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List of Iranian Americans
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This is a list of notable Iranian-Americans of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Iranian-American or must have references showing they are Iranian American.
Academia and science
[edit]- Behnam Ben Amini, Dentist, Associate Clinical Professor at University of California, San Francisco
- Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
- Kamyar Abdi, archaeologist, former assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
- Alexander Abian, mathematician, Iowa State University
- Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi, John E. Rhodes Professor of Acco
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Carl Michael Bellman was a highly successful composer of drinking songs and generally considered one of the finest Swedish poets from any period. It is difficult to decide whether he was more a poet or more musician: Bellman wrote over 1,700 poems, but he set most of them to music. While in his songs, he usually employed popular melodies of the day -- from folk sources, opera, and various instrumental works -- he generally improved on them or used them in boldly imaginative ways. Bellman was born in Stockholm, where he remained for most of his life, except for a brief period of study at Uppsala University and when he fled to Norway to escape creditors in the 1760s. While his first songs date to the late-1750s, it was in the following decade that he began turning out a consistent stream of popular drinking songs. His artistry in this occasionally controversial genre was eventually noticed by the Court of King Gustav III (1746-1792). The King arranged for Bellman to take a post at the
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List of Assyrian-Iranians
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous Assyrian-Iranians.
Art
[edit]- Sooren Alexander 1935-2007 born in Hamadan, Iran -musical composer & musician (younger brother of Sargon Mayelian)
- Albert Khoshaba 1937-2023 born in Hamadan, Iran - singer. Was the first Assyrian to have a program on Radio Iran and appear on Iranian TV. The late Nebu Issabey, 1933-2014 also composed and played with him.
- Evin Agassi - singer
- Ashurbanipal Babilla (1944 Tehran - New York City) - actor, theatre director, playwright and visual artist
- Issa Benyamin (born 1924 Tabriz) - calligraphist
- Aril Brikha (born 1976 Tehran) - musician
- George Chaharbakhshi (born 1952 Tehran) - singer
- Henri Charr - film director
- William D. S. Daniel, author, poet, and musician
- Jack Douglas (1921 Kermanshah - 1994 Los Angeles) - television personality
- Andre Khabbazi (born 1975 Sacramento) - actor
- Paulus Khofri (1923 Baghdad-2000 Tehran) - composer and painter