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Faizabad (फ़ैज़ाबाद)
Faizabad (फ़ैज़ाबाद), formerly Fyzabad, is a city in eastern Uttar Pradesh, twin of Ayodhya and eighteenth-century capital of the Awadh nawabs; its district was renamed Ayodhya in 2018.
Faizan Zaki (ఫైజాన్ జాకీ)
Faizan Zaki (ఫైజాన్ జాకీ), 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee with "éclaircissement" after finishing second in 2024 to Bruhat Soma.
Faizi
Faizi (فیضی) was the pen-name of Shaikh Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, a Persian poet and scholar who served the Mughal emperor Akbar as poet laureate and tutor to his three sons.
Faizon Brandon
Faizon Brandon is a true freshman quarterback, Tennessee Volunteers' 2026 starter, from Grimsley High School in Greensboro, N.C.; a five-star recruit (247Sports No. 2 overall) who committed in August 2024 and went 35-1 in high school.
Faizon Love
Faizon Love (Langston Faizon Santisima, born 1968, Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban-American actor and comedian known for Big Worm in Friday, Elf, Couples Retreat, and voicing Sweet in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Faizullah Khan
Faizullah Khan (فیض اللہ خان) was a Rohilla chief who became Nawab of Rampur in 1774 under British protection and founded the Rampur Raza Library.
Faı̈ez Zannad
Faıëz Zannad, also written Faiez Zannad, is a French cardiologist and clinical trialist at the University of Lorraine who chaired the EMPHASIS-HF and EMPEROR-Reduced heart failure trials.
Fajas de Sao Jorge Biosphere Reserve
Fajãs de São Jorge Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera das Fajãs de São Jorge), a UNESCO MAB site designated 19 March 2016, covering all of São Jorge Island in the Azores plus marine waters to three miles, 98,114.17 ha with over seven dozen landslide and lava-flow fajãs.
Fajita
Fajita ("little belt," diminutive of Spanish faja) is a Tex-Mex dish of grilled skirt steak, the diaphragm muscle, originating in 1930s South and West Texas ranch lands and popularized commercially from 1969 by Sonny Falcon, Ninfa's, and Hyatt Austin's sizzling fajitas.
Fajr-5
The Fajr-5 (فجر-۵, "dawn") is an Iranian 333 mm unguided artillery rocket fired from a four-tube truck launcher, reaching 75 km with a 175 kg warhead.
Fakahotu Corona
Fakahotu Corona is a 290 km diameter corona, a circular volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 59.10°N, 106.40°E, named for the Tuamotu earth mother and IAU-approved in 1985.
Fake
Fake is a 2024 Australian Paramount+ drama series, eight 40-minute episodes adapted by Anya Beyersdorf from Stephanie Wood's memoir, starring Asher Keddie as writer Birdie Bell and David Wenham as romance scammer Joe Burt.
Fake it till you make it
Fake it till you make it: folk advice to act confident before feeling it. Covers affirmations backfiring (Wood 2009), failed power posing, therapeutic 'act as if', and workplace surface acting.
Fake It Till You Make It (装腔启示录)
Fake It Till You Make It (装腔启示录) is a 2023 Chinese urban drama directed by Li Mo, adapted from Liu Cuihu's Douban Read novel, starring Cai Wenjing and Han Dongjun as a Beijing lawyer and investment banker; it aired on Hunan TV and Mango TV from August 18, 2023, 22 episodes, Douban about 8.2.
Fake news
Fake news: intentionally and verifiably false news content mimicking real journalism, popularized as a term during the 2016 U.S. election; distinct from misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, and studied through detection, fact-checking, and regulation.
Fake news detection
Fake news detection is the natural language processing task of predicting whether a news article is false or misleading, covering rumor, clickbait, and veracity classification.
Fake news website
Fake news website: a site publishing false stories disguised as news, typically for ad revenue or political influence. Includes the Veles, Macedonia 2016 industry, ad-network monetization, AI content farms, and fact-checking responses.
Fake nude photography
Fake nude photography covers both the fin-de-siecle faux nude, a studio photo with a sheer body stocking simulating nudity, and modern AI nudification deepfakes depicting real people nude without consent, now criminalized under laws like the Take It Down Act.
Fake Princess (冒牌太子妃)
Fake Princess (山寨小萌主, working title 冒牌太子妃) is a 2020 Chinese costume romantic comedy web drama on Mango TV, 27 episodes, directed by Qin Zhen, adapted from Shui Sheng's novel, starring Zhao Yiqin and Eleanor Lee as crown prince Li Che and substitute bride Chang Le.
Fake Shemp
A fake Shemp is a disguised body double who stands in for an actor who has died or is unavailable, a term coined by director Sam Raimi.
Fake Taxi
Fake Taxi: British-Czech adult entertainment brand and paysite founded by Jonathan 'JT' Todd, staged taxi-fare scenario, filmed in Prague, produced by Really Useful Limited/Yellow Production, now under Aylo (ex-MindGeek).
Fake Your Death
Fake Your Death: 2014 song by My Chemical Romance, written during the 2012 Stanley Cup Final, released as the opening track of the May Death Never Stop You compilation; Gerard Way called it the band's eulogy.
Faked death
Faked death, or pseudocide, is staging one's own death to escape debts, prosecution, or abuse, or to collect insurance. Documented cases include John Darwin, John Stonehouse, Arkady Babchenko, Jesse Kipf, and Ryan Borgwardt; prosecutions arise from fraud, not the faking itself.
Fakel
Fakel Voronezh (Факел Воронеж) is a Russian football club founded in 1947 at a secret Voronezh aviation plant; Soviet First League champion and USSR Cup semifinalist 1984, best RPL finish 11th in 2023-24, plays at the 34,800-seat Central Stadium of Trade Unions.
Fakemink
fakemink is the stage name of Vincenzo Camille, a UK rapper from Basildon, Essex, formerly 9090gate, whose 2023 mixtape London's Saviour and 2025 hit LV Sandals made him the leading figure of UK underground rap; Terrified . followed in 2026.
Fakenham
Fakenham is a market town on the River Wensum in North Norfolk, England, granted its market charter in 1250. Known for its Thursday Charter Market, Georgian Market Place shaped by fires of 1660, 1718, and 1738, and Britain's only intact surviving town gasworks, now a museum.
Faker (이상혁) (gamer)
Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok, 이상혁, born 1996) is a South Korean League of Legends mid laner for T1; record six World Championships (2013-2025), ten LCK titles, first Hall of Legends inductee, widely called the game's greatest player.
Fakhar Zaman (فخر زمان) (cricketer)
Fakhar Zaman (فخر زمان), born 1990, Pakistani left-handed ODI opener, ex-Pakistan Navy sailor; first Pakistani with an ODI double-hundred (210) and 2017 Champions Trophy final centurion vs India.
Fakhar-e-Alam
Fakhar-e-Alam (فخر عالم) is a Pakistani pop singer, rapper, actor, and television host, widely credited as Pakistan's first mainstream rap artist, who broke through in 1993 with 'Bhangra Rap'.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, also known as Fakhruddin Razi, was a Sunni Ash'arite theologian and Qur'an exegete from Rayy, Persia, an influential critic of Ibn Sina who died in Herat in 1210.