title: Feroze
text: # Feroze
  
  Firouz (Persian: فیروز; also spelled Farooz, Firuz, Pirooz, Firoz), Pirouz (Persian: پیروز, also spelled Pirooz, Piruz, Piroz), Feroz (Hindi/Urdu; also spelled Feroze, Phiroze), Fayrouz (Arabic: فيروز), Phiroj, are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from Middle Persian Pērōz (Inscriptional Pahlavi: 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, Book Pahlavi: ), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous", mentioned as Perozes (Περόζης) in Latin and Greek sources.
  
  Notable figures with the name include:
  
  ## People
  
  * Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644), Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar
  * Feroze Gandhi, 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), a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics
  * Feroz Abbasi, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
  * Feroz Khan Noon, a politician from Pakistan
  * Feroz Abbas Khan, 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 Turkish businessman, founder of Eti.
  * Firuz Kazemzadeh, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
  * Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin
  * Peroz I, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484
  * Peroz II, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD
  * Piruz Khosrow, Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran
  * Peroz III, exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor
  * Peruz Terzekyan, b. Sivas 1866, a kanto singer
  * Pirouz Davani, an Iranian leftist activist
  * Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian
  * Farooq Feroze Khan, 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, 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, a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India
  * Fairuz, a Lebanese singer
  * Pherozeshah Mehta
  * Shamsuddin Firoz Shah, Sultan of Bengal from 1301 to 1322
  
  ## Characters
  
  * Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
  
  ## Other
  
  Pirouz (cheetah) Male Asiatic cheetah
  
  