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: فَرِيد ''fariyd'', ''farīd''), also spelt Fareed or Ferid and accented Férid, is an

masculine personal name or surname meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable". For many communities, including in the

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, the

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, and

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, the name Fareed is common across generations.

Given name

Farid

* Farid Abboud (born 1951), Lebanese Ambassador * Farid F. Abraham (born 1937), American scientist * Farid Ahmad (1923-1971), Bengali politician and lawyer * Farid Ahmed (born 1960), Bangladeshi High Court justice * Farid Ahmed Gopalganji, Bangladeshi MP * Farid Alakbarli (1964-2021), Azerbaijani researcher * Farid Ali (1945–2016), Bangladeshi actor *

Farid Azarkan Farid Azarkan (born 16 October 1971) is a Dutch politician who has been serving as the Leader of Denk since 26 September 2020. Additionally, he has been a member of the House of Representatives since 23 March 2017. Azarkan previously held the pos ...

(born 1971), Dutch politician of Moroccan descent *

Farid al-Atrash Farid al-Atrash (; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor. Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine with his mother and siblings, ...

(1910-1974), Syrian Egyptian singer, music composer, and actor * Farid ad-Din Attar (1145-1221), Iranian Sufi poet *

Farid Bang Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui (born 4 June 1986), better known as Farid Bang, is a German gangsta rapper and bodybuilder of Spanish- Moroccan descent. He’s from a part of Spain that’s on the North African coast, bordering Morocco. His pare ...

(born Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui in 1986), German rapper of Moroccan-Spanish descent * Farid Yu Darvishsefat (born 1986), Japanese baseball player of Iranian descent * Farid Gazi Dewan (1924–2010), Bangladeshi politician *

Farid Esack Farid Esack (born 1955 in Wynberg, Cape Town) is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-rel ...

(born 1955), South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar *

Farid Dieck Farid Dieck Kattás (born April 26, 1993), known simply as Farid Dieck, is a Mexican writer, speaker, musician, internet personality, and psychologist. Early life Farid Dieck was born in Monterrey, on April 26, 1993, the youngest of five siblin ...

(born 1993), Mexican psychologist, writer, and internet personality *

Farid Ghadry Farid Al-Ghadry (Arabic: فريد الغادري) (born June 18, 1954) is the Syrian-born co-founder and current president of the United States–based Reform Party of Syria, a party lobbying for regime change in Syria. Al-Ghadry has been compar ...

(born 1954), Syrian political activist *

Farid Habib Farid Ishak Habib (; 8 January 1935 – 31 May 2012) was a Lebanese politician and a member of the Lebanese Forces party. He was a member of the Strong Republic bloc in the Lebanese Parliament as a representative of Koura district since t ...

(born 1959), 13th Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Navy *

Farid Kamil Farid Kamil Zahari (born 5 May 1981) is a Malaysian actor, director and screenwriter. He is a well-known male model turned actor who has made a big reputation of himself as one of Malaysia's most famous actors since Rosyam Nor in the 1990s fo ...

(born 1981), Malaysian male model turned actor *Farid Khan, birth name of

Sher Shah Suri Sher Shah Suri (born Farid al-Din Khan; 1472 or 1486 – 22 May 1545), also known by his title Sultan Adil (), was the ruler of Bihar from 1530 to 1540, and Sultan of Hindustan from 1540 until his death in 1545. He defeated the Mughal Empire, ...

(died 1545), king of the Sur Empire in present-day India *

Farid Mansurov Farid Mansurov () (born May 10, 1982 in Dmanisi, Georgia) is an Azerbaijani wrestler, gold medalist of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Greco-Roman wrestling at 66 kg. He retired in 2010, after conceding jaw injury during 2010 European ...

(born 1982), Azerbaijani wrestler *

Farid Mukhametshin Farid Khayrullovich Mukhametshin (born 22 May 1947) is a Russian politician and a former prime minister of Tatarstan. He is an ethnic Tatar. Biography Mukhametshin was born 22 May 1947 in Almetyevsk, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. ...

(born 1947), Tatarstani politician *

Farid Raphaël Farid Raphaël (1933–2014) was a Lebanese economist and banker. He was the founder, chairman and general manager of the Banque Libano-Française (BLF). Early life and education He was born Farid Élias Raphaël in Dlebta, Lebanon, on 28 O ...

(1933–2014), Lebanese economist and banker *

Farid Shawki Farid Shawqi Mohammad Abdou Shawqi () (July 30, 1920 in El Sayyeda Zainab – July 27, 1998 in Maadi); known as Farid Shawqi () was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer. He acted in 351 films, 27 plays and 17 television series; ...

(1920-1998), Egyptian actor *

Farid Stino Dr. Farid Kamal Ramzi Stino is an Egyptian scientist, scholar, and entrepreneur who was born in Cairo, Egypt on September 1, 1943. He is the son of Dr. Kamal Ramzi Stino, the late Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt under Nasser's regime, and Lady Far ...

(born 1943), Egyptian businessman *

Farid Suleman Farid Suleman has been a director of Fairway Group Holdings since 2012. Before that, he was the chairman and CEO of Citadel Broadcasting from March 2002 until the company's acquisition by Cumulus Media in 2011. He previously spent 16 years ...

, American businessman *

Farid Talhaoui Farid Talhaoui (born 10 February 1982) is a Moroccan football (soccer), footballer. International career He was part of the Moroccan 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group D, be ...

(born 1982), Moroccan football player

Fahrid

* Fahrid Murray Abraham (born 1939), American actor

Fareed

* Fareed Ahmad (cricketer) (born 1994), Afghan cricketer * Fareed Ahmad (field hockey) (born 1989), Pakistani field hockey player *

Fareed Ahmed Fareed Ahmed (born 28 April 1989, in Sialkot) is a field hockey player from Pakistan.Fareed Ayaz Ghulam Fariduddin Ayaz Al-Hussaini Qawwal (born in Hyderabad, India) is a Pakistani Sufi devotional singer. He belongs to the Qawwal Bacchon gharana of Delhi. He and his relatives are the flag-bearers of that school of music (gharana), which ...

(born 1952), Pakistani qawwal *

Fareed Ebrahim Farid Ibrahim Farid (Arabic:فريد إبراهيم فريد; born 1 March 1998) is a Qatari born-Egyptian footballer who plays for Lusail as a winger. Career Farid Ibrahim started his career at Al Ahli and is a product of the Al-Ahli's youth ...

(born 1998), Egyptian born Qatari footballer * Fareed Haque (born 1963), American jazz guitarist * Fareed Lafta, Iraqi pilot and athlete * Fareed Majeed (born 1986), Iraqi footballer *

Fareed Parbati Fareed Parbati (), born Ghulam Nabi Bhat () on 4 August 1961 died 14 December 2011, was an Indian Urdu language poet and writer from Jammu and Kashmir, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It ...

(1961-2011), Indian Urdu language poet and writer *

Fareed Sadat Fareed Sadat (Dari: فرید سادات; born 10 November 1998) is an Afghan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Super League club Bhayangkara Presisi and the Afghanistan national team. Born in Afghanistan, Sadat represented Fin ...

(born 1998), Afghan footballer *

Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-born American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's '' Fareed Zakaria GPS'' and writes a weekly paid column for ''The Washington Post.'' He has been a c ...

(born 1964), American journalist and commentator * Fareed Zargar, Afghan cricketer *

(1910-1974), Famous Arabic singer

Ferid

* Ferid Berberi (born 1946-2021), Albanian sportsman and weightlifter *

Férid Boughedir Férid Boughedir (born 1944) in Hammam Lif, is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. Career Boughedir has directed five films since 1983. His film '' Caméra d'Afrique'' was screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, his film '' ...

(born 1944), Tunisian film director and screenwriter *

Ferid Chouchane Ferid Chouchane () (born 19 April 1973 in Sousse) is a retired Tunisian football defender. He played for Étoile du Sahel and Club Africain in Tunisia and had spells at Qatar and Saudi Arabia. International career Chouchane made his debut for t ...

(born 1973), Tunisian footballer *

Ferid Džanić Ferid Džanić (1918 – 17 September 1943) was a Bosniak soldier during World War II. A member of the SS ''Handschar'' Division, he was one of the leaders of an unsuccessful anti-German mutiny in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in which he was killed ...

(1918–1943), Bosniak soldier during World War II * Ferid Idrizović (born 1982), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer * Ferid Imam (born 1980), Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen who is believed to have provided military training to al Qaeda jihadists in Pakistan * Ferid Matri (born 1994), Swiss-Tunisian-Italian footballer *

Ferid Muhić Ferid Muhić (; born 1943) is President of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a professor of Philosophy at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia. He started his academic career as Assistant at the Institut ...

(born 1943), Bosnian-Herzegovinian administrator and President of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts *

Ferid Murad Ferid Murad (September 14, 1936 – September 4, 2023) was an American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Early life Ferid Murad was born in Whiting, Indiana, on September 14, ...

(1936-2023), Albanian physician and pharmacologist, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. * Ferid Radeljaš (born 1959), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer * Ferid Rragami (born 1957), Albanian footballer

Compound names with ''Farid'' as a component

*Farid al-Din, or Farid Uddin **

Farid ed-Din Mohammed Abdallah Rudagi Rudaki (also spelled Rodaki; ; – 940/41) was a poet, singer, and musician who is regarded as the first major poet to write in New Persian. A court poet under the Samanids, he reportedly composed more than 180,000 verses, yet only a small p ...

(858-940), Persian poet **

Fariduddin Attar Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri ( – c. 1221; ), better known by his pen-names Faridoddin () and ʿAttar of Nishapur (, Attar means apothecary), was a poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense ...

(1145-1221), Persian Muslim mystic and poet **

Fariduddin Ganjshakar Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar ( – 16 Oct 1265), commonly known as Bābā Farīd or Sheikh Farīd (also in Anglicised spelling Fareed, Fareed ud-Deen, Masood, etc.), was a 13th-century Punjabi Muslim mystic, poet and preacher. Revered by ...

(1173-1266), Punjabi Muslim mystic **

Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi Shah Mohammed Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi ( AD c. 1733 AD), also known by the honorary title Shah Sahib, sometimes spelled as Fareed-ud-Din, was the seventeenth century's Iraqi Sufi saint. He is believed to have propagated Islam in the Chenab Valley ...

(1551-1733), Iraqi Muslim mystic **

Farid Uddin Chowdhury Farid Uddin Chowdhury (; born 25 December 1947) is a teacher, politician and businessman. He was the former Member of Parliament for the Sylhet-5 constituency from 2001 to 2008, representing Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Early life and education C ...

(born 1947), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician **

Farid Uddin Masood Farid Uddin Masood (; born 7 March 1950) is an Islamic scholar in Bangladesh known for his role as the Imam of Sholakia National Eidgah, Chairman of the National Religious Madrasa Education Board of Bangladesh, President of Bangladesh Jamiyatu ...

(born 1950), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist **

Farid Uddin Ahmed Farid Uddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi academic and a former vice-chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Education and career Ahmed completed his master's degree in economics from Monash University. He served as a professor of ...

, Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor *Farid al-Haqq, or Faridul Haq ** Faridul Haq Ansari (1895-1966), Indian lawyer and politician **

Faridul Haq Khan Bengali name#Initials and prefixes, Md. Faridul Haq Khan is a Bangladesh Awami League politician, a former minister of religious affairs, and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jamalpur-2 constituency. Early life Khan was born on 2 ...

(born 1956), Bangladeshi minister of Religious Affairs * Muhammad Faridul Huda (died 1999), Bangladeshi former state minister of Health and Family Welfare

Middle name

Fareed

* Ibrahim Fareed Didi, a prince, son of Sultan Abdul Majeed Didi and Princess consort Famuladeyrige Didi and the brother of King Muhammad Fareed Didi of Maldives. *

Muhammad Fareed Didi King Muhammad Fareed Didi (, Al'amīru Muḥanmadu Farīdu Dīdī) , (January 11 1901 – May 27 1969), the son of the Sultan Prince Abdul Majeed Didi (Al Munthakhab Liarshi Dhaulathil Mahaldheebiyya), was the last Sultan of Maldives and the fi ...

(1901–1969), a king. Son of the Sultan Prince Abdul Majeed Didi was the last Sultan of Maldives and the first Maldivian monarch to assume the title of King

Ferid

Damat Ferid Pasha " Damat" Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha ( ;‎ 1853 – 6 October 1923), known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Ottoman Empire, during two ...

(1853–1923), Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire *

Mehmed Ferid Pasha Mehmed Ferid Pasha () (, ; 1851, Yanya, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Ioannina, Greece) – 1914, Sanremo, Kingdom of Italy) was an Ottoman-Albanian statesman. He served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 15 January 1903 until 22 July ...

(1851-1914), Ottoman statesman of ethnic Albanian background. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1903-1908)

Surname

Farid

Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Cox's Bazar-2. Career Farid was elected to parliament in 1996 from Cox's Bazar-2 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist ...

, Bangladeshi politician *

Baba Farid Farīduddīn Masūd Ganjshakar ( – 16 Oct 1265), commonly known as Bābā Farīd or Sheikh Farīd (also in Anglicised spelling Fareed, Fareed ud-Deen, Masood, etc.), was a 13th-century Punjabi Muslim mystic, poet and preacher. Revered by ...

or Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1173-1266), Punjabi Sufi saint *

Ibn al-Farid Ibn al-Farid or Ibn Farid; (, ''`Umar ibn `Alī ibn al-Fārid'') (22 March 11811234) was an Arab poet as well as a Sufi waliullah. His name is Arabic for "son of the obligator" (the one who divides the inheritance between the inheritors), as hi ...

(1181-1234), Arab poet * Jasmin Farid (born 1992), Swedish politician *

Khwaja Ghulam Farid Khawaja Ghulam Farid (also romanized as Fareed; /1845 – 24 July 1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab, British India belonging to the Chishti Order. Most of his work is in his mother tongue ''Multani'', or what ...

(1841/1845-1901), Siraiki poet *

Mariam Mamdouh Farid Mariam Mamdouh Farid (born 1 February 1998) is a Qatari athlete. She represented her country at the 17th World Athletics Championship held in Doha in 2019, where she ran in the Women's 400 metres hurdles. She came last in her heat with a time of ...

(born 1998), Qatari athlete *

Mohammad Farid Mohammad Farid (or Muhammad Farîd; ; January 20, 1868 in Cairo – November 15, 1919 in Berlin) was an influential Egyptian political figure. He was a nationalist leader, writer, and lawyer. Early life Farid was born to an Egyptian Upper class ...

(1868-1919), Egyptian politician

Fareed

* Ahmed Fareed, American studio host and sports reporter * Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born 1970), American rapper also known as Q-Tip * Kamaal Fareed (born 1970), American rapper, record producer, singer, actor and DJ better known as

Q-Tip Cotton swabs (American English) or cotton buds (British English), also Q-tips ( proprietary eponym), are wads of cotton wrapped around a short rod made of wood, rolled paper, or plastic. They are most commonly used for ear cleaning, although th ...

and also The Abstract *

Muhammad Fareed Muhammad Fareed (() 16 April 1926 – 9 July 2011) was a Pakistani Mufti and writer. He belonged to Zarobi, a village in Swabi District. He was the president and Shaykh al-Hadith of Dar al-Ifta in Darul Uloom Haqqania Akora Khattak. He was kno ...

(1926–2011), Pakistani mufti and writer *

Morad Fareed Morad Fareed (born September 14, 1979) is a former professional athlete. Career Born in New York State, Fareed was a member of the first Palestine national football team in its attempt to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA ...

(born 1979), Palestinian-American entrepreneur * Muneer Fareed (born 1956), Muslim scholar and the former secretary general of ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) * Vala Fareed (born 1975), Iraqi-Kurdish politician, Minister of State for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and previously the first female speaker of the legislature

Faried

Kenneth Faried Kenneth Bernard Faried Lewis ( ; born November 19, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Reggiana of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Known as "the Manimal" due to his hustle on the court, he attended Morehea ...

(born 1989), American professional basketball player

Fictional

*Farid, character in the book ''

Inkheart ''Inkheart'' () is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and is the first book of the ''Inkheart'' series, with '' Inkspell'' (2005) and '' Inkdeath'' (2007) succeeding it. The novel became one of the finalists of 2004 BookSense ...

'' by Cornelia Funke *Ferid Egan, Commander of the Queen's Knights in the video game ''

Suikoden V is a role-playing video game developed by Konami and Hudson Soft and published by Konami for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console and the fifth and final main installment of the ''Suikoden'' video game series. It was released in 2006, and ...

'' *Farid, character in the game '' Call of Duty: Black Ops II'' *Ferid Bathory, character in the manga ''

Owari no Seraph is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series. It is written by Takaya Kagami, illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto and features storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. The series is set in a world that allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a "human-ma ...

'' *Farid, character in the book ''

The Kite Runner ''The Kite Runner'' is the debut novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young Afghan boy from Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul. The story is set against a backdrop of tumul ...

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Ferid

Compound names with ''Farid'' as a component

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Faried

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