Greatest Iranians (All Iranic Peoples): Past and Present.

Persians? oh the big bad Persians, the oppressors - OMG - GROW UP.

I am not even Persian, nor are there any Persian moderators, Cyrus Shahmiri founded this website and is studying for his PhD, he hardly has any time to look at this site nevermind make decisions on who gets banned or not.  There are three Turkish moderators, two Greek ones and one Iranian, ME, the rest are British, Mexican, and American.  And if you have any problems with my moderation I encourage you to make a thread in the meeting hall WITH examples and not make STUPID AND DISRUPTIVE posts in irrelevant threads.

You will be banned based on your cummulative behaviour Qajar, so just keeping on going the way you are and your disruptive behind will be confined to the dustbin of AE's history along with other disruptive Iranians, Greeks, Turks and others before you. 

If you read the rules of this website (found in the meeting hall) you will see how your behaviour is in contravention of site rules, people have been banned for a lot less than you.

Iran as you know is an old geographical name that has been used through all of these ages and is completely known, (although western sources traditionally called it persia, its own people called it iran), so the native people of this land are called Iranian.

Iranic is a linguistic name and relatively a new name, which dates back to middle of 19th century , but has been used extensively through the 20th century, specially after the wwii, (when use of Aryan term somehow became taboo).

this term refers to those people who speak a branch of eastern IE languages. Actually this name is misleading , because It includes some people that never considered as Iranian, actually the fierest enemy of Iranians, (like scythians, Alans, ....) while some of the most notable Iranians like Azeries (who spoke a Turkic language) are considered as foreigners , exactly the same problem exist for Indains , they have the term Indic which is misleading too, because original natives of India Dravidians are not considered as Indic, while Mitani people who lived in middle east in 3500 years ago are considered as indic.

To sum up the discussion , we can say that Iran and Iranian is exactly have the same meaning that through all of ages , we iranians used it.

Iranic is a lingusitic term which has a different and independent meaning of Iran and Iranian.

And yes Alans and Ossethians are not Iranian, although they are speaking in a language that linguistists have found that it with Persian has the same root.

Anousheh Ansari, would be the first female space tourist

Anousheh Ansari is co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). Along with her brother-in-law Amir Ansari, she made a multi-million contribution to the X-Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X-Prize was officially renamed the Ansari X Prize in honour of their donation.

Born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran, Ansari witnessed the Iranian revolution in 1979. She immigrated to the United States in 1984 at the age of sixteen and received her bachelor's of science in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University. She received her master's degree at George Washington University.

Ansari, along with her husband Hamid and brother-in-law Amir, founded TTI in 1993. The company was acquired by Sonus Networks in 2000. Ansari was listed in Fortune magazine's "40 under 40" list in 2001 and honoured by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award.

Most recently, Prodea has announced the formation of a partnership with Space Adventures, Ltd. and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) to create a fleet of suborbital spaceflight vehicles (the Space Adventures Explorer) for global commercial use.

It was announced on March 16, 2006 that Anousheh Ansari was in training for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. She would serve as backup to Daisuke Enomoto, who is due to fly on Soyuz TMA-9 on September 14, 2006. If she indeed flies, Ansari would be the first female space tourist.

i think we should congratulate all iranians in the US and canada in general!

US:

#1 most educated ethnicity in the country!

Canada:

#2 most educated ethnicity in the country! (after germans)

Christiane Amanpour (born January 12, 1958) is chief international correspondent for CNN. Based out of CNN's London bureau, Amanpour is one of the most recognized and highly distinguished international correspondents on American television. Her willingness to work in dangerous conflict zones has reportedly made her one of the more highly (if not the highest) paid field reporters in the world. She speaks English, Persian, and French fluently. Forbes magazine has named her one of The 100 Most Powerful Women.

In 1983, she was hired by CNN. In 1989, she was posted to Frankfurt, West Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time. However, it was her coverage of the Persian Gulf War that followed Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990 that made her famous. Thereafter, she reported from the Bosnian war and many other conflict zones. From 1996-2005, she contracted with CBS to file four to five in-depth, international news reports a year as a special contributor on that network's newsmagazine program, 60 Minutes.

• She is a director on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

• In 1998 she married James Rubin, who at the time was spokesman for the US State Department. A son, Darius John Rubin, was born in the year 2000.

• She is the daughter of Mohammed Amanpour, known as "Captain Amanpour", and Patricia Amanpour. Her paternal grandfather was Major General Amanullah Jahanbani. Accordingly, her father is from a Bahai family in Sarvestan of Fars Province. [1] Her sister, Lizzy Amanpour is a producer for British television broadcaster, Channel 4.

• On the television series Battlestar Galactica, the character of news reporter D'anna Biers (portrayed by Lucy Lawless) is loosely based on Amanpour.

• Amanpour called current events in Iraq a disaster on a CNN show with Larry King in January 2006.

Vartan Gregorian is a distinguished Iranian-American academic.

As an ethnic Armenian, he was born in Tabriz, Iran in 1934 and educated there, as well as in Lebanon before moving to the United States. He has received the National Humanities Medal and the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US. He is currently serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a position he has held since June 1997. Prior to this post, he was the president of the New York Public Library for nine years and of Brown University for a further nine. Gregorian is on the Advisory Board of USC Center on Public Diplomacy and is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclop�dia Britannica.

I think the problem with some Iranian or Iranic guys here is mixing up the Iranian, Iranic, past and present. 

I just wonder, if the term Iranian is designated to the nationality, then What the Tajik greatmen should have to do something with you?

If Iranic( which is based on language) is considered here, then what the greatmen who spoke other than iranic should have to do with you?

As for the present and past, Soghdians were Iranic, but most of them had become Turkic. There are plenty of examples like this, aren't there?

Please be clear, when you claim something or someone to be part of your culture or history, then continue your logical discussions.

first of all, the thread is called "famous iranians (all iranic peoples)...." therefore, that includes all iranians, whether they are iranic or not, and also includes all iranic people whether they live in iran, china, or ossetia.

everyone posted in here is iranian, or iranic.

and tajiks are persians. tajiks are a branch of the persian tribe, ask any tajik, they will tell you that they are of the persian branch of indo iranian.

therefore, avicenna, khwarizmi, etc.... who were tajik, are also persian because the relation is very very very close between these two peoples. and i believe the other group of persians are the lors... but im not sure...