Thursday, September 16, 2010

Prominent Iranian Americans

Academia/Science
Arts/Entertainment
Business/Technology
  • Habib Zargarpour, the famous Iranian-American computer operator that has been candidate for Oscar 2 times
  • Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
  • Ali Asghar Abdullah Zadeh Nsrabady (EXPERT ccie cissp Head of Institute of Technology(PERSIAN DATA) WINNER Olympiad ACM
  • Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International.
  • Shahram Dabiri, video game producer, lead producer of World of Warcraft
  • Ben Fathi, Senior Vice President at Cisco, formerly, Corporate Vice President of Development, Windows, Microsoft.
  • Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York.
  • Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Google
  • Salar Kamangar, vice president of Google's web applications
  • Taraneh Razavi, Doctor of Google headquarters in Mountain View,
  • Reza Behforooz, Software engineer at Google
  • Mike Jazayeri, Google Product Manager
  • Shirin Oskooi, Associate Product Manager at Google
  • Shamim Samadi, Product Manager at Google
  • Maryam Kamvar, Ph.D. in Computer Science and currently a research scientist at Google.
  • Francis Najafi, chief executive of Phoenix-based real estate developer and investor Pivotal Group
  • Pedram Keyani, The engineering manager for the site integrity team at Facebook.
  • Isaac Larian, CEO of MGA Entertainment, manufacturer of Bratz dolls
  • Manny Mashouf, founder and Chairman of bebe stores
  • David Merage, co-founder of Chef America Inc., manufacturer of Hot Pockets
  • Paul Merage, co-founder of Chef America Inc., manufacturer of Hot Pockets
  • Sam Nazarian, CEO of the SBE Entertaintment Group
  • Farzad Nazem, former CTO of Yahoo!
  • Reza Mirkhani, President, & CEO of Pervasive Semiconductor Systems
  • Houman Haghighi, Senior Manager of Qualcomm
  • Mansour Jabalameli, Senior Network Designer Telecom
  • Mehrdad Nikoonahad, founder & CEO, Nikoo Technology, Inc.
  • Pierre Omidyar, founder of e-Bay (born to Iranian parents).
  • Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Computer.
  • Ramin Rostami, CEO & founder, Technocel. CEO, Sensotech. CEO & founder, American Investment Group
  • Mostafa A. Aghazadeh, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Chandler Assembly Technology Development
  • Mohsen Alavi, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Product Quality and Reliability
  • Nasser Bozorg-Grayeli, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Corporate Quality Network
  • Babak Sabi, Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Assembly Test and Technology Development
Law/Legal
  • Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Former Western Regional Director of Amnesty International
  • Susan Irene Etezadi, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge
  • Babak Hoghooghi, Former Executive Director for the Public Affairs Alliance for Iranian Americans
  • Tamila Ebrahimi Ipema, San Diego County Superior Court Judge
  • Cyrus Mehri, One of Washington's Ten Most Feared Lawyers
  • Nema Milaninia, 2008-2010 President of the Iranian American Bar Association
  • John Tehranian, Professor of Law at Chapman University School of Law
Literature
Media/Journalism
Music
Politics
Sports
Miscellaneous
  • Farhad Rostampour, The first Iranian-born pilot to complete a record setting flight around the world

Source: Wikipedia

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