Faris (name)

Given name

• Faris Abdalla, Sudanese football player
• Faris ad-Din Aktai, an Emir and the leader of the Mamluks of the Bahri dynasty.
• Faris al-Ansari, Afghani who was seventeen years old when captured and held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention center
• Faris Al-Sultan, Iraqi-German professional triathlete
• Faris al-Zahrani, on Saudi Arabia's list of 'most-wanted' suspected terrorists, later executed
• Fāris ibn ʿAlī al-Marīni, also known as "Abu Inan Faris", a Marinid ruler of Morocco
• Faris Badwan, Palestinian-English musician, lead vocalist of The Horrors, and half of Cat's Eyes
• Faris Glubb, British- Jordanian writer, journalist, translator and publisher
• Faris Haroun, Chadian-Canadian-Belgian football player
• Fares Karam, Lebanese singer and dancer
• Faris Kermani, British film director
• Faris McReynolds, American artist and musician
• Faris Odeh, 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, Singaporean football player

  Fictional characters

• Faris Scherwiz, alias of a main female character in the video game, Final Fantasy V
• Faris NyanNyan, fictional character in the anime series, Steins;Gate

  Surname

• Muhammed Faris, Syrian military aviator.
• Iyman Faris, Pakistani-American rogue FBI agent working for Al Qaeda
• Paula Faris, American television correspondent
• Sadeg Faris Libyan-American inventor and entrepreneur

• Anna Faris, American actress and producer
• Ellsworth Faris, American sociologist
• George W. Faris, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana
• Herman P. Faris, committed proponent of the temperance movement
• James Abraham Faris 1890-1933, mycologist with the standard author abbreviation "Faris"
• Peter Faris, Australian criminal lawyer, media commentator and former radio broadcaster
• Sean Faris, American actor, model, and producer
• Stephan Faris, American journalist
• Valerie Faris, American film directors and music video director