Farid

Farid (فريد),also spelt Fahrid or Fareed is an Arabic masculine personal name, meaning unique. Farid is a common male name in the Middle East, South East Asia, and other places with large muslim populations.

Farid is also Arabic name for red ruby.

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.
*Farid Abboud, Lebanese Ambassador
*Farid Talhaoui, a Moroccan football player.
*Farid Ghadry, a Syrian political activist.
*Farid Mansurov, an Azerbaijani wrestler.
*Farid Shawki, an Egyptian actor.
*Farid Stino, a Middle Eastern businessman.
*Farid Mukhametshin, a Tatarstani politician.
*Farid Suleman
*Farid al-Atrash, a Syrian Egyptian singer, music composer, actor.
*Farid F. Abraham, a scientist.
*Farid Khan, a king.
*Farid Elhan, a Malaysian first male belly dancer and Malaysian Arabic singer.
*Farid Esack, South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar.
*Farid Tabaian, an American Cartographer.
*Farid Monemi Bichareh, Persian activist and first General Secratery of Dialouge Amonge Civilization of Iran universities, students union, and also he is a Control Engineer lives in the USA.
*Fareed Zakaria, American journalist and commentator
* [http://www.chefzadi.com Farid Zadi]
* [http://www.fadavi.de Farid Fadavi] , a computer scientist, SAP Solution Architect & Technical Consultant.
* [http://www.dedengkotweb.com Farid Ridho] , an Indonesian Statistician, founder of dedengkotweb, Indonesian Web (User) Interface Service Company.
*Baba Farid, a Sufi and Sikh saint.
*Farid Mondragom Ali, a Colombian national goalkeeper.
*Farid Handal, a Salvadoran politician

People with this surname include:

*Khwaja Ghulam Farid, a Siraiki poet.
*Mohammad Farid
*Ibn al-Farid, 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.

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