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Farrokh or Farokh (Persian: فرّخ, meaning fortunate and happy), also transliterated as Farrukh, is a popular masculine given name of Persian origin and also a common surname in Iran, Central Asia and among Muslims and Zoroastrians in South Asia. Some prominent individuals with the name include:
People with the mononym
- Farrukh Beg (c. 1545 – c. 1615), a Persian born Mughal painter
- Farrukh Pasha, a 16th and 17th-century Ottoman statesman based in Palestine
- Farrukh-Shah (died 1196), the amir of Kerman, in southeast of Iran from 1195 until his death
People with the given name
Farokh
- Farokh Engineer (born 1938), an Indian cricketer
- Farokh Udwadia, an Indian physician
Farrokh
- Ahmad-i Farrokh, a 12th-century Persian physician
- Farrokh Khan, a high-ranking Persian official, and vice premier to the court of shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. He is also known by his title of Amin od-dowleh
- Farrokh Ayazi, an American Iranian professor and electrical engineer
- Farrokh Bulsara (1946-1991), known as Freddie Mercury, a British rock musician and founding member of the band Queen
- Farrokh Ghaffari (1921–2006), an Iranian film director, actor, critic and author
- Farrokh Khambata, an Indian entrepreneur, restaurateur, chef and caterer.
- Farrokh Negahdar, an Iranian political activist
- Farrokh Saidi (born 1929), an Iranian surgeon, academician
Farukh
- Farukh Ruzimatov (born 1963), a Russian ballet dancer
Farrukh
- Farrukh Ahmad (1918–1974), a Bangladeshi poet
- Farrukh Amonatov (born 1978), a Tajik chess player
- Farrukh Bari (born 1964), a Pakistani cricketer
- Farrukh Choriyev (born 1984), a Tajik football player
- Farrukh Dhondy, a British writer
- Farrukh Dustov (born 1986), an Uzbek tennis player
- Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan (1952–2003), a Pakistani Punjabi player of the harmonium in Qawwali and a member of a well-known family of Qawwali musicians
- Farrukh Gayibov (1891–1916), a Russian pilot of Azerbaijani ancestry, and participant in World War I
- Farrukh Habib, a Pakistani politician
- Farrukh Hormizd, an army chief (spahbed) of northern Iran during the late Sasanian period
- Farrukh Ismayilov (born 1978), an Azerbaijani footballer
- Farrukh Javed, a Pakistani politician
- Farrukh Khan, a Pakistani politician
- Farrukh Quraishi, a retired Iranian-American football player
- Farrukh Raza (born 1961), a Pakistani former cricketer
- Farrukh Saleem, a Pakistani political scientist, economist, financial analyst, journalist and a television personality
- Farrukh Sayfiev (born 1991), an Uzbek footballer
- Farrukh Yassar, the Shirvanshah (king of Shirvan, r. 1465–1500)
- Farrukh Zokirov, an Uzbek composer, singer and artistic director of the famous in ex-USSR band Yalla
- Farrukh Zaman (born 1956), a Pakistani cricketer
- Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan (born 1958), a Pakistani Justice of the Lahore High Court
People with the surname
Farrokh
- Kaveh Farrokh (born 1962), a Canadian author of Iranian descent
Farrukh
- Bushra Farrukh (born 1957), a Pakistani poet
See also
- Farrokh (disambiguation)
- Farrokhroo Parsa (1922–1980), Iranian politician
- Farooq, a given name and surname
References
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