Farid (فريد),also spelt Fahrid or Fareed is an Arabic masculine personal name, meaning unique. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Farid is a common male name in the Middle East, South East Asia, and other places with large muslim populations. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East.
Farid is also Arabic name for red ruby. A Ruby is a pink to blood-red Gemstone, a variety of the Mineral Corundum ( Aluminium oxide)
It is also a common name amongst Persians who believe it is an ancient Persian name.
People with this name include:
- Mohammed Nurul Alam Farid, Australian Graphics Designer and Social Worker.
- Hazrat Baba Fareed Shaker Gunj, Sufi Fakir and Punjabi Poet
- Farid ad-Din Attar, an Iranian sufi poet. Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Masood Ganjshakar Dari حضرت بابا فرید الدّین مسعود گنج شکر Punjabi ਫ਼ਰੀਦ-ਉਦ-ਦੀਨ ਗੰਜਸ਼ਕਰ}} Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (born 1145-46 in Nishapur &ndash died c
- Farid Abboud, Lebanese Ambassador
- Farid Talhaoui, a Moroccan football player. Farid Abboud (فريد عبود born 1951 is the Lebanese Ambassador to Tunisia since July 2007 Farid Talhaoui (born February 10, 1982) is a Moroccan football player who is playing for Wydad Casablanca.
- Farid Ghadry, a Syrian political activist. Farid Ghadry (born on June 18, 1954 is the Syrian-born co-founder and current president of the Reform Party of Syria, opposition party of "pro-democracy"
- Farid Mansurov, an Azerbaijani wrestler. Farid Mansurov (born May 10, 1982) is an Azeri wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Farid Shawki, an Egyptian actor. Farid Shawki Mohammad Abduh Badawi (فريد شوقى محمدعبده ( July 30, 1920 in Cairo - July 27, 1998) known as Farid
- Farid Stino, a Middle Eastern businessman. Dr Farid Stino is an Egyptian businessperson Stino is the President and CEO of Ismailia-Misr Poultry Company, one of the largest poultry companies in the
- Farid Mukhametshin, a Tatarstani politician. Farid Khayrullovich Mukhametshin (also Farit Mokhametshin Tatar: Färit Xäyrulla ulı Möxämmätşin, Russian Фарид Хайруллович
- Farid Suleman
- Farid al-Atrash, a Syrian Egyptian singer, music composer, actor. Farid Suleman has been the chairman and CEO of Citadel Broadcasting since 2002 Farid al-Atrash (October 19 1915 - December 26 1974 Arabic: فريد الأطرش; first name sometimes spelled Fareed.
- Farid F. Abraham, a scientist. Farid F Abraham is an American scientist Abraham earned his Bachelor of Science and Ph
- Farid Khan, a king. Sher Shah Suri (1486 Sasaram &ndash May 22, 1545 Kalinjar) ( - Šīr Šāh Sūrī) also known as Farid Khan or
- Farid Elhan, a Malaysian first male belly dancer and Malaysian Arabic singer.
- Farid Esack, South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar. Farid Esack (born 1959 is a South African Muslim scholar writer and political activist known for his opposition to Apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela
- Farid Tabaian, an American Cartographer.
- Fareed Zakaria, American journalist and commentator
- Farid Zadi
- Farid Fadavi, a computer scientist and SAP Blackberry Developer. Fareed Zakaria ( born January 20, 1964) is an India -born American Journalist, Author, and television host specializing
- Baba Farid, a Sufi and Sikh saint. Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Masood Ganjshakar Dari حضرت بابا فرید الدّین مسعود گنج شکر Punjabi ਫ਼ਰੀਦ-ਉਦ-ਦੀਨ ਗੰਜਸ਼ਕਰ}}
- Farid Mondragom Ali, a Colombian national goalkeeper.
- Farid Handal, a Salvadoran politician
- Farid Aliyev, sexiest person alive
People with this surname include:
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid, a Siraiki poet. Khwaja Ghulam Fareed Sahib ( Urdu / Shahmukhi / Seraiki: خواجہ فرید, Punjabi Gurmukhi ਖ਼ਾਜਾ ਫ਼ਰੀਦ
- Mohammad Farid
- Ibn al-Farid, an Arab poet. Mohammad Farid or Muhammad Farid (محمد فريد (born January 20 1868 in Cairo, died November 15 1919 in Berlin Ibn al-Farid or Ibn Farid; Arabic, عمر بن علي بن الفارض ( `Umar ibn `Alī ibn al-Fārid) (1181-1235 was an Arab poet
- Hany Farid, professor of computer science at Dartmouth College; founder of digital forensics, a computer science subdiscipline.
See also:
- Farid (Inkheart), a character in the book Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke. Farid is a Fictional character in Cornelia Funke 's Inkworld trilogy Inkheart (original title Tintenherz) is a young adult-child Fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Cornelia Caroline Funke (FOON-ka (kuh means "spark'" in German) was born December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia
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