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Gender
  
Male

Language(s)
  
Arabic

Pronunciation
  
Literary Arabic: [fɑːˈruːq, faːˈruːq, fæːˈruːq]Egyptian Arabic: [fɑˈɾuːʔ]Levantine Arabic: [faːˈruːʔ]Persian: [fɒːˈɾuːɣ]English /fɑːˈruːk/

Farooq (also transliterated as Farouk, Farook, Faruk, Faroeq, Faruq, or Farouq, or Farooqi, Farooqui; Arabic: فاروق‎‎, Fārūq ) is a common Arabic given and family name. Al-Farūq literally means "The Redeemer" or "the one who distinguishes between right and wrong."

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Given name

  • Farouk I of Egypt (1920–1965), King of Egypt and the Sudan
  • Farooque (born 1948), Bangladeshi actor
  • Farooq, ring name of professional wrestler Ron Simmons (born 1958)
  • Farooq Abdullah (born 1937), Indian politician
  • Farouk El-Baz (born 1938), scientist
  • Faruk Çelik (born 1956), Turkish politician
  • Faruk Cömert (born 1946), Turkish Air Force general
  • Farrukh Dhondy (born 1944), Indian-born British writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist
  • Faruk Gül, Turkish and American economist, a professor of economics at Princeton University
  • Farouk Hosny (born 1938), painter
  • Farouk Janeman (1953–2013), Fijian athlete
  • Farooq Kathwari, United States businessman
  • Farouk Kaddoumi (born 1931), Palestinian leader
  • Farouk Kamoun (born 1946), Tunisian scientist
  • Farouk Lawan (born 1962), Nigerian politician
  • Farooq Leghari (1940–2010), eighth President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 until December 2, 1997
  • Farooq Naek (born 1950), Pakistani lawyer
  • Farukh Ruzimatov (born 1963), Russian ballet dancer
  • Farouk Shami, Palestinian-American businessman
  • Farouk al-Sharaa (born 1938), Syrian politician
  • Farooq Sheikh (1948–2013), Indian actor
  • Farooq Shah (born 1985), Pakistani footballer
  • Faruk Süren (born 1945), Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray
  • Faruk Türünz (born 1944), Turkish luthier
  • Faruk Yiğit (born 1968), Turkish footballer

    • Surname

  • Bakhtier Farouk, engineer
  • El Amry Farouk, Egyptian businessman and politician
  • Mohammad Farooq or Muhammad Farooq, several people
  • Nabil Farouk (born 1956), Egyptian novelist
  • Syed Rizwan Farook (1987–2015), a perpetrator of the 2015 San Bernardino attack
  • Talat Farooq, Pakistani human rights activist

    • References

    Farooq Wikipedia
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