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'' Phiroze Phiroze is a male Indian Parsi name derived from middle Persian Pērōz (meaning victorious, triumphant or prosperous). The spelling of the name has many variations such as Pheroz, Pheroze, Phiroz, etc. but their pronunciation is the same. People n ...

), Fayrouz ( ar, فيروز), Phiroj, are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from

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Pērōz (

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sources. Notable persons with the name include:

People

* Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644), Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar *

Feroze Gandhi Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy;: "Feroze Gandhi was also from the Nehrus' home town, Allahabad. A Parsi by faith, he at first spelt his surname 'Ghandy'. However, after he joined the national movement as a young man, he changed th ...

, an Indian politician and journalist * Firoz Khan, known as Arjun, Indian actor * Feroz Khan, an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director *

Feroze Khan (field hockey) Feroze Khan (9 September 1904 – 21 April 2005) was a field hockey player who represented India at the Summer Olympic Games. At the time of his death, he was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of U.S. athlete ...

, a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics *

Feroz Abbasi Feroz Abbasi is one of nine British men who were held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. He was repatriated in 2005 and released by the British government the next day. He was released from de ...

, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba *

Feroz Khan Noon Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon, ( ur, ملک فیروز خان نون; 7 May 18939 December 1970), best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from 1957 until being removed wh ...

, a politician from Pakistan *

Feroz Abbas Khan Feroz Abbas Khan is an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, who is most known for directing plays like Mughal-e-Azam, ''Saalgirah'', ''Tumhari Amrita'' (1992), ''Salesman Ramlal'' and ''Gandhi Viruddh Gandhi''. Car ...

, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter * Firouz – a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government. * Firuz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–1388 CE), a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India *

Firuz Kanatlı Firuz Kanatlı (1932 – 18 October 2017) was a Turkish businessman and founder and honorary president of the well known company Eti. He was born in Eskişehir, Turkey in 1932. He attended primary school until the third school year, after which ...

Turkish businessman, founder of Eti. *

Firuz Kazemzadeh Firuz Kazemzadeh ( fa, فیروز کاظم‌زاده; October 27, 1924 – May 17, 2017) was a Russian-born American historian who was professor emeritus of history at Yale University. Biography Firuz Kazemzadeh was born in Moscow to an Iranian f ...

, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University *

Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah ( fa, فیروزشاه زرین کلاه, lit=King Firuz of the Golden Crown) was a Kurdish dignitary,F. Daftary, "Intellectual Traditions in Islam", I.B.Tauris, 2001. pg 147: "But the origins of the family of Shaykh Safi al ...

, an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin *

Peroz I Peroz I ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, Pērōz) was the Sasanian King of Kings () of Iran from 459 to 484. A son of Yazdegerd II (), he disputed the rule of his elder brother and incumbent king Hormizd III (), eventually seizing the throne after ...

, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484 *

Peroz II Peroz II ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, fa, پیروز دوم), also known as Gushnasp-Bandeh was king of Persia. He was son of Mah-Adhur Gushnasp and Kahar-dukht, who was daughter of Yazdandad son of Khosrau I Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, K ...

, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD *

Piruz Khosrow Piruz Khosrow (Middle Persian: ''Pērōz Khusraw''), also known as Piruzan or Firuzan, was a powerful Persian aristocrat who was the leader of the ''Parsig'' (Persian) faction that controlled much of the affairs of the Sasanian Empire during the S ...

, Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran *

Peroz III Peroz III ( pal, 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰 ''Pērōz''; ) was son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian King of Kings of Iran. After the death of his father, who legend says was killed by a miller at the instigation of the governor of Marw, he retreated ...

, exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor *

Peruz Terzekyan Peruz (1866 in SivasM. Nihat Özön, Baha Dürder (ed.), ''Türk Tiyatrosu Ansiklopedisi'', Yükselen Matbaası, 1967, p. 345. – c. 1920 in Istanbul) also known as Peruz Hanım or Kantocu Peruz, Yılmaz Öztuna, ''Türk Musikisi Ansiklopedisi'', ...

, b.

Sivas Sivas (Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province. The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, is ...

1866, a

kanto Kantō (Japanese) Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics. In Japan Kantō may refer to: *Kantō Plain *Kantō region *Kantō-kai, organized crime group *Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ...

singer * Pirouz Davani, an Iranian leftist activist * Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian *

Farooq Feroze Khan Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan ( ur, ; born: 17 August 1939 – 9 October 2021), best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani military officer who served as the 6th four-star air officer in the Pakistan Air Force and also served as the ...

, a Pakistan Air Force officer * Jam Feroz, the last ruler of the Samma dynasty of Sindh * Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty *

Alauddin Firuz Shah I Alauddin Firuz Shah I ( bn, প্রথম আলাউদ্দিন ফিরোজ শাহ) was the son and successor of Sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah of Bengal. He was a sultan only in name; the effective powers being wielded by Raja Gan ...

, the son and successor of sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah * Alauddin Firuz Shah II, the son and successor of sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah *

Rukn ud din Firuz Rukn-ud-din Firuz ( fa, رکن‌الدین فیروز), also transliterated as Rukn al-Din Firoz (died 19 November 1236), was a ruler of Delhi sultanate for less than seven months in 1236. As a prince, he had administered the Badaun and Lahore ...

, a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India *

Fairuz Nouhad Wadie' Haddad ( ar, نهاد وديع حداد, ; born November 21, 1934), known as Fairuz ( ar, فيروز, ; also spelled Fairouz, Feyrouz or Fayrouz), is a Lebanese singer. She is considered by many as one of the leading vocalists a ...

, a Lebanese singer *

Pherozeshah Mehta Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay ...

* Shamsuddin Firoz Shah, Sultan of

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

from 1301 to 1322

Characters

Hajji Firuz Hāji Firuz ('' fa, حاجی فیروز'') or Khwāje Piruz ('' fa, خواجه پیروز'') is a fictional character in Iranian folklore who appears in the streets by the beginning of Nowruz. His face is covered in soot, and he is clad in brigh ...

, the traditional herald of Nowruz

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