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Farouk Gouida
Farouk Gouida (فاروق جويدة) is an Egyptian poet and journalist at Al-Ahram, born in 1945 or 1946, known for love and patriotic poems set to music.
Farouk of Egypt (فاروق الأول)
Farouk of Egypt (فاروق الأول) was the penultimate king of Egypt, succeeding Fuad I in 1936 at 16 and abdicating after the Free Officers coup of 1952.
Farrah Abraham
Farrah Abraham, American reality TV personality from MTV's 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom (2009–2017), single mother of Sophia, later adult film, memoir, comedy, and Austin council candidacy.
Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett (Ferrah Leni Fawcett, 1947-2009), American actress and 1970s icon; Jill Munroe on Charlie's Angels and star of the best-selling 12-million-copy red swimsuit poster; later earned Emmy nominations for The Burning Bed and Small Sacrifices.
Farrah Forke
Farrah Forke (1968–2022) was an American actress known as Alex Lambert on NBC's Wings, Mayson Drake on Lois & Clark season 2, and the voice of Big Barda in Batman Beyond and Justice League Unlimited; she died of cancer in Texas.
Farrah Franklin
Farrah Franklin (Farrah Laron Franklin, born 1981), American R&B singer and actress; brief Destiny's Child member January–July 2000, later solo singles and films.
Farrah Mackenzie
Farrah Mackenzie (born 2005) is an American actress known for Rose Sandford in Leave the World Behind, Alice in Utopia, Hazel in United States of Al, and Stella Parton in NBC's Dolly Parton films.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux is a New York literary publisher founded in the mid-1940s, known for twenty-five Nobel laureates; it sold controlling interest to Germany's Holtzbrinck group in 1994.
Farrel Hegarty
Farrel Jo Hegarty, born 1988, is an English actress and comedy writer known for playing Lou Michaelis in Coronation Street from February 2025, with earlier credits in Emmerdale, Brassic, and My Dinner with Hervé.
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, an American 1890s-themed ice cream and sandwich chain founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1963 by Bob Farrell and Ken McCarthy; reached about 130 locations under Marriott, collapsed in the 1980s, revived in 2009, and closed its last Brea, California shop in 2019.
Farrelly brothers
Farrelly brothers: Peter and Bobby Farrelly, American comedy filmmakers from Rhode Island. Debut Dumb and Dumber (1994); hits include There's Something About Mary (1998); Peter later directed Oscar winner Green Book (2018).
Farren J. Isaacs
Farren J. Isaacs is a synthetic biologist and genome engineer, professor at Yale, known for building genomically recoded bacteria and the MAGE and CAGE engineering tools.
Farrey (फर्रे)
Farrey (फर्रे) is a 2023 Hindi heist thriller directed by Soumendra Padhi, a remake of Bad Genius, starring debutante Alizeh Agnihotri as an orphan drawn into an exam-cheating racket; released 24 November 2023, streamed on ZEE5 from April 2024.
Farrhana Bhatt
Farrhana Bhatt (फरहाना भट्ट), born 1997 in Srinagar, is an Indian actress and taekwondo medalist known for Jasmeet in Laila Majnu (2018), Notebook, Singham Again, and as first runner-up of Bigg Boss 19 (2025) behind Gaurav Khanna.
Farrier
Farrier: a professional who trims, balances, and shoes horses' hooves, combining blacksmithing with equine foot anatomy. UK-regulated under the Farriers (Registration) Act 1975; four-year apprenticeship; elsewhere accredited by bodies such as the IAPF.
Farrington Daniels
Farrington Daniels (1889–1972) was an American physical chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, director of the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory, and a pioneer of solar energy research.
Farro
Farro is an Italian term for grains of three hulled wheat species, einkorn, emmer, and spelt; in Italy it especially means emmer, the "true" farro.
Farroll T. Wright
Farroll T. Wright, known as Tim Wright, is an American statistician and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, co-author of the monograph Order Restricted Statistical Inference.
Farroupilha Revolution
The Farroupilha Revolution, also known as Guerra dos Farrapos, was a republican separatist revolt in southern Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul province, lasting from 1835 to 1845.
Farrukh Beg
Farrukh Beg (فرخ بیگ), also Farrukh Husayn, was a Persian painter born around 1545 who worked at the Safavid, Kabul, Mughal, and Bijapur courts and died in Agra around 1619.
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan (فرخ فتح علی خان)
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan (فرخ فتح علی خان), 1952–2003, Pakistani qawwali harmonium player, younger brother of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, father of Rahat; party member 1971–1997, called Harmonium Raj Sahib.
Farrukh Yasar
Farrukh Yasar (فرخ یسار) was the Shirvanshah, ruler of Shirvan in the eastern Caucasus, from the 1460s until he was killed in battle against Shah Ismail I in 1500.
Farrukhābād
Farrukhābād (फ़र्रूख़ाबाद) is a city in the Ganges plain of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the seat of Farrukhabad district, founded in 1714 by Nawab Mohammad Khan Bangash.
Farrukhi Sistani
Farrukhi Sistani (فرخی سیستانی) was a Persian court poet of the late 10th and early 11th centuries who served Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna and wrote celebrated qasidas.
Farrukhsiyar (فرخ سیار)
Farrukhsiyar (فرخ سیار), Mughal emperor of Delhi 1713–1719; issued the 1717 farman granting the English East India Company duty-free trade in Bengal, and was deposed, blinded, and killed by the Sayyid brothers in 1719.
Farrukhsiyar's farman of 1717
Farrukhsiyar's farman of 1717 (فرمان فرخ سیر) was a decree by Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar granting the English East India Company duty-free trade in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
Farruko
Farruko (Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado), Puerto Rican reggaeton and Latin pop singer born 1991 in Bayamón; debut El Talento del Bloque (2010), Latin Grammy winner for "6 AM," global hit "Pepas" (2021), founder of Carbon Fiber Music.
Fars
Fars (Fārs) is a province of southern Iran with capital Shiraz; homeland of the ancient Persians (Persis), fourth most populous province at 6.1% of Iran, second in agricultural production, facing water scarcity.
Fars Sulcus
Fars Sulcus is an IAU-approved sulcus on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 112 km across, centered at -64.06°, 290.14°, named for the Persian city of King Yunan in the One Thousand and One Nights tale of the Wizier and Sage Duban.
Farsa de Inês Pereira
Farsa de Inês Pereira, also known as Auto de Inês Pereira, is a 1523 farce by the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, first performed for King João III.