Farid
Farid (فريد) also spelt Ferid or Fareed is an Arabic masculine personal name or last name, meaning "unique". Farid is a common male name in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia. The name was perhaps most recognised for 'Farid The Dirty', a Himalayan, Persian cat's name.
People with this name include:
- Farid ad-Din Attar, Iranian Sufi poet
- Farid Abou-Shadi, Egyptian fencer
- Farid Abboud, Lebanese Ambassador
- Farid Alakbarli, Azerbaijani researcher
- Farid Talhaoui, Moroccan football player
- Farid Ghadry, Syrian political activist
- Farid Mansurov, Azerbaijani wrestler
- Farid Shawki, Egyptian actor
- Farid Stino, Middle Eastern businessman
- Farid Mukhametshin, Tatarstani politician
- Farid Suleman, American businessman
- Farid al-Atrash, Syrian Egyptian singer, music composeactor
- Farid F. Abraham, scientist
- Fahrid Murray Abraham, actor
- Sher Shah Suri, Farid Khan, a king
- Farid Esack, South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar
- Fareed Zakaria, American journalist and commentator
- Baba Farid or Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Punjabi Sufi saint
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Siraiki poet
- Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician
- Ibn al-Farid, Arab poet
- Fareed Lafta, Iraqi pilot and athlete
- Fareed Majeed, Iraqi footballer
- Fareed Rafiq Zakaria, Host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS
- Donald Fareed, Iranian born American Christian tele-evangelist
- Morad Fareed, Palestinian-American entrepreneur
- Farid Kamil, Malaysian male model turned actor
- Kenneth Faried, American professional basketball player
- Faryd Mondragón, Colombian professional footballer
Fictional
- Farid, character in the book Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, and the film Inkheart based on the novel
- Ferid Egan, Commander of the Queen's Knights in Suikoden V game
- Farid, character in the game Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Ferid Bathory, character in the manga Owari no Seraph
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