Feroz

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

Historical people

 * Peroz I ((r. 459 – 484)), 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 ((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 – undefined)), 3rd ruler of the Sur Empire in India
 * Alauddin Firuz Shah I, 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, 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

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