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Shirin Ebadi
Nobel prize in Peace
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Jimmy Delshad
Mayor of Beverly Hills
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Anousheh Ansari
first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the Ansari X Prize
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Pierre Omidyar
founder of ebay
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights Activist, Miss World 2003 1st runner up; Miss Canada 2003
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Moshe Katsav
Former President of Israel
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Rudi Bakhtiar
news anchor, formerly with CNN and FOX News
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Hossein Rezazadeh
weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004, world record holder
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Shohreh Aghdashloo
Iranian American actress /Nominated for Oscar
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Bijan Pakzad
World famous designer.
Comments (29)
Are we talking about Iranians, Persians, Caucasions, German Wanabe Iranians, Mesapotamians or what? Alexander The Great's troops contributed a lot to the area. And an Iranian inventing chess??? Isn't it based on an Indian Game after all but developed further by Europeans with the French trying to take all of the credit for its development. Sorry, but Iran has very greatly hidden most of its pre-Iran history like most victorious governments through history.
People in the U.S. just don't know enough about the people from Iran.
The Government of a country doesn't always reflect the people.
weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004, world record holder"
How heavy is a world record? that it's an Olympian weightlifter champion who is hired to hold the record for every one to see.
1. Grinda Gaboor (inventor of Chess)
2. Zankhia Uppsa (defeated Grand Vizier Minklehoop in 12,020 b.c.)
3. Shankrah Borplatnerp (first one to use the wheel as a torture instrument)
4. Angkiah Choomar (The most beautiful woman in the world on Tuesday at 2:34 p.m. Eastern Standard time in the Eastern hemisphere, during the Boxer revolution in China)
5. Drabblehinger Dzhuvachek (First man to test-fly a carpet)
6. Ahramahib Chedrampoor (Ambassador to India, known for his ability to sing in three voices at the same time)
3. Chervonyetski Alfred (Russian immigrant, or Ukranian, nobody knows, the only person ever other than enemy troops who went the opposite way to everyone else crossing any border of Iran)
4. Gringingchinghi ben Vlottakaratatkat, The Ayatollah who invented the computer screen cursor in 17 b.c.
5. Aga Ben Rabbi Hob Lib Jab Nyah, the eunuch on whose persona Wolfgang Amadeo Mozart based his hit opera, "Abduction from the Serai"
6. Leon von Brussels, the German land surveyor who discovered Persia in 1854
7. Niin and Grotti Pheranthomas, the Siamese twins who were separated (unsuccessfully) in the Iran The Holy Children's Hospital in Tehran
8. Gegrarniah Mikoba, the last man to try to reform the Gregorian Calendar -- he proposed 16-day weeks, with seven day week-ends, and free cheeseburgers for everyone.
3. Apple Computer -- not a person, per se, but won the National Best Dressed Cow prize in 1978, and it also won the Free Style 100-metre run in the Tehran Olympics in 1966.
4. Gogrg Humen, a.k.a. Lumens lumens lumennitis, the only bacterium who single-handedly pinched the crown prince's a** during the Royal visit.
5. Azerbaijani Tihamer, benevolent geneaologyst and world-famous for his humanitarian cuisine -- his wife, the Jewel of the Azure Sky, was a vegetarian, they ate their meals in separate quarters.
6. Begging Joe, a guitar hero and lova of the marquis, died in this town when?
7. Arnold Schwartzenegger, the False Idol and Craven Image for the alleged worshipping of whom 2400 blue-eyed martyrs have been beheaded on the main Square of Tehran.
8. Rekki Jonathan Shamuyu, the only surviving blue-eyed man in Iran, who is the best customer of "Ranganathan's Portable Sunglasses and squirt-in-the-eye binoculars".
9. Thank good god Ness, we did not go down to three again, f*ck.
10. I can't believe it. We made it. We are finally at the end of the post. Andreawioandew Picsabacsapo Harapofasz, world-famous Historian and comparative literary counsellor to the national poetry contest winners each year five years ahead of the publishing of the contest rules.
This was hard effing work. I had to do something, I was full of coffee. To my eyeballs.
But I'll venture forth into this vast unknown at great personal risk to gain whatever can be gained.
I catch myself making mistakes that I NEVER used to make.
Like in the previous post, I used a grocer's comma between a verb and its ending that designates third person singular indicative in the present. I wrote "form's".
This is horrible. You guys did it to me, and don't deny it. My spelling habits are going to hell in a handbasket since I have been seriously getting involved in reading message boards and leaving messages.
This is the pit of the bottomless pit of hell for me.
Maryyam did say somewhere before that she lives in Iran, but she is not necessarily Iranian.
And I noticed she only answers those replies which attack her nationality, whatever it is, or some other things which usually form's the basis for one individual's pride.
So if you want a response, call her names or tell her that her country is governed by the devil, and she'll be sure to reply. Compliments will get you nowhere. I know. I tried before. Or maybe I'm just too ugly. That's possible, too.
1. maryyam
I hate the WSs that say your "ethnicity" is White, or European or whatnot. They are bastardising the language and shifting meaning to places where meaning should not be.
Also, it does not take certain (or sure) knowledge to form an informed opinion on a subject, on an object, or on a reject. We don't know for SURE you are Iranian, but at least 80 percent as sure as you, yourself, OP, can be about it. Depending on the definition of an "Iranian", maybe you are sure, too, but are wrong about it. My Uncle, for instance, thought for years he was the winner of the long-dintance discus throwing event at the Helsinki Olympics, but in reality he was an albino Pygmi. Nobody had the nerve in the family ever to tell him that.
THANX FOR UR MSG
What i've written about Andre Aggasi is base on many sites like wikipedia.
and about my profile....it's best to have information about people and then talk about them...ofcourse i'm living in Iran but how u know for sure that i'm Iranian and what is my race?
If they had a way of somehow sliding out of their burkas and veils, get their regal asses over to California, then the Hollywood giants of the Milky Way would change from vacuous blondes with no acting ability to olive-skinned exocit love gods (felmale love gods) who would rule the world with brains and little gizmos that are very painful when they touch you with them.
It's not Rudi who is the news announcer, but Anousheh Ansari is the newsh anousher with her front teeth in the repair shop right now.
P.S. agasi is armenian origin
and about Andre Aggasi.....yes his father was Iranian (Assyrian-Armenian)
for better information u can check it out:
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' KHODET'
Former President of Israel
Really? Is that not strange given the strained releationship between the two nations
a.s.s hole
Your name should be at the top...