farid

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| gender = Male

| meaning = Unique

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| language = Arabic

| origin = Middle Eastern

| alternative spelling = Farid, Fareed, Ferid, Ferit

| nickname = Farid

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| derived = Fard "Unique"

| popularity = Very Popular

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Farid (Arabic: فَرِيد fariyd, farīd), also spelt Fareed or Ferid and accented Férid, is an Arabic masculine personal name or surname meaning "unique, singular ("the One"), incomparable".{{cite thesis|author=Sung Ock Lee|title=A Cultural Comparative Study on the Self-Identification of Maronites in Lebanon and Assyrians in Iraq|page=138|degree=PhD

|url=http://www.aina.org/books/sung-ock-lee.pdf|location=Lebanese University|year=2011}} For many communities, including in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and South East Asia, the name Fareed is common across generations.

Given name

= Farid =

Farid Abboud (born 1951), Lebanese Ambassador
Farid F. Abraham (born 1937), American scientist
Farid Ahmad (1923-1971), Bengali politician and lawyer
Farid Ahmed (born 1960), Bangladeshi High Court justice
Farid Ahmed Gopalganji, Bangladeshi MP
Farid Alakbarli (1964-2021), Azerbaijani researcher
Farid Ali (1945–2016), Bangladeshi actor
Farid Azarkan (born 1971), Dutch politician of Moroccan descent
Farid al-Atrash (1910-1974), Syrian Egyptian singer, music composer, and actor
Farid ad-Din Attar (1145-1221), Iranian Sufi poet
Farid Bang (born Farid Hamed El Abdellaoui in 1986), German rapper of Moroccan-Spanish descent
Farid Yu Darvishsefat (born 1986), Japanese baseball player of Iranian descent
Farid Gazi Dewan (1924–2010), Bangladeshi politician
Farid Esack (born 1955), South African anti-apartheid activist and Muslim scholar
Farid Dieck (born 1993), Mexican psychologist, writer, and internet personality
Farid Ghadry (born 1954), Syrian political activist
Farid Habib (born 1959), 13th Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Navy
Farid Kamil (born 1981), Malaysian male model turned actor
Farid Khan, birth name of Sher Shah Suri (died 1545), king of the Sur Empire in present-day India
Farid Mansurov (born 1982), Azerbaijani wrestler
Farid Mukhametshin (born 1947), Tatarstani politician
Farid Raphaël (1933–2014), Lebanese economist and banker
Farid Shawki (1920-1998), Egyptian actor
Farid Stino (born 1943), Egyptian businessman
Farid Suleman, American businessman
Farid Talhaoui (born 1982), Moroccan football player

=Fahrid=

Fahrid Murray Abraham (born 1939), American actor

=Fareed=

Fareed Ahmad (cricketer) (born 1994), Afghan cricketer
Fareed Ahmad (field hockey) (born 1989), Pakistani field hockey player
Fareed Ahmed (born 1989), Pakistani field hockey player
Fareed Ayaz (born 1952), Pakistani qawwal
Fareed Ebrahim (born 1998), Egyptian born Qatari footballer
Fareed Haque (born 1963), American jazz guitarist
Fareed Lafta, Iraqi pilot and athlete
Fareed Majeed (born 1986), Iraqi footballer
Fareed Parbati (1961-2011), Indian Urdu language poet and writer
Fareed Sadat (born 1998), Afghan footballer
Fareed Zakaria (born 1964), American journalist and commentator
Fareed Zargar, Afghan cricketer
Farid al-Atrash (1910-1974), Famous Arabic singer

=Ferid=

Ferid Berberi (born 1946-2021), Albanian sportsman and weightlifter
Férid Boughedir (born 1944), Tunisian film director and screenwriter
Ferid Chouchane (born 1973), Tunisian footballer
Ferid Džanić (1918–1943), Bosniak soldier during World War II
Ferid Idrizović (born 1982), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
Ferid Imam (born 1980), Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen who is believed to have provided military training to al Qaeda jihadists in Pakistan
Ferid Matri (born 1994), Swiss-Tunisian-Italian footballer
Ferid Muhić (born 1943), Bosnian-Herzegovinian administrator and President of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts
Ferid Murad (1936-2023), Albanian physician and pharmacologist, co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Ferid Radeljaš (born 1959), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
Ferid Rragami (born 1957), Albanian footballer

=Compound names with ''Farid'' as a component=

Farid al-Din, or Farid Uddin
Farid ed-Din Mohammed Abdallah Rudagi (858-940), Persian poet
Fariduddin Attar (1145-1221), Persian Muslim mystic and poet
Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1173-1266), Punjabi Muslim mystic
Farid-ud-Din Baghdadi (1551-1733), Iraqi Muslim mystic
Farid Uddin Chowdhury (born 1947), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician
Farid Uddin Masood (born 1950), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist
Farid Uddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor
Farid al-Haqq, or Faridul Haq
Faridul Haq Ansari (1895-1966), Indian lawyer and politician
Faridul Haq Khan (born 1956), Bangladeshi minister of Religious Affairs
Muhammad Faridul Huda (died 1999), Bangladeshi former state minister of Health and Family Welfare

Middle name

=Fareed=

Ibrahim Fareed Didi, a prince, son of Sultan Abdul Majeed Didi and Princess consort Famuladeyrige Didi and the brother of King Muhammad Fareed Didi of Maldives.
Muhammad Fareed Didi (1901–1969), a king. Son of the Sultan Prince Abdul Majeed Didi was the last Sultan of Maldives and the first Maldivian monarch to assume the title of King

=Ferid=

Damat Ferid Pasha (1853–1923), Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the de facto prime minister of the Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Ferid Pasha (1851-1914), Ottoman statesman of ethnic Albanian background. He served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1903-1908)

Surname

=Farid=

Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid, Bangladeshi politician
Baba Farid or Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1173-1266), Punjabi Sufi saint
Ibn al-Farid (1181-1234), Arab poet
Jasmin Farid (born 1992), Swedish politician
Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841/1845-1901), Siraiki poet
Mariam Mamdouh Farid (born 1998), Qatari athlete
Mohammad Farid (1868-1919), Egyptian politician

=Fareed=

Ahmed Fareed, American studio host and sports reporter
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (born 1970), American rapper also known as Q-Tip
Kamaal Fareed (born 1970), American rapper, record producer, singer, actor and DJ better known as Q-Tip and also The Abstract
Muhammad Fareed (1926–2011), Pakistani mufti and writer
Morad Fareed (born 1979), Palestinian-American entrepreneur
Muneer Fareed (born 1956), Muslim scholar and the former secretary general of ISNA (Islamic Society of North America)
Vala Fareed (born 1975), Iraqi-Kurdish politician, Minister of State for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and previously the first female speaker of the legislature