Famous Zoroastrians

Main article: List of Zoroastrians

Famous Parsis include the founder of Indian Civil Aviation and legendary industrialist J. R. D. Tata, Phirozeshah Mehta, Dadabhai Naoroji, Bhikaiji Cama, symphonic conductor Zubin Mehta, nuclear scientist Homi J. Bhabha, the similarly-named philosopher Homi K. Bhabha, the first field marshall of India Sam Manekshaw, screenwiter Sooni Taraporevala (of the films Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, both directed by Mira Nair, as well as author of a photography book on the Parsi community entitled Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India: a Photographic Journey), authors Rohinton Mistry, and Bapsi Sidhwa. Indian industrial families Tata family, Godrej family and Wadia family.

The late Freddie Mercury, the frontman of the group Queen, was also a Parsi, and his family gave him a traditional Parsi Zoroastrian funeral after he died on 24 November 1991. Famous Zoroastrians from the more recently arrived Irani community include legendary Bollywood director Ardeshir Irani, the actress Aruna Irani, the cricketer Ronnie Irani, the famous Indian spiritual master Meher Baba and the actress Perizaad Zorabian.

One of the most famous Iranian Zoroastrian is Dr. Farhang Mehr, former deputy prime minister of Iran, Boston University professor emeritus, longtime activist for religious freedom, and subject of the biography "Triumph Over Discrimination" by another Zoroastrian (of Parsi and Haitian descent), Lylah M. Alphonse.

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Ehsan Yarshater

Encyclopedia Iranica starter

has been working on the project for over 30 years! amazing person.

 

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MORTEZA AVINI

This man filmed the Iran Iraq. He was on the front lines all the time and was able to survive. He documented the war. Sadly, at the end of the war, he went back to look at the battle fields one more time, he stepped on a land mine and died. may he rest in peace.

the website and his footage of the war: http://mortezaavini.com/Farsi/

Omid Kordestani

By DONNY DEUTSCH

Posted Sunday, Apr. 30, 2006
Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Thu May 04 23:29:38 2006 What Apple did for computers in 1984, Google is doing for advertising and business in the 21st century. How cool is a company that mastered Internet search and then drove well past it?

Google, by any measure, defined a new way of looking at so many industries. It personified and refined search. It brought real, tangible metrics to the advertising and search businesses. It continually evolves its product offerings to advertisers and consumers�often identifying the need beforehand. And it has achieved the holy grail by becoming a verb that defines a category, a la Xerox in the 1970s and FedEx in the '90s. What is truly amazing is that all these things are probably just appetizers before the main course.

Behind the scenes in Google's relentless thirst for more is Omid Kordestani, 42, its senior vice president for global sales and business development. He joined the company a year after it was established in 1998 as its "business founder" and helped build the brand into a household name in a way that excites Google's partners and confounds everyone else. Kordestani isn't as well known as Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page or even company CEO Eric Schmidt. But he has been the main brains behind Google's innovative and aggressive push to reach deals with a multitude of partners and make big money through advertising. Kordestani's deal in 1999 to provide search results to Netscape users and a similar partnership with Yahoo! the following year were just the beginning. His successful negotiations with AOL in 2002 yielded a watershed deal in the company's meteoric growth. Today he continues to drive the big ad deals.

In a post-dot-bomb society, you gotta love that Kordestani and the rest of the Google team didn't follow the folly of so many others and succumb to an IPO right away. They focused instead on the brand essence of Google. Of course, bringing the company to profitability in record time and generating more than $6 billion in revenue in 2005 probably didn't hurt either. Maybe that's why when Google finally did go public in late 2004, it blew the doors off everything else, and maybe that's a reason its stock�now at about $420 a share�may still hit $500. Wow.

Let's also not forget the numerous Islamic scholars:


Imam Bukhari - from Bukhara (now in modern day Uzbekistan) compiler of the most comprehensive hadeeth collection in Islam.  Scholars are unanimous that Imam Bukhari's Sahih al-Bukhari is the most authentic collection of hadeeths in the world. 

Imam Muslim an Nishapuri - after Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim's hadeeth collections is the most authetic.  Imam Muslim was born in Nishapur.

Imam Abu Daud as Sijistani - His Sunan Abu Duad hadeeth collection is read throughout the world.  Clearly one of the most influencial scholars. 

Imam Tirmidhi - born in Tirmiz (town located in the Afghan-Uzbek border) Imam Tirmidhi was a student of Imam Bukhari and also compiled an enormous collection of hadeeth. 

Imam Nisa'i - born in Nisa, Khurasaan, he was another major compiler of hadeeth. 

Imam al-Bayhaqi - born near Nishapur, Imam al-Bayhaqi was one of the greatest scholars of fiqh.

Imam al-Hakim - born in Nishapur, one of the greatest muhadeeth in history, up till even today, one will find many hadeeths with the phrase "deemed authentic by Al-Hakim."

Imam al-Khuzaima - born in Nishapur, he was one of the greatest scholars of Khursan authoring over 140 books.

Imam Tabarani - a great muhadeeth, who lived in Esfahan.

Imam Abu Nu'aim al Esfahani - wrote several commentaries on hadeeth books and is well known muhadeeth.

Imam Abu Hanifa - probably one of the most influencial Muslims in history.  The school of thought that is named after him, is the largest in the world.   Although Imam Abu Hanifa was born in modern day Iraq, his father was from Kabul (modern day Afghanistan).

May Allah have mercy on them all. 



Edited by Ave1 - 17-Jun-2006 at 22:50