Farid

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