# Farid

Farid (Arabic: فَرِيد fariyd, farīd), also spelt Fareed or Ferid and accented Férid, is an Arabic masculine personal name or surname meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable". For many communities, including in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia, the name Fareed is common across generations.

## Given name
### Farid

* Farid Abboud (born 1951), Lebanese Ambassador
* Farid F. Abraham (born 1937), American scientist
* Farid Ahmad (1923-1971), Bengali politician and lawyer
* Farid Ahmed (born 1960), Bangladeshi High Court justice
* Farid Ahmed Gopalganji, Bangladeshi MP
* Farid Alakbarli (1964-2021), Azerbaijani researcher
* Farid Ali (1945–2016), Bangladeshi actor
* Farid Azarkan (born 1971), Dutch politician of Moroccan descent
* Farid al-Atrash (1910-1974), Syrian Egyptian singer, music composer, and actor
* Farid ad-Din Attar (1145-1221), Iranian Sufi poet
* Farid Bang (born Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui in 1986), German rapper of Moroccan-Spanish descent
* Farid Yu Darvishsefat (born 1986), Japanese baseball player of Iranian descent
* Farid Gazi Dewan (1924–2010), Bangladeshi politician
* Farid Esack (born 1955), South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar
* Farid Ghadry (born 1954), Syrian political activist
* Farid Habib (born 1959), 13th Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Navy
* Farid Kamil (born 1981), Malaysian male model turned actor
* Farid Khan, birth name of Sher Shah Suri (died 1545), king of the Sur Empire in present-day India
* Farid Mansurov (born 1982), Azerbaijani wrestler
* Farid Mukhametshin (born 1947), Tatarstani politician
* Farid Raphaël (1933–2014), Lebanese economist and banker
* Farid Shawki (1920-1998), Egyptian actor
* Farid Stino (born 1943), Egyptian businessman
* Farid Suleman, American businessman
* Farid Talhaoui (born 1982), Moroccan football player

### Fahrid

* Fahrid Murray Abraham (born 1939), American actor

### Fareed

* Fareed Ahmad (cricketer) (born 1994), Afghan cricketer
* Fareed Ahmad (field hockey) (born 1989), Pakistani field hockey player
* Fareed Ahmed (born 1989), Pakistani field hockey player
* Fareed Ayaz (born 1952), Pakistani qawwal
* Fareed Ebrahim (born 1998), Egyptian born Qatari footballer
* Fareed Haque (born 1963), American jazz guitarist
* Fareed Lafta, Iraqi pilot and athlete
* Fareed Majeed (born 1986), Iraqi footballer
* Fareed Parbati (1961-2011), Indian Urdu language poet and writer
* Fareed Sadat (born 1998), Afghan footballer
* Fareed Zakaria (born 1964), American journalist and commentator
* Fareed Zargar, Afghan cricketer
* Farid al-Atrash (1910-1974), Famous Arabic singer

### Ferid

* Ferid Berberi (born 1946-2021), Albanian sportsman and weightlifter
* Férid Boughedir (born 1944), Tunisian film director and screenwriter
* Ferid Chouchane (born 1973), Tunisian footballer
* Ferid Džanić (1918–1943), Bosniak soldier during World War II
* Ferid Idrizović (born 1982), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
* Ferid Imam (born 1980), Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen who is believed to have provided military training to al Qaeda jihadists in Pakistan
* Ferid Matri (born 1994), Swiss-Tunisian-Italian footballer
* Ferid Muhić (born 1943), Bosnian-Herzegovinian administrator and President of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts
* Ferid Murad (1936-2023), Albanian physician and pharmacologist, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
* Ferid Radeljaš (born 1959), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
* Ferid Rragami (born 1957), Albanian footballer

### Compound names with Farid as a component

* Farid al-Din, or Farid Uddin
** Farid ed-Din Mohammed Abdallah Rudagi (858-940), Persian poet
** Fariduddin Attar (1145-1221), Persian Muslim mystic and poet
** Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1173-1266), Punjabi Muslim mystic
** Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi (1551-1733), Iraqi Muslim mystic
** Farid Uddin Chowdhury (born 1947), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
** Farid Uddin Masood (born 1950), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist
** Farid Uddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor
* Farid al-Haqq, or Faridul Haq
** Faridul Haq Ansari (1895-1966), Indian lawyer and politician
** Faridul Haq Khan (born 1956), Bangladeshi minister of Religious Affairs
* Muhammad Faridul Huda (died 1999), Bangladeshi former state minister of Health and Family Welfare

## Middle name
### Fareed

* Ibrahim Fareed Didi, a prince, son of Sultan Abdul Majeed Didi and Princess consort Famuladeyrige Didi and the brother of King Muhammad Fareed Didi of Maldives.
* Muhammad Fareed Didi (1901–1969), a king. Son of the Sultan Prince Abdul Majeed Didi was the last Sultan of Maldives and the first Maldivian monarch to assume the title of King

### Ferid

* Damat Ferid Pasha (1853–1923), Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire
* Mehmed Ferid Pasha (1851-1914), Ottoman statesman of ethnic Albanian background. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1903-1908)

## Surname
### Farid

* Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid, Bangladeshi politician
* Baba Farid or Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1173-1266), Punjabi Sufi saint
* Ibn al-Farid (1181-1234), Arab poet
* Jasmin Farid (born 1992), Swedish politician
* Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841/1845-1901), Siraiki poet
* Mariam Mamdouh Farid (born 1998), Qatari athlete
* Mohammad Farid (1868-1919), Egyptian politician

### Fareed

* Ahmed Fareed, American studio host and sports reporter
* Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born 1970), American rapper also known as Q-Tip
* Kamaal Fareed (born 1970), American rapper, record producer, singer, actor and DJ better known as Q-Tip and also The Abstract
* Morad Fareed (born 1979), Palestinian-American entrepreneur
* Muneer Fareed (born 1956), Muslim scholar and the former secretary general of ISNA (Islamic Society of North America)
* Vala Fareed (born 1975), Iraqi-Kurdish politician, Minister of State for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and previously the first female speaker of the legislature

### Faried

* Kenneth Faried (born 1989), American professional basketball player

## Fictional

* Farid, character in the book Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
* Ferid Egan, Commander of the Queen's Knights in the video game Suikoden V
* Farid, character in the game Call of Duty: Black Ops II
* Ferid Bathory, character in the manga Owari no Seraph
* Farid, character in the book The Kite Runner