# Feroz

Feroz or variants such as Firuz, Firuze, Peroz or Piruz (Persian, 'victorious') is a name. People with the name include:

## Historical people

* Peroz I (died 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 (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 Iranian dignitary with 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

## Modern-day people

* 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 in Cuba
* 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. Muhammad Feroz (born 1952), Bangladeshi chief whip
* Ahmed Firoz Kabir (born 1963), Bangladeshi politician
* Khandaker Shahiduddin Firoz (1946-2020), Bangladeshi actor
* Kazi Firoz Rashid (born 1947), Bangladeshi politician
* Firoz Mahmud (born 1974), Bangladeshi visual artist
* Feroze Ahmed Swapan (born 1961), Bangladeshi politician
* Muhammad Feroze Ahmed (born 1945), 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