All articles starting with F
15,892 articles
Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo, North Dakota: largest city in North Dakota, in Cass County on the Red River of the North. Founded 1871 as a Northern Pacific Railroad town, named for William G. Fargo; 136,275 residents (2025 estimate), metro over 269,000.
Farha South Oil Field
Farha South Oil Field is an onshore oil field in eastern central Oman, discovered in 2009 and the largest producing field of the Blocks 3 & 4 concession, operated by CC Energy Development.
Farhad Fakhreddini
Farhad Fakhreddini (فرهاد فخرالدینی) is an Iranian composer and conductor who trained under Abu'l-Hasan Saba, conducted Iranian radio and television's grand orchestra in the 1970s, and founded Iran's National Orchestra in 1998.
Farhad Khosravi
Farhad (Fred) Khosravi is an Iranian-American mechanical engineer and Silicon Valley medical-device entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Imperative Care, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Farhad Massoudi (فرهاد مسعودی)
Farhad Massoudi (فرهاد مسعودی) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur who founded the free ad-supported streaming service Tubi in 2014 and sold it to Fox Corporation in 2020 for about $440 million.
Farhad Mirza
Farhad Mirza (فرهاد میرزا), titled Mo'tamad-al-Dawla, was a Qajar prince-governor, author, and bibliophile, a son of Abbas Mirza who governed Fars and Kurdistan and died in Tehran in 1888.
Farhad Moshiri
Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian-born, British-based financier and long-time business partner of Alisher Usmanov who was Everton's majority owner from 2018 until selling to the Friedkin Group in 2024.
Farhad Samji
Farhad Samji (born 1974) is an Indian screenwriter, director, and lyricist in Hindi cinema. With brother Sajid as lyricist duo from 2002, he wrote Golmaal and Singham dialogues and directed Housefull 4 and Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan.
Farhan Akhtar (फ़रहान अख़्तर)
Farhan Akhtar (फ़रहान अख़्तर), born 1974 in Mumbai, is a Hindi film director, actor, singer, and producer; son of Javed Akhtar, co-founder of Excel Entertainment, director of Dil Chahta Hai and Don, and star of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
Farhan Saeed (فرہان سعید بٹ)
Farhan Saeed (فرہان سعید بٹ), full name Farhan Saeed Butt, born 1984 in Lahore, is a Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor, former Jal lead vocalist (2003–2011), solo hitmaker of Roiyaan and Thodi Der, star of Suno Chanda and Mere Humsafar, and husband of Urwa Hocane.
Farhang-e Anandraj
Farhang-e Anandraj (فرهنگ آنندراج) is a large Persian-language dictionary compiled in India in 1888-89 by the poet and lexicographer Moḥammad Pādshāh Šād, named for his patron the maharaja Ānand Rāj.
Farhang-e Jahangiri
Farhang-e Jahangiri (فرهنگ جهانگیری), meaning "Dictionary of Jahangir," is a Persian dictionary of about 10,000 words compiled in Mughal India between 1595 and 1608 by the poet and courtier Ḥosayn Enjū.
Farhang-e Mo'in
Farhang-e Mo'in, fully Farhang-e Farsi-e Mo'in, is a monolingual Persian dictionary compiled by Mohammad Moein and published by Amir Kabir in Tehran from 1963 to 1973.
Farhash Wafa Salvador
Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak, Malaysian businessman and former political secretary to Anwar Ibrahim, ex-PKR Perak chief; chairman of Apex Equity and 7-Eleven Malaysia, MMAG shareholder, and figure in the Sabah mining licence controversy.
Farhat Hached
Farhat Hached (فرحات حشاد) was a Tunisian trade unionist and independence activist who founded the UGTT union in 1946 and was assassinated by French operatives in 1952.
Farhud
The Farhud (الفرهود) was a two-day pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad on 1–2 June 1941, in which roughly 110 to 180 people, most of them Jews, were killed.
Fariba Fahroo
Fariba Fahroo is an American applied mathematician who co-founded pseudospectral optimal control theory with I. Michael Ross and managed research programs at AFOSR and DARPA.
Fariba Sheikhan
Fariba Sheikhan Uriarte, Spanish actress born 1988 in Barakaldo, raised in Gernika, Basque mother and Iranian father. Known for La Unidad, Tehran, Matices, Salvador, and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant.
Faricimab
Faricimab (Vabysmo) is a bispecific VEGF-A/Ang-2 antibody eye injection approved 2022 for wet AMD and diabetic macular edema, and 2023 for retinal vein occlusion, with dosing up to every 16 weeks.
Farid al-Din Attar
Farid al-Din Attar (عطار نیشابوری) was a Persian Sufi poet and hagiographer of Nishapur, best known for the Conference of the Birds and the Tazkirat al-awliya.
Farid Ayaz
Farid Ayaz & Abu Muhammad are a Pakistani qawwali group of brothers based in Karachi, of the Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana traced to Amir Khusrau, who debuted on Coke Studio in 2011.
Farid Basharat
Farid Basharat, "Ferocious", Afghan-born English bantamweight born 1997 in Paktia; undefeated 16-0 pro, 7-0 in the UFC, removed from the UFC roster October 2026 after his contract expired.
Farid Fata
Farid Fata, Lebanese-born Michigan hematologist-oncologist, owner of Michigan Hematology Oncology; misdiagnosed 553 patients with cancer, billed $34 million in fraudulent claims, sentenced in 2015 to 45 years in federal prison.
Farida Jalal (फ़रीदा ज़लाल)
Farida Jalal (फ़रीदा ज़लाल), née Sami, born 1949, is an Indian Hindi cinema and television actress with over 200 films across five decades, known for DDLJ, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mammo, Heeramandi, and four Filmfare Awards.
Faridabad (फरीदाबाद)
Faridabad (फरीदाबाद), also called Faridabad city, is Haryana's largest industrial city on the Delhi–Agra highway, founded by Shaikh Farid (Murtaza Khan), Jahangir's treasurer; district population 1,809,733 (2011), a Smart City and NCR transport hub.
Farideh Firoozbakht
Farideh Firoozbakht (1962–2019) was an Iranian mathematician at the University of Isfahan known for Firoozbakht's conjecture, a 1982 unproven claim about the distribution of prime numbers.
Faridpur District
Faridpur District (ফরিদপুর জেলা), a 2,072.72 sq km district of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh, on the Padma River; 9 upazilas, 1.9 million people (2011), named after Sheikh Fariduddin, formerly Fatehabad; proposed headquarters of a new Faridpur Division.
Farigh Oil and Gas Field
Farigh Oil and Gas Field (فارغ), also spelled Faregh, is the name of two producing onshore hydrocarbon fields in Libya's Sirte Basin, one operated by Waha Oil Company and one by Harouge Oil Operations.
Farinelli
Farinelli, stage name of Carlo Broschi, was an Italian castrato singer, the most celebrated opera star of the eighteenth century and later a Spanish court director.
Faris al-Shidyaq
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (فارس الشدياق) was a Lebanese-born writer and journalist known as the father of Arabic journalism, who published the influential weekly al-Jawa'ib in Istanbul from 1861.