Famous People with Name Abbas

Abbas Hassan            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Abbas Hassan: a Lebanon-born football player currently playing for IF Elfsborg Sweden. Hassan played two times for the Swedish U-21s.Manchester City have showed some interest in buying Abbas Hassan from IF Elfsborg, but the bid was rejected

Abbas Farid            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Abbas Farid: is a British freestyle footballer from Newport, Wales. Farid is of Pakistani descent.In June 2003, Abbas was named the Freestyle King on MTV in UK's Nike Freestyle competition, becoming the winner chosen from over 30,000 competitors. He has since featured in several music videos for bhangra/desi artists, such as Jay Sean. From his success, Abbas has done many performances in recent years at football stadiums such as Stamford Bridge, Stade De France, San Siro etc. He still performs at other Sporting/Corporate events and other media promotions around UK and throughout the World. In July 2008 Abbas has set a new Guinness World Record of 88 Heel Juggles in 60 seconds.

Abbas Aghaei            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Abbas Aghaei: an Iranian football player, currently playing for Persepolis in the IPL.He spent most of his career in Pas Tehran. In 2004 he joined another IPL club, Sepahan, but returned to Pas after two seasons. In July 2007 Aghaei signed a 1-year contract with Iranian giants Persepolis F.C. despite numerous offers from the UAE League from clubs such Al-Ahli.He scored his first goal for Persepolis in August 2007, a 37-yard free kick against Pegah F.C. in their 2-0 win. He also scored the equalizer in the 7th week match against Pas Hamedan with a spectacular 25 yard volley. He scored yet another 40-yard free kick against sepahan but it was not enough a

Abbas Mohammadi            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Abbas Mohammadi: an Iranian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sepahan F.C. in Iran's Premier Football League.Abbas Mohammadi played for Mes Kerman F.C. before moving to Sepahan F.C. in 2007. With Sepahan he was able to play in the AFC Champions League and his ability and effort was the reason Sepahan made it to Final match before losing to Urawa Red Diamonds. Mohammadi was also able to play in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup with Sepahan and was again one of their top players.

Abbas Ibn Firnas            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Abbas Ibn Firnas: was an Arabic-speaking Berber,[1][2] born in Izn-Rand Onda, al-Andalus (today's Ronda, Spain), who lived in the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in al-Andalus. He was a polymath, aviator, chemist, engineer, humanitarian, inventor, musician, physician, physicst, poet, astronomer and technologist.[3]Ibn Firnas designed a water clock called Al-Maqata, devised a means of manufacturing colorless glass, made corrective lenses ("reading stones"), developed a chain of rings that could be used to display the motions of the planets and stars, and developed a process for cutting rock crystal that allowed Spain to cease exporting quartz to Egypt to be cut.

Sidi Bel Abbas            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Sidi Bel Abbas: is the patron saint of Marrakesh. He is also one of the seven saints (sabaatou ridjal) of the city. His festival was founded by Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi at the instigation of Moulay Ismael.