Feroz

Feroz or variants such as Firuz, Firuze, Peroz or Piruz (Persian, 'victorious') is a name.

Historical people

Peroz I (died 484), Sasanian emperor
Peroz II, Sasanian emperor
Fayruz al-Daylami, one of the companions of the Prophet
Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered Boran, the Sasanian empress
Abu Lu'lu'a (died 644), also known as Peroz Nahavandi, a Persian slave who killed the second caliph, Umar
Peroz III (636-679), son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian emperor, who traveled to Tang China and became a general and governor
Firouz, a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in the Seljuk government
Ruknuddin Firuz (1211-1236), ruled the Delhi Sultanate for a short time
Jalal-ud-Din Khalji (1220-1296), 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 Safavid dignitary of Kurdish origin
Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (died 1322), independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom
Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah (died 1422), sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate in India
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309-1388), Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
Firuz Shah Suri (1542-1554), 3rd ruler of the Sur Empire in India
Alauddin Firuz Shah I, ruled the Sultanate of Bengal for a short time
Jam Feroz (died 1535/36), last ruler of the Samma Dynasty of Sindh
Alauddin Firuz Shah II (died 1533), three-month ruler of the Sultanate of Bengal
Pherozeshah Mehta (1845-1915), Indian Parsi politician and lawyer
Peruz (1866-1920), Ottoman Armenian kanto singer

Fairuz (born 1934/35), a Lebanese singer
Farooq Feroze Khan (1939-2021), a Pakistan Air Force officer
Feroz, nickname of Arsen Goulamirian (born 1987), Armenian-born French professional boxer
Feroz Abbasi (born 1979), a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detainment camps
Feroz Abbas Khan (born 1959), an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter
Feroz Ahmad (1938–2025), Indian-born Turkish-American academic, historian and political scientist
Feroz Khan (disambiguation), several people
Firuz Kanatlı (1932-2017), Turkish businessman, founder of the Eti company.
Firuz Kazemzadeh (1924-2017), a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
Pirouz Davani (1961-1998), an Iranian leftist activist
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh (born 1946), an Iranian political scientist and historian
Piruz Dilanchi (born 1965), Azerbaijani activist
Dinshah Pirosha Madon (1921-1994), Indian judge
A. S. M. Feroz (born 1952), Bangladeshi chief whip
Ahmed Firoz Kabir (born 1963), Bangladeshi politician
KS Firoz (1946-2020), Bangladeshi actor
Kazi Firoz Rashid (born 1947), Bangladeshi politician
Firoz Mahmud (born 1974), Bangladeshi visual artist
Feroz Ahammed Shapon (born 1961), Bangladeshi politician
M. Feroze Ahmed (born 1945), Bangladeshi vice-Chancellor of Stamford University