# Feroze

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**Firouz** ([Persian](/source/Persian_language): فیروز; also spelled **Farooz, Firuz**, **Pirooz**, **Firoz**), **Pirouz** ([Persian](/source/Persian_language): پیروز, also spelled **Pirooz**, [Piruz](/source/Piruz_(disambiguation)), **Piroz**), [Feroz](/source/Feroz) ([Hindi](/source/Hindi)/[Urdu](/source/Urdu); also spelled **Feroze**, [Phiroze](/source/Phiroze)), **Fayrouz** ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): فيروز) and **Phiroj** are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from [Middle Persian](/source/Middle_Persian) **Pērōz** ([Inscriptional Pahlavi](/source/Inscriptional_Pahlavi): 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, [Book Pahlavi](/source/Book_Pahlavi): ), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous",[1] mentioned as **Perozes** (Περόζης) in [Latin](/source/Latin) and [Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) sources.

Notable figures with the name include:

## People

- [Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz](/source/Abu_Lu'lu'a_Firuz), also known as Firuz Nahavandi, Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar

- [Feroze Gandhi](/source/Feroze_Gandhi), an Indian politician and journalist

- Firoz Khan, known as [Arjun](/source/Arjun_(Firoz_Khan)), Indian actor

- [Feroz Khan](/source/Feroz_Khan_(actor%2C_born_1939)), an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director

- [Feroze Khan (field hockey)](/source/Feroze_Khan_(field_hockey)), a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics

- [Feroz Abbasi](/source/Feroz_Abbasi), a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba

- [Feroz Khan Noon](/source/Feroz_Khan_Noon), a politician from Pakistan

- [Feroz Abbas Khan](/source/Feroz_Abbas_Khan), an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter

- [Firoze Manji](/source/Firoze_Manji), Kenyan activist and publisher

- [Firouz](/source/Firouz) – a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.

- [Firuz Shah Tughlaq](/source/Firuz_Shah_Tughlaq) (r. 1351–1388 CE), a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India

- [Firuz Kanatlı](/source/Firuz_Kanatl%C4%B1) Turkish businessman, founder of [Eti](/source/Eti_(company)).

- [Firuz Kazemzadeh](/source/Firuz_Kazemzadeh), a professor emeritus of history at Yale University

- [Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah](/source/Firuz-Shah_Zarrin-Kolah), an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin

- [Peroz I](/source/Peroz_I), a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484

- [Peroz II](/source/Peroz_II), a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD

- [Piruz Khosrow](/source/Piruz_Khosrow), Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran

- [Peroz III](/source/Peroz_III), exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor

- [Peruz Terzekyan](/source/Peruz_Terzekyan), b. [Sivas](/source/Sivas) 1866, a [kanto](/source/Kanto_(music)) singer

- [Pirouz Davani](/source/Pirouz_Davani), an Iranian leftist activist

- [Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh](/source/Pirouz_Mojtahedzadeh), an Iranian political scientist and historian

- [Farooq Feroze Khan](/source/Farooq_Feroze_Khan), a Pakistan Air Force officer

- [Jam Feroz](/source/Jam_Feroz), the last ruler of the Samma dynasty of Sindh

- [Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji](/source/Jalal_ud_din_Firuz_Khalji), the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty

- [Alauddin Firuz Shah I](/source/Alauddin_Firuz_Shah_I), the son and successor of sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah

- [Alauddin Firuz Shah II](/source/Alauddin_Firuz_Shah_II), the son and successor of sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah

- [Rukn ud din Firuz](/source/Rukn_ud_din_Firuz), a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India

- [Fairuz](/source/Fairuz), a Lebanese singer

- [Pherozeshah Mehta](/source/Pherozeshah_Mehta)

- [Shamsuddin Firoz Shah](/source/Shamsuddin_Firoz_Shah), Sultan of [Bengal](/source/Bengal) from 1301 to 1322

## Characters

- [Hajji Firuz](/source/Hajji_Firuz), the traditional herald of Nowruz

## Other

[Pirouz (cheetah)](/source/Pirouz_(cheetah)) Male Asiatic cheetah

## See also

- [Piruz, Iran](/source/Piruz%2C_Iran), a village in Hamadan

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## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** MAcKENZIE, D. (n.d.). A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (p. 68). Oxford University Press.

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