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 composer, and actor
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
