Farooq (also transliterated as Farouk, Faruqi, Farook, Faruk, Faroeq, Faruq, or Farouq, Farooqi, Faruque or Farooqui; ar, فاروق, Fārūq) is a common Arabic given and family name. ''Al-Fārūq'' literally means "the one who distinguishes between right and wrong."
Given name
Farouk
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Farouk of Egypt
Farouk I (; ar, فاروق الأول ''Fārūq al-Awwal''; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1 ...
(1920–1965), King of Egypt and the Sudan
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Farouk El-Baz
Farouk El-Baz ( arz, فاروق الباز, ''Pronunciation'': ) (born January 2, 1938) is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. ...
(born 1938), scientist
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Farouk Hosny (born 1938), painter
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Farouk Janeman (1953–2013), Fijian athlete
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Farouk Kaddoumi
Farouk al-Kaddoumi (alternative transliteration: Faruq al-Qaddumi; ar, فاروق القدومي; born 18 August 1931), also known by his kunya, Abu al-Lutf, was until 2009 Secretary-General and between 2004 and 2009 Chairman of Fatah's centr ...
(born 1931), Palestinian leader
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Farouk Kamoun
Farouk Kamoun (born October 20, 1946) is a Tunisian computer scientist and professor of computer science at the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI) of Manouba University, Tunisia. He contributed in the late 1970s to significant rese ...
(born 1946), Tunisian scientist
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Farouk Lawan
Farouk Muhammad Lawan (born 6 July 1962) is a Nigerian politician and four-term (since 1999) member of the House of Representatives for the Bagwai/ Shanono Federal Constituency of Kano State.
Education and personal life
Lawan is a graduate o ...
(born 1962), Nigerian politician
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Farouk Seif Al Nasr
Farouk Seif Al Nasr (14 December 1922 – 31 December 2009) was an Egyptian politician who served as justice minister in different cabinets during Husni Mobarak's term.
Early life and education
Nasr was born on 14 December 1922. He received a ba ...
(1922–2009), Egyptian politician
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Farouk Shami
Farouk Shami is a Palestinian-American businessman and founder of the hair-care and spa products company, Farouk Systems located in Texas. , Palestinian-American businessman
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Farouk al-Sharaa
Farouk al-Sharaa ( ar, فاروق الشرع; born 10 December 1938) is a Syrian politician and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent officials in the Syrian government and served as foreign minister of Syria from 1984 until 2006 when he bec ...
(born 1938), Syrian politician
Farooq
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Farooq Abdullah
Farooq Abdullah (born 21 October 1937) is an Indian politician who was Ex. President of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. He has served as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on several occasions since 1982, and as the union minister f ...
(born 1937), Indian politician
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Farooq Kathwari
Farooq Kathwari (born 1944) is an Indian-American businessman who is currently the CEO of Ethan Allen.
Life
Kathwari moved to the United States from Kashmir, India in 1965. He is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive officer of Ethan Al ...
, United States businessman
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Farooq Kperogi
Farooq Adamu Kperogi (born 1973), is a Nigerian-American professor, author, media scholar, newspaper columnist, blogger and activist. He was a reporter and news editor at many Nigerian newspapers including the ''Daily Trust'', ''Daily Triumph'' an ...
, Nigerian academic
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Farooq Leghari
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari ( ur, ; 29 May 194020 October 2010), was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He is the first Baloch to have been elected ...
(1940–2010), eighth President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 until December 2, 1997
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Farooq Naek
Farooq Hamid Naek ( ur, ; b. 1 July 1947 also spelled Farooq H. Naik), is a Pakistani politician and lawyer, who served as the Chairman Senate, Minister of Law as well as headed the Ministry of Justice in the government led by Prime Minist ...
(born 1950), Pakistani lawyer
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Farooq Sheikh (1948–2013), Indian actor
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Farooq Shah
Farooq Shah ( ur, فاروق شاہ; born on 19 October 1985) is a Pakistani footballer, who plays for as a striker for National Bank.
Shah plays as a midfielder and striker. He earned his first international cap during the Indo-Pak se ...
(born 1985), Pakistani footballer
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Faarooq
Ronald Nasir Simmons (born May 15, 1958) is an American retired professional wrestler and football player. He performed for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) under his real name, and in the World Wres ...
, ring name of professional wrestler Ron Simmons (born 1958)
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Farooque (born 1948), Bangladeshi actor
Farooqi
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Muhammed Sharif al-Faruqi Lieutenant Muhammed Sharif al-Faruqi (1891 - 1920; Arabic: محمد شريف الفاروقي) was an Arab Ottoman staff officer from Mosul. He was stationed in Damascus and played a pivotal role in the events leading up to the Arab Revolt.
He was ...
Responsible for initiating Arab revolt from the Ottomans.
Faruk
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Faruk Cömert General Faruk Cömert, 26th Commander of the Turkish Air Force, was born in the Vezirköprü district of Samsun Province, Turkey, in 1946.
He began his military career when he entered the Air Force High School in 1960. Cömert graduated from the ...
(born 1946), Turkish military officer
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Faruk Çelik
Faruk Çelik (born 17 January 1956) is a Turkish politician and a Member of Parliament for Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative ...
(born 1956), Turkish politician
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Faruk Gül
Faruk R. Gül is a Turkish American economist, a professor of economics at Princeton University and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Gül did his undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986,< ...
, Turkish and American economist and academic
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Faruk Sükan
Faruk Sükan (1921 – 3 January 2005) was a Turkish physician, politician and government minister.
Biography
Sükan was born in Karaman. In 1946, he graduated from the School of Medicine at Istanbul University. After practicing as a Doctor of ...
(1921–2005), Turkish physician and politician
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Faruk Süren
Faruk Süren (born 1945) is a Turkish of Aramean (Syriac) origin businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
Süren was born in Istanbul as Faruk Sürenyan. He went to Deutsche Schule Istanbul and graduated from a G ...
(born 1945), Turkish businessman
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Faruk Türünz (born 1944), Turkish luthier
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Faruk Yiğit
Faruk Yiğit (born 15 April 1968 in Trabzon) was a Turkish association football, football player.
He played for several clubs, including Orhangazi Gençlerbirliği, Yalovaspor, Boluspor, Kocaelispor, Fenerbahçe, Ankaragücü and Diyarbakırspor ...
(born 1968), Turkish footballer
Surname
Farouk
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Bakhtier Farouk, engineer and published author
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El Amry Farouk
El Amry Farouk is an Egyptian businessman and Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge for ...
, Egyptian businessman and politician
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Nabil Farouk (1956–2020), Egyptian novelist
Farook
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Hunais Farook
Unaiz Farook (born 15 March 1973) is a Sri Lankan politician who represents the Vanni multi-member electoral district in the Sri Lankan Parliament. He is a member of the United People's Freedom Alliance
The United People's Freedom Alliance ...
(born 1973), a
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
n politician
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Syed Rizwan Farook (1987–2015), a perpetrator of the
2015 San Bernardino attack
Farooq
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Mohammad Farooq or Muhammad Farooq, several people
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Mohammad Farooq (cricketer, born 1938)
Mohammad Farooq (born 8 April 1938) is a former Pakistani international cricketer who played in seven Test matches between 1960 and 1965.
Cricket career
Mohammad Farooq was one of Pakistan's fastest bowlers in the 1960s, but his career was sho ...
, Pakistani cricketer
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Muhammad Farooq Khan
Muhammad Farooq Khan was a Pakistani psychiatrist, scholar of Islam and vice-chancellor of University of Swat.
He was known for his opposition to Islamist militancy and described suicide attacks as un-Islamic. Due to his views, he was assassinat ...
(1956–2010), Pakistani psychiatrist
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Muhammad Farooq (journalist)
Muhammad Farooq ( ur, ) is a journalist, Qāriʾ, Qari, Naat Khawan and newscaster from Pakistan. He also worked as Joint Executive Editor Daily Mashriq Quetta. Nowadays he is working in Daily Pakistan Lahore as a News Editor. He also had work ...
(fl. 1991–2006), Pakistani journalist and Naat Khawan
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Mir Waiz Umar Farooq, Kashmiri separatist leader.
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See also
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Al-Farooq (disambiguation) Al-Farooq (also spelled El-Farouk, Al Farouk or Al-Faruq) may refer to:
People
*Umar, Muslim caliph and companion of Muhammad, known as Al-Faruq ("Distinguisher between truth and false")
* Farooqi and Farooq, surnames
** ''Al-Farooq'' (book), bio ...
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Farook College, Calicut
Farook College is a government-aided, autonomous, arts and science college located in Feroke near Calicut, Kerala, India. It is the largest residential post-graduate aided institution in Kerala affiliated to the University of Calicut; it was ...
Arabic-language surnames
Arabic masculine given names
Turkish masculine given names