Farid

Farid
Pronunciation	Arabic: [fariːd]
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Arabic
Origin
Meaning	unique
Region of origin	Arabia
Other names
Alternative spelling	Ferid, Fareed, Faried

Farid (فريد) also spelt Ferid or Fareed is an Arabic masculine personal name or last name, meaning "unique". Farid is a common male name in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia.

People with this name include:

• Farid ad-Din Attar, Iranian Sufi poet
• Farid Abou-Shadi, Egyptian fencer
• Farid Abboud, Lebanese Ambassador
• Farid Alakbarli, Azerbaijani researcher
• Farid Talhaoui, Moroccan football player
• Farid Ghadry, Syrian political activist
• Farid Mansurov, Azerbaijani wrestler
• Farid Shawki, Egyptian actor
• Farid Stino, Middle Eastern businessman
• Farid Mukhametshin, Tatarstani politician
• Farid Suleman, American businessman
• Farid al-Atrash, Syrian Egyptian singer, music composeactor
• Farid F. Abraham, scientist
• Fahrid Murray Abraham, actor
• 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 or Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Punjabi Sufi saint
• Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Siraiki poet
• Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician
• Ibn al-Farid, Arab poet
• Fareed Lafta, Iraqi pilot and athlete
• Fareed Majeed, Iraqi footballer
• Fareed Rafiq Zakaria, Host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS
• Donald Fareed, Iranian born American Christian tele-evangelist
• Morad Fareed, Palestinian-American entrepreneur
• Farid Kamil, Malaysian male model turned actor
• Kenneth Faried, American professional basketball player
• Faryd Mondragón, Colombian professional footballer

Fictional

• Farid, character in the book Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, and the film Inkheart based on the novel
• Ferid Egan, Commander of the Queen's Knights in Suikoden V game
• Farid, character in the game Call of Duty: Black Ops II
• Ferid Bathory, character in the manga Owari no Seraph
• Farid, character in The Kite Runner