Farrokh (name)

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