Faris (name)

People with the given name include: Faris is a masculine given name of Arabic origin, which means "knight."[1] It may refer to:

• Faris Abdalla (born 1994), Sudanese football player
• Faris ad-Din Aktai (d. 1254, Cairo), an Emir (prince) and the leader of the Mamluks of the Bahri dynasty.
• Faris al-Ansari (b. 1984), Afghani who was seventeen years old when captured and held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention center
• Faris Al-Sultan (b. 1978), Iraqi-German professional triathlete
• Faris al-Zahrani (1977–2016), on Saudi Arabia's list of 'most-wanted' suspected terrorists, later executed
• Fāris ibn ʿAlī al-Marīni, also known as "Abu Inan Faris" (1329–1358), a Marinid ruler of Morocco
• 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
• Fares Karam, Lebanese singer and dancer
• Faris Kermani (born 1952), British film director
• Faris McReynolds (born 1977), American artist and musician
• Faris Odeh (1985–2000), Palestinian boy shot dead by the Israel Defense Forces near the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip while throwing stones in the second month of the Al-Aqsa Intifada
• Faris Ramli (born 1992), Singaporean football player

The Arabic given name in modern times also came to be used as a surname:

• Muhammed Faris (محمد فارس‎, born 1951), Syrian military aviator.
• Iyman Faris (born 1969), Pakistani-American rogue FBI agent working for Al Qaeda (convicted 2003)
• Paula Faris (born 1975), American television correspondent
• Sadeg Faris Libyan-American inventor and entrepreneur

Faris is also an unrelated American surname, originating as the anglicization of the Scottish surname MacFergus.[2]

• Alexander Faris, Northern Irish composer and conductor
• Anna Faris (born 1976), American actress and producer
• Ellsworth Faris (1874–1953), American sociologist
• George W. Faris (1854–1914), American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana
• Herman P. Faris (1858–1936), committed proponent of the temperance movement
• James Abraham Faris 1890-1933, mycologist with the standard author abbreviation "Faris"
• Peter Faris (b. 1948), Australian criminal lawyer, media commentator and former radio broadcaster
• Sean Faris (born 1982), American actor, model, and producer
• Stephan Faris (b. 1973), American journalist
• Valerie Faris (b. 1958), American film directors and music video director