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Faying
Faying (法颕) was a Chinese Vinaya master of the Shisong lü tradition, dominant in the Southern dynasties, recorded as compiler of the one-fascicle bhikṣuṇī precept text T1437, an attribution scholars contest.
Fayruz al-Daylami
Fayruz al-Daylami (فيروز الديلمي), also known as Abu Abdullah, was a Persian Companion of Muhammad who settled in Yemen and killed the false prophet al-Aswad al-Ansi around 632.
Fayssal Bazzi
Fayssal Bazzi (فيصل بزي), born 1982 in Lebanon, is a Lebanese-born Australian actor who won the 2020 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama for Stateless and was nominated for The Merger and Measure for Measure.
Fayuan (Chan monk, 991–1067)
Fayuan, also known as Yuanjian or Fushan Yuan (法远, 991–1067), was a Chinese Chan monk of the Linji house and abbot of Fushan Xingguo Temple.
Fayue
Fayue (法悦) was a sixth-century Chinese Buddhist monk, appointed monastic overseer by the Qi court, known for casting a monumental gilt Amitāyus image in 509.
Fayum Gas
Fayum Gas Company (شركة الفيوم للغاز) is an Egyptian natural gas distributor that supplies residential, commercial, and industrial customers across Fayum governorate, south of Cairo.
Fayum mummy portraits
Fayum mummy portraits, also called Fayoum or mummy portraits, are realistic encaustic or tempera panel paintings placed over the faces of mummies in Roman Egypt, 1st to 3rd centuries AD; over 1000 survive, with key finds at Hawara and el-Rubayat.
Fayyaz Hussain Shah
Syed Fayyaz Hussain Shah, Pakistani Army lieutenant general of the 4 Sindh Regiment (80th PMA Long Course), ex-IG Frontier Corps North and IG Training and Evaluation, Commander IV Corps Lahore from January 2025.
Fayza Lamari
Fayza Lamari, born 1974 in Bondy, is a French-Algerian former first-division handball player (AS Bondy, right wing) and businesswoman who acts as agent and adviser to her sons Kylian and Ethan Mbappé.
Fazal Shah
Fazal Shah (Sayyed Fazal Shah, Punjabi فضل شاہ; 1827–1890) was a Punjabi qissa poet of Nawan Kot near Lahore, best known for his verse romance Qissa Sohni Mahiwal.
Fazal-ur-Rehman (politician)
Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (مولانا فضل الرحمان), born 1953, is a Pakistani politician who has led the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) party since 1980 and led the Pakistan Democratic Movement alliance that unseated Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2022.
Fazamorexant
Fazamorexant (YZJ-1139, brand Mengping) is a dual orexin receptor antagonist for insomnia developed by Yangtze River Pharmaceutical, approved in China on 21 May 2026 as the first domestically developed DORA, with IC50 32/41 nM and half-life about 2–4 hours.
FaZe Clan
FaZe Clan (FaZe) is an American esports and gaming lifestyle brand founded in 2010 as a Call of Duty group, listed on Nasdaq in 2022 at $725 million, and acquired by GameSquare in 2024.
FaZe Rug
FaZe Rug (Brian Rafat Awadis, born 1996, San Diego) is an American YouTuber of pranks, challenges, and vlogs with about 30 million subscribers and 11 billion views; he was part of FaZe Clan from 2012 until his announced departure in late 2025.
Fazil (director)
Fazil (ഫാസിൽ), born 1953 in Alappuzha, is a Malayalam film director whose Manjil Virinja Pookkal (1980) launched Mohanlal and whose Manichitrathazhu (1993) won two National Film Awards; father of Fahadh Faasil.
Fazil Erdogan
Fazil Erdoğan (1925–2015) was a Turkish-American engineering scientist at Lehigh University and a world-leading expert on fracture mechanics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Fazil Iskander
Fazil Iskander, also known as Fazil Abdulovich Iskander, was a Soviet and Russian writer of Abkhaz origin, best known for the satirical novel-epic Sandro of Chegem.
Fazilnagar Mound
Fazilnagar Mound (Fazilnagar Ka Kot), a centrally protected ASI site in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh; a 120 x 80 m, 9 m high settlement mound with 5th-6th century CE and c. 1300-1500 CE phases, identified as an agrahara of Sresthigrama.
Fazilpuria
Fazilpuria, real name Rahul Yadav, is an Indian rapper and singer from Fazilpur village near Gurgaon, Haryana, known for 'Chull' and the 2016 Bollywood hit 'Kar Gayi Chull'.
Fazirsiran
Fazirsiran (TAK-999, ARO-AAT) is an investigational siRNA therapy by Arrowhead and Takeda that degrades Z-AAT mRNA to treat alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency liver disease; phase 2 trials showed ~94% liver Z-AAT reduction and fibrosis regression.
Fazıl Erdoğan
Fazıl Erdoğan (1925–2015) was a Turkish-born American mechanical engineer at Lehigh University, a foremost expert in fracture mechanics who co-authored the Paris–Erdoğan fatigue crack growth law.
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914–2008), born Mehmet Fazıl in Istanbul, was a Turkish poet of the Republican era who wrote close to 70 poetry books and 23 epics.
Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (فضلِ حق خیرآبادی)
Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (فضلِ حق خیرآبادی), 1797–1861, was a Hanafi jurist and Arabic poet of Awadh, tried and deported to the Andamans after the 1857 rebellion.
Fazlallah Astarabadi
Fazlallah Astarabadi (فضلالله استرآبادی, 1339–1394) was an Iranian religious leader who founded Ḥorūfism, a movement built on the numerology of letters, and was executed in 1394 at the behest of Mīrānshāh, son of Timur.
Fazle Hasan Abed
Fazle Hasan Abed (1936–2019) was a Bangladeshi social worker and former Shell executive who founded BRAC in 1972, building it into the world's largest NGO.
Fazle Hussain
Fazle Hussain is a fluid dynamicist known for turbulence and vortex dynamics, professor at Texas Tech University since 2013 after four decades at the University of Houston.
Fazliddin Gaybnazarov
Fazliddin Gaybnazarov (Gaibnazarov, Gʻoibnazarov), Uzbek boxer born 1991 in Bekobod; 2016 Rio Olympic light-welterweight gold medalist, 2012 Olympian, later professional boxer (11-2-0) and National Guard lecturer.
Fazlija (singer)
Fazlija (Fadil Fazlija), Bosnian turbo-folk singer born 1972 in Bihać, based in Linz, Austria; not the Ottoman poet Fazli. Known for eight 1996–2013 albums and the 2015 song "Helikopter", a 2021 TikTok global hit with over a billion views; Upper Austria cultural ambassador 2024.
Fazlur Khan
Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer, called the father of tubular designs, whose systems made supertall skyscrapers like Chicago's Sears Tower economical.
Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান)
Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান, 1929–1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer known as the father of tubular design, who engineered Chicago's Sears Tower and John Hancock Center.