that ruled an extensive empire, the Fatimid Caliphate, between 909 and 1171 CE. Claiming descent from Fatima and Ali, they also held the Isma'ili imamate, claiming to be the r ...

* Nawab Faiz Ali Khan (Banganapalle), Nawab of Baganapalle (1686–1759) * Nawab Faiz Ali Khan, Nawab of

Jhajjar Jhajjar is a town in Jhajjar district in the Indian state of Haryana. The city is situated on the road connecting Rewari to Rohtak (NH-352), Loharu to Meerut (NH334B), Charkhi Dadri to Delhi and Gurgaon to Bhiwani. Jhajjar is located west o ...

* Nawab Faiz Muhammad Khan, Nawab of Dadri * Emir Faiz Muhammad Khan, Emir of Khairpur (r.1894-1909) * Emir Faiz Muhammad Khan II, Emir of Khairpur (r.1935-1947) * Nawab Faiz Talb Khan, Nawab of Junagadh * Nawab Faiz Muhammad Khan, Nawab of

Bhopal Bhopal (; ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes'' due to its various natural and artificial lakes. It i ...

(r.1742-1777) * Nawab Faiz Talb Khan, Nawab of Pataudi * Nawab Faiz'Ullah Khan,

Nawab of Rampur Rampur State was a 15 gun-salute princely state of British India. It came into existence on 7 October 1774 as a result of a treaty with Oudh. Following independence in 1947, Rampur State and other princely states of the area, such as Bena ...

Princes and nobles: * Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra, the Crown Prince of Kelantan * Nawab Faiz ud Din Khan, Emir of Paigah * Faiz Beg Najm-i-Sani * Nawab Faiz Ali Khan Bahadur of

Kotah Kota (), previously known as ''Kotah'', is a city located in the southeast of northern Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located about south of the state capital, Jaipur, situated on the banks of Chambal River. With a population of over 1.2 m ...

* Nawab Mir Faiz Ali Khan of

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...

* Sahibzada Faiz Muhammad Khan of Tonk * Mirza Faiz'ullah Beg Khan Bahadur of

Loharu Loharu (also known as Luharu) is a city, municipal committee and assembly constituency in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarters of one of the four administrative sub-divisions of the distric ...

* Faiz'ullah Khan of

Malerkotla Malerkotla is a city and district headquarters of Malerkotla district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was the seat of the eponymous princely state during the British Raj. The state acceded to the union of India in 1947 and was merged with ...

son of Rasul Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Kasim Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Mehr Ilahi Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Imam Ali Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Mansab Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Barkat Ali Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Ali Khan of Malerkotla son of Shadal Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Hakim Khan of Malerkotla * Faiz Muhammad Khan of Malerkotla son of Karim Khan of Malerkotla * Khan Sahib Faiz' Ullah of Malerkotla son of Sahibzada Fateh Khan of Malerkotla * Khan Sahib Faiz Talib Khan of Malerkotla son of Sahibzada Fateh Khan of Malerkotla * Khan Sahib Muhammad Faiz Ali Khan of Malerkotla son of Sahibzada Himmat Khan of Malerkotla * Nawabzada Fateh Faiz bin Jung of Paigah * Mian Faiz Muhammad Khan of Bhopal State b.1840 * Sahibzada Faiz Rashid Khan of Bhopal * Sahibzada Faiz Muhammad Khan of Bhopal

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Nobility and royalty

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