Feroz
Feroz or Firuze 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 (r. 459–484), Sasanian king of Iran
- Peroz II (fl. 631), Sasanian king of Iran
- Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered the Sasanian queen of Iran Boran
- Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (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 (fl. 1098), a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
- Ruknuddin Firuz (fl. 1236), ruled the Delhi sultanate for a short time
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji (r. 1290–1296), the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty
- Shamsuddin Firoz Shah (r. 1301–1322), independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom
- Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 1388), Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
- Alauddin Firuz Shah I (fl. 1414), ruled the Sultanate of Bengal for a short time
- Jam Feroz (r. 1508–1524/5), last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh
- Alauddin Firuz Shah II (fl. 1533), 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 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 (disambiguation)
- Feroz Khan (actor, born 1939), an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director
- Feroz Khan Noon, a politician from Pakistan
- Feroze Gandhi, an Indian politician and journalist, husband of Indira Gandhi, misnamed as Feroze Khan
- 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, an Iranian leftist activist
- Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian
- Piruz Dilanchi, Azerbaijani activist
Characters
- Feroz, a planeswalker in Magic: The Gathering
- Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
Places
- Firuz District, of Iran
- Firuz, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Naushahro Feroze District, a district in Sindh, Pakistan
- Naushahro Feroze, a town in Naushahro Feroze District, Sindh, Pakistan
- Piruz, Iran, a village in Hamadan
- Piruzabad, Kerman
- Piruzabad, Khuzestan
- Piruzabad, Golestan
- Piruzeh, a village in Kermanshah Province
Film and television
- Feroz (film), a 1984 Spanish film
- Feroz (telenovela), a 2010 Chilean telenovela
Other
- Feroz Shah Kotla, a cricket ground in Delhi, India
- Firuz Ağa Mosque, a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
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