This is a list of notable Iranian-Americans of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds. Iranian Americans (or Persian Americans) are Americans of Iranian (Persian) descent, including those who are expatriates in exile or permanent immigrants. ...

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List

Academia/science

• Ali Adibi, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, US
• Alia Sabur College professor,currently the world's youngest professor
• Shahriar Afshar, physicist, namesake of Afshar experiment
• Siavash Alamouti, CTO Broad Band and INTEL fellow, inventor of Alamouti Code, code-communication engineer
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist from Harvard
• Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Mina Bissell, scientist and biologist, LBL.[8]
• Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University in New York.
• Richard Danielpour, Professor of Composition, Manhattan School of Music
• Nader Engheta, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Nariman Farvardin, Provost of University of Maryland
• Ali Javan, physicist, inventor of gas laser, Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT.
• Mehran Kardar, physicist, MIT. [9]
• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Founding Director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland. [10]
• Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University.
• Parviz Moin, Director and Senior Scientist, Stanford University. [11]
• Roxana Moslehi, DCEG post-doctoral fellow at National Cancer Institute [12], adjunct assistant professor at George Washington University.
• Hamid Mowlana, Director of the Division of International Communication at American University in Washington D.C., and former President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. [13]
• Firouz Naderi, NASA director of Mars project. [14]
• Majid M. Naini, computer scientist, former Professor at University of Pennsylvania, Rumi expert. [15]
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, philosopher, George Washington University.
• Sepandar Kamvar, computer scientist, Stanford University.
• Camran Nezhat, Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology.
• Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Behzad Ranjbarian, Professor of Music, The Julliar School of Music
• Homayoun Seraji, Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory [16]
• Ghavam Shahidi, IBM Fellow, Director of Silicon Technology
• Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Craig Fellow/Professor & Editor of Global Finance Journal California State University, Fresno. Executive Director, Global Finance Association. [17] [18]
• Hechmat Tabechian, Executive Director of Rochester Academy of Medicine University of Rochester. [19]
• Vahid Tarokh, leading communication theorist Harvard University. [20]
• Cumrun Vafa, String theorist in Harvard
• Ehsan Yarshater, Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Director of Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University [21], Founder and Editor of grand project Encyclopaedia Iranica. [22]
• Lotfi A. Zadeh, Mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Electrical Engineers design power systems. ... The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, is a public, coeducational research university, part of the University System of Georgia, and located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia, Metz, France, Shanghai, China, and Singapore. ... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... Alia Sabur (born February 22, 1989 in New York City, New York) is currently the worlds youngest professor. ... Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: ) is a notable Iranian-American physicist. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... In physics, and more specifically, quantum mechanics, the Afshar experiment is an optical experiment, devised by Shahriar S. Afshar in 2004, that its proponents claim disproves Niels Bohrs principle of complementarity. ... Siavash Alamouti is an Intel Fellow who is best known for the invention of the Alamouti space-time code disclosed jointly with Vahid Tarokh in the US patent (# 6,185,258) . Alamouti code is a 2 transmit antenna space-time block code and has been adapted in various global standards. ... Prof. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Mina Bissell is the ex-head of biology at LBL, already distinguished and could possibly (in the not too distant future) be on the short list for a Nobel Prize for work started over 30 years ago on the effect of tissue architecture on cancer -- the work seems to be... The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), formerly the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and usually shortened to Berkeley Lab or LBL, is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. ... Hamid Dabashi (Persian: ) is an Iranian-American historian, cultural and literary critic who has made important contributions to the study of Iran, World cinema and Shia Islam from a postcolonial perspective. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... This article is about the state. ... Richard Danielpour (born 28 January 1956 in New York) is an American composer. ... Nader Engheta (Born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian scientist and inventor of the invisibility cloak or plasmonic cover. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... ba salam khedmate shoma. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان , born 1928 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian inventor and physicist at MIT. He invented the gas laser in 1960. ... The gas laser is a kind of laser in which some sort of gas (such as helium or neon) is discharged to produce the laser light. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Mehran Kardar is a prominent Iranian born physicist in MIT. He is particularly known for the KPZ equation in theoretical physics, which has been named after him. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is a Persian literary figure and Iranologist. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... Abbas Milani on C-SPAN 2 Abbas Malek-Z Milani (born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, Iranologist, and author. ... Stanford redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Roxana Moslehi, Ph. ... The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the United States Federal governments National Institutes of Health. ... The George Washington University (GW), is a private, coeducational university located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The school was founded in 1821 as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia by Baptist ministers using funds bequeathed by George Washington. ... Hamid Mowlana (Hamid Molana) is Professor of International Relations and the founding director of the International Communication Program at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. He has been on the faculty of American University since 1968, and has served as visiting professor and guest scholar in... For other universities known as American University, see American University (disambiguation). ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Firouz Naderi (Born in Shiraz) is an Iranian-American scientist and the Associate Director of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) responsible for Project Formulation and Strategy. ... For other uses, see NASA (disambiguation). ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... Professor Majid M. Naini is one of the foremost scholars of Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic (Sufi), who has been the best-selling poet in the U.S. for the past several years. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Rumi (born November 29, 1982) is a Persian-Canadian Singer-songwriter and a Photographer who is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Nasr is an internationally acclaimed scholar [1]. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, (Persian: سيد حسين نصر) A lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, is a prominent authority in the fields of Islamic esoterism, sufism, philosophy of science, and metaphysics. ... The George Washington University (GW), is a private, coeducational university located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The school was founded in 1821 as The Columbian College in the District of Columbia by Baptist ministers using funds bequeathed by George Washington. ... Sepandar David Kamvar (born August 6, 1977), also known as Sep Kamvar, is a Persian American computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. He is the technical lead of personalization at Google [1] and a professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University [2]. // Kamvars main contributions... Stanford redirects here. ... Camran Nezhat, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S., is a reproductive endocrinology and infertility sub-specialist who has been teaching and practicing medicine and surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1993. ... Kaveh Pahlavan is an Iranian-American scientist and professor and director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. ... Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private university located in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States. ... Homayoun Seraji (Persian: , b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The campus on a sunny day California State University, Fresno, commonly referred to as Fresno State, is one of the campuses of California State University, located at the northeast edge of Fresno, California, USA. The campus sits at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the San Joaquin... The University of Rochester (UR) is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research university located in Rochester, New York. ... Vahid Tarokh is a Persian Canadian scientist with fundamental contributions to telecommunication, specifically to signal processing for wireless communications. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Cumrun Vafa is a leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. ... A string theory is a physical model whose fundamental building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects (strings) rather than the zero-dimensional points (particles) that were the basis of most earlier physics. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Ehsan Yarshater, of Columbia University, is one of the worlds leading Iranologists. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Encyclopædia Iranica is a project in Columbia Universitys Center for Iranian studies, to create an English language encyclopedia about Iran and Persia. ... Lotfi Asker Zadeh (born February 4, 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan as Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh) created fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic in 1965. ...

Arts/entertainment

• Reza Abdoh, director
• Omid Abtahi, actor
• Shohreh Aghdashloo Academy Award-nominated film/television actress^[1]
• Dan Ahdoot, stand-up comedian^[2]
• Jonathan Ahdout, actor^[3][4]
• Reza Badiyi, TV director
• Nadia Bjorlin, TV/soap opera actress^[5]
• Maz Jobrani, comedian
• Cyrus Kar, film director^[6]
• Andre Khabbazi, actor, semi-professional tennis player^[7]
• Rosie Malek-Yonan, actress, author, director, and documentary filmmaker
• Marshall Manesh, actor
• Hamid Moslehi, Michael Jackson's former main videographer/photographer [23].
• Amin Nazemzadeh, actor
• Cyrus Nowrasteh, screenwriter and director
• Bijan Pakzad, noted fashion and fragrance designer
• Adrian Pasdar, actor
• Shiva Rose, actress
• Sarah Shahi, model and actress^[8]
• Bahar Soomekh, actress^[9]
• Tami Stronach, dancer, choreographer, actress
• Bob Yari, Academy Award winner film producer

Reza Abdoh (February 23, 1963, in Tehran, Iran - May 12, 1995 in New York City) Iranian-born American director and playwright who shocked and amazed audiences with his work with the theater ensemble Dar a Luz of such revolutionary productions as Quotations from a Ruined City Workshop, Footsteps in The... Omid Abtahi is an American actor of Iranian descent. ... Shohreh Aghdashloo (Persian: شهره آغداشلو, born 11 May 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated Iranian-American actress and self-proclaimed activist. ... Dan Ahdoot performing on the Orange Carpet at Cornell College. ... Jonathan Ahdout (born March 18, 1989) is an American actor. ... Reza Badiyi was born in Tehran, Iran on April 17th 1930. ... Nadia Alexandra Björlin (credited as Bjorlin) (born August 2, 1980) is an American actress. ... Maz Jobrani Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American comedian who is part of the Axis of Evil comedy group. ... Cyrus Kar (Persian: , born March 18, 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American film director, part-time professor at the University of Phoenix, and now-vindicated alleged terrorist who was captured by United States forces in Iraq on May 17, 2005. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... // Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. ... Marshall Manesh (August 16, 1950- ) is a Persian-American actor. ... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... Dominic Rains (born 1 March 1982 in Tehran, Iran as Amin Nazemzadeh) is an Iranian-American actor, best known for his portrayl of Ziad Jarrah in the 2006 made-for-television movie, Flight 93. ... Cyrus Nowrasteh (Persian: سیروس نورسته), born September 19, 1956, is an American screenwriter and director of theatrical films, television shows, and made-for-TV movies. ... Bijan Pakzad[1] (generally known simply as Bijan) (born 1944)[2] is a well-known designer of menswear and fragrances. ... Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (born April 30, 1965) is an American actor and film director, known for playing Jim Profit on the cult TV series Profit, for his roles in Near Dark, Mysterious Ways and as Nathan Petrelli on Heroes, and for directing the feature film Cement. ... Shiva Rose McDermott (alias Shiva Rose), née Afshar, is an actress of Iranian / French descent. ... Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi, also known as Sarah Shahi (born January 10, 1980, in Euless, Texas, U.S.), is a Iranian-American actress, model and former NFL Cheerleader of Iranian descent. ... Bahar Soomekh (Persian: بهار سومخ born March 30, 1975) is an Iranian-born American Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress and environmental activist. ... Stronach as the Childlike Empress Tamara Stronach (born July 31, 1972) is a dancer and choreographer, and has worked as an actress. ... A contemporary dancer rehearsing in a dance studio Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... Bob Yari (Born in 1962) is an American film producer. ...

Aviation

• Farhad Rostampour is the first Iranian-born pilot to complete a record setting flight around the world.

Business/technology

• Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
• Shahram Dabiri, video game producer, lead producer of World of Warcraft
• Mike Ebrahimi, President/Co-CEO of Idea Labz, Inc. [24]; President/CFO of Vegas Music Conference, Inc. [25]; Co-Founorang samadider/CEO of Baldwin Enterprises, LLC.
• Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of Bell Labs. [26]
• Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York.[27]
• Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Google
• Manny Mashouf, founder and Chairman of bebe stores
• Behzad Moslehi, founder/CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors, IFOS (Intelligent Fiber Optic System) * * [28].
• Farzad Nazem, former CTO of Yahoo!
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad, founder & CEO, Nikoo Technology, Inc.
• Pierre Omidyar, founder of e-Bay (born to Iranian parents). [29]
• Omid Razavi, President of KXEN Inc.
• Shahryar Shaghaghi, Executive Director, Citigroup, Inc.
• Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Computer. [30]

Anousheh Ansari (Persian: , born 12 September 1966) is the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc and a spaceflight participant with the Russian space program. ... Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. ... Copy of the original phone of Alexander Graham Bell at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the assisted transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... For the computer game by Peter Molyneux, see The Entrepreneur. ... If a person, place, or thing is named after a different person, place, or thing, then one is said to be the namesake of the other. ... For other uses, see X Prize (disambiguation). ... Shahram Dabiri (also known as Shane Dabiri) is the Lead Producer responsible for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft. ... Hossein Eslambolchi at the 2005 Web 2. ... This article is about the current AT&T. For the 1885-2005 company, see American Telephone & Telegraph. ... Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) was the main research and development arm of the United States Bell System. ... Vartan Gregorian is a distinguished Iranian-American academic. ... The Carnegie Corporation was founded by the will of Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. ... Omid Kordestani (Kurdish: Umîd Kurdistanî; Persian: امید کردستانی) is the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Google. ... This article is about the corporation. ... Manny Mashouf is an Iranian born businessman. ... bebe stores (pronounced bee-bee) is an American clothing retailer founded in 1976 by the Iranian-born Manny Mashouf, who emigrated to the United States in the early 70s and opened the first bebe store in San Francisco. ... Farzad Nazem (born in 1962) also known as Zod Nazem, was Yahoo!s chief technology officer and one of its longest-serving executives. ... Yahoo redirects here. ... Mehrdad Nikoonahad is an award-winning Iranian-American physicist and engineer, responsible for several innovations in semiconductor fabrication. ... Pierre M. Omidyar (born 21 June 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Sina Tamaddon Sina Tamaddon is the Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Computer. ... Apple Inc. ...

Literature

• Reza Aslan, writer
• Mahnaz Badihian, poet
• Najmieh Batmanglij, chef, writer
• Firoozeh Dumas, writer of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
• Roya Hakakian, writer
• Rosie Malek-Yonan, author of The Crimson Field
• Azar Nafisi, writer
• Majid M. Naini, writer, speaker
• Vali Nasr, writer, speaker
• Shahrnoosh Parsipour, writer
• Dalia Sofer, writer

Reza Aslan (Persian: , born 1972 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American writer [1] and scholar of religions, a regular commentator for American Public Medias Marketplace, and the Middle East Analyst for CBS News. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Mahnaz Badihian is an American-Iranian Poet. ... Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1881). ... Najmieh Batmanglij at the farmers market in Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. Introducing people to the pleasures of Persian cuisine has been a lifelong mission for Najmieh Batmanglij. ... Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran. ... ROYA HAKAKIAN has collaborated on over a dozen hours of programming for some of the most prestigious journalism units on network television, inlcluding 60 Minutes Sunday and 60 Minutes II as well as on A& Es Travels With Harry hour, and ABC Documentary Specials with Peter Jennings, Discovery and... // Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. ... Azar Nafisi speaking at the 2004 National Book Festival in Washington D.C. Azar Nafisi, Ph. ... Professor Majid M. Naini is one of the foremost scholars of Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic (Sufi), who has been the best-selling poet in the U.S. for the past several years. ... Vali Reza Nasr (b. ... Dalia Sofer (born 1972) is an Iranian-born American writer. ...

Media/journalism

• Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent
• Davar Ardalan, NPR producer of Morning Edition
• Rudi Bakhtiar, FOX news anchor, former CNN lead anchor
• Caren Firouz, Chief Photographer, Reuters Pictures, Iran
• Alireza Jafarzadeh, FOX News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst

• Arash Markazi, journalist, Sports Illustrated
• Azadeh Moaveni, journalist, Time Magazine
• Asieh Namdar, CNN news anchor
• Atoosa Rubenstein, former editor in chief of Seventeen (magazine)

Christiane Amanpour, CBE (born January 12, 1958) (in Persian: ) is the chief international correspondent for CNN. // Shortly after her birth in London, her British mother Patricia, and her father Mohammed, an Iranian airline executive, moved the family to Tehran. ... CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1]. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. ... Davar Ardalan is a Supervisory Producer for Morning Edition, making many of the creative decisions that shape the changing daily broadcast. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). ... Rudi Bakhtiar (born Rudabeh Bakhtiar (in Persian:رودابه بختیار) on June 21, 1966 in Fresno, California) is an Iranian-American journalist, working for the Fox News Channel. ... Alireza Jafarzadeh Alireza Jafarzadeh (born 1957) is an expert on the Middle East, an author, a media commentator, and and an active dissident figure to the Iranian government who is best known for revealing the existence of clandestine nuclear facilities in Iran in 2002. ... Arash Markazi is an American sports journalist currently writing for Sports Illustrated. ... The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ... Azadeh Moaveni (Persian: آزاده معاونى , born 1976 in Palo Alto) is an Iranian-American journalist and writer. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... Atoosa Rubenstein (born Atoosa Behnegar in Tehran, Iran in 1972) was the editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine. ... Seventeen is an American magazine for teenage girls. ...

Music

• Lily Afshar, female classical guitarist
• Pouyan Afkary, synthesizer musician, member of Scary Kids Scaring Kids
• Axiom of Choice, world music group
• Leila Bela, Avant-garde musician, actress, writer and former member of Pigface
• Richard Danielpour, composer, Professor of Composition, Manhattan School of Music
• Deep Dish, electronic music group
• Anousheh Khalili, vocalist
• Lotfi Mansouri, opera director
• Daron Malakian, guitarist/vocalist of four-piece Alternative metal band System Of A Down (Armenian-Iranian mother)
• Tony Petrossian, music video director[31][32][33]

Says Classical Guitar Magazine in 2002: Lily Afshar is a guitarist of the highest order. ... Scary Kids Scaring Kids is an emo/rock band from Arizona and is well known for their song My Darkest Hour which is a simple video but gained popularity because of it. ... Axiom of Choice is a world music group of Iranian émigrés who perform a fusion style incorporating Persian classical music and Western music. ... Leila Bela (Persian: ) (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American avant-garde musician, writer, photographer, actress, multi-instrumentalist, playwright and record producer from Austin, Texas. ... Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and Bill Rieflin. ... Richard Danielpour (born 28 January 1956 in New York) is an American composer. ... Deep Dish is a duo of DJ and house music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali Dubfire Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. ... Anousheh Khalili is a singer/songwriter, and sometime disco diva who lives in the USA. She is known for providing vocal talent and appearing on the videos for Deep Dishs Flash Dance and Say Hello. Firstly, she is a singer/songwriter who recorded her own album, Let the Ground... Lotfi Mansouri (born Iran, 1929) was the general director of the San Francisco Opera from 1988 through 2001. ... Daron Vartan Malakian (Armenian: ) (born 18 July 1975) lead guitarist in the Armenian-American band System of a Down. ... Alternative metal is an eclectic form of music that gained popularity in the early 1990s alongside grunge. ... System of a Down (commonly referred to as System or abbreviated as SOAD) is an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Glendale, California. ... Director Tony Petrossian is a Commercial and Music Video director who has directed music videos for such artists as DMX, Slipknot, Stone Sour, Seether, Orson, Millionaire, Rise Against, Three Days Grace, Apocalyptica, Taking Back Sunday, Avenged Sevenfold, Serj Tankian and many others. ... A music-video director is a film director that specializes in supervising the filming and editing of music videos to be used as promotional tools for popular music singles. ...

Politics

• Goli Ameri, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, former U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, former U.S. public delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, and former Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the 1st district of Oregon
• Hushang Ansary, former Iranian Minister of Finance and Chairman of National Finance Committee of Bush-Cheney 2004 Campaign
• Michael Benjamin, 1996 Republican candidate for the U.S. House from the 8th district of New York, and 2004 United States Senate Republican Primary candidate from New York
• Jimmy Delshad, Mayor of Beverly Hills, California
• George Deukmejian, former Governor of California
• Ali Mashayekhi, Democratic candidate for Florida House of Representatives, 2000-2002, Florida Civil Rights Lawyer.
• Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco City Council from the Green Party.
• David Safavian, disgraced former Chief of Staff of the United States General Services Administration
• Faryar Shirzad, former Deputy National Security Advisor and White House Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs to President George W. Bush

Goli Ameri (in Persian:گلی عامری nee Goli Yazdi, born September 26, 1956) is the nominee for the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. ... United Nations Commission on Human Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The United Nations General Assembly (GA, UNGA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation. ... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Hushang Ansary was Minister of Finance and Minister of Economic Affairs under Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda of Iran. ... poop This article is about the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the incumbent President of the United States and winner of the 2004 Presidential Election. ... Michael Benjamin (born November 1, 1969) was born Michael Benjamin Bonheur in New York City, New York, USA. Benjamin works as a private investor focusing on Internet companies. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... GOP redirects here. ... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party... Map New Yorks Eighth Congressional District district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City. ... Type Upper House President of the Senate Richard B. Cheney, R since January 20, 2001 President pro tempore Robert C. Byrd, D since January 4, 2007 Members 100 Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party Last elections November 7, 2006 Meeting place Senate Chamber United States Capitol Washington, DC United States... This article is about the state. ... Jimmy Delshad is the Vice Mayor of Beverly Hills California. ... Beverly Hills redirects here. ... Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. ... Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Governor Gray Davis (right) with President George W. Bush in 2003 The Governor of California is the highest executive authority in the state government, whose responsibilities include making yearly State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that... Ross Mirkarimi Ross Mirkarimi (b. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... In American politics, the Green Party is a third party which has been active in some areas since the 1980s, but first gained widespread public attention for Ralph Naders presidential runs in 1996 and 2000. ... David Hossein Safavian (suh-FAY-vee-an) was chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration (GSA), the procurement arm of the U.S. federal government and in 2004, an employee of the Office of Management and Budget. ... The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. ... Faryar Shirzad is a former White House Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs to President George W. Bush and the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, serving in this role from 2004 to 2006. ... For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Sports

• Andre Agassi, tennis player
• Amin Abrahim Paul Nikfar, Shot Put for the Iranian National Team and 1st Iranian Asian Indoor Champion 2004 (http://asianathletics.org/results/ai-results.htm)
• Esfandiar Baharmast, World Cup referee, FIFA Instructor, known as Esse Baharmast
• Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler and manager, better known by his stage names of Khosrow Daivari or simply Daivari^[10]
• Farzad Bonyadi, world champion of poker
• Antonio Esfandiari, champion poker player
• Hamid Dastmalchi, world champion of poker
• Alecko Eskandarian, soccer player, United States national team^[11]
• Andranik Eskandarian, former soccer player
• Matt Ghaffari, Olympic silver-medal winning wrestler
• Afshin Ghotbi, soccer coach, former assistant coach of Korea Republic national football team and LA Galaxy, currently coaching Iran's Persepolis F.C.
• T. J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player (father is Iranian)
• King Kamali, IFBB pro bodybuilder
• George Malek-Yonan, Iran's "Champion of Champions" in Track & Field and Pentathelon
• Michael Shabaz, tennis player, 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship
• Amir Vahedi, professional poker player
• Leila Vaziri, The current world record holder of the 50 m women's backstroke
• Khosrow Vaziri, retired professional wrestler, better known by his stage name of The Iron Sheik

Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970) is a former World No. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball (called the shot) as far as possible. ... Esfandiar Baharmast (born March 11, 1954) is a retired football (soccer) referee from the United States, best known for supervising two matches during the 1998 FIFA World Cup held in France. ... Shawn Daivari (born Ashraf Daivari on April 30, 1984 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American professional wrestler and wrestling manager better known by his ring name Khosrow Daivari, or simply Daivari. ... Farzad Freddy Bonyadi (born 1959? in Tehran, Iran) is an American professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo, California. ... Antonio The Magician Esfandiari (born Amir Esfandiari, December 8, 1978 in Tehran, Iran) is a professional poker player. ... Hamid Dastmalchi is a professional poker player. ... Alecko Eskandarian (born July 9, 1982 in Montvale, New Jersey) is an ethnic Armenian professional soccer player in Major League Soccer, playing for Toronto FC. He is the son of Iranian national player Andranik Eskandarian, an Iranian-Armenian who played soccer professionally for the New York Cosmos. ... Soccer redirects here. ... First international Unofficial: USA 0 - 1 Canada  (Newark, NJ, USA; November 28, 1885) Official:  Sweden 2 - 3 USA (Stockholm, Sweden; August 20, 1916) Biggest win USA 8 - 1 Cayman Islands  (Mission Viejo, CA, USA; November 14, 1993) USA 7 - 0 El Salvador  (Los Angeles, CA, USA; December 5, 1993) USA... Andranik Eskandarian (born December 31, 1951) is an Iranian-American soccer player of Armenian descent, who played defender for the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. ... Afshin Ghotbi (Persian: , born February 8, 1964 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian-American football coach who is the manager of Persepolis FC in Irans Premier Football League. ... First international South Korea 5 - 1 Hong Kong (Hong Kong; July 6, 1948) Biggest win South Korea 16 - 0 Nepal (Incheon, South Korea; September 29, 2003) Biggest defeat Sweden 12 - 0 South Korea (London, England; August 5, 1948) World Cup Appearances 7 (First in 1954) Best result Fourth place, 2002... Year Founded 1995 League Major League Soccer Stadium Home Depot Center Coach Steve Sampson, 2004- All-Time Leaders* Games Cobi Jones, 223 Goals Cobi Jones, 59 Assists Mauricio Cienfuegos, 80 Points Cobi Jones, 194 Shutouts Kevin Hartman, 47 First Game Los Angeles Galaxy 2 - 1 MetroStars (Rose Bowl; April 13... Persepolis Football Club (Persian: ) is an Iranian football club based in Tehran, Iran. ... Touraj (T.J.) Houshmandzadeh, Jr. ... King Kamali appears on the cover of Musclemag International magazine. ... Sports George Malek-Yonan earned the title of Champion of Champions in Iranian Sports for many years in the fields of track and field, pentathelon and soccer. ... Michael Shabaz (b. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as Wimbledon, is the oldest major championship in tennis and is widely considered to be the most prestigious. ... Amir Vahedi (born in Iran) is a professional poker player. ... Leila Vaziri, born June 6, 1985, is an American swimmer. ... Backstroke swimming (amateur competition, non-optimal style) Backstroke also sometimes called back crawl is one of the three swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. ... Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri (born on March 15, 1943) is a retired Iranian professional wrestler better known by his stage name The Iron Sheik. ...

References

Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Iranian American
• Modern Iranian scientists and engineers
• List of Iranians
• List of British Iranians
• US-Iran relations
• Famous Americans in Iran