Farooq

Farooq
فاروق

Calligraphic representation of Umar Al-Farooq name
Pronunciation	Literary Arabic: [fɑːˈruːq, faːˈruːq, fæːˈruːq] Egyptian Arabic: [fɑˈɾuːʔ] Levantine Arabic: [faːˈruːʔ] Persian: [fɒːˈɾuːɣ] English: /fɑːˈruːk/
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

Name list

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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.

Surname list

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See also[]

• Al-Farooq (disambiguation)
• Farook College, Calicut