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Here you can find a few questions and their short answers concerning Riza Hawkeye, cleverly titled frequently asked Hawkeye questions or FAHQ. I haven't been asked these really, but I tried to imagine which little facts people could be interested in knowing. If you have a concrete question that is not answered in the shrine, please do not hesitate to send it to me and I may include it in this list.

 Riza? What kind of name is that? Don't you mean Liza?

Official sources have used this spelling ever since the series started and it's widely accepted as her actual name (even if it's not a real name). Not the first fictitious character to have a made-up name. For more about it, go here.

 How old is she? Where was she born, etc?

As far as know, no manga canon source has ever stated how old is Hawkeye (nor her date or place of birth, for that matter). In the first anime, she was said to be four years younger than Roy, which would make her 25 at the start of the series, probably 26 by now. Sounds about right, although it hasn't been confirmed by the author. We could also presume Hawkeye was born somewhere in the East of Amestris, since she enrolls in the Military Academy of the East and is later sent to Ishval due to its proximity.

 Does her father have a name? What about her mother?

Again, no official source has ever clarified Hawkeye's parents' names. The latest anime, however, showed Professor Hawkeye's name as Berthold. Can't say if this will be confirmed in the future or not.

 When did she exactly meet Roy?

The concrete date is unknown as of yet. Of course since Roy was Professor Hawkeye's pupil, they must have met time before he enrolled in the military and probably at the time he decided to become an alchemist. If we are to believe the most recent anime, Hawkeye's father died in 1905, which would make Roy 20 at the time — and Hawkeye 16 if we believe that four year gap between the two. If so, the answer would be more than 10 years ago, approximately.