Famous People with Name Amir

Amir Mohebbian            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Mohebbian: is an Iranian political analyst and politician. He has PHD in western philosophy and is well known as the strategist of conservative camp in Iran. Mohebbian is famous for his rational and open critics of president Mohammad Khatami during his presidency.

Amir Ali Hannaneh            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Ali Hannaneh: Is a Persian (Iranian) composer and Pianist. He studied the piano when he was 8 years old. His father, Morteza Hannaneh who was a famuse composer, helped him to develop his talent. After father death, in 1989, he wanted to break up the music and go to descover the unkown things.

Amir Ansari            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Ansari: is co-founder of venture capital firm Prodea Systems, Inc. Along with his sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, he made a multi-million dollar 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.Amir, along with his brother Hamid and sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, founded Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI) in 1993, and served as the company's CTO. TTI was acquired by Sonus Networks, Inc. in 2000.

Amir Esbati            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Esbati: a cinematic art director. He earned a B.A. in architecture from Tehran University, and started his career with The Treasure (1984, M. Sadjadi).He has been nominated five times for the International Fajr Film Festival, and won the award for the films The Land of the Sun (1996, A. Darvish) and The May Lady (1997, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad). He works also as a graphist. He was the Chairman of the Association of Art Directors in Iranian cinema.

Amir Naderi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Amir Naderi: a notable Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema.Naderi developed his knowledge of cinema by watching films at the theater where he worked as a boy, reading film criticism, and making relationships with leading film critics. He began his career with still photography for some notable Iranian features. In the 1970s, Naderi turned to directing, and made some of the most important features of the New Iranian Cinema. In 1971, his directorial debut, Goodbye Friend was released in Iran. Mr. Naderi first came into the international spotlight with films that are now known as cinema classics, The Runner (1985), and Water, Wind, Dust (1989). The Runner is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential films of the past quarter century

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