# Farhan

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'''Farhan''' or '''Farhaan''' is an Arabic masculine given name which means "happy, joyful, blessed, delightful, rejoicing, merry, inclined to hopefulness". The name is the male variant from the female stem given name [Farah](/source/Farah_(name)), and is widely used in [West Asia](/source/West_Asia), [North Africa](/source/North_Africa) and [South Asia](/source/South_Asia). It is a variant of [Farhang](/source/Farhang_(given_name)) and [Ferhan](/source/Ferhan) as well. 

Notable people with these names include:

==Farhan==
*[Farhan Akhtar](/source/Farhan_Akhtar) (born 1974), Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer and television host
*[Farhan Khan (actor)](/source/Farhan_Khan_(actor)) (born 1983), Indian actor
*[Farhan Lalji](/source/Farhan_Lalji), Canadian sports reporter 
*[Farhan Nizami](/source/Farhan_Nizami), South Asian historian
*[Farhan Saeed](/source/Farhan_Saeed) (born 1984), Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor 
*[Farhan Saleh](/source/Farhan_Saleh_(writer)) (born 1947), Lebanese writer and militant 
*[Farhan Zaidi](/source/Farhan_Zaidi) (born 1976), Canadian-American baseball executive of Pakistani descent
*[Farhan al-Qadi](/source/Farhan_al-Qadi) (born 1972), Israeli-Bedouin kidnapped during the October 7 attacks

== Farhaan ==
* [Farhaan Behardien](/source/Farhaan_Behardien) (born 1983), South African cricketer
* [Farhaan Faasil](/source/Farhaan_Faasil), stage name of Ismail Fazil (born 1990), Indian actor in Malayalam cinema
* [Farhaan Sayanvala](/source/Farhaan_Sayanvala) (born 1997), South African cricketer

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Category:Arabic-language masculine given names
Category:Masculine given names

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