Feroz Explained
Feroz or variants such as Firuz, Firuze, Peroz or Piruz (Persian, 'victorious') may refer to:
People with the name
Historical people
- Peroz I, Sasanian king of Iran
- Peroz II, Sasanian king of Iran
- Fayruz al-Daylami, companion of Muhammad
- Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered the Sasanian queen of Iran Boran
- Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (died 644), also known as Firuz Nahavandi, Persian slave who killed the second Islamic caliph Umar
- Peroz III (636 – 679), son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king of Iran, who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor
- Firouz, a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
- Ruknuddin Firuz, ruled the Delhi sultanate for a short time
- Jalal-ud-Din Khalji, known as Firuz al-Din Khalji, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty
- Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, 13th-century Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin
- Shamsuddin Firuz Shah, independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom
- Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in India
- Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 1388), Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
- Firuz Shah Suri, 3rd ruler of the Sur Empire in India
- Alauddin Firuz Shah I, ruled the Sultanate of Bengal for a short time
- Jam Feroz, last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh
- Alauddin Firuz Shah II, three-month ruler of the Sultanate of Bengal
- Pherozeshah Mehta (1845 – 1915), Indian Parsi politician and lawyer
- Peruz (1866 – c. 1920), Ottoman Armenian kanto singer
Modern-day people
- Fairuz, a Lebanese singer
- Farooq Feroze Khan, a Pakistan Air Force officer
- Feroz, nickname of Arsen Goulamirian (born 1987), Armenian born French professional boxer
- Feroz Abbasi, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
- Feroz Abbas Khan, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter
- Feroz Ahmad, Indian historian and academic
- Feroz Khan (disambiguation), several people
- Firuz Kanatlı Turkish businessman, founder of the Eti company.
- Firuz Kazemzadeh, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
- Pirouz Davani, an Iranian leftist activist
- Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian
- Piruz Dilanchi, Azerbaijani activist
- Dinshah Pirosha Madon, Indian judge
- A. S. Muhammad Feroz, Bangladeshi chief whip
- Ahmed Firoz Kabir, Bangladeshi politician
- Khandaker Shahiduddin Firoz, Bangladeshi actor
- Kazi Firoz Rashid, Bangladeshi politician
- Firoz Mahmud, Bangladeshi visual artist
- Feroze Ahmed Swapan, Bangladeshi politician
- Muhammad Feroze Ahmed, Bangladeshi vice-Chancellor of Stamford University
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Feroz, a planeswalker in
- Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
- Firoze Contractor, a fictional character in the 2019 Indian film War
Film and television
Places
See also