Famous People with Name Amir

Amir Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Peretz: is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007.

Amir Amini            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Amini: is an Iranian professional basketball player. He is currently playing as a shooting guard for Azad University Tehran in the Iranian Basketball Super League. He is 6'3" in height. He is also a member of the Iranian national basketball team.

Amir Asadollah Alam            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Asadollah Alam: was a Prime Minister of Iran.Amir Asadollah Alam was the longest serving minister of the Pahlavi era. The title Amir is Arabic and means ruler resp. governor. The name Alam means a banner or a flag in Arabic. Alam's father Amir Ebrahim Alam (AKA Shokat ol-molk) was the governor of the region of Qa'enaat. In the era of Reza Shah Pahlavi he was the minister of telecommunications.

Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou: was an Iranian (Persian) politician. Born in Tehran, he served as a two-time Mayor and MP for Hamedan in 1950s and early 1960s.As a young man, Amir N. Balakhanlou completed his higher education and his military service in the Royal Air Force Academy of Iran. In the mid 1950s, he served as the first publicly elected mayor of Hamedan.

Amir Kabir            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Kabir: also known as Mirza Taqi Khan Amir-Nezam (Persian: ????? ??????? ????????), served as Prime Minister of Persia (Iran) under Nasereddin Shah (The emperor). Born in Hazaveh, a county of Arak, and murdered in 1852, is a controversial historical figure. He is considered by some to be "widely respected by liberal nationalist Iranians" as `Iran's first reformer`, a modernizer who was "unjustly struck down" attempted to bring "gradual reform" to Iran.

Es Lizuan Zahid Amir            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Es Lizuan Zahid Amir: is a Malaysian professional football player currently playing for Perlis FA in the Malaysian Super League as a defender.He previously playing for Sabah and Melaka TMFC before returning Perlis after three year playing for others team.

Abbas Amir-Enteza            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Abbas Amir-Enteza: was the spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981 he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic government in Iran. He is now "the longest-held political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran".[1] According to Fariba Amini, as of 2006 he has "been in jail for 17 years and in and out of jail for the last ten years, altogether for 27 years."

Mustafa Ahmad Abdul-Amir            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Mustafa Ahmad Abdul-Amir: an Iraqi football (soccer) Striker playing for the Al-Zawraa football club in Iraq.

Daisy Al Amir            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Daisy Al Amir: an Iraqi writer, poet and novelist.[1] She is author of The Waiting List: An Iraqi Woman's Tales of Alienation has renowned her as one of the leading female writers of Iraq.Daisy al-Amir was born in Basra, Iraq in 1935. After earning her Bachelor’s Degree from the Teachers’ Training College of Baghdad, Daisy al-Amir went to Cambridge to study and write her thesis on Arabic Literature. Her father refused to pay tuition, however, and on her trip home, she stopped in Beirut where she found a job as a secretary in the Iraqi embassy. She chose to remain in Beirut