Pervez

Pervez or Parvīz ^[1] (from Persian: پرویز, meaning fortunate and victorious), is a Persian male given name, mostly popular in Iran, Central Asia and among Muslims of South Asia. It is also a common surname.

Note: Parvēz, Parveez, Parvīz, Parwez, Parwiz, Pervaiz, Pervez, Perviz or Purvez are usually the same name but with different spellings. Furthermore, pronunciation between the two are equal.

Given name

The following Prominent people have this given name:

• Parvaiz Mehdi Qureshi, was the former Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force
• Parvez (Khosru Parvez), was the twenty-second Sassanid King of Persia
• Parvez Ahmed, a cricketer from Bangladesh
• Parvez Butt (born 1942), a Pakistani nuclear engineer and former chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission 2001–2006 (PAEC)
• Parvez Imroz, a human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir
• Parvez Qadir, a British actor
• Parvez Sharma, an Indian film director
• Parviz Abnar, Sound recordist
• Parviz Fannizadeh, Iranian actor
• Parviz Ghelichkhani, footballer
• Parviz Mazloumi, football manager
• Parviz Meshkatian, Iranian Musician
• Parviz Moin, physicist
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari, professor
• Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
• Parviz Sayyad, Iranian actor
• Parviz Sobirov, Tajikistani jodoka
• Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani professor of nuclear physics
• Pervez Kambaksh, a journalist
• Pervez Jamil Mir, is a Pakistani TV anchorperson
• Pervez Musharraf (born 1943), former President of Pakistan
• Pervez Sajjad, former Pakistani cricketer
• Pervez Taufiq (born 1974), songwriter and lead singer for band Living Syndication

Middle name

• Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, NI(M), HI, (born 1952), a Pakistani general and the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army
• Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former candidate for Prime Minister of Pakistan and former Chief Minister of Punjab, Pakistan
• Imran Pervez Awan, is a Pakistani born American cricketer.
• Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistan Peoples Party leader and federal minister of water and power of Pakistan
• Raja Nadir Pervez Khan, is a Pakistani politician
• Shahid Parvez Khan (born 1955), a Sitar player of Hindustani Classical Music

Surname

• Ahmed Pervez, was a successful Pakistani painter of modernism
• Ansar Pervaiz, is a Pakistani nuclear scientist, nuclear reactor technologist and a nuclear engineer who is the current chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
• Anwar Pervez, OBE, Hilal-i-Pakistan, is a businessman in the United Kingdom.
• Aqsa Parvez (1991–2007), the victim of an alleged honour killing in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Arshad Pervez, is a former Pakistani cricketer
• Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Islamic scholar
• Imran Parvez (born 1977), a cricketer from Bangladesh
• Raju Parvez, a cricketer from Bangladesh
• Saleem Pervez, is a former Pakistani cricketer
• Tariq Pervez, a Pakistani policeman, was the director-general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency
• Yunus Parvez (1931–2007), a Bollywood character actor
• Zeeshan Parwez, is a Pakistani Music Artist

Notes

1. ^ In the early new Persian and the eastern contemporary variants of the Persian language, there are two different vowels ī and ē which are shown by the same Perso-Arabic letter ی, and in the standard transliteration, both of them are usually transliterated as ī.

External links

• Behind the Name: Iranian Names