Feroze

Firouz (also spelled Farooz, Firuz, Pirooz, Firoz), Pirouz (, also spelled Pirooz, Piruz, Piroz), Feroz (Hindi/Urdu; also spelled Feroze, Phiroze), Fayrouz (فيروز), Phiroj, are masculine given names of Persian origin. It is ultimately derived from Middle Persian Pērōz (Inscriptional Pahlavi: 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰, Book Pahlavi: ), meaning "victorious, triumphant or prosperous", mentioned as Perozes (Περόζης) in Latin and Greek sources.

Notable figures with the name include:

People

 * Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz, also known as Firuz Nahavandi, Persian slave who killed the second caliph Umar
 * Feroze Gandhi, an Indian politician and journalist
 * Firoz Khan, known as Arjun, Indian actor
 * Feroz Khan, an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director
 * Feroze Khan (field hockey), a field hockey player who represented British India in the Olympics
 * Feroz Abbasi, a British man held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
 * Feroz Khan Noon, a politician from Pakistan
 * Feroz Abbas Khan, an Indian theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter
 * Firouz – a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government.
 * Firuz Shah Tughlaq (r. 1351–1388 CE), a ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty in India
 * Firuz Kanatlı Turkish businessman, founder of Eti.
 * Firuz Kazemzadeh, a professor emeritus of history at Yale University
 * Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, an Iranian dignitary with Kurdish origin
 * Peroz I, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled 457–484
 * Peroz II, a king of Iran from the house of Sassanids who ruled Oct. to Dec. 631 AD
 * Piruz Khosrow, Persian aristocrat who murdered Queen Boran
 * Peroz III, exiled Persian prince who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor
 * Peruz Terzekyan, b. Sivas 1866, a kanto singer
 * Pirouz Davani, an Iranian leftist activist
 * Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, an Iranian political scientist and historian
 * Farooq Feroze Khan, a Pakistan Air Force officer
 * Jam Feroz, the last ruler of the Samma dynasty of Sindh
 * Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji, the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty
 * Alauddin Firuz Shah I, the son and successor of sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah
 * Alauddin Firuz Shah II, the son and successor of sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah
 * Rukn ud din Firuz, a Muslim Turkic ruler and the fourth Sultan of Delhi in medieval India
 * Fairuz, a Lebanese singer
 * Pherozeshah Mehta
 * Shamsuddin Firoz Shah, Sultan of Bengal from 1301 to 1322

Characters

 * Hajji Firuz, the traditional herald of Nowruz

Other
Pirouz (cheetah) Male Asiatic cheetah