Fawaz Explained
Fawaz (sometimes, Fawwaz or Fawez) is a masculine Arabic given name and a surname. Its literal meaning is "winner", as it is the masculine adjective from the verb Arabic: فاز fāz, meaning "he won". Therefore, it can be thought of as the equivalent to the given name Victor.
Given name
First name
- Fawaz Akhras, London-based Syrian cardiologist and father-in-law of Bashar Al Assad
- Fawaz Damra, imam who lived near Cleveland, Ohio
- Fawaz Gerges (born 1958), Lebanese American academic and author
- Fawwaz Haddad, Syrian novelist
- Fawaz Al-Hasawi (born 1968), Kuwaiti businessman and owner of Nottingham Forest Football Club
- Fawaz Hussain (born 1953), contemporary Kurdish writer and translator
- Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdullah Mahdi, citizen of Yemen held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
- Fawaz Mando (born 1971), Syrian footballer
- Fawaz al-Nashimi (died 2004), member of Al-Qaeda, the 20th hijacker of the September 11th attacks
- Fawaz al-Rabeiee (1979–2006), al-Qaeda terrorist sentenced to death in 2004 by a Yemeni court
- Fawaz al-Rabihi, citizen of Yemen believed to have played a role in the terrorist attack on the MV Limburg
- Fawwaz bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal
- Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Syrian professor of electrical engineering and computer science
- Fawaz Younis (born 1959), Lebanese skyjacker who was arrested and imprisoned by the United States
- Fawaz Zureikat (born 1955), Jordanian businessman
Middle name
Surname
- Bilal Fawaz, also known as Kelvin Fawaz, UK-based Nigerian born boxer of Lebanese/Benin descent
- Fadi Fawaz George Michael's partner
- Florence Fawaz childhood name of Australian soprano
- Khalid al-Fawwaz convicted member of al-Qaeda
- Leila Tarazi Fawaz, Lebanese historian, director of The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (2001–2012)
- Mimi Fawaz, Nigerian-Lebanese journalist
- Ramzi Fawaz, American academic of Egyptian descent
