List of Iranian Americans

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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Faraj Aalaei, Centillium communications, CEO & Co-Founder.[1]
• Bijan Aalami, Founder of Adapt Software Group. [2]
• Bizhan Aarabi, Director of Neurotrauma. University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine.[3]
• Lily Afshar, female classical guitarist
• Andre Agassi, tennis player
• Shohreh Aghdasholou, actress and Academy Award nominee
• Jonathan Ahdout, actor
• Reza Ahy, Aperto, President & CEO. [4]
• Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief international correspondent
• Goli Ameri, Republican candidate of U.S. House from the 1st district of Oregon, United States delegate to United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• Anousheh Ansari, entrepreneur and contributor to X Prize foundation
• Cameron Alborzian, Model
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist from Harvard
• Mohammad Ashrafzadeh, Director Emeritus, Boston University Medical Center [5]
• Rachel Assil, singer and songwriter [6]
• Rasoul Azadani, Disney animator and manager, animator of the Aladdin and manager of Pocahontas [7]

B

• Pouyesh Bakhsheshi , UN senior admin of World National Peace Program.[8]
• Rudi Bakhtiar, CNN Lead news anchor
• Catherine Bell, actress (mother is Iranian)
• Hamid Berenji, NASA senior research scientist. [9]
• Mina Bissel, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division. [10]
• Nadia Bjorlin, actress

D

• Bijan Davari, senior scientist at IBM. [11]
• Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
• Deep Dish, dance music group
• Richard Danielpour, Musician
• Roya Hakakian, Writer
• George Deukmejian, former governor of California

E

• Mory Ejabat, Chairman, Co-founder of Zhone Technologoies. [12]
• Kamran Elahian, entrepreneur
• Alecko Eskandarian, soccer player, United States national team
• Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of Bell Labs. [13]

F

• Yahya Fathi, Co-Director of Operations Research Program at North Carolina State University. [14]

G

• Reza Ghaffarian, NASA senior research scientist. [15]
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Director of the database laboratory at University of Southern California.[16]
• Afshin Ghotbi, Soccer coach, former coach of L.A. Galaxy and current coach of South Korea national football team.
• Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York.[17]

H

• Ross Haghighat, Triton Systems, Founder, Chairman and CEO. [18]
• Samad Hayati, NASA project manager. [19]
• T. J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player

K

• Natasha Kamrani, b.1968 (father is Iranian) Houston Independent School District trustee (trustee-elect since 12.10.05)
• Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Google
• Shaygan Kheradpir, Chief Information Officer, Verizon Communications. [20]
• Mehran Kardar, physicist, MIT. [21]

M

• Brom Mahbod, Oracle Corporation, VP of e-Services Platform.[22]
• Arash Markazi
• Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco City Council from the Green Party
• Mohsen Moazami, VP of Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems.[23]
• Nader Modanlo, Chairman of Final Analysis Communication Services, Inc.[24]
• Parviz Moin, Director and Senior Scientist, Stanford University. [25]
• Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis. [26]
• 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. [27]

N

• Asiyeh Namdar, CNN correspondent.
• Camran Nezhat, Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology
• Firouz Naderi, NASA director of Mars project
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, philosopher, George Washington University.
• Zod Nazem, CTO of Yahoo! [28]
• Sia Nemat-Nasser, Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, UCSD. [29]
• Simin Nikbin Meydani, Senior Scientist and Director at Tufts University. [30]
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Vice President of Technology for Strategic Business Development, KLA-Tencor Corporation. [31]

O

• Pierre Omidyar, Founder of e-Bay. [32]
• Rasoul Oskouy, co-founder of Juniper Networks

R

• Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Chair, Electrical Engineering Department at the UCLA. [33]
• Manijeh Razeghi, Director, Center for Quantum Devices, Northwestern University. [34]

S

• David Safavian, former Chief of Staff of the United States General Services Administration
• Katherine Sarafian, Disney production manager, production manager of The Incredibles and Monsters, Inc. [35]
• Michael Shabaz, tennis player, 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship
• Hamed Shahbazi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of infotouch Inc. [36]
• Sarah Shahi model & actress

T

• Azadeh Tabazadeh, Stanford University scientist from NASA. [37] Article about her in TIME magazine
• Hechmat Tabechian, physician, University of Rochester Head , Nephrolgy Division, The Genesee Hospital. Executive Director , Rochester Academy of Medicine. [38]

V

• Cumrun Vafa, String theorist in Harvard

Y

• Ehsan Yarshater, Distinguished Professor of UCLA. [39]

See also

• Iranian American
• Modern Iranian scientists and engineers
• List of Iranians
• US-Iran relations