Feroze

Feroze ( Persian: فیروز; also spelled Fayrouz, Firouz, Firoz, Piroz, Feroz, Firuz, Peroz, and Pirooz) is a common Persian masculine name meaning victorious, triumphant or prosperous. Notable persons with the name include:

People

• Feroze Gandhi, an Indian politician and journalist
• 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 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
• 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 Khilji, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khilji 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

Characters

• Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz