Feroz

Feroz or variants such as Firuz, Firuze, Peroz or Piruz (Persian, 'victorious') may refer to:

People with the name

Historical people

• Peroz I (r. 459–484), Sasanian king of Iran
• Peroz II (fl. 631), Sasanian king of Iran
• Fayruz al-Daylami (fl. 631), companion of Muhammad
• Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered the Sasanian queen of Iran Boran
• Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (died 644), 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 (fl. 1098), a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
• Ruknuddin Firuz (fl. 1236), ruled the Delhi sultanate for a short time
• Jalal-ud-Din Khalji, known as Firuz al-Din Khalji (r. 1290–1296), 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 (r. 1301–1322), independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom
• Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah (r. 1397–1422), sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in India
• Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 1388), Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
• Firuz Shah Suri (r. 1554– ), 3rd ruler of the Sur Empire in India
• Alauddin Firuz Shah I (fl. 1414), ruled the Sultanate of Bengal for a short time
• Jam Feroz (r. 1508–1524/5), last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh
• Alauddin Firuz Shah II (fl. 1533), 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 Magic: The Gathering
• Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz
• Firoze Contractor, a fictional character in the 2019 Indian film War

Film and television

• Feroz (film), a 1984 Spanish film
• Feroz (TV series), a 2010 Chilean telenovela

Places

• Firuz District, Iran
• Firuz, Kerman, Iran
• Feroz Shah Kotla, fort in Delhi, India
• Naushahro Feroze District, Sindh, Pakistan
  • Naushahro Feroze, a town
• Piruz, Iran, a village in Hamadan

See also

• All pages with titles containing Feroz
• Firoza (disambiguation)
• Parviz, a related name
• Phiroze, a related name
• Feroze, a related name
• Piruzabad (disambiguation)
• Piruzeh, Iran
• Firoz Shah palace complex, archaeological site in Hisar, Haryana, India