Farid
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Farid (فريد) also spelt Ferid or Fareed is an Arabic masculine personal name, meaning "unique". Farid is a common male name in the Middle East, the Balkans, South East Asia, and other places with large Muslim populations.
People with this name include:
- 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
- Sher Shah Suri, Farid Khan, a king
- Farid Esack, South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar
- Fareed Zakaria, American journalist and commentator
- Baba Farid, a Sufi saint
- Khwaja Ghulam Farid, a Siraiki poet
- Mohammad Farid
- Ibn al-Farid, an Arab poet
- Fareed Lafta, Iraqi pilot and athlete
- Fareed Majeed, Iraqi footballer
- Donald Fareed, Iranian born American Christian tele-evangelist
- Morad Fareed, Palestinian-American entrepreneur
- Farid Kamil, Malaysian male model turned actor
[edit] Fictional
- Farid, character in the book Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, and the film Inkheart based on the novel
- Ferid, character in Suikoden V game
- Farid, character in the legend of Market Access
- Farid, a suicide bomber in the game "Här kommer flygplanet: Halvan"
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