Farooq
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Pronunciation | Literary Arabic: [fɑːˈruːq, faːˈruːq, fæːˈruːq] Egyptian Arabic: [fɑˈɾuːʔ] Levantine Arabic: [faːˈruːʔ] Persian: [fɒːˈɾuːɣ] English: /fɑːˈruːk/ |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Arabic |
Meaning | The one who distinguishes between right and wrong |
Farooq (also transliterated as Farouk, Faruqi, Farook, Faruk, Faroeq, Faruq, or Farouq, or Farooqi, Farooqui; Arabic: فاروق, romanized: Fārūq) is a common Arabic given and family name. Al-Fārūq literally means "the one who distinguishes between right and wrong."
Given name[]
Farouk[]
- Farouk of Egypt (1920–1965), King of Egypt and the Sudan
- Farouk El-Baz (born 1938), scientist
- Farouk Hosny (born 1938), painter
- Farouk Janeman (1953–2013), Fijian athlete
- Farouk Kaddoumi (born 1931), Palestinian leader
- Farouk Kamoun (born 1946), Tunisian scientist
- Farouk Lawan (born 1962), Nigerian politician
- Farouk Shami, Palestinian-American businessman
- Farouk al-Sharaa (born 1938), Syrian politician
Farooq[]
- (born 1959), Circuit Judge
- Faarooq, ring name of professional wrestler Ron Simmons (born 1958)
- Farooque (born 1948), Bangladeshi actor
- Farooq Abdullah (born 1937), Indian politician
- Farooq Kathwari, United States businessman
- Farooq Kperogi, Nigerian academic
- Farooq Leghari (1940–2010), eighth President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 until December 2, 1997
- Farooq Naek (born 1950), Pakistani lawyer
- Farooq Sheikh (1948–2013), Indian actor
- Farooq Shah (born 1985), Pakistani footballer
Farooqi[]
- Muhammed Sharif al-Faruqi Responsible for initiating Arab revolt from the Ottomans.
Faruk[]
- Faruk Cömert (born 1946), Turkish Air Force general
- Faruk Çelik (born 1956), Turkish politician
- Faruk Gül, Turkish and American economist, a professor of economics at Princeton University
- Faruk Süren (born 1945), Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray
- Faruk Türünz (born 1944), Turkish luthier
- Faruk Yiğit (born 1968), Turkish footballer
Farukh/Farrukh/Farokh/Farrokh[]
This is actually a different name of Persian origin (فرّخ) meaning fortunate and happy and is unrelated to Farooq.
- Farrokh Bulsara (1946-1991), Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.
- Others named Farokh and Farrokh, see Farrokh
Surname[]
Farouk[]
- Bakhtier Farouk, engineer and published author
- El Amry Farouk, Egyptian businessman and politician
- Nabil Farouk (1956–2020), Egyptian novelist
Farook[]
- Hunais Farook (born 1973), a Sri Lankan politician
- Syed Rizwan Farook (1987–2015), a perpetrator of the 2015 San Bernardino attack
Farooq[]
- Mohammad Farooq or Muhammad Farooq, several people
- Mohammad Farooq (cricketer, born 1938), Pakistani cricketer
- Muhammad Farooq Khan (1956–2010), Pakistani psychiatrist
- , Pakistani cricketer for Quetta
- , Pakistani cricketer for Rawalpindi
- Muhammad Farooq (journalist) (fl. 1991–2006), Pakistani journalist and Naat Khawan
- Mir Waiz Umar Farooq, Kashmiri separatist leader.
See also[]
- Al-Farooq (disambiguation)
- Farook College, Calicut
Categories:
- Given names
- Surnames
- Arabic-language surnames
- Arabic masculine given names
- Turkish masculine given names