Faris (name)

Fares

Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈfaːrɪs]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Knight
Other names
Alternative spelling	Fares, Farres, Farris, Fariz, Firas, Feras, Ferris

Faris (fāris فارس) is an Arabic and Croatian masculine given name translating to "knight," "horseman," or "cavalier" (see furusiyya). It is also common as a western-style surname and is widely used in the Balkans, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The unrelated Scottish-American surname Faris is an anglicization of MacFergus.

It may refer to:

Given name

People

• Faris Abdalla (born 1994), Sudanese football player
• Faris ad-Din Aktai (died 1254), an emir and the leader of the Mamluks of the Bahri dynasty
• Faris al-Ansari (born 1984), Afghani held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention center
• Faris Badwan (born 1986), Palestinian-English musician, lead vocalist of The Horrors and half of Cat's Eyes
• Faris Glubb (1939–2004), British-Jordanian writer, journalist, translator and publisher
• Faris Haroun (born 1985), Chadian-Canadian-Belgian football player
• Faris Kermani (born 1952), British film director
• Fāris ibn ʿAlī al-Marīni, also known as "Abu Inan Faris" (1329–1358), a Marinid ruler of Morocco
• Faris McReynolds (born 1977), American artist and musician
• Faris Nimr (1856–1951), Lebanese journalist
• Faris Odeh (1985–2000), Palestinian boy shot dead by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip while throwing stones
• Faris Al-Sultan (born 1978), Iraqi-German triathlete
• Faris al-Zahrani (1977–2016), on Saudi Arabia's list of 'most-wanted' suspected terrorists, later executed

Fictional characters

• Faris NyanNyan, in the anime series Steins;Gate
• Faris Scherwiz, alias of a main female character in the video game Final Fantasy V

Surname

• Alexander Faris (1921-2015), Northern Irish composer and conductor
• Anna Faris (born 1976), American actress and producer
• Basil Favis, Canadian chemist and professor
• Ellsworth Faris (1874–1953), American sociologist
• George W. Faris (1854–1914), American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana
• Herman P. Faris (1858–1936), proponent of the Temperance movement
• Mustapha Faris (1933–2023), Moroccan statesman and banker
• Muhammed Faris (1951-2024), Syrian military aviator
• Iyman Faris (born 1969), convicted Pakistani-American rogue FBI agent working for Al Qaeda
• Paula Faris (born 1975), American television correspondent
• Peter Faris (born 1948), Australian criminal lawyer, media commentator and former radio broadcaster
• Sadeg Faris (born 1946), Libyan-American inventor and entrepreneur
• Sean Faris (born 1982), American actor, model, and producer
• Stephan Faris (born 1973), American journalist
• Valerie Faris (born 1958), American film directors and music video director

See also

• Fares (name)
• Farris (surname)
• Ferris (name)