Farshid (or Farsheed) is a Persian proper name. It consists from two morphemes, ''far'' (splendour, shine) + ''shîd'' (sun, sun beams). In this manner we could translate the Old Persian proper name Farshid/Farsheed as 'sunshine' or 'the splendor or the pomp of the sun'. This name is commonly used in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

People with the given name Farshid

* Farshid Bagheri, Iranian footballer * Farshid Delshad, Iranian linguist and writer who lives in Germany * Farshid Esmaeili, Iranian football player *

Farshid Guilak Farshid Guilak is an American engineer and orthopedic researcher. He is the Mildred B. Simon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis and director of research at Shriners Hospitals for Children. He is also on the fac ...

, American engineer and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University *

Farshid Jamshidian Farshid Jamshidian is a finance researcher, academic and practitioner. His experience covers both fixed-income and equity research and trading. Dr. Jamshidian has made important contributions to the theory of derivatives pricing, and has publi ...

, finance researcher and academic working in the United States and the Netherlands * Farshid Karimi, Iranian football goalkeeper * Farshid Manafi, Iranian radio presenter and producer * Farshid Mesghali, Iranian painter and book illustrator *

Farshid Moussavi Farshid Moussavi (born 1965) is an Iranian-born British architect, educator, and author. She is the founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA) and a Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Desig ...

, Professor of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design *

Farshid Talebi Jamos Parsa with the name of Sports Farshid Talebi (; born 24 August 1981) is an Iranian Singer and retired professional football player. Club career He served most his career in Zob Ahan and played six seasons at the club. He was in the List ...

, Iranian football player * Farshid fakhri, Iranian artist * Farshid Chini, Iranian scientist in the field of nanotechnology at University of Tehran

Fictional characters

*A character in ''

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' (, ), also transliterated ''Shahnama'', is a long epic poem written by the Persian literature, Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couple ...

'' (brother of Piran)

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