: ' persian'
Adrian Kayvan Pasdar
Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (pronounced /ˈpæzdɑr/; born April 30, 1965) is an Iranian actor and film director. He is known for playing Jim Profit on the TV series Profit, for his roles in Near Dark, Carlito’s Way, [...]
Maziar Maz Jobrani
Maziar “Maz” Jobrani (Persian: مازیار جبرانی; born February 26, 1972) is an Iranian comedian who is part of the “Axis of Evil” comedy group. The group appeared on a comedy special on Comedy Central. Jobrani has [...]
Roya Hakakian
Roya Hakakian was born and raised in Tehran. Roya came to the United States in May 1985. She studied psychology at Brooklyn College and went on to earn a Master of Social Work at Hunter College, [...]
Cumrun Vafa
Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, pronounced ; born 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. He is a recipient of the 2008 [...]
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian electrical engineer who is currently professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received the [...]
Shahriar Afshar
Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971) is an Iranian physicist and an award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. As of [...]
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Shohreh Aghdashloo (Persian: ‘شهره آغداشلو; born May 11, 1952) is an Iranian actress. After establishing a theater and film career in Iran, Aghdashloo moved to England during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and subsequently became a [...]
Jamshid Jimmy Delshad
Jamshid “Jimmy” Delshad (Persian: جیمی دلشاد) is an Iranian-American politician in the state of California. He became Mayor of Beverly Hills on March 21, 2007 and again on March 16, 2010. He is the first Iranian-American [...]
Aravane Rezai
Aravane Rezaï (Persian: ارغوان رضایی , Latin alphabet: Aravane Rezaï, born March 14, 1987) is an Iranian tennis player born in Saint-Étienne, France to Iranian parents. She is the current French No. 2 in women’s tennis. [...]
Asieh Namdar
Asieh Namdar (born in 1965) is an Iranian journalist and television presenter. She was born to parents of Iranian origin, in Karachi in 1967. Namdar grew up in Tehran, Iran. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, [...]
