Feroz or Firuz is a Persian name meaning 'victorious', derived from the middle Persian name Peroz or Piruz. Related names are Phiroze, Feroze, and Parviz. It may refer to:

People (historical)

* Peroz I (), Sasanian king of Iran * Peroz II (), Sasanian king of Iran * Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered the Sasanian queen of Iran Boran *

Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz Abū Luʾluʾa Fīrūz ( ar, أبو لؤلؤة فيروز; from ), also known as Bābā Shujāʿ al-Dīn ( ar, بابا شجاع الدين, label=none), was a Sassanid Persian slave known for having assassinated Umar ibn al-Khattab (), the se ...

(died 644), Persian slave who killed the second Islamic caliph Umar * Peroz III (636 – 679), son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king of Iran, who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor *

Firouz Firouz was a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam and armor maker who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government during the Crusades. Notably, he also served as a spy for Bohemond during the Siege of Antioch. Bohemond h ...

(), a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government. *

Ruknuddin Firuz Rukn-ud-din Firuz ( fa, رکن‌الدین فیروز), also transliterated as Rukn al-Din Firoz (died 19 November 1236), was a ruler of Delhi sultanate for less than seven months in 1236. As a prince, he had administered the Badaun and Lahore ...

(), ruled the Delhi sultanate for a short time *

Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji Jalal-ud-din Khalji, also known as Firuz-Al-Din Khalji or Jalaluddin Khilji (c. 1220 – 19 July 1296, ) ( fa, جلال‌الدین خلجی) was the founder and first Sultan of the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1290 to 132 ...

(), the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty *

Shamsuddin Firoz Shah Shamsuddin Firuz Shah ( fa, شمس الدين فيروز شاه, bn, শামসুদ্দীন ফিরুজ শাহ, ''Shams Ad-Dīn Firūz Shāh'') (reigned: 1301–1322) was the independent ruler of the Gauḍa (city), Lakhnauti Ki ...

(), independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom *

Firuz Shah Tughlaq Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.

(1309 – 1388), Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India * Alauddin Firuz Shah I (), ruled the Sultanate of Bengal for a short time *

Jam Feroz Nasir al-Din Abu al-Fatah Firuz Shah II ( Sindhi: نصيرالدين ابو الفتح فيروز شاھ ثاني), son of Jam Nizam al-Din commonly known as Jam Feroz (1508–1524/5), was the last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh. Jam Feroz pro ...

(), last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh *

Alauddin Firuz Shah II ʿAlā ad-Dīn Fīrūz Shāh ( bn, আলাউদ্দীন ফিরোজ শাহ, fa, ) was the son and successor of Sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah of Bengal. He served as a governor of Chittagong during his father's reign, and was a pa ...

(), three-month ruler of the Sultanate of Bengal * Pherozeshah Mehta (1845 – 1915), Indian Parsi politician and lawyer * Peruz Terzakyan (1866 – c. 1920), Ottoman Armenian kanto singer

People (modern)

* Fairuz, a Lebanese singer * Farooq Feroze Khan, a Pakistan Air Force officer * Feroz, nickname of Arsen Goulamirian (born 1987), Armenian born French professional boxer * Feroz (actor) (active from 1979), Indian actor in Hindi films * Feroz Abbasi, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba * Feroz Abbas Khan, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter * Feroz Ahmad, Indian historian and academic *

Feroz Khan Feroz Khan or Feroze Khan may refer to: * Feroz Khan (actor) (1939–2009), Indian actor and film director * Feroz Khan Noon (1893–1970), Pakistani politician and 8th Prime Minister of Pakistan * Feroze Khan (born 1990), Pakistani VJ, television ...

, an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director * Feroz Khan Noon, a politician from Pakistan * Feroze Gandhi, an Indian politician and journalist * Feroze Khan (field hockey), a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics * Firoz Khan, known as Arjun, Indian actor * Firuz Kanatlı Turkish businessman, founder of the Eti company. * Firuz Kazemzadeh, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University * Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin *

Pirouz Davani Pirouz Davani (1961–1998~) ( fa, پیروز دوانی) is, or was, an Iranian leftist activist and Editor-in-chief, editor of the ''Pirouz'' (Persian language, Persian: ''"Victorious"'') newspaper. He disappeared on 28 August 1998 while leaving ...

, an Iranian leftist activist *

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh (born 9 February 1946) is an Iranian political scientist and historian. He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He teaches geopolitics at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehr ...

, an Iranian political scientist and historian *

Piruz Dilanchi Pirouz Dilanchi ( az, Piruz Dilənçi; born Ali Ismayilfiruz, علی اسماعیل فیروز; May 1965 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Azerbaijani separatist leader. He has also written multiple poems and is the author of eight books in Azer ...

, Azerbaijani activist

Characters

* Feroz, a planeswalker in '' Magic: The Gathering'' * Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz

Places

* Firuz District, of Iran *

Firuz, Kerman Firuz ( fa, فيروز, also Romanized as Fīrūz; also known as Pādah Buland, Padeh Boland, and Pādeh Buland) is a village in Javaran Rural District, Hanza District, Rabor County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islami ...

, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Naushahro Feroze District, a district in Sindh, Pakistan **

Naushahro Feroze Naushahro Feroze ( ur, , sd, نوشهرو فیروز), is the capital city of Naushahro Feroze District in Sindh province of Pakistan. The district is located at 26°50'0N 68°7'0E with an altitude of 38 metres (127 feet). Naushahro Fero ...

, a town in Naushahro Feroze District, Sindh, Pakistan *

Piruz, Iran Piruz ( fa, پيروز, also Romanized as Pīrūz; also known as Fārī and Parī) is a village in Kamazan-e Vosta Rural District, Zand District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,157, in 310 families ...

, a village in Hamadan *

Piruzabad, Kerman Piruzabad ( fa, پيروزاباد, also Romanized as Pīrūzābād) is a village in Chahdegal Rural District, Negin Kavir District, Fahraj County, Kerman Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also cal ...

Piruzabad, Khuzestan Piruzabad ( fa, پيروزاباد, also Romanized as Pīrūzābād) is a village in Abdoliyeh-ye Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Ramshir County, Khuzestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Ira ...

Piruzabad, Golestan Piruzabad ( fa, پيروز آباد, also Romanized as Pīrūzābād) is a village in Kongor Rural District, in the Central District of Kalaleh County Kalaleh County ( fa, شهرستان کلاله) is in Golestan province, Iran ...

Piruzeh Piruzeh ( fa, پيروزه, also Romanized as Pīrūzeh; also known as Fīrūzeh) is a village in Zalu Ab Rural District, in the Central District of Ravansar County, Kermanshah Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of ...

, a village in Kermanshah Province

Film and television

* ''Feroz'' (film), a 1984 Spanish film * ''Feroz'' (telenovela), a 2010 Chilean telenovela

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